Heating switched on

A combination of sunseeker and Mamie here - the heating goes on for an hour in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening, but only on three radiators. Last night I lit the woodburner for the first time, I have been shivering until under a fleece blanket all week. Fleece blankets are amazing. It only takes ten minutes to warm up before you are having to fling them off again. I have one on each arm of three sofas and another slung over the back. I refuse to be cold.

My tip is, buy a really cheap halogen fire. It only costs the same as an old-fashioned lightbulb to run if you only use one bar. My fire cost £11 two years ago from Amazon. It gets the room warm fast while I am waiting for the woodburner to heat up. My sister saw them in a cheap shop locally and they were selling them for £6 - the packs of two replacement bulbs cost that! They are very light so can be moved around easily, they have a handle.

Our heating is not turned on or off. It works entirely off the timer and the thermostat. We have that permanently set at 18.5C so in heating hours, if the internal temperature falls below that the heating comes on. No thought, no angs, and no competition to see how long we can hold out before we turn it on.

How anyone can function in a temperature of 23 or 25 I do not know. I feel the cold but find extra clothing far more effective than extra heating that dulls the mind and makes my hands all sweaty.

We wear t-shirts in the house all year round and OH wears shorts apart from the coldest months. Our house is very well insulted and the wood-burner takes over from the central heating after about half an hour in the morning. The wood-burner produces 11kw which heats the whole of the main part of the house, so our oil consumption is not high.
You get warm chopping and carrying the logs too.

I put the heating on for a couple of hours last night and for an hour this morning. Changed to winter duvet at the weekend. I have a "throw" on the sofa which I put over my legs while watching TV at night. I am also from the school of "put on another layer of clothes" rather than put on the heating! Just had the oil tank topped up which cost £800 (but I use oil for heating, hot water and cooking). Haven't lit a fire yet but I am thinking about it. Oh how I hate winter!

My heating has been on very low for about a week, but I will be layering silk vests, tops and cardis and wearing furry boot slippers as it gets colder.
I really can't afford to pay sky high heating bills this winter.

Heating definitely on! And it is time to change the duvet, put away more summer clothes, make soup...mmmm.

I'm in the process of packing away summer clothes.

I put the electric blanket back on my bed yesterday. So far have resisted switching heating on but won't be able to last out much longer.

I am looking forward to the Winter. Boots, scarves, mist, being able to close the curtains at 5 o'clock and watch television or do a jigsaw puzzle without guilt. Stew simmering on the cooker.

Shall be fed up by February though.

I've got my heating on low now, but I do like a cold bedroom and warm duvet! My daughter has her heating set at 23 degrees and they all wear sleeveless tee shirts! I can't wait to hear the complaint about the size of her energy bills.

I haven't needed to use my living room radiator yet, just put the bathroom heater on for ten minutes in the morning. The houses here in the Alps are built for the weather and the insulation of my flat is superb. It helps that I have other flats on both sides, above and below mine. My only exposure to outside is via double glazed French windows onto the balcony.
I don't like very warm rooms, but my guests are very welcome to put the heater on in their bedroom! I prefer to wear a warm cardigan if necessary. My gc used to drive me mad, turning the heating up to 25C whilst wearing tee shirts!

Heating on here in Normandy. Haven't used the wood-burner yet, but thinking about it!

Feeling the cold here(Lanarkshire) as well.Time to change to warmer duvet I think.Also I drive a Motorcycle to work,fingers been feeling nippy last few days,time to get heated grips fitted in preparation for cold journeys to work.

Sudden change to cold here too and the 'nights are fairly drawing in'. Did the sad job today of packing away summer clothes to make way for autumn/winter ones. At least all the summer clothes got an airing this year - last few years many were unpacked, ironed and repacked unworn.

Vegetarian. Do not wear silk.

I think you are right , Jen, the blood thinning ones especially have a lot to answer for. Heating definitely on . Get out the silk vests.

Yes! We needed some heating as felt cold, and summer clothes definitely no longer enough, oh dear, the evenings are shorter and soups and stews will be the next thing!

Glad I'm not the only one feeling the cold. Since I was given all the tablets I'm on, my thermostat, internal I mean, has gone haywire.
I always feel cold now, whereas previously if anyone had cold hands they always held my hand to warm up. My son tells his son not to let me rub his hands because the rings hurt!

Ooh no not yet ! I use oil which seems to get more expensive every year. I get by on 1000 litres a year by having a heat lamp type bulb in my lamp and a quilt to snuggle up under on the sofa and dressing for the weather. My sister says my house is always cold but I think hers is like a sauna. I have a friend coming in 4 weeks so will have to put it on then. I work in the garden a great deal so the house always feels warm to me even in the depths of winter ! My thermostats are set at about 15'. I was brought up on a farm up in the Dales where ice inside windows were the norm and the only heating in a bedroom was an oil lamp which had to be extinguished before sleep. Clothes were put under the quilt so they were not frozen in the morning. Happy days !!

This is the trhird day we have had the heating on here even our JR Barney has noticed the change in the weather he has pulled his blanket next to the radiator he is probably feeling it since he went to the doggy beauty shop to be cut down,we where talking today about how we used to enjoy a few weeks of really good weather once the children had gone back to school but that seems to have passed us by now.

Second day we've had ours on - the cats are happy though!

It's freeeeeezing down here this evening. I've put an electric fire on.
Flannelette p.j's tonight!

This is the 3rd evening I have switched on the heating. It is supposedly 15C but I was freezing. How will I cope in mid January?

Ours is on Anne9. I don't see the point of suffering unnecessarily
I'm on the point of swapping my summer nighties for my PJs too!