Have you put your heating on yet?

[bobbo89]

Nah, not yet and not for a while either. Its still fairly warm IMO but I also wear shorts all year round so there might just be something wrong with me!

[Funk]

rossub said:

Funk said:

Fore Left said:

I've never understood this turning it off and on. Mine stays on all year. If it gets cold it comes on. Its got cold so, yes, the heating is on

Same. It's set to come if it gets cold enough. I don't mind it kicking in - if there's an issue with it I'd rather know in early October than when it gets properly chilly.

You people do realise that there is a thing that exists called heating without a thermostat??? i.e. you put the heating on and the individual radiators in each room then regulate the heat??? These systems have to either be off or on manually - you can't set them to come on and off by themselves according to temperature in the house.

My place is only small. All the rads are turned on, the stat in the hall kicks the boiler in if it gets chilly and warms the whole place up.

[uuf361]

Not yet, but I sense it's coming soon (and I need 2 days for the floors to heat up too)......at this time of year it's all dependent on the sun for me - with sun the lounge and kitchen will still be 24C during the day, as soon as we move into permanent grey gloomy skies it'll have to come on.

[BoRED S2upid]

Once to check that it still works and no radiators are nackered if we can last till November we will be doing well.

[TheLordJohn]

Downside of living in Gibraltar - my life is on hold for the time we are here.
Upside of living in Gibraltar - it's 26 degrees today

[jmorgan]

Damn right its on. Especially since I found out its peanuts to run long and low so leave it all day tickling 19 degrees with boiler on very low.

[NordicCrankShaft]

Our underfloor heating went on 2 weeks ago and the log burner has been on and off. Morning temperatures of +1 means we had no choice.

[NRS]

Think the heating has started coming on occasionally now, but then again we've had some snow and the lakes are beginning to freeze so it makes sense.

[768]

Our thermostat's let the heating come on a little since a few weeks ago.

[Max5476]

about 30 seconds ago.

Only issue is it doesn't a thermostat, need to have one installed this year to keep the temperature a bit more consistent.

[ambuletz]

It's on now, though not in all areas of the house.

As strange as it may sound I have not had a warm bath/shower in several months. I really enjoy a cold bath. Once the weather starts getting into single digits I might consider using a little hot water as then the water is so cold that it really starts painfully numbing extremities.

[condor]

Not yet, but expect to later in the month.

[All that jazz]

Dunno how people can sit in their house at 19C or even 11C from that fruitcake technodup ! Both temps are on the 'Baltic' scale. As I write my heating is keeping my gaff a lovely tropical and toasty 24C .

[GroundEffect]

GroundEffect said:

Mine sits at 19.5C all year. Come in the last few days.

fking great. Boiler won't fire

[Cotty]

All that jazz said:

Dunno how people can sit in their house at 19C or even 11C from that fruitcake technodup ! Both temps are on the 'Baltic' scale. As I write my heating is keeping my gaff a lovely tropical and toasty 24C .

When my boiler was installed the guy set it to 21c, apparently that's a good average from his clients. 24c would be too hot.

Sometimes 21c feels cold but if its below and heats up to 21c I feel fine

[Hoofy]

I only started putting it on in the morning for an hour. Currently 17.7C here but I have a fleece on so pretty much comfy.

If I left it on auto all year, it'd probably have kicked in about 2 weeks ago. I understand the concept that it takes less energy to warm it up but if it's off 23 hours a day then I can't see how it will save me money if I leave it to do its thing 24 hours a day.

[irocfan]

technodup said:

irocfan said:

11... ELEVEN!!!!! Bloody hell chap, have you got ice-water for blood?

I think I got it from my dad/his mum. Their answer was always another jumper.

My gran used to have one of those electric bar fires. She'd put the light on but not the heat, so it 'felt warmer'. She'd also sometimes sit in the kitchen with the oven on and the door open.

She had central heating.

So another jumper, a light and leave the oven open after you're done cooking and you're sorted. Mind you the last time I spoke to Eon they thought I was diddling the meter.

mind you I question you like that... after reading some of the people on here I can see where you're coming from. Currently the thermo is set on 16.5 - when it's winter and COLD I will pop it up to about 19 though

[Funk]

Mine lives around 18-20 degrees. Too warm gives me a headache.

[rich85uk]

Not yet and probably wont need to until we get a good frost, currently 22 degrees thanks to good insulation and that the people below might have theirs on.One of the positives to a 2 year old 2nd floor flat

Downside is trying to cool the place down in the summer...

[HTP99]

Funk said:

Mine lives around 18-20 degrees. Too warm gives me a headache.

Same here; when I have control anyway, I absolutely hate a hot house, some of my friends whack theirs up so it is stifling, I just can't bear it.

If it too hot I get all stuffy and agitated.