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I still haven't, and indeed, temps here have gone up. My normal point for heating, as I said before, is when my thermostat shows current temp at about 16, and it dropped as low as 17-ish overnight. But that's been rising again, to 19, then 20, and last night, early hours, was 22. At that, I don't even wear a jumper, let alone fire the heating. And yes, we will adopt jumpers, going from light to medium-heavy (fleece) before giving in and using the heating.
My resistance has been broken. Was a good run, but it sure was chilly this morning and November 1st just felt like a good time to put the heating back into action.
Nice and warm in here now! :)
Mine will almost certainly being going on when I get back Monday having spent two weeks getting used to 30degC+ temperatures. Having said that, I am currently wearing a jumper because I'm sat in the air-con draft...
My heating has been on for about a month now. We have 2 young kids any my wife is always cold. Our thermostat is set for 21.5 deg a night and to me the house is always roasting.
Tried to tell her but she no listen.
No wonder I pay £60pm for my gas bill.
I caved in last night, only for a few hours to make sure the boiler is okay and bleed all the radiators. I live in a "currently being renovated" stone-walled house with high ceilings and low quality windows. There's no carpet in most of the rooms and you can see the roof tiles from inside.
Thermostat is set to come on when temp drops below 12, and the whole house rarely gets above 16 in Winter. All that heat escaping out the roof.. gutting.
Got some carpets going in at the weekend and a load of decent roof insulation ready to install hopefully before Christmas, so that'll be nice.
Sounds like time to get your finger out and the insulation in, virtuo.
Stone-walled houses with high ceilings have their attractions, but heating is, literally, part of the price you pay for that. But then, you knew that, didn't you? :D
As for me, nope, not given in yet. Well, not given in to heating. I have given in to wearing jeans and a fleece rather than shorts or lightweight trousers and t-shirt. House temp dropped to 17 degrees late last night. Much lower and it'll get used, though I will do a test-fire today or tomorrow, just to verify no unexpected issues.
Just trying to find the time and motivation to fit the insulation, got a few grands worth of foam block insulation and insulated boards to put in, just sitting there looking pretty. I did just temporarily whack the foam in between the rafters last year, but the recent winds have blown a lot of it back out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen
Nice little project for me in the gap between now and getting the new TV/sofa delivered I suppose :)
I was aware of the pitfalls of having high ceilings and ancient walls, to be fair there is some brick, but no cavity wall (and a very cold/damp cellar underneath). I have actually dropped the ceilings in a few of the rooms I've finished. Does make a difference but don't want to do it in all of them.
It's a balance, isn't it? Big rooms, high ceilings, etc, are really nice, airy, spacious-feeling, etc BUT ....Quote:
Originally Posted by virtuo
When I bought my current house, I considered an old Victorian vicarage. One major feature was two front reception room, each 20' x 20', and separated only by a removable (folding) partition. And 12' ceilings. So, when opened up, I'd have had a 40' x20' x 12' (high) room. And I had this mental image of a large home cinema screen, and an awesome room for my hifi.
But then reality set in and I thought about heating, and .... nah! And that was before energy prices rocketed up. Well before.
Mine's coming on now in the morning and evening as it's been dipping under 17 degrees which I set on the thermostat. I do do April > November without any heating and with no duvet too. (though I might admit defeat on that and get the duvet back out of the cupboard) :D
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My parents have had a few spells with the heating on but only now is it semi-permanantly on (all the way up int' North Yorkshire!).
They seem to have this ridiculous habit of leaving the back door open on a weekend though. I was shivering my nads off last weekend only to discover the house was wide open to the elements.
Im spending most of my time in hotels at the moment so heating isnt much of an issue... this crappy travel lodge is pretty chilly though :(
One of my housemates honesty tourettes kicked in and he fessed up to flicking ours on a couple of weeks back. But in general, we've just been slowly retreating further in to the house. The ground floor is somewhat of a cold, barren, no-go area now, most of the first floor is getting noticeably colder so it looks like we will have to abandon it soon, but the second floor is still quite warm at the minute :D
It started coming on near the start of October, luckily the price plan for our gas is not bad. (Price fix Oct '14 with Npower)
Wish I could say the same for electricity - it's a ridiculous 20 pence per kilowatt, I need to look for another deal on that.
Ours has been on for months. Wife is from warmer climate so she can't stand the mild temperatures we have here. Does mean it's going to cost us a fortune in gas. Glad we have a fix until 2015! At what point will it become cheaper just to burn money?!!
Motto in this house is... too cold? Put a fourth jumper on. Grrr.
My heating stays on full all year round. I have the thermostat set at 35 degrees day and night, that way it stays nice and warm all the time. I also put the fire on full all day during the daytime between about September and June. I love being very warm and if I didn't have the heating on constantly I couldn't cope. Luckily there's only me and my teenage daughter living here and she likes to be warm too. We are both sat in front of the fire with jumpers and fleeces on, it's so lovely and warm :)
35??
Am I reading that right