Ray Mears was asked about central heating last Autumn on The Chris Evans show. The sports guy was saying it shouldn’t go on til October or something, Ray’s lovely response was, “If it’s cold put on the heating, any fool can be cold!” Colder in our house than outside tonight, heating on at Mr Kip’s request.
You do realise that the reason women feel the cold more than men is because women have lovely soft thick woman skin that insulates them better – they feel the cold more because they leak less body heat to the skins surface where all the nerves and receptors for air temperature are, so paradoxically they feel the cold because they better maintain their body temp. The plus side of that is in evolutionary terms that makes them natural survivors able to conserve heat and energy and more pre-disposed to seek shelter (compared to men who can be leaky and energy inefficient and reckless because they are comparatively disposable) as a bonus it also makes women all soft and womanly.
If the readiness to reach for the thermostat bothers you then you need to trade in for a thiner skinned, more knobbly, angular, veiny, blokey sort of woman.
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!!!”
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.
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!
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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