Eglu cube or go up with 2m run

[Paola]

who needs a man?!

 

I must say I do fancy one Will have a look in the yellow pages for one, thanks Claret

 

Ditto that but change the claret quote as shown!

 

If only it was that simple

[ubereglu]

Still not had the heating on. School is freezing at the minute, so it took ages for everyone to dry out today, seeing that it was raining on the way to school today.

 

Mind you, with the school's heating when it is put on it will be far too hot again.

[miffy]

We moved into our home just over a year ago, we had just an oil fired aga and 2 woodburners,one in our lounge and one in the annex lounge. We had oil central heating put in as MiL not able to cope with woodburner and is (rightly) determined to remain independant. Our system is zoned so that hers is controlled with its own thermostat. Hers has been on for a week or so now, 20 in the day and 10 at night (she is 84). We have the heat from the aga and have lit the fire once this year. Last winter we rarely used the heating our side but we still used LOADS of oil. Not sure how we will manage this year but dont mention it to MiL as she would turn it off let herself get too cold. Thank goodness we live in sunny Cornwall, or should that be soggy Cornwall

[Guest]

I bought my own halogen heater this evening - its a 1600w one that can be anything from 400 to 1600 watts. I've had an hour on the max and now I'm down to half. The room I am in is lovely and toasty even though it's a huge room. Thats cost me about 30p as we are on expensive daytime electricity as 75% of our usage is economy 7 so I have the tariff set for double cheap econ and much pricier daytime.

 

I think 30p to warm me for the evening is good though - I'm sure using oil to heat me and the rest of this huge barn of a house would cost a lot more than that.

[Guest]

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 separate 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.

 

Did you ever find out what make it is Lisa? I want to get one for my mother and really like the timer idea. Her birthday is next week, so I need to hurry!

[redfrock]

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 separate 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.

 

Did you ever find out what make it is Lisa? I want to get one for my mother and really like the timer idea. Her birthday is next week, so I need to hurry!

 

Sounds identical to mine, which is a Slumberland model. It means I can be warm as toast and himself who wears shorts 365 days of the year cannot complain that his side is too hot

[The Dogmother]

Ooo, your OH is such an 'ard man, Claire

 

I used to love my leccie blanket as I'm a chilly mortal too, but now that I have the memory foam topper, the bed is warmer and I just have a hot water bottle for my icy feet.

 

I'm not sure whether it's OK to use a leccie blanket with a topper either

[Guest]

Thank you Claire and Clare!

[redfrock]

Thank you Claire and Clare!

 

no probs! you'll find them in Argos

[cammy73]

I've had the heating on but we only have it on for an hour in the morning when we get up and an hour at night before we go to bed, and we've also invested in an electric blanket too!!

 

sharon x

[susanbb]

Have finally given in and have now put the heating on.

[MedusA]

We are also having the heating on for an hour in the morning.

 

I've had it on for the odd hour in the evenings here and there, but not when I've used the range for cooking as that warms up most of the ground floor and if I feel a bit chilly when I'm sitting watching TV in my north-facing lounge, I use a rug over my legs and that is usually enough.

 

Not really winter yet, IMO.

[Guest]

STILL no heating on here

 

And the price of oil is dropping so when I put it on in January and have to buy oil I will have saved a small fortune. It's only going on then to avoid burst pipes.

[bronze]

We finally gave in. Its been bitter here and the wind is biting (off the north sea) so we eventually gave in. As much as anything because I'm so tired all the time I'm feeling the cold especially badly. I also can't move as much as I normally can (physio here I come) so have trouble keeping warm that way too.

[Paola]

Heating off here Its turned mild

[redhotchick]

I have the heating on in the morning. I changed the timing so that it just comes on for 45 minutes, and I'm hardly putting it on in the evenings at all. An hour at a time but only when it turns really cold. I used to have it on all weekend when I was home, not any more.

[BarbaraJ]

my heating is so ancient it really needs renewing but with hubbies job up in the air (GM) no chance of that. Its an old back boiler and works fine but costs alot more to have it come on and off all the time so i leave mine on starting this week permanently on 1 (theres a dial under fire to 6) and just turn heating off if its too hot or up temp. if colder. It works well for us as i'm at home all day with 3 under 2's and don't like them to get cold.

the radiator is usually off in our bedroom and the girls but always on downstairs and bathroom.

[Guest]

I do mine in a similar way. It's on officially from 6am to 9pm, but I use a thermostat set at 17 or 18 degrees so it only actually heats up if the temperature dips below that inside the house. This past week it's only really been on in the early morning.

