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It's getting a tad chilly, especially evenings.
I'm trying to resist and am wearing a few extra layers of clothing. But, when do I relent....
Ours was on for 1/2hr last night as was bit chilly for 16 week old when putting him up to bed.
It’s not January.
Christ aye, more than once. I put my heating on if I'm cold, not because a calendar tells me to. 😊
What Drac said
Just thinking of starting this thread myself.Think I will stick it on for a we bit.Waiting till January is just mental
No idea about the central heating, I'm out of the loop it's controlled by Cyberdyne Systems on Skynet. Fire was lit tonight tho.
Living room is 19c.
Bedroom is 16c.
But for whatever reasons the bedroom feels much colder than 16c and my feet keep getting the chill. 🥶
No. I'm with Drac - but not literally.
Wear more/warmer clothes; same applies to young children.
My son has the same view about his 12 week old.
Dracs iPad provides some heat tbf.
People really have the heating on? It’s been 17 degrees here in Pembrokeshire today. Nothing in the forecast for the next couple of weeks below 12.
We genuinely won’t shut the windows until sometime in late October and the heating is never on before November and we live in a draughty Victorian end terrace.
It must be rubbish living somewhere cold!
Nah, not yet. According to the Mrs we should have it on though and the Winter duvet
As Lister above. Still got the windows and trickle vents open.
Our thermostat is set at 17 degrees - the house must have been cold as the heating came on for a while earlier
I’m sat here under a blanket with the dog.
The dog’s not too happy about it and wants to go to bed but I’m not prepared to give up such a valuable heat source.
nope. won't be fair away I imagine though, closer to october i'd imagine. Not a cold house this yin mind, middle flat so.
Don't tell my wife and daughters it's been off for months, I'll probably capitulate the moment they complain though 😕
Yes, i put in on the other day as i had the windows and doors replaced. The lads had the upstairs windows out and it was a wind tunnel, chilled the whole house so popped the heating on for an hour. Other than that it won't be on for a while yet.
Christ aye, more than once. I put my heating on if I’m cold, not because a calendar tells me to
Me too usually January when it’s cold.
People who "turn the heating on":
Don't you have thermostats?
People who “turn the heating on”:
Don’t you have thermostats?
Yes, but it's cheaper/more environmentally friendly just to switch if off 🤔
Tonight, in true STW style I went out to the wood store (garage) to get some fuel (wood) foraged from local hedgerows and seasoned over the last 12 months for my Morso Badger. Stovetop fan is now wafting warm air my way.
wafting warm air my way
Warm air is also wafting my wife's way but there ain't no woodsmoke involved 🙄
People who “turn the heating on”:
Don’t you have thermostats?
Indeed I do, and it's clicking like a skeleton's knacker sack.
But until I activate the command to start burning a few penguin charcoal logs the heating ain't doing very much 😉
Im in Kent and not too bad at all down here.
I'll be back on Zwift again soon and will be cursing this warm weather if anything.😁😉
Christ aye, more than once. I put my heating on if I’m cold, not because a calendar tells me to
Me too usually January when it’s cold.
Does it ever actually get cold down there in the far south ? Surprised you need heating at all.
240 miles North of aberdeen and our AC is still kicking in occasionally.
Month is irrelevant. If it's below a certain temperature, it's below a certain temperature.
Remember how warm it was in Feb this year?
STW: for all your favourite discussions about personal stuff where you want strangers to convince you your lifestyle choices are wrong.
It's been on twice in the last week ..my missus is our thermostat .
I came home from two days away with work and the Aga was back on!
Some waffle about needing it for cooking.
Dinner was absolutely amazing though, can't recommend Meera Sodha enough!
Does it ever actually get cold down there in the far south ? Surprised you need heating at all.
It has been known plus I’m married and the Mrs is always cold.
Our log burner may be lit in a few weeks time though just to keep things ticked over.
