I baked rather than put the heating on, it's like free heat!
I'm a self employed central heating service engineer,
I'd prefer it if you all give your heating a little run now because in October it gets a bit manic when all your heating problems you thought you'd leave till it gets cold manifest on the same day and your only heat source is the Mrs rising temperature cos "that's your department!!!"
Bigad40 can u pop over please, I need my CH boiler serviced & the timer doesn't work
Heating? In August? Really?
Go for a walk, put on a jumper etc.
I must be a knobbly and veined blokey- type woman then!
Had to open the windows again last night as it was too hot in the bedroom.
Boiler's been lit for a few days, gotta make sure everything's dandy before winter sets in.
No heating on yet in Casa Del Stoner, but inside temp was 19 degrees last night. Lots of thermal mass and insulation still doing it's thing yet.
I love this time of year though. Good weather on Sunday means Ive bagged and brought into the house over a ton of wood for the furnace and two stoves. Looking forward to it getting cold enough to fire one up!
EDIT: PS, to other wood-hounds out there, I cant recommend highly enough Ikea bags for storing/moving logs. They really cut down on the amount of fuel handling you have to do. They last well, these are 4 years old, and they stack safely if you load them correctly.
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I have the heating on - for one reason, my son's shoes got soaked at the Big Bike Bash yesterday and I need to get them dry!
To my shame, ours has been on.
Ours has been on quite a lot the last couple of weeks, but in our flat you need a jumper if it's 25 degrees + outside. It sits in a dip overhung by trees and is amazingly cool- going outside on a warm day is like getting off the plane in a hot country. It's a bit depressing actually!
I'm definitely in the "put a jumper on" camp but if that's not done the job then Ray Mears is right!
Still been over 20C inside our house without any heating, during this cool period.
Aye back in the dark ages when we had "inefficient" heat emitting light bulbs, that was enough to take the chill out of the air in the room.
Now in this environmentally conscious age we have to turn the heating on...
Heating is off, but the bleedin rain is starting to get on my man-boobs.
Ours is on 24 hours now,
I simply cannot sleep with the heating on. I've slept in friends houses where they have it on all night and I lie awake sweating like Rolf Harris on Jim'll Fix It all night.
Our bedroom window is open 365 nights a year, no matter how cold it is.
If you need heat at night just use a hot water bottle/pet/partner.
Cold at night but ok during the day if it stopped raining!
Unpredictable weather oh well.
Migrate - I wish!
In-laws are here for the week. Had heating and the stove on last night, so was too hot in shorts and t and had to leave the room. Annoyingly I just cut a load of wood too so can't even pretend we dont have any left.
Friday can't come fast enough for so many reasons (mostly based around MIL though!)
Heating just switched on. Great summer wasn't it. First rain here near sunny Keswick for months it seems.
Had the heating on overnight, definitely cannot sit by open window during the evening any longer.
Wood burner has been one night so far, it was quite chilling this morning but boiler not going on for a while yet
I'm waiting for as long as possible, my monthly energy direct debit has just gone down to under £50 and I intend to keep it that low for as long as I can 🙂
mine has stayed the same all summer and I'm nearly a grand in credit at the mo 😮
will soon burn through that once the wife figures out I've turned the heating down at the boiler.
Not on in a Victorian Manchester terrace yet.
I can feel the question coming from the missus any time soon though as it was only 19.5 on the thermostat this morning. Will try and make her wait till October.
@mrchrispy, you are making a free loan to the energy company. Its a big part of their business model these days.
My heating comes on by itself - I think my thermostat got hacked.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/heatmiser-wifi-thermostats-slight-firstworldproblem
I can feel the question coming from the missus any time soon though as it was only 19.5 on the thermostat this morning.
What do you mean "only"?!
Still not on here. Just considering closing the windows at night!
House is remarkably warm still, seems to be collecting enough warmth from the sun and holding onto it. 4 people in the kitchen and 1 gas ring seem enough to get it toasty.
I've still got the fan on at night, are we living in the same country?
House is remarkably warm still, seems to be collecting enough warmth from the sun and holding onto it. 4 people in the kitchen and 1 gas ring seem enough to get it toasty.
Ditto. At 7am this morning, it was 6 degrees outside and 19.5 in my kitchen.
Come to think of it.. our house is tall and relatively slim, so it has a lot of side and frontal area and the collected/generated heat rises up. Then I sit and work on the top floor so it's always pretty warm. In winter evenings two people watching TV are enough to overheat the living room without any input from the rads.
We've not even thought about having the heating on once. Mrshora comes from Yorkshire after all. She'd rather burn baby Robins* than put the heating on. So I've hatched a cunning plan to install a small dual-fuel burner*...mhahaha
My wife has said a couple of times that 'it's a bit cold tonight'.
I am ignoring it completely.
2-3 degrees on the moors this morning on my drive to work. Sure I saw a touch of ground frost.
thermostat is still showing 20deg in the house and doesnt come on until 17.
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Soon.
Not come on yet, having the thermostat set to 0 may be partially to blame 😆
Heating came on and the car had frost on it, Sth Coast!!
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Nice and warm now though.
