Cental Heating - have you??

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  • mroli wrote:
    No CH before October....

    Used to be before November, but then I got married...

    Reminds me of the annual struggle in my parents house, they have an open fire in the lounge and mum is always wanting it lit as soon as she feels chilly (late August if she had her way) but dad has a rule it is not to be used before 1st Oct and I'm sure he'd like it to be even later if he could get away with it :lol:
  • Got home from a ride today, nicley warmed up, to find the house suspiciously warm. Turns out that Mrs MT had taken my absence as an opportunity to 'test' the system!

    Cycling attire today: gillet + arm-warmers, but still in shorts and short finger gloves. I was more than warm enough after first couple of miles. It's only cooled down a bit. If you can't cope now, how will you manage 2C in January and a biting north wind?
    I should get out more (on the bike)
  • mud gaurds and heating on.
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    No heating yet as jumpers will do the job fine.

    On the ride today was in leg warmers and arm warmers. Was fine, but really needed a gilet for the descents.
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    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • I live in a flat with no heating what so ever. Gets a bit fresh, but manageable....
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    My Dad had the 1st October rule too, not sure if he still adheres to it now he lives alone. My flat can take a while to get warm as the sun is on the back of the building for most of the day and the living room is in the front of the building.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • It dropped to about 6 or 7C in SE London one night last week and inside temp was about 16C but haven't put the heating on yet. I just stick on a jumper. I can't stand hot and stuffy homes and offices. Don't usually put the heating on til at least Nov. We went to my mum and dad's over the weekend and they had their heating blasting away, we took our West Highland Terrier and he's not used to heating and was sat around panting as it was too hot.

    Also I live in a raised ground floor flat with a flat below in the basement and a flat above and both of them are pretty quick off the mark with their heating once it starts to get regaularly cold and we benefit from that...
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Ours has gone on now. Me and the dog came in soaked and chilly after yesterdays 90 minute walk in horizontal rain. Then I went to collect eldest son from Heathrow; he's back from 3 weeks in Thailand, so he'll appreciate it.
  • Keith47
    Keith47 Posts: 158
    I finally succumbed yesterday, central heating switched on, summer duvet replaced by winter duvet,winter cycling gear dug out of the wardrobe, winter motorcycle gear taken out of storage, I must be getting old! :( Problem is, I think I must have blinked and missed "the summer", what happened :?
    The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food-like products.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    First frost of the season round our way on Saturday night, which means a good bit colder further north & inland: -4.5 in the west highlands.

    Here's a pic from the Cairngorms at the w/e - note the greyish patch of last winter's snow top middle of the pic
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Top tip for chapped lips: thin application of vaseline then shove your finger up the dogs @rse, withdraw and lightly smear the affected area. Simultaneously moisturises the lips, and it sure as hell will stop you licking them.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Chapped lips?

    Do what I do - let them get chapped enough that you don't feel them if they split.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,153
    testing my heating three weeks ago and it broke first time as always. Usual slow service from the people that maintain it & its just fixed now - so bath again rather than showers!

    We don't bother with the heating till later, but have started using the log burner.
  • dmch2
    dmch2 Posts: 731
    Why is there always this thing about turning the heating on? Just set the thermostat to a comfortable temperature, let it decide when the heating comes on and NEVER TOUCH IT AGAIN. That's what a thermostat does...

    Slight exception, I turn it right down when we go away as the house just needs to be frost free if we're not there (no pets)

    Although domestic thermostats are VERY inaccurate so the actual number is fairly irrelevant. At our old house it had to be set at 22°C to be comfy, in the new house it needs to be 14°C for the same temperature.

    A colleague of mine wire his thermostat (an electronic one) up to his PC and wrote a web page to monitor it. He rings up his wife and tells her off if she ever touches it! This means he can use his smartphone to turn the thermostat back up a few hours before they get home from holiday.
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    2004 Marin Muirwoods Hybrid
  • dmch2 wrote:
    Why is there always this thing about turning the heating on? Just set the thermostat to a comfortable temperature, let it decide when the heating comes on and NEVER TOUCH IT AGAIN. That's what a thermostat does...

    Slight exception, I turn it right down when we go away as the house just needs to be frost free if we're not there (no pets)

    Although domestic thermostats are VERY inaccurate so the actual number is fairly irrelevant. At our old house it had to be set at 22°C to be comfy, in the new house it needs to be 14°C for the same temperature.

    A colleague of mine wire his thermostat (an electronic one) up to his PC and wrote a web page to monitor it. He rings up his wife and tells her off if she ever touches it! This means he can use his smartphone to turn the thermostat back up a few hours before they get home from holiday.