Rone one is trying to tell you their choice is better the question has been answered that’s all.
Then that would be yes or no.
Come on it's Saturday morning. 🙂
thermostat set at 20.5 all year round so yes it has been on a couple of times. 20.5 is what I consider to be a good temperature for sitting around so that is the temperature I live in.
Ours came on this morning 🙁
We have an external temperature sensor which has led to out being less keen than before to switch on.
We are at the bottom of a north facing ex-railway embankment though, so our road can get very chilly in a morning.
Just had words with Mrs WF. I was sat here shivering in a t-shirt last night until I realised all the windows were open behind the curtains. Apparently the house needs airing every day! May have to find a jumper if it gets any cooler though. Wood shed is not even half full so no fire allowed yet.
Still have the windows open in the evenings, still wearing shorts through the day. Heating won’t go on until we’re into single digit day time temperatures.
Leave it on all year. Every room has a thermostat, if it wants heat it gets it.
Don’t you have thermostats?
I haven't.
Bedroom window still open (probably hasn't been closed since about March)
some time tomorrow i'll get some wood in, i'll split some kindling and tarp my wood stacks. that'll warm me up.
Same here kids and our bedroom windows still open since about then.
Not yet, but even if we did it would be s bit pointless as we still haven't got any radiators downstairs and won't for a few weeks yet!
What's worse is the fact that the stove in the kitchen still isn't ready to go because the new hearth hasn't gone in yet 😡
On the plus side the works we've been doing since February mean that one end of the house (now a big kitchen/dining/living area) has turned from a fridge into a much warmer place thanks to an immense amount of insulation I put in.
Once the stove’s in this will be the part of the house we'll use most of the time.
No, still have the windows open all night
Jumper on, windows vacillating between open and closed.
Autumn is here.
Not on yet, but I did wake up and clutch my onesie for a moment before deciding on something less heavy.
Is that metaphor?
Always on here, just set the thermostat to 23C and let it do it’s “thing”
Autumn is definitely here, even on the sunny south coast.
Can we subtitle this "destroytheplanettrackworld" please.
INSULATE FFS.
23°C inside, 9°C outside this morning. A piping hot shower from the solar thermal.
23°C inside, 9°C outside this morning. A piping hot shower from the solar thermal.
Edukator - I dont want to burst your bubble ,but I think madame has wired your thermostat permanently on.
Bubble intact, Julians. No thermostat and no central heating.
But you do live in southern France don’t you ?
Came on all by itself this morning.
Can we subtitle this “destroytheplanettrackworld” please.
INSULATE FFS.
My wee Victorian terrace hoose is perfectly well insulated thank you very much, 74 quid a month for gas and leccy.
No, but if you plan to head up Butser or QECP at 0600ish tomorrow, wear your winter woolies... Met Office reckons it will feel like 3C in the northerly breeze! 😮
My wee Victorian terrace hoose is perfectly well insulated thank you very much, 74 quid a month for gas and leccy.
Walls insulated? Probably no more than cavity wall insulation if that, R = 1.6 at best. Floor insulated? Almost no chance. It's a thermal sieve and there's no way Britian will be carbon neutral as May has decided unless that changes. 30e per month electrity including standing charge (less than production) and no gas here. Gas is so cheap (unlike petrol) that people don't realise how much they're using and how much CO2 they're producing.
France, yes, January temperatures about the same as Torquay and Summer temperatures that mean some people install A/C rather than insulate.
People won't save the planet by having milk delivered in bottles rather than buying cartons or changing the sort of soap they buy (see other insignificant efforts on savetheplanettrackworld) but insulating their home properly is the single biggest thing most people can do to reduce their personal emissions without their lifestyle suffering at all whilst saving money in the long term.
Edukator, it was just a yes or no question, not a biography.
^😂
Yes. Toastie here 😁
I’d also like to think that trickle vents at the very least are kept open all year round. Or some form of MVHR to keep air circulating and fresh for healthy buildings and inhabitants 😁
74 quid a month for gas and leccy.
