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I've never got the jumpers thing - especially since good old Cameron mentioned it a few years ago; it's no replacement for CH. You still would have to endure cold air around your head, body and feet. Cold rooms etc.
I think wearing jumpers just generally is not about comfort. A warm house is a cosy house. Having lived in the sticks for several years with no CH - I'm enjoying it now.
No, Not switched it on yet .
Still shorts and T shirt weather so no need .
We've got one of those Hive jobbies and it's set to 21 degrees between 0530 and 0730 (so it's warm when we wake up and until we go to work) and then again from 1400 to 2300 (from when Mrs Wife comes home from work and until we go to bed). As we live in Glasgow, there's not many days it doesn't trigger.
I've never got the jumpers thing - especially since good old Cameron mentioned it a few years ago; it's no replacement for CH. You still would have to endure cold air around your head, body and feet. Cold rooms etc.I think wearing jumpers just generally is not about comfort. A warm house is a cosy house. Having lived in the sticks for several years with no CH - I'm enjoying it now.
[checks Rone's post history having previously assumed they are a man....but after that post not so sure. 100% lady logic detected]
I did the other day when it would not stop raining - had to dry a towel.
It was on on the 6th of September when we got home from our SUMMER holiday!
Nope, I was sun bathing on my patio this afternoon, try a hat you'd be surprised at how warm you will feel.
Went round to a mates, heating on he's in his shirt and t shirt
I've never got the jumpers thing - especially since good old Cameron mentioned it a few years ago; it's no replacement for CH. You still would have to endure cold air around your head, body and feet. Cold rooms etc.I think wearing jumpers just generally is not about comfort. A warm house is a cosy house. Having lived in the sticks for several years with no CH - I'm enjoying it now.
This +1
These threads are often more macho than the "I'm the greatest driver" threads!
I like comfort. Luckily I can afford the comfort. It's something I'm happy to spend money on cos the whole family is happy in a comfortably warm house.
Folks liking different things/living differently it is hardly news
Are you bragging when you tell us you can afford to live in "comfort" [ or are you just suggesting i cannot afford to turn the heating on?] or just the folk who say they would wear a jumper rather than put on the central heating?
Can I call you gentle names for this ?
Some insult those who do things differently and you are doing it whilst suggesting the others are "bragging" 🙄
Those sorts of insults are not even worthy of the playground never mind adults and folk are just giving honest answers
You like a warm house., I am very pleased for you and wont call you names for this shakes head walks away
Is there no issue too trivial for this not to happen on here?
How is your solar thermal doing, Stoner? Does it shorten your heating season? I've just had one of the last 100% solar showers of the Summer, no cold water needed so it'll soon need an electric top up.
Edukator, solar thermal is still contributing but probably only 25% of demand now (4 of us in the house). At least it IS contributing. Ive changed my system a bit this season. Ive installed an immersion heater in the thermal store which means I can now top up the tank without having to fire the biomass boiler which has is v inefficient to just to DHW (it has to heat a 200litre tank in the boiler before it can move any energy into the thermal store from where DHW is drawn). So far that is working really well. It means the water at the bottom of the thermal store stays cold (it doesnt when the biomass boiler runs) and so works best with what energy the solar collector can glean.
Nope, plesently surprised actually given there's been frost on the ground almost every day.
checks Rone's post history having previously assumed they are a man....but after that post not so sure. 100% lady logic detected
Ahem, bog off 😉
If this was about a challenge I would out cold you all - still in shorts/Jersey for off-road commute - 30 miles a day.
But, it's not, it's about being comfortable at home and enjoying the mod-cons after the rough.
And all I'm saying is putting a jumper on is a stupid replacement for CH.
As for bragging about being able to turn on the CH - not buying that - he's just come to terms with the cost! Rather than bragging in any sort of macho way. If you can't afford to use the heating then that's pretty miserable but given the nature of the punter on here I would imagine most could.
Thanks for the update, I've added yet more insulation to the solar circuit which raised the temperature a little. It's after the equinox that we really benefit from being further south. 23°C inside this morning, 13°C outside with over 20°C and sunny forecast for this afternoon. Three solar showers and a washing machine fill this morning but a sunny day will result in a another full tank of hot water.
