Central heating hokey cokey

Ours is also on a thermostat and it's still coming on now and again, but not as much as through the winter, thank goodness. We had the wood-burning stove on last night though.

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Our boiler was replaced two weeks ago. We shivered through the beast from the east type weather while waiting for the replacement.

Never turn mine off - just set the thermostat in the hall and it comes on if the temperature in the flat goes below 20 degrees. In a heatwave I would just flick that down to 15 degrees as obviously cool evenings come as a relief. I didn't have central heating until I was 35 and I vowed then I would never shiver indoors again - I would go without food first if it came to that.

I'm sitting here now freezing cold probably because I am immobile. I have a cold wet nose like a dog!

Wish we had heating to put on.
Our heating was not on when we came back from a trip at the beginning of March.
Engineer got it working for a few days and it went down again(I'll not go into all the issues)
We are now waiting the the heating engineers to come(next Monday) to re-pipe our system and install a new boiler.
At the moment we are all layered up with clothes and use hot water bottles to keep warm while watching TV in the evening. Oh and thank goodness for electric blankets.

We pay much the same for a large 4 bedroomed 500 year old listed property. No double glazing, internal insulation to 3 bedrooms and 12 inches of insulation in the roof.

But we do not have the heating on as much or as high as you do Teetime (see above). In the bitterly cold weather (like the Beast from the East) we light our wood stove during the day, which after a couple of days heats up the huge brick chimney stack in the centre of the house, and that acts like a storage radiator.

Well, we're into double figures today in Scotland, hurrah! No way would anything ever get me into the sea here, though.

We leave ours on 20 degrees all day from 7.30 to 10pm but I sometimes need to turn it up when sitting down. The bill is £88 per month for gas and electricity- I think that's Ok but I would be glad to hear comparisons. This is a very well insulated modern house. It wont go off until May and even then I may want some extra heat in the evenings.

I agree, I am sure the only time I was without a cardigan was when I went swimming at St. Andrews and the water was so cold a fur coat would not have sufficed.

On almost constantly in the Freezing North, switch it off about 9pm.
What's a heatwave Charleygirl

It’s when you take your big coat off Smithy!

Brought up in Scotland I always had a “Summer coat” as well as a Winter one.

Smithy it was a couple of days last year when I took my cardigan off temporarily!

Our CH is never fully turned off, because we can't. We have the thermostat set for a certain temperature (18.5, in our case) and the clock set to come on twice a day (6.00 - 9.30am, 4.00 - 10.30pm) and thus it is left 365/6 days a year.

Whether the internal temperature is falling below 18.5 during the 'On' period and the heating is coming on, I have no idea, I haven't bothered to touch the radiators to check. The house is warm - and that is all I am really interested in.

Ours was off most of yesterday for the first time this year. Back on almost all day today; there's a nasty chill wind out there.

On almost constantly in the Freezing North, switch it off about 9pm.
What's a heatwave Charleygirl?

It's been 5.5deg here today - the heating is staying on!

We control ours manually from the hall stat and apart from an hour in the morning (I hate cold bathrooms), ours has not been on for four days. I hope that is the shape of things to come, as temperatures are set to remain in double figures for a while.

On from 6:30am until 10pm but controlled by the thermostat in the hall. I keep that at 18 during the day and 20 evenings. It has not gone off much before this week when we have had a couple of decent days.

Strange this post has arrived have just switched our heating off ! First time this year!

We've been off for a week or so in S.E. but have used the gas fire early morning and evenings on some days.
It's lovely here today 17c

I don’t have central heating but my gas fire is still very much on East wind is still cutting and house very cold

Oops the wind is really warm in Staffordshire so I’ve just turned it off!!

I switch it on and off as required. I live in a modern house which feels cool most of the time but is fabulous the odd time that we have a heatwave- I rarely need to switch on a fan. It is very well insulated.

It isn't on all day - comes on at about 5 pm and is on for two hours in the morning.

It's still on - turn it down a degree and it feels cold, turn it up again and I get too hot.

There's no pleasing some people.

Ours is on, set at 15 during the day but it’s not come on for days till I turn the thermostat up to 18 in the late afternoon. It’s been pretty warm here in the South.