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Yeah, I’ve got a thermostat like everyone else, but I’ve also got a teen who would heat the whole house to roughly the surface of the sun degrees and then sit next to an open window so I turn it off in summer.
It hasn’t come on yet though.
How damp it is makes a massive difference in my experience
Indeed
After our heating switched on the other morning, I've closed down windows to trickle vents and fired up the dehumidifier.
It seems though autumn our house has damp building up, possibly a combination of damp air, wet soils and lack of heat gradient to drive the damp out. Cheapy 1970's building materials I think. The dehumidifier reduces heating bill and makes us feel warmer.
We’ve put in 60mm of celotex round the walls, 500mm of knaufwool in the loft. Only 70mm or so under the new slab and triple glazing.
But that said we’ve used about 500-600l of oil single last Dec. It’s a fair amount at 40ppl. But we are heating circa 3000sqft
Longer term we’ll go to hydro power to backfill the oil usage.
You takes your choices. What can you do?
central heating came on a couple of weeks ago. though when it came on at the weekend, I was in the garden, heard a bang and saw an ignition in the flue of the combi boiler. That can't be right..:-/
for info..1820's cottage in the outskirts of glasgow...not the most heat efficient place tbh.
Chimney sweep is imminent
Thermostat is turned off
Always on here, just set the thermostat to 23C and let it do it’s “thing”
23c?? Jesus - ours is at 19 in the middle of winter! That said I think everybody in our house (all female) thinks it's bloody freezing all the time!
I just looked at the online record from my thermostat. the hottest it got this year was 22.9 inside the house, and most of the summer was less than 21.
We clocked about 29C inside this year, but then we're only a mile from where the UK's highest ever temp was recorded a few weeks back.....
I think it's a scientific fact that women are colder. I came home yesterday to find the heating on and I'm still walking around in shorts and t-shirt. It was like walking into a sauna! She's permanently cold, I'll be siting around in shorts and t-shirt and she'll be fully clothed under a blanket with a hat on and still cold ... my gas bill has doubled since she moved in!
think it’s a scientific fact that women are colder.
I think there have been studies to this effect but also there is a unrealistic expectation that a thin shirt is the right clothing for winter, resulting in the requirement of summer temperatures in winter rather some variation over the year.
We clocked about 29C inside this year
Same here (24th August) but this was at our holiday place which has a lot of south facing glass, the windows must have been closed and the PV was putting the spare generation into a wall heater!
Either that or it was on fire!
Nope. We don't have central heating. In fact, Monday was the hottest 9th September we've had since 1994. 32.2c. And I live in Australia. Sorry (not sorry).
My flat in Sunny leith regularly hits high 20s to low 30s C in summer. Solar gain
kojak - have you considered trading in your partner for a more thermally efficient one?
Holy thread resurrection Batman!
Holy thread resurrection Batman!
Holy weirdness batman, starting up a thread to mention how hot your flat gets in summer, in the middle of december! You on the sherry teej?
It was spam-resurrected.
And now it's being smoky bacon Frazzles closed.