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[Olly]

Still holding out here ... I'm ok at night, in fact I was surprised to find my living-room is 17 degrees without any heating this evening, but I am finding it chilly when I get up at 6.30 (and it's DARK too! )

 

I've been using the electric blanket for a few weeks, I hate the bedroom being too hot but love getting into a warm bed, and it really soothes any aches and pains. I got mine from Lakeland, and it's one that is fitted into a fleecy cover so it fits over the bed (stops it moving around and rucking up). Can't remember the make, but Tessa if you've never had one, I really recommend it - they are cheap to run.

 

I'll have to put the heating on next week, as I've got visitors. Can't really expect them to don extra fleeces like I am! My woodburning stove should be installed in another couple of weeks though - I can't wait!

[Jillus]

I confess, I turned the heating on at 07.35 this morning , but I will only leave it on for a couple of hours and it is only 6C outside and I am suffering from gout in my right foot. Does that count as a resonable reason for turning it on?

[Lesley]

I reckon an electric blanket put on half an hour before I got to bed should heat the whole bed and all of me. Can anyone recommend an electric blanket? I don't want one that you can leave on all night.

 

Tessa

 

I have an electric blanket - but I haven't needed to use it for the last 4 years ( ) I'm hoping it is still OK when I start to need it again. It is an overblanket so you can keep it on all night if you wanted. It is a double and is two sided so I could have mine on high and Carl can leave his side turned off or just on number 1. Looking through the Argos catalogue briefly, I could only see underblankets.........which have never appealed to me.

[..lay a little egg for me]

oooh...electric blanket...hubby and I agree that an electric blanket is the most important thing for the winter. We have managed to get away without putting the heating on at all over winter, surviving on the heat from the Rayburn and the woodburner but this could not be even considered without an electric blanket. Just feeling that heat penetrate ones back and warm ones feet is just fantastic....should definitely become an Omlet "must have"

[Cooks]

I have made hubby give in and turn my kitchen under floor heating back on for the winter. I mean it's not him in there freezing his wossits off. He is more happy to be cold and I am happy when I am warm and snuggly........................ remind me why we make a good couple again?? :lol:

 

Kids are happier as they say they can eat they breakfast feeling warm now....... now I agree with this to a point but when you come down to breakfast in your boxer shorts you really have no argument for being a tad cold

[lisa33]

Hot water bottles Tessa!! Lots of them!! Oh, the pleasure!

Actually I'm guessing that an electric blanket may well be cheaper than several kettle boilings.

 

I do have a hot water bottle, but it seems to go cold really quickly and only heats up a bit of me. I reckon an electric blanket put on half an hour before I got to bed should heat the whole bed and all of me. Can anyone recommend an electric blanket? I don't want one that you can leave on all night.

 

Tessa

 

I love my electric blanket.

 

We have one with seperate temperature settings for each side. You can have it on Pre heat to warm it up or all night settings or 1 - 10.

 

And if we are going out for the evening we put a timer on it so it's warm when we get home.

 

I'll try and find out which one it is.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

We cracked at the weekend - I say "we".... my husband is really nesh but I come from a family where ice on the inside of bedroom windows was the norm....

 

 

Hands up all the people who read this and went, "What does nesh mean?" As a born and bred northerner now down in the South, it is a word that I use and get met with blank expressions when I do! Thanks alih for reassuring me that it is a real word!

 

Phew! me too!

 

I'm the southern-born child of Geordie parents, so growing up half the things I said met with blank expressions - nesh is one I use all the time but no-one knew what it meant. Let alone 'claggy'. Folk here in Yorkshire are much better though!

 

As regards the heating, ours has been on for the odd five minutes in the morning. I get up early so it just takes the bitter edge off things. It came on yesterday evening but I found that YS had been playing with the thermostat and had turned it up. And the wood burner is ordered and should be here in a few weeks hurrah! Other than that it's snuggly fleeces and slippers for me.

[chickencam]

Myself and OH really don't like electric blankets, it is like getting into a bed that someone else has already been in

 

Fortunately we both agree on this one. OH is always warm and I have a beddy bear for my feet, I warm him in the microwave for about 1.5 - 2 minutes and have lovely warm feet without OH getting too warm.

 

It is lovely to snuggle up under a blanket and watch tv on a winter evening

 

It was freezing here this morning but we managed, one year we made it to mid November without the heating and we only turned it on them because YD had some friends round for her birthday. This was pre woodburner too

 

We will all have to keep an eye out for frosty weather though, you need some heating to stop the pipes freezing it would be horrible to be cold think you were saving money then have to pay a plumber to mend the pipes.

[Paola]

Myself and OH really don't like electric blankets, it is like getting into a bed that someone else has already been in

 

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

I hate being cold So our heating has been on. OH rides a motorbike to work 50 miles each way so I like to have the house warm for when he gets home. Having said that it has not been on today but it is very parky outside *brrrrrr*

[abwsco]

We will all have to keep an eye out for frosty weather though, you need some heating to stop the pipes freezing it would be horrible to be cold think you were saving money then have to pay a plumber to mend the pipes.

 

Do most boilers not have frost stats on though? I know our ancient one did and the one we had installed last year does as well.

[Mel (& Paul)]

No heating for us yet (its always hot and sunny here in Dorset ) I have resorted to thick socks and a dressing gown over my clothes though (it did throw a neighbour who thought I had already gone to bed when she popped round at 7.30 last night )

 

I had a riding lesson this morning - it was glorious sunshine - a little chilly but lots of rising trot soon got me warmed up

[redhotchick]

My boiler was broken this week for 2 days. Got up Monday. No hot water, no heating.