Bloody hell, I'd move rather than spend that much.
74 quid a month for gas and leccy
That’s about a third of what I pay.....☹️
That’s about a third of what I pay…..☹️
:-O
It’s been on twice in the last week ..my missus is our thermostat .
Iv'e got a thermostat like that only it works a lot more frequently than yours by the sound of it.
I usually spend all winter trying to cool down. She's ALWAYS cold & I'm always hot.
Drove down to the coast this afternoon at 5pm, ambient temperature readout on the car showed 27° on the way back at about 8.30 still at 23° September-October here are lovely. Southern Catluña btw.
Central heating? 🤣 In September? Its still toasty here in south wilts.
I'm prohibited by my own rule set to turn heating on until November at the earliest... was wondering if heating or Brexit will come first!!🤯
It'll be off April fools day 😎
It's on timed, but thermostat turned down.
My misses turned it on last night. It packed up 🙄. Waiting until Monday for an engineer. Aint paying weekend prices.
wife commented tonight that it's time to fetch the wood in from the stacks.
Turned the CH on in the Lounge and Kitchen this am. Only 4deg out so why not.
Silly matcho people
It was could last night and it will be again tonight so red bleeding time later and flue sweep if time 😭😭
4 degrees?! Where are you? Greenland??!
Still summer here.
I’m in Macclesfield and it’s still toasty warm here. Still shorts and t-shirt weather.
Yup temperature was about 4c here at 5.30 this am I thought about closing the bedroom window but that soon past.
4 degrees?! Where are you? Greenland??!
Still summer here.
Light frost in Scotland this morning.
My parents live in France --its still 26 degrees down there ....halfway between clarmont ferrand and Bordeaux.
Places have different temperatures shock.
came on for about half an hour this morning. ours is set to 19. it was 10 outside. 14 in the conservatory.
our house is old / cold. resisting cavity insulation due to damp horror stories. insultating outside would cost an absolute fortune unless some Grants appear it's not happening we average about £80pcm gas/elec.
We've had a bunch of work done this summer, so the downstairs radiators are disconnected until the decorating is done.
The phone said it was 2°C outside when I woke up this morning, so some heating would have been nice.
Light frost in Scotland this morning.
My parents live in France –its still 26 degrees down there ….halfway between clarmont ferrand and Bordeaux.
Places have different temperatures shock.
🤣🤣🤣
I suppose when you consider anywhere north of the A4 is in the arctic circle it makes sense.
My mother-in-law has come to stay for a while. The heating is therefore on.
All the lights are also on and all the doors are open. She seems to only be able to operate these things in one direction so I spend my evenings following her around the house turning the lights off and closing the doors until I get fed up and go and hide somewhere.
£65.00pcm..for heating oil ( hot water ) ..Just switched to Octopus for electricity..£53.00pcm ..a saving of £10.00 ..
However my missus is a mobile / home hairdresser..which accounts for the best part of that ..
I dare not tell you what our water bill is ..( effing women and their colours ) 😁
Always on here, just set the thermostat to 23C and let it do it’s “thing”
Or you could turn the thermostat down and put a jumper on.
It was 4c to 5c this morning here in GeordieLand. 🥶
But did not switch on the heater yet. 😅
Places have different temperatures shock.
You will never manage to edukate some people....
Month is irrelevant. If it’s below a certain temperature, it’s below a certain temperature.
How damp it is makes a massive difference in my experience.
It's interesting that some have their thermostat set at 23 Deg C. The problem I have when the thermostat is set that high is that although I can ware t-shirt in January as soon as I step outside I need to put on lots of layers where if I have it set to say 18deg c I can ware a t shirt and shirt or a shirt and a thin jumper and not be too hot so when I step outside I don't need as many additional layers. I am just as comfortable inside just with one more layer and I can go in and out easier.