Feeling the cold

I'd have my doubts about an air source heat pump - I don't recall the details...but didn't like the sound of them when I read about them (main thing I noticed is they don't seem to get houses up to acceptable temperatures). I've got the figure of only 16C in my head from somewhere - think that was quoted. Not for me - West Country me has my thermostat set at 23C here - so I'm as warm as I'm used to indoors at any rate.

I thought about that heat pump when I came viewing this house - but I'd already read too much about the downside of it that I just decided to rip out the rather wierd hodgepodge system the house had of radiators, a gas boiler, an oil-fired Rayburn and all of it got ripped out except the pipes to the radiators and I had everything else replaced with a modern gas boiler and new radiators and the Rayburn and oil tank got binned. I had made that a "Must have" factor when I came houseviewing that it be within the radius served by what they call "town gas" here. Just as well....

It was one of my "vows to myself" when I was being brought up by my mother of "When I grow up - I will never be cold at home again. If heating is needed it will be on". She was so mean with the heating (and, in hindsight, that really doesnt even seem to have been for financial reasons) that I was quite sure I'd never be mean with heating once I grew up.

I too ( nearly 70) feel the cold and struggle in hot weather more than I used to - I used to love frosty weather! I even got my mountain puffer jacket out today - lovely and cosy. I also had on my thermals! M&S have some heatgen thermals in various warmth categories and I really liked the Uniqlo extra warm heattek- last years cotton lined long sleeved ones are staples for me-more opaque than the new ‘Extrawarm’ with cashmere.
I’ve read that heat source pumps work best in very well insulated houses. We too live in a C17 building- although the walls are thicker than a modern house- it’s draughty ( around the beams and windows) and not easy to keep warm - despite adding secondary glazing and calor gas CH. We were advised against air source pump heating. However we do have 2 multifuel burners (one with a back boile) and that really helps to keep us warm- first used this morning as the CH struggles when it’s bitter ( and gas deliveries often can’t get through in icy weather.)

Cariadagain heat pump technlogy is ever evolving. The heat pumps of today are far more efficient than those of 5 or 10 years ago - and easier to install.

It is always so with technology. Our gas boilers are nearly twice as efficient as they were 40 years ago, as our electric appliances. As for light bulbs!!

M0nica

Cariadagain heat pump technlogy is ever evolving. The heat pumps of today are far more efficient than those of 5 or 10 years ago - and easier to install.

It is always so with technology. Our gas boilers are nearly twice as efficient as they were 40 years ago, as our electric appliances. As for light bulbs!!

Tries not to think about lightbulbs - when I first realised they were going to stop the normal ones at one point I worked out how many I'd need to keep me going for the rest of my life and stocked up with umpteen boxes accordingly.

That did me okay in my last house - which had last had (quite a lot of) electrical work in the 1980s (ie when I bought it). Then I moved to current house - duly with plenty of those lightbulbs and did LOADS of electrical work. In the process of that they swopped every light bulb holder and, unbeknown to me at the time, I landed up with "chinese" or similar. So "my" lightbulbs duly burnt and broke the cheap crap ones and, even when I said to an electrician, "Please find some normal light bulb holders - I want German quality and I do not want Chinese quality. It costs what it costs to get normal ones - I'll pay it" still they are "chinese" and my lightbulbs still damage them in months if I use them much. Grrrr - and I had to sell my remaining "lifetime supply of normal bulbs" to a friend here with older light bulb holders and have been forced into buying the bulbs I don't want instead - to protect my cheapo light fittings.

I do know about gas boilers - and had the set-up here replaced - including gas boiler - when I bought the house and so that boiler is now 12 years old. So - with me having an estimated 10 years to go = it should see me out (am keeping my fingers crossed it will).

Can't even look at heat pump stuff now - as my house and garden are now finished and I'm still not sure I trust them and I've totally lost all trust and headed well into distrust territory about anything the Government says now in any context. So that's that and I just hope no-one tries to force me to change anything from here on in in any way - as I don't intend to.

I ve always felt the cold snd do more so now
Rol on spring and summer

Cariadagain I am not sure that I undestand all your discussion about light bulb and new and old fittings.

