Have you put your heating on yet?

[BoRED S2upid]

I was wondering when this thread was coming around.

Yes ours is on only an hour in the evening the kids sleep better if it's warm and the tiny one may feel the cold who knows she can't speak yet.

[Robertj21a]

Can't see any need yet, windows still open all day and night. Probably put it on early November if there's a cold spell.

[Tim-D]

Hell no... Not until late November at the earliest and only then with frost on the ground.... Not overly tight but have the benefit of living in a super insulated semi - the other half of which is lived in by a childminder....the adjoining wall is one huge radiator as she keeps her house at the temp of your average blast furnace.....
Also have a full width conservatory on the back of mine...warms the whole house nicely....

Having claimed not to be tight last year's gas bill sub 100 quid ...

[Robbo 27]

Was in London over the weekend, so much warmer than Yorkshire. Had a flat in Canary Wharf for a few years and never put the heating on at all, cannot do that in the north.

[227bhp]

Nickbrapp said:

I put it on in September about the 3rd week, now I have it on every morning set to 22 degrees, I refuse to be cold to save a few quid a year.

Nickbrapp pictured yesterday:

[geeks]

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

Ours is set at the thermostat and comes on when needed anytime of the year, if it drops below, it dorps below, why be cold or wear a fleece or whatever for the sake of boasting on the internet?

[zarjaz1991]

K50 DEL said:

Nope, nowhere near cold enough yet, still wearing shorts around the house and sleeping with the windows open.

Came into the office this morning and some muppet had put the heating on, must have been 80 degrees, needless to say it's now off and the windows are all open, a lovely breeze blowing through.

This is always the women I'm afraid.

Every office I've been in has always had the same type of women...usually three or four of them....who insist the office is "freezing cold" even at the height of summer. AirCon has to go off, heating has to be turned up, windows closed, etc. Any dissent and they are off to HR claiming they are so cold they can't feel their fingers, etc etc. Meanwhile everyone else is close to fainting with the heat. It's pathetic. And it is ALWAYS women.

[227bhp]

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

Ours is set at the thermostat and comes on when needed anytime of the year, if it drops below, it dorps below, why be cold or wear a fleece or whatever for the sake of boasting on the internet?

Not really. Some people feel the cold more than others, all houses are different and amazingly we all live in different parts of the World or country.

[geeks]

227bhp said:

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

Ours is set at the thermostat and comes on when needed anytime of the year, if it drops below, it dorps below, why be cold or wear a fleece or whatever for the sake of boasting on the internet?

Not really. Some people feel the cold more than others, all houses are different and amazingly we all live in different parts of the World or country.

Calm down dear; it was tongue wedged in cheek

[227bhp]

geeks said:

227bhp said:

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

Ours is set at the thermostat and comes on when needed anytime of the year, if it drops below, it dorps below, why be cold or wear a fleece or whatever for the sake of boasting on the internet?

Not really. Some people feel the cold more than others, all houses are different and amazingly we all live in different parts of the World or country.

Calm down dear; it was tongue wedged in cheek

Fair enough petal

At the moment my conservatory (or given I'm on PH it should be my £175k Orangery) gets full sun, so it heats up the living room to maybe 25'c during the day, this means I don't need the heating on an evening, bit nippy on a morning though so a quick blast at 19'c warms it up enough.

[geeks]

227bhp said:

geeks said:

227bhp said:

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

Ours is set at the thermostat and comes on when needed anytime of the year, if it drops below, it dorps below, why be cold or wear a fleece or whatever for the sake of boasting on the internet?

Not really. Some people feel the cold more than others, all houses are different and amazingly we all live in different parts of the World or country.

Calm down dear; it was tongue wedged in cheek

Fair enough petal

At the moment my conservatory (or given I'm on PH it should be my £175k Orangery) gets full sun, so it heats up the living room to maybe 25'c during the day, this means I don't need the heating on an evening, bit nippy on a morning though so a quick blast at 19'c warms it up enough.