[Guest]

Well I've still not had my heating on except for one hour when I'd got the house all damp and with condensation from leaving the bathroom door open when I bathed.

 

I have just this weekend ordered my first lot of oil for the winter as the hot water isn't using very much at all. We last ordered oil in May so and then the price has rocketed and plummeted and this lot has come in at just over £200 for 500 litres.

 

Yes it is often cold in my house - I have a wood burner, calor heater and a couple of those halogen heaters that all go on as required but then when you leave the warm room you really feel the chill. I have learned LOADS from this exercise though and one of those things is to think about alternatives - my electic Aga is being delivered on Friday and installed the week after next. That will heat the downstairs of my house to an acceptable temperature if I suppliment with the woodburner in the lounge - I don't mind the upstairs being cold.

 

I originally said I was going to try and keep the heating off until January when I would need to put it on to avoid burst pipes. I'm thinking now maybe I don't need to put it on then - if I have a reasonable ambient temperature in the house then the heating really doesn't need to be on.

 

Darn having just typed that I realise it is below frezing tonight so I need to make the the heating come on with the water in the morning just to make sure I don't have burst pipe problems when I run my bath!

 

How is everyone else doing?

Edited December 2, 2008 by Guest

[Blackrocksrock]

We dont have oil or gas to buy - my woodburner is in the utility room and heats the house with central heating and I have no more open fires at all - wish I had. The house is sometimes cold especially if really frosty but I dont heat the bedrooms which we have 3 of and in fact we open the window at night unless very very wet or windy. The house is sometimes cold and we just plug in an electric fire - saves on all the oil - someone to-day tells me its £6,000 a year to heat their house with oil - I nearly died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. We get free sticks so heating - just the heat to chop, split with the log splitter and stack them - loads of heat free there then!

[Olly]

Out of interest, how hot do you have your homes?

 

I have the heating on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, and I've been really trying not to turn it on at other times - if I'm in, I light the woodburner, if I'm going out I don't bother, and if I am doing jobs and moving around, I just put an extra fleece on.

 

Ambient temperature is around 15 deg, and strangely enough I am not minding it too much (having in previous years thought 18 deg was too cool!) I haven't had a cold yet this winter, either. I do put the electric blanket on to warm the bed up.

 

I'd be interested to know how warm other people like it to be.

[bluekarin]

We haven't had our main heating on as our boiler packed in about 2 months ago Luckily we have a pretend wood burner in the living room so we have some heat, and hubby has a fan heater under his work desk so he is nice and toasty when he is working, or playing Warhammer Normally I set the thermostat to about 18 deg and only a bit higher when it is freezing and to warm the place up a bit. The good thing about not having a warm house is the kids are actually using their dressing gowns and wearing jumpers! It reminds me of my youth as we only had a heater in our living room then too and it did me no harm!

[Lesley]

We have the heating on lower than we used to - around 18 most of the time. We have inherited underfloor heating which would be brilliant if it had been zoned when it was put in It is either on or off in most rooms A couple of rooms where it doesn't work are quite cold - but that is fine. The warmest room though is our bedroom......and I hate having a warm bedroom. We can't keep the window on the catch overnight as we have 7 noisy cockerels at the moment......so we have to manually control the heating..... We light the woodburner in the early evening and turn the heating off using the room stat in the hall and we also turn the heating temperature down on the boiler. The room stat stays right down low until around 6am and then kicks back up to 18. When I get up I have to go and turn the boiler temperature back up

 

My worst problem at the moment is my own inbuilt central heating - mostly I'm warmer than I used to be with occasional warmer moments when I feel hot and sickly I can't wear my lovely warm,but synthetic, fleecy tops - I have to wear cotton.....layered

 

....but then, I might have a cold moment.......but by the time I've put on another layer.....heated a wheat bag.......or lit the fire.... or snuggled under the duvet at night.........I'll be warm and feeling sick again and fling everything off

[Blackrocksrock]

Lesley I commisserate - I know the same feeling and feel I am in cotton clothes most of the time and if I put on synthetic - I am too cold - so like you I heat a hot water bottle when I need to be warmer! It will soon pass I hope

[The Dogmother]

Luckily I seem to have come out the other side of the hot flushes, but that means that I feel the cold again

 

The heating only comes on briefly morning and evening, with the room stat turned down. I am sitting in front of the stove now, and warm as toast