have you got your heating on yet?

I am really glad of a bit of heat to dry the washing and the towels in the bathroom. I am happy to put layers on to keep warm in the evenings, so only a couple of radiators are turned on at the moment, when it drops to 18.

My heating is a gas fire and no I haven’t put it on yet I use a hot water bottle at my back in the evenings when I m sitting that does me fine
My daughter has central heating but never has it more that 16 18 is the highest she would ever go in mid winter she can’t afford it any higher and she’s in a good job We both have big old houses though
I think the higher you have it the higher you need it

I m still sea swimming so I guess the house does feel ok ?

misty34

Mine is set to come on at 18 degrees. It hasn't hit that yet. I just wear jumpers and have been washing the throws and blankies [as we call them]. Dog has his supply too. I could not afford to have it coming on at a higher heat. When I was working it was on a timer but now I am up from 6am to 12 pm could not afford to run all day. So far so good.

Where do you live Misty34? Here in Greater Manchester my heating has kicked in for quite a few mornings as the temperature has dropped below 18 degrees - mine is set at 10 degrees overnight until 6am then 18 degrees during the day until 10pm. I increase it to 20 degrees in the evening when I sit down if my nose feels cold.

I have no intention of changing that pattern, luckily I have sufficient income to cover the increasing energy costs but I do appreciate that not everyone is as fortunate as myself.

I received a FB post today about a local food bank that is very low on certain supplies as there is already a huge demand on their services so I’ve ordered a number of items off their list on my online grocery order so I’ll drop them off next week. I support this food bank as it serves people in my local area and my WI have regular collections for them.

Mine is set to come on at 18 degrees. It hasn't hit that yet. I just wear jumpers and have been washing the throws and blankies [as we call them]. Dog has his supply too. I could not afford to have it coming on at a higher heat. When I was working it was on a timer but now I am up from 6am to 12 pm could not afford to run all day. So far so good.

DH and I snuggle up on the sofa under a warm throw, but still have the heating on.

Ours is going on at about 5 or 6 pm lately. It’s not automatic, we use the thermostat thingy. We turn it off again at around 10.

Nope, still managing to resist and, happily, I'm not at all co!d

No / house is so hot I’ve got windows open. We live in a very highly insulated house and it’s south facing. Half the back of the house is glass - so like a greenhouse for a lot of the year. Downside is summer can be too hot.

Here in central France it's been unseasonally cold all week,10 degrees this morning,so yes my heating is on

Came back after a few days away thinking the house would be cold, but it wasn’t.
We bought fleecy bedding for winter last year-what a pleasure. The sheets and duvet cover are never cold to get between. We put them back on during the cold wet snap and bed has never been so appealing.

Sitting here with an electric throw over my knees. It served me well last winter, fully recommend one.

We’ve put flanellette sheets on the bed. They make a big difference at night for keeping warm. Bought from John Lewis a good few years ago and very hard wearing.

Well with gas switched off and rads removed…… we are awaiting electrician to come and put new oil/ electric rads in and then perhaps I will have heating to put on !

I thought I would probably put it on this week, but when I ordered more oil, and realised how much it had gone up, I thought I’d hold out a bit longer.

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!

I love my plug in heated blanket!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 ?

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, 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.