(don't ask, just haven't used this smiley before and thought it looked cool)

We have the opposite problem, workshop and the treeline block the sun at the front this time of year so not heating up through the windows, we get some at the other end of the bungalow mansion but owing to layout it isn't of much use. Also we are below ground level all this adds up to a home that is in the shade allot so tends to be quite cold. I would like to replace our double glazing as I am sure we are loosing huge swathes of heat through it but there is little money in the coffers for this, especially when the amount it would cost is enough to run a gas bill for a number of years!

[Ninja59]

Our heating has been on for 3 weeks in the evening. But I suffer terribly with knee and hand pain in my right hand after injuries.

I must admit I am driving the car window down, heated seats on as needed mind....

[RicksAlfas]

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

I think it's the annual "people don't realise weather is different in different parts of the country" thread*. I can only assume the macho types sleeping with the windows open are not in the parts of the country where the gales have been. Otherwise their potpourri would have blown across the room.

(* See also the winter tyre thread).

[bazza white]

We planned for early November for the log burner but it has tempting us the last few evenings. It was 17°c yesterday evening so I broke and lit it for a couple of hours.


The rads will be cleared today, the boiler tested and rads bled.

[glenrobbo]

RicksAlfas said:

geeks said:

Excellent the annual PH "I am harder than everyone by not putting my heating on" penis display

I think it's the annual "people don't realise weather is different in different parts of the country" thread*. I can only assume the macho types sleeping with the windows open are not in the parts of the country where the gales have been. Otherwise their potpourri would have blown across the room.

(* See also the winter tyre thread).

Heating? No need for heating until it gets below 19°F, usually at the beginning of the second week in January. No sense in wasting my meagre pension on firewood and risking burning the tent down.
My penis is quite cosy thanks, nestling there in the warmth of my fleecy undertrousers.

[K50 DEL]

zarjaz1991 said:

K50 DEL said:

Nope, nowhere near cold enough yet, still wearing shorts around the house and sleeping with the windows open.

Came into the office this morning and some muppet had put the heating on, must have been 80 degrees, needless to say it's now off and the windows are all open, a lovely breeze blowing through.

This is always the women I'm afraid.

Every office I've been in has always had the same type of women...usually three or four of them....who insist the office is "freezing cold" even at the height of summer. AirCon has to go off, heating has to be turned up, windows closed, etc. Any dissent and they are off to HR claiming they are so cold they can't feel their fingers, etc etc. Meanwhile everyone else is close to fainting with the heat. It's pathetic. And it is ALWAYS women.

Indeed.. it's the same here (mostly, there are 2 guys who moan as well
Thankfully the CEO (another woman) actually has no time for it and tells them to buy a jumper if they're cold!

[TheLordJohn]

Wife has turned it on (and the heated blanket...) but I just knock it down to 10 degrees whenever I'm in.
I'm not averse to having it on, when necessary, but her 'control' of it is absurd.

2 winters ago (North Yorks) we were £500 in credit going into the winter, paying £80 a month, and owed £500 in spring...

[Robertj21a]

RicksAlfas said:

I think it's the annual "people don't realise weather is different in different parts of the country" thread*. I can only assume the macho types sleeping with the windows open are not in the parts of the country where the gales have been. Otherwise their potpourri would have blown across the room.

(* See also the winter tyre thread).

Windows open despite the gales, just different windows depending on main direction of gale.

[BoRED S2upid]

TheLordJohn said:

Wife has turned it on (and the heated blanket...) but I just knock it down to 10 degrees whenever I'm in.
I'm not averse to having it on, when necessary, but her 'control' of it is absurd.

2 winters ago (North Yorks) we were £500 in credit going into the winter, paying £80 a month, and owed £500 in spring...

Electric blanket? In October even in the bitter cold of Yorkshire surely that's a bit OTT. What happens when it gets proper cold?

[Otispunkmeyer]

At our local pool its the inverse. They turn the heating off (down).

During summer the pool is hot. Its difficult to swim in that temperature water (and when I say swim, I mean training with a club) and then when you get out, the showers are like standing under a freshly boiled kettle as its being poured. You then cannot get dry in the hot, wet changing rooms because you're sweating faster than you can mop it up with the towel.

Come winter, all that changes..... cool pool, luke warm showers (or cold if there is only one shower in use...somehow you need 2+ showers to get heat).

fk me. I think the just have the boiler set to one power and just leave in on that year round!