Have you put your heating on yet?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Ii turned mind of on the 11th and just thoughing it out at the moment we are down to 18.5 in the living room

[colin79666]

Had mine off since the end of April. Returned from a short break in Berlin last night, left Berlin at over 25 degrees C and sunshine to 11 degrees C and rain. Heating back on for a boost today!

[djc206]

I had the aircon running the other night! Heating was last on 4th May for about half an hour. I doubt the house has dropped below 20C since then.

[Puzzles]

Still showing as 22 on the thermostat at the moment

[DT1975]

Just back from the Maldives and the missus whacks the thermostat up. WTF....the heating is now well and truly off. If she wants it on she can meddle with the controller (doesn't have a scoobie so best of luck) ...thermostat showing 19C ambient.

[ninepoint2]

Heating back on tonight

[Gas1883]

Been on most evenings this week , mrs feels cold so fine with that , though I did query why all the windows were on night vent , apparently fresh air for the cat 😂😂.

[okgo]

Why can’t women grasp thermostats?

[B'stard Child]

ninepoint2 said:

Heating back on tonight

Mine too - house down to 17 deg inside - 1 hr boost got it back to 19.5 and cost me 26p

[.:ian:.]

Noticed the stat was showing 17.5 yesterday, but its nice and warm in my office on the top floor so the heating is staying off!

[oblio]

My Mrs suggested turning the heating off a couple of weeks ago! Amazing for her as she feels the cold. We haven't used the log burner for some weeks as well. Also we changed to the summer duvet last week: now 7.5t from the 10.5t one.

[Scabutz]

Blimey weather has not been great but people have the heating on? Mines not been on in weeks.

Might have put a jumper on yesterday but that's it.

[macron]

Is it worth shopping for energy right now?

Hateful British Gas sent me a "please fix your tariff" email yesterday, just as the cap is predicted to fall. Cannot wait to get away from them but with no EV to worry about are they all just the same charging everything they can?

[Scabutz]

macron said:

Is it worth shopping for energy right now?

Hateful British Gas sent me a "please fix your tariff" email yesterday, just as the cap is predicted to fall. Cannot wait to get away from them but with no EV to worry about are they all just the same charging everything they can?

They are all baking in the predicted changes to the cap so don't think you'll find a competitive advantage.

Only thing I've found with Ovo is their PowerMove if you can do it is worth a good chunk. Winter it was easy and I got £15/month credit. The spring one is hard though and I've not managed it.

[MikeGTi]

macron said:

Is it worth shopping for energy right now?

Hateful British Gas sent me a "please fix your tariff" email yesterday, just as the cap is predicted to fall. Cannot wait to get away from them but with no EV to worry about are they all just the same charging everything they can?

I think the price cap is set to come down in July isn't it? I'm not sure when that'll be reflected in tarriffs though.

[TimmyMallett]

okgo said:

Why can’t women grasp thermostats?

Tiny hands?




I have to say, the price cap on the news coming down today is all well and good but the forecast (from Cornwall Insight as it always seemed to be touted as a good indicator) is that it will, understandably with demand increasing, go back up Q4 to 6.29 for gas units (I tend to focus on that as it's my main consumption)

Has anyone seen any sort of forecast vs actual to see how this company performs in it's market forecast? I'd be interested to see how far they are off the resulting price cap, as right now, a fixed rate of 5.2p on gas for a year with Ovo my current supplier is looking rather attractive compared to a 'forecast' 6.2p for Q4....

Edited by TimmyMallett on Friday 24th May 08:47

Edited by TimmyMallett on Friday 24th May 08:47

[HTP99]

okgo said:

Why can’t women grasp thermostats?

I don't get it either, its not hard, in the winter I frequently come home to the thermostat up really high "to heat the house quicker", she is convinced it does as it was cold when she came in from work, the fact that the heating is generally timed to come on around when she gets home/just before, seems to escape her no matter how often I tell her, it is just coincidence as she has maybe arrived home a bit earlier than normal "oh it's cold I'll whack the thermostat up to heat the house quicker" when in fact the heating has just turned on around when she has got in.

Of course the thermostat is then left on really high until I get in to a bloody sauna, as she has forgotten to turn it back down!!

It is a constant battle and after 28 years of me trying to educate her, she still doesn't get it!!

[okgo]

Yes. My wife has done the same at times.

She also only uses our hot tap in the kitchen to wash her hands. Despite the fact it doesn’t get hot for about 30 seconds and fires water out very fast making it unpleasant and splashing everywhere (water from top of house). She always turns the tap off before it’s got beyond cold because hand washing takes about 10 seconds.

I said why not use the cold tap, gentle flow of water, lovely dry kitchen top. No, warm water tap for washing hands. Ludicrous.

[TimmyMallett]

Same in the car, I keep getting in and it's set to 28 degrees.

[skwdenyer]

I let our oil run out in April and am saying I won’t order more until the price comes down. That fixes the heating problem We gave a log burner and heated blankets if it really does get very cold. It was a little cooler yesterday but the forcecast is ok for the next few weeks (we’re in the Dales, “a coat colder than Skipton” but we’re used to it!