If this was about a challenge I would out cold you all
You really wouldn't 🙂 (Google world ice swimming championships)
Agreed, clothes are no substitute for heating, but to not acknowledge that clothes are seasonal, even indoors (which might mean needing less CH) is generally the preserve of the lady of the house.
it's about being comfortable at home and enjoying the mod-cons after the rough.
I'd say it's more about how well your house solar loads during the day. Ours is still at 20C inside when I get back from work without using the CH and it holds the heat over night as well. Hence no need to use heating and I can sit about quite comfortably in shorts. Not too bad for a solid walled Victorian house (but then we are down South).
Well my wife switched it on this morning - 7.58am on the morning of October 1st and I heard the familiar 'click, click, click' of the radiators warming up even though it was a positively balmy 12deg outside and 18deg inside. She said it 'takes the edge off'. Not quite sure what she is taking the edge off though.
😕
I'm off home tonight (Yay!!!) No Mrs, Full weekend of riding, can't wait to get my R5ca from my LBS (service) and getting my nose into my favorite hills of all time.
Il Lombardia on Sunday..
And slam that heating onto that Max Paint Melting setting.... 8)
Edukator - Id be surprised if you're catching much sunshine in France at the moment. Bloody horrible weather in the HSavoie right now 🙂
Could you PM me when you can, I have a French DIY qu for you.
A walk in the sunshine this morning, a sunny swim in the outdoor pool over lunchtime, the rain arrived at 17:00.
YGM
14/11, that's the latest we've had to wait before needing to heat. 19°C but Madame is wandering around with a blanket around her shoulders so I've taken the hint - the wood burner is roaring.
Not quite but will do soon. It was 24 degrees out earlier. Brrrr. Genuinely, it's amazing how acclimatised you can become!
Once it gets down to 20 the gloves are coming out.
I thought I was doing okay when it started coming on a couple of weeks ago - although it hasn't been on a lot, the place does seem to need a top-up of heat most mornings and evenings (only to 20 mind you - well maybe 20.5)
I've started firing the furnace boiler a week ago, but only to heat the boy's toy room and do DHW. The rest of the house makes do with heat from the wood burners. No need for UFH throughout or rads yet. Still so mild.
still not put the heating on as its simply not cold enough. its been over 10º at night and very warm for november during the day so no point. flat is well insulated and a lot warmer than my GF’s victorian place with sash windows.
nothing to do with being miserly or bravado but i cant see the point in sitting here sweating in a t-shirt with the heating on.
as soon as night time temps drop into single figures i’ll put it on (electric storage heaters so less controllable than a gas boiler). i want to have a heated towel rail on a timer fitted and that might have been useful on a few mornings but it’s certainly not uncomfortable.
i did grow up with no heating/single glazing/non cavity walls so i guess i dont feel the cold like some people do.
if Metcheck is to be believed then it’s going on this friday and we are due the first frost on sunday (london)
We've lit the wood burner in the evenings some nights, just to keep the cats happy you understand.
I'm currently trying to save money by only firing up one boiler at a time. 😥
Mines been on and off a while but I'm not properly mobile yet so get ****in cold easily.
Hate my nervous system sometimes...
Ha ha! Thermostat wars rage in our house; all the TRVs are opened full even in the kitchen with the Aga on and the lounge with the multi-fuel blasting out heat. Mrs Gti sits huddled and shivering while I'm sweating in a T shirt. She swims three miles a week and nourishes herself on one orange, a handful or nuts and a bowl of yoghurt every day so I think she's in permanent calorie deficit. On top of the shivering she complains that she's exhausted all the time.
So yes, full CH every morning and evening, lounge stove and Aga on full.
Amazing how easy these things can break Global 😉
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Ha ha! Thermostat wars rage in our house; all the TRVs are opened full even in the kitchen with the Aga on and the lounge with the multi-fuel blasting out heat.
's Globalti Warming innit!
GF had a hive/nest thingy fitted today. i have the login for the app 😆
i wonder if i can set it to -drop 4º when i’m within 1 mile radius?