    I find the problem with leaving the thermostat on at a fixed temp is that it comes on in the middle of summer sometimes when the windows are open and there's a bit of a breeze passing the thermostat. Also, as you say 14C on one day can feel different to 14C on another.

    For example a few weeks ago before I biked to work, it was 14C outside so I stuck on my shorts and sleeveless top and was completely fine, this morning it was 14C but it's very damp and a bit breezy out and I needed a jacket, yet the temp on our outdoor guauge thing was the same.

    Same with the heating, sometimes I find that it's 16C inside and I'm absolutely fine with a jumper on, other days I need to put the heating on when it hits 16. I find leaving it to the thermostat to work out is no good, it needs the human touch.
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  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    dmch2 wrote:

    A colleague of mine wire his thermostat (an electronic one) up to his PC and wrote a web page to monitor it. He rings up his wife and tells her off if she ever touches it! This means he can use his smartphone to turn the thermostat back up a few hours before they get home from holiday.
    My thermostat has a holiday function - you set the number of days that you will be away, and the heating stays off for those days. It then switches itself back on after that time period has elapsed. No need for a PC!
  • dmch2
    dmch2 Posts: 731
    I think it was all an excuse to use the PC - we're a technology company and some of my colleagues can't resist taking their work home with them!
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Ands wrote:
    dmch2 wrote:

    A colleague of mine wire his thermostat (an electronic one) up to his PC and wrote a web page to monitor it. He rings up his wife and tells her off if she ever touches it! This means he can use his smartphone to turn the thermostat back up a few hours before they get home from holiday.
    My thermostat has a holiday function - you set the number of days that you will be away, and the heating stays off for those days. It then switches itself back on after that time period has elapsed. No need for a PC!

    My thermostat has an On/Off switch - turn it off when you go away and the heating stays off for those days. I then turn it back on when I return. No need for a holiday function!
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  • dmch2
    dmch2 Posts: 731
    If it's winter then coming home to a house at 5°C can make the mrs a bit grumpy until it warms up. Our old house (before we insulated it) took AGES to warm up.
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    2004 Marin Muirwoods Hybrid
  • I am still reeling for the gas bill from last winter, so no way is mine going on until November, and then only for an hour a day.
  • :oops: I've got a lock on programmer & I'm not telling her where the key is.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    To those that have already weakened and put the heating on

    M.T.F.U
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • solsurf
    solsurf Posts: 489
    heating on, log burner lit and heated floor working. In fact the heated floor has been on all year in the bathroom in the morning, slate is pretty cold. And before you tell me to MTFU I cycled to work in sub -10 for two weeks and it was below 0 for most of december through to mid feb.
  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    CH has been on in the evening this week. Elderly father sitting shivering with a T shirt, Thick combed cotton shirt, thick woolen jumper and a woolen blanket round his shoulders all day yesterday :roll:
    Told him to move around a bit more lol :D
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    I keep mine on all the time: just set the thermostat to the temperature we want and then forget it......isn't that what thermostats are for?
  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    rhext wrote:
    I keep mine on all the time: just set the thermostat to the temperature we want and then forget it......isn't that what thermostats are for?

    its just setting the gas Direct debit to maximum and forgetting it I find the hard bit :roll:

    My combined Gas and Elec bills last year came to over £2000+ :shock:
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    Well, I do tend to set it for about 13 degrees! We wear jumpers in our house. Responding perhaps more 'in the spirit' of the thread, I lit the wood-burner for the first time last week!
  • peanut wrote:
    rhext wrote:
    I keep mine on all the time: just set the thermostat to the temperature we want and then forget it......isn't that what thermostats are for?

    its just setting the gas Direct debit to maximum and forgetting it I find the hard bit :roll:

    My combined Gas and Elec bills last year came to over £2000+ :shock:

    What sort of place do you live in? A stately home?!
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  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    peanut wrote:
    rhext wrote:
    I keep mine on all the time: just set the thermostat to the temperature we want and then forget it......isn't that what thermostats are for?

    its just setting the gas Direct debit to maximum and forgetting it I find the hard bit :roll:

    My combined Gas and Elec bills last year came to over £2000+ :shock:

    What sort of place do you live in? A stately home?!

    no its a 200 yr old converted barn with no thermal lining and 3x outside walls to the kitchen diner where we live most of the time. :roll:

    Plus we have a 30 year old CH boiler on its last legs . together with my 90 year old Father who has worn his thermals throughout the summer. :cry:

    I've just calculated the energy requirement for the kitchen and its 12,000 Btu . We only had 6500 btu output from the rads. Picked up a rad from B&Q today so we'll be nice and toasty this winter