Boiled a kettle, had a perfectly good wash, went to work. Got in from work, watched telly, put on socks and a warm jumper. Perfectly happy.

Tuesday, same scenario.

Wednesday - heating fixed, got in from work, banged it on till midnight!

There's no logic to it

I will try harder though - not having the boiler made me realise that I am wasting money by having it on so much.

I am old enough to remember frost on the inside of the windows and getting dry/dressed in front of the fire in the lounge. Brrrrr. I wouldn't want to go that far!

 

Edited to add........... I am nesh too!

[Snowy]

My boiler was broken this week for 2 days. Got up Monday. No hot water, no heating.

Boiled a kettle, had a perfectly good wash, went to work. Got in from work, watched telly, put on socks and a warm jumper. Perfectly happy.

Tuesday, same scenario.

Wednesday - heating fixed, got in from work, banged it on till midnight!

There's no logic to it

I will try harder though - not having the boiler made me realise that I am wasting money by having it on so much.

I am old enough to remember frost on the inside of the windows and getting dry/dressed in front of the fire in the lounge. Brrrrr. I wouldn't want to go that far!

 

Edited to add........... I am nesh too!

Our heating system is also broken at the moment. Got hot water OK and a gas fire in the lounge, but the system needs a power flush to get the radiators working. OH is wittering about it, but I must admit I am being stubborn - I know as soon as it is fixed, we will all be back to wandering round with minimal clothes on and leaving doors open We are fine at the moment - going to get hot water bottles for the boys as I noticed my bed was very cold last night, so the boys must be feeling it too. Lets see how long I can hold out! (another nesh here!)

[Shirl]

Ours is on in the mornings with the water heating and sometimes for 1 /2 an hour in the late afternoon. Today has been the first really cold day for me and I had the heating on for most of the day but the thermostat was only set to about 17 degrees. We aren't usually in all day so don't need it on normally.

[Paola]

Just spoken to OH who went to work at 7 this morning and his little car beeped at him for the first time this year saying it was 2 degrees *brrrrrr*

[Mel (& Paul)]

Cleaning the chooks out at 7am this morning was a little chilly (and dark!) but its still warm enough down in the sunny south not to need heating - lots of cups of tea though

[Seagazer]

Cleaning the chooks out at 7am this morning was a little chilly (and dark!) but its still warm enough down in the sunny south not to need heating - lots of cups of tea though

 

Wow - I'm impressed. I was still in bed

[Mel (& Paul)]

Cleaning the chooks out at 7am this morning was a little chilly (and dark!) but its still warm enough down in the sunny south not to need heating - lots of cups of tea though

 

Wow - I'm impressed. I was still in bed

 

 

ohh lucky you - I wish I had been I'm going away this weekend so wanted to get all the chores out of the way - now sitting down with a well earned cup of tea and chocolate biscuit

[Egluntyne]

We have relented and put it on.

 

Hats, scarves and gloves indoors are not a good look.....and we were dithering even with those on. Was thinking of strapping a hot water bottle to my middle too.

[Mel (& Paul)]

You could have started a new fashion

[Seagazer]

Cleaning the chooks out at 7am this morning was a little chilly (and dark!) but its still warm enough down in the sunny south not to need heating - lots of cups of tea though

 

Wow - I'm impressed. I was still in bed

 

 

ohh lucky you - I wish I had been I'm going away this weekend so wanted to get all the chores out of the way - now sitting down with a well earned cup of tea and chocolate biscuit

 

 

Where are you going? Anywhere nice?

[ubereglu]

Still not had the heating on at all!

[Guest]

OK I kept the fire going last night and its been burning slowly all day. I still needed to boost this room with Mum's halogen heater but now I'm sitting here bare armed.

 

I also had to put a calor heater on in the kitchen to warm it up earlier but got good and toasty.

 

I've been frozen all day, out and about and feeling the cold. Being thin makes you feel it more!

 

Oh and Mum is on a boat (Again!) so with none of the calor heaters/ halogen heater/ fire going on in her house its ICY when you go out there through the door in my kitchen. Trouble is that 2 of the cats are living out there and the cat flap through to my house is closed as Honey is still recuperating and under "house arrest" and if she goes out to Mums she will have access to the outside world via the cat flap in Mums conservatory door.

 

So after that VERY long explanation.

 

I've turned on one storage heater in Mums bedroom - to keep 2 cats warm! I am still only heating this big barn on a room by room basis and I am NOT putting the central heating on.

 

Actually I could turn off the halogen heater in here now but I have pizza dough rising in front of it!!!

 

I think I'll buy a couple more of those halogen heaters - they don't cost much to run for an hour and seem to be a valuable boost to a room - I popped it in my bedroom for 1/2 hour last night and this morning and took the icyness off.

[Guest]

OK I managed to post that twice!

[Old Speckled Hen]

Heating's on full blast.

I can happily keep warm with extra layers but I am a southern softie.

DH is made of sterner stuff and seems impervious to the cold .... he cycles five miles to work every day, wind, rain, snow just taking the car if it's lashing down. Heating! What heating???

Mind you, it means I don't need an electric blanket in bed!!

BUT he's away tonight camping in the pouring rain with his brother's stag party (yes, strange stag parties they have here oop north) AND .... OH the joy of sitting watching a movie, glass of wine in hand, in my Tee shirt with the wind howling and the rain hammering outside.