have you got your heating on yet?

Are the items from this website good quality? It looks very good prices ??

It suddenly seems very Autumnal in terms of weather, so yes the heating has been on in the evening. We sometimes have the fire lit instead - very cosy!

Now this is precisely why I do not live in the UK!

No, seriously, it would never occur to me to live in a house that could not be heated all year round if the weather is cold.

DH and my aches and pains cannot be alleviated by wearing more clothes in cold weather, so if the temperature inside is under 16 degrees centigrade the heating is most definitely on.

It's 25C in the conservatory (no heat on)
Positively tropical!

Teacheranne You sound a very kind lady thinking of others because you are better off and able to heat your home when ever you choose to. Well done you, there will be many people this winter being grateful for food banks especially those who have just lost the 20.00 on Universal credit. Maybe we should all try to donate one thing a week when shopping especially leading up to Christmas.

Last winter I had the heating on in December and January, possibly February. I only have storage heaters and my comfortable temperature is lower than average.

No. It's still very warm here. Doors and windows open, still wearing t-shirts etc. We don't usually need to light our solid fuel boiler till mid-November. But we have turned the towel radiator on in the bathroom as it can be a bit nippy getting out of the shower first thing in the morning.

I recently heard someone say they refused to wear socks until October and they were cold so they'd put their heating on.
Wrong on so many levels.

Callistemon

It's 25C in the conservatory (no heat on)
Positively tropical!

Well, you are in Barbados after all

Ours is on a thermostat. 16 during the day, 18 in the evening, 12 overnight. Neither of us likes to be too warm, but we do sometimes up it to 20. However, that’s happening a lot lately as we’ve DD1 and family living with us for the time being and they seem to be cold bodies! We still have the windows open though - I need my fresh air.

It first clicked on about 3 weeks ago.

Well, you are in Barbados after all
Sneaked out, don't tell anyone. ??

Have to put it on for an hour in the evening to dry the washing on the radiators. Too late in the year for outdoor drying.

I have my heating set on all the time as I’m retired, but I have a thermostat for the heating to come on only if the temperature drops below 20 degrees.

Yes, heating is on occasionally in the evenings now, probably after 6 when we sit down to watch the news. We’re in Scotland and I’m a “cold tattie” so hate being cold. I do use an alpaca wool throw too which we were given as a gift in New Zealand.
I can thoroughly recommend them but also realise they are expensive. I always say I’d rather be hungry than cold.

Not yet, and extra layers will come first, we have just moved to a housing association bungalow which is lovely, but we are very worried about costs as we don't have central heating, just a couple of storage heaters and two convector heaters.

My house has lots of glass including a double storey atrium. On sunny days it is gloriously warm but on cold days brrrrr. Stone floors downstairs don't help either. The upstairs is open plan so when I do get round to lighting the big woodburner upstairs it heats that floor up. I avoid putting the heating on as it is expensive and, given the design of the building, really just takes the chill off the air. This will be my first winter without my lovely Dad who used to get my firewood for me for free so I will have to ration it. My late husband wore shirts even in the snow so I have grown used to a cold house over the years. I just wrap up well, fill my hot water bottle and snuggle up under a big fleecy blanket which can be plugged in if needed - really warm. I do find other people's house quite hot but I think I am just used to living in a cool house. Sometime in November the heating will come on for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the early evening. I am lucky that the cost isn't a problem, it is just I am used to economising.

Not yet, though it’s DH that insists we don’t switch it on yet. I’m fine mostly with extra layers, moving around and a nice blanket, but miss it first thing when I’m having a shower, if I go for a run first that gets me warmed up! We do need to make sure we re keeping warm as we get older, but on the other hand we are all from generations who grew up without central heating and we clearly survived. Also it’s better for the environment ?

We have no gas here, so no central heating. We have electric heaters. We’d not put them on yet, in fact I’ve had the upstairs windows open all day. But my parents visited this evening so we put them on for three hours - the monitor tells me we’ve spent £3.80 today on electricity. Ugh.

We've had ours on from about 6 til 8 in the evenings 2 or 3 times so far but we've had the logburner going in the kitchen more times. We live on a farm so the logs are free although DH does spend a lot of time cutting them to size with the chainsaw. I hate being cold. DS has just gone back out to Saudi where he works, 36° out there at the moment. Unfortunately he wouldn't put me in his suitcase!

Yes of course. Every day. It’s chilly now but tomorrow it’s to be 20° here so it’ll probably be switched off if it gets too warm. I really do empathise with those who have to watch what heating they use though. It must be quite upsetting going into winter. It must be hard to have a shower when the bathroom is cold. Throws and hot water bottles are a godsend but don’t help when you’re going from one room to another. I’ve been there when my children were little so I really do understand. That’s why I’m so grateful now that I don’t have to worry about fuel bills going into the future.

Not got ours on yet.I feel the cold really badly but I am terrified to put it on as the daily talk of gas prices has made me really anxious, we also suffer health problems but just can't afford the luxury of having it on at will.

BigBertha1

Germanshepherdsmum I have Lupus and osteoporosis arthritis everywhere. I live in the North West. I'm cold all the time so I have my heating on whenever I like and certainly from Late September to early May . There are other things I don't have. Is that OK with you or am I being insensitive spending my money on my priorities

I’m sorry to hear that Bertha. It must be very difficult for you. All I meant was that some people can’t say ‘of course’ the heating is on, even in January, for some it’s ‘heat or eat’ especially with rising fuel bills. I didn’t know of your conditions. My sympathies.

tidyskatemum

We’ve moved into a house with an air source heat pump and haven’t mastered the settings yet. The thermostat is set at 18C but is also on a timer and a couple of recent mornings we’ve woken up to a chilly bedroom. I do think we’re getting used to a cooler ambient temperature - the thermostat in the old house have been set higher by now.

We have an air source heat pump too (with underfloor heating). We were advised to keep it on switched on all year round. It only activates when the temperature in a room drops below the level set on the room thermostat. That works well for us. We use the immersion heater rather than the air source pump for hot water as that’s more economical for our needs.

I love my plug in heated blanket!

I'm still resisting, but it's getting hard. Have moved to thicker pyjamas, bed socks and an extra blanket. Thinking of wearing a jumper to bed tonight!

I refuse to put the heating on, it's not even that cold - it's just the shock to the system of the sudden temperature change!