Fittings come bayonet or screw fitting and the screw fittings come in several sizes. We just replaced all our old light bulbs, tungsten and the fluorescent low energy bulbs with LED bulbs with no changes to the existing light fittings. We have LED bulbs with standard bayonet fittings, large screw fittings and small screw fittings.

Where the light bulbs were made I have no idea. They all work and last as long as each other and often branded bulbs from premium brands that were made in the country of the premium brand are now made in China.

I misjudged the cold weather yesterday and felt little shivers all over while in my bed. Consequently at 3-4 AM I wrapped myself in a teddy fleece then put a mug of milk into the microwave , and I ate a cheese and pickle sandwich, while finishing my novel . My dog had a bark and I presume a pee out in the garden then he ate a fried egg.

I sleep in a jumper and cardigan anyway but last night was something else.

My DH turns the temperature of our heating up because he sits around, to be fair he is 87! This increases our bills, so I gave him his Christmas present early, it's an electric throw! He's delighted with it, I got a good deal because of black Friday.

Dalrymple23 I am the same as you! At last I have found someone who feels the same!!! I am on a lot of heart meds and for 2 yrs my arms, chest and shins can suddenly feel so icy inside it is painful. I have asked many drs. They say they have never heard of those symptoms. My own gp said he would need to be Sherlock Holmes to stop one pill per month and prescribe another to take its place. He has never done that . It gets me down but getting an appt is such a faff I put it off and he would probably send me to A&E which I don’t want either. You have my sympathy. I’ll list my meds later and see if we have one in common.

Georgesgran

Same here - I feel the cold far more than I did. By the same measure, I can’t take the heat like I used to.

I’m the same. I wonder why? Must be an age thing I suppose. Mind you, there are many things I can no longer tolerate such as crowds, noise, small talk, shopping etc … I’m far less sociable than I used to be.

I sleep in a jumper and cardigan anyway but last night was something else

😮 I’d be boiling and my bedroom is only heated for an hour in the evening. The only clothing I wear apart from fleecy pyjamas is a pair of bed socks.

I stayed with my Swiss sis-in-law last weekend and was snuggled under a goose and duck down duvet. DH was asthmatic so we always had to have non allergenic fibre duvets and pillows.
I think it might be time for a change!! 😂

Our bedroom isn't heated but heat probably filters in there from the landing.
I'd be hot, too, in a jumper and cardigan, not even wearing bed socks yet!

I'm only too glad I've done my in town shopping for the week fancythat and I'm well stocked-up with bread - which is the main thing that concerns me (as we've been sprouting artisan bread shops since I moved here - but their stock goes pretty quickly of a morning and, if I waited to go out, there's a good chance they'd be sold out by the time I got to them
A couple of years ago I invested in a bread maker. It takes me literally 6 minutes to prepare the bread, and between 3 to 5 hours, depending on which programme I choose, I have my bread. No additives, only yeast, flour, butter, salt, sugar and water.
Regarding being cold, I have a heated throw that I use in the lounge and then in bed.

BG: Phew - at last! I blame Bisopralol for everything! Then there is Apixaban, Letrazole and the flipping statin - it was Rusovastain but changed last week, so don't know yet. Any comparables?

Fear not, milder weather is coming over the weekend and people that have been affected by the snow will be pleased it all melts and goes away tomorrow. As someone who drives to work, I hate snow and ice.

I thought it was an established fact that most people feel the cold more as they age.

Likewise a fact that some feel the cold more than others, usually thin people feel it more than those with "more flesh on their bones".

I feel the cold more in damp weather than in frost, others are the other way around.

All we can do is wear the clothes that suit us, and heat our homes properly - there are other things you can save on, after all.

No point in making yourselves miserable sitting in cold surroundings, even when wearing layers of clothing.

Hi Dalrymple23 my list of meds:
Aspirin
Eplerenone
Lansoprazole
Pregabalin
Bisoprazole
Ramada
Loran
Dapagliflozin
Isisorbide
Roasting
We have bisoprolol in common- maybe the culprit?!

Ranexa not ramada!!!

Rosuvastatin

Bisoprolol. Predictive text🤦🏼😬