Have you put your heating on yet?

[ANNE]

His Lordships had the fire on a couple of times. it's been like an oven in my front room.
Has yet all iv needed is a cardigan on to keep warm. Its not that cold yet.

[West Ender]

I use the central heating when it's cold. In this country you can't go by the calendar and we've had some very cold spells recently so it's been on a few hours an evening when needed. It's never on for more than an hour and a half in the mornings and in the depths of Winter it comes on at 4.30 in the afternoon. Today I set it to come on at 7 p.m. It's never on during the night.

There's a thermostat on the boiler and one on every radiator. The house is never hot but I like to be comfortable, otherwise what's the point in having a heating system?

[James1234]

I've not put the heating on yet, I don't really feel the cold until around late October/Novenber time. Yet me sister by contrast said she felt cold the cold 2/3 weeks since.

The cold bothers me so little that i goto work with 2 thin t-shirts on and a thin lightweight waterproof jacket on to keep dry.

Winters seem to get more and more milder every year, to my mind.
or mayby it's just me.

[jimmi5bellies]

I woke up this morning sweating buckets ! Still sleeping with window open BUT radiator was on ! Alec has set it for 7am ....so that he can get dressed in the warmth. Just wait till hes got his own place, see if he toughens up then when hes paying for it.

Big softie has even got a hot water bottle as well.

[garinda]

When I first bought this house it had no central heating, just a solid fuel stove, and the person who was selling it said that it kept the whole house warm. Utter rubbish.

Besides being a pain, cleaning out the ashes, it made everything filthy.

I lasted four months, then had central heated fitted the week before my first Christmas here.

I've had it on a couple of nights this week, mainly because it feels cold just having come back from holiday. I always adjust the thermostat, as I don't like to be roasted, and weirdly I always have the windows open too.

[grannyclaret]

We have the windows open never mind the heating on,,,, I am always frozen and my hubby is always sweating,,,,,ermm somethings wrong somewhere

[jambutty]

Living in a one bedroom flat as I do, heating has never been a big issue with me but I have to admit that most days last month I upped the thermostat a notch when it got too cold even though I was wearing a jersey.

It’s called global warming or the paradox of global warming as applied to the northern half of the British Isles.

The upper atmosphere ‘jet stream’ has moved a long way south, the north pole ice cap has melted far more than in recent years. In fact it is a record year for the polar ice cap melt. We have lost a little of the warming benefit of the Gulf Stream or more accurately the North Atlantic Drift.

Older people who are not quite as physically active as they used to be will feel the chill sooner than their younger counterparts, but a good way to keep warm is to make sure that you eat properly.

A shot of whiskey or rum is only a temporary solution and you will feel even colder once its effect has dissipated.

Hot soup is the best answer even if it is just Cuppa-Soup.

[Ianto.W.]

A good tip is to take the Thermostat into the room you spend most time in, the new ones are battery powered wireless. This saves us a fortune, at night we take it to the bedroom. The installers allways place them in the coldest place, where you dont sit, like the lobby, so if you want to save put the Thermostat were you use it most.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

A good tip is to take the Thermostat into the room you spend most time in, the new ones are battery powered wireless. This saves us a fortune, at night we take it to the bedroom. The installers allways place them in the coldest place, where you dont sit, like the lobby, so if you want to save put the Thermostat were you use it most.

Fortunately when my heating was installed in March, I got to say WHERE the thermostat and radiators were put. The rads are on inside walls so I am not 'heating the street', and the stat is in the lounge.

[jambutty]

My thermostat is in my small lobby near the front door and across the lobby a couple of yards away is a radiator. Nice planning guys! Actually the electricians (loosely labelled) who re-wired my flat a couple of years ago had nothing to do with the radiator position. It was already in situ. But they were under instructions where to put the thermostat as they were for the smoke alarm.

I could have the mains plugs and light switches wherever I wanted them though but not the light rose in the ceiling.

However the fact that the thermostat is closeish to a radiator doesn’t cause me any problems. My flat does not get overheated nor does it get too cold. I can control the temperature of my living room by proxy so to speak.

It has always puzzled me why central heating installers put the radiators under windows and also one in a small kitchen. My kitchen one is turned off all the time though. But if my bedroom radiator was against an inside wall my bed would have to be under the window because the other two walls are backed with a wardrobe and my desk or the bed would have to be next to the radiator. The living room would present the same sort of problems. Where to put the furniture? However my outside walls are cavity insulated and the windows are modern double glazed so not a great deal of heat is lost. In any case drawing the curtains helps to keep the heat in.

[flashy]

Originally Posted by garinda

and weirdly I always have the windows open too.

ah so i'm not the only one who does that then?

[MargaretR]

My lounge and bedroom have very large windows which take up almost all the top half of the wall. At great expense, I bought heavy lined velvet curtains which reach the floor. There was no way I was going to allow them to put radiators under the windows! The radiators have individual setting switches and the bedroom radiator is set lower - I can stick my feet out of bed onto it when bedsocks aren't enough.