Time to turn the heating on?

Just back from a very uncomfortable hospital appointment. It’s blowing a hoolie, 48mph gusts, heavy showers hitting the windows. The external temperature is 15 degrees and apparently feels like 11 degrees. I came in feeling very cold, a reaction to the appointment as well as the temperature. The thermostat has been turned up from its usual 18 degrees and will stay that way until I feel better. It makes sense to us.

LaCrepescule

I’ve cracked and put the heating on this morning because it was 17C downstairs. I’ll just warm the place up and turn it off until this evening and have it on again for a couple of hours. I can manage if it doesn’t fall below 18C and am getting a gas stove so I’ll be able to use that instead of the CH part of the time.
What’s your breaking point?

Mine went on yesterday for a while, but today it is on so far all day, that wind is very chilly. 16 in the house without heating. No thank you, I have an underachieve thyroid so am always cold, makes me feel really ill when all my extremities have gone white and I can't feel a thing.

It was 11 in Stoke on Saturday, I think that’s fairly nippy not me being a wuss!

Get a wee halogen heater lovely and toasty and just heats where you are. When it's really cold and heating has to go on I heat the house to take chill off for a few hours turn off central heating and put halogen on in living room.

M0nica

Our heating is controlled by the clock and the thermostats so I never turn it on or off. I just leave it to get on with it.

Exactly. Let the thermostat do its job

Are we all feeling cold because we acclimatised to the hot weather which continued for so many weeks? The change in the last couple of weeks was sudden.

Some people brag about not turning on their central heating until a certain date (whatever the weather) like they are winning some sort of competition and I fail to understand them. There comes a point in the autumn, no matter what the date is, when the house has a vague dampness to it and that is my trigger to turn on the radiators. I have lit the fire in my lounge once, the heat was lovely and it’s a comfort thing too.

I’ve done a couple of 1 hour bursts first thing to take the chill off and rooms, otherwise I’ve got my thermal vest on plus an electric gillet to keep my body warm and for the evenings I put my electric blanket on to read / watch tv, I hate being cold having been brought up in a house that was so cold the toilet pan froze over

Nooooo. I just layer up. Swap my Birkenstocks for my UGGs. I refuse to allow the energy companies to further fleece me, so rarely put my heating on. I take a perverse (& ridiculous) pride in this. In the last few years I've just put my heating on when I have guests.

Old age is amazing

Sitting room thermostat says 18, but it feels chilly indoors. No heating yet, just warmer clothes. Yesterday, while sitting knitting, I put a hot water bottle behind my back!

For the first time I put a warm winter coat on when going for a walk in the park - it honestly felt much more like November than September. Very unusual for here.

Carolest59

absolutely bluebell .utterly ridiculous putting heating on mid September .still fairly warm and won’t need ours till November .17 isn’t cold anyway

It’s not ‘utterly ridiculous’ for those in a different situation from you, whose health or physical make up means they need to be kept constantly warm.
Rather a dismissive and unnecessary attitude Carolest.

We've just changed from a flimsy acrylic cellular blanket to a woollen one. It'll be a cold day with frost before the summer weight duvet comes out.

Remember when duvets first came on the scene. We were told that they keep you cool in summer, warm in winter (how did that work then?) So in 1976, the year of our wedding we got a feather/down 15tog duvet. We then discovered that the claims weren't true. We haven't used it since!

absolutely bluebell .utterly ridiculous putting heating on mid September .still fairly warm and won’t need ours till November .17 isn’t cold anyway

Woke up in middle of night as usual to freezing room. So put heating to come on early morning just to warm up a bit. Happened 3 mornings so far so guess it is time for the clock to take over & just regulate the temperature as & when! Cannot get to cold or I seize up & that hurts. Roll on Spring 😂

Nooooo extra cardigan or dressing gown, socks ! No heating on before we change the clocks!!!

It's on now.

Yep logburner lit for the last two days and heating gone on today for a couple of hours morning and evening. Hate being cold and love warm and cosy.

Celieanne86

I had my annual gas service and the very nice man asked me how I like my heating, I told him hot and on. He told me he’d set the automatic to come on at 18, I thanked him had no idea what he was on about but yesterday and today my heating has clicked on so my friend explained it to me and how I can turn it up if I want to. What a wonderful invention this little gadget on the wall is and why hasn’t anybody told me before. I am now warm and very happy.

That little gadget is the thermostat, sets the temperature. I do hope someone has explained the TIMER to you so that when you go to bed at night, the heating goes off. No (financial) sense heating the whole house while you're asleep in cosy bed.

Our timer turns the heating back on as we wake up in the morning. By the time I've taken the dog out for a wee and DH reaches the kitchen and the kettle, the heating has come back on.

14° downstairs this morning, so I put the heating on for a couple of hours.

Used to be not till November but last year held out till December 😁

Here it is 16 degrees, gale force wind and lashing rain, so yes, the heating is most definately on, as both cats and I are frozen silly.

I was determined not to do anything with the heating tilt end of September . I was so cold I couldn't get warm and kept dropping things because my hands were freezing. My daughter said I was silly and I should put the heating onto auto and let the thermostat control it. So I have done hands are still cold but so I'm going to do the ironing now.

I wore a warm winter coat for the first time yesterday. Out for a walk, and it was honestly just like November - heavy cloud, very windy, rain any minute (though it did wait until I got home.) This in outer SW London.
I usually think of September as part of summer!

I was speaking to Dsis in Cape Cod yesterday, and she’s had very weird weather, too - not nearly such a hot summer as usual, and very much lacking rain.

Turned it on this morning.