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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.
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.