lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Heating on here, although my son's radiator is off at the lockshield because he has his windows open 
Central Heating - on yet?
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Heating on here, although my son's radiator is off at the lockshield because he has his windows open
This is always a problem for us.
It's a conundrum, my wife and myself are quite hardy and don't/ didn't use the heating heavily, add the fact neither of us can stand the heat at night, our bedroom and landing windows will be open in all but the very very worst weathers.(closed when the heating is on of course)
So this means if we have the heating on daytime, it all goes out the windows at night, but we've become accustomed to that.
But now we have charge of two grandchildren, there's more need to have a warmer house so that complicates it a bit.
I always leave our spare bedroom window open all the time so if I wake in the night too hot ( and I invariably do)...into the spare room, quilt back, climb into an icy cold bed. Its wonderful....
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Fire is going like the clappers.
Still got plenty of capacity on the storage heater (it's only on 1/2 setting) and the oil radiators (only one of 3 is on - on medium).
Still got plenty of capacity on the storage heater (it's only on 1/2 setting) and the oil radiators (only one of 3 is on - on medium).
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
mini ck 1 is off college ill so the heating is on pretty much all day atm .
Time Waster
Veteran
When I get up I feel cold so heating is right up. I then get dressed and start to feel warm (with a few coffees down me) and the heating then goes down. With an efficient heating system in a well insulated and low draft house it is more efficient to keep the heating on all the time and turn it down low. So we have it on 16C, down from my waking up 18C. This results in the house being comfortable even when working from home (cold hands when using computer for work in a colder room is avoided) but in effect the boiler rarely comes on. In fact the house heats up fully (from 13.5C this morning to 18C in 5 to 10C then at 16C setting it does not fire up much at all and the radiators are all cold through most of the day.
So our heating is on but it is kind of not on at the same time.
PS when we used to turn our last house heating off to save money. However with our last house also being high efficiency central heating we found that leaving it on albeit at a lower temp actually save money. It takes more to raise from a lower temp than to keep topping up with a little heat every so often to maintain the temp. Over a full day an insulated, draguht free house with an efficient central heating system leaving it turned on at a low but comfortable temp it is more efficient on energy and fuel I believe. However I am also a keen proponent of putting on an extra layer first. I wear woolly pully at home and have a padded shirt to put over should I feel cold. I also eat food when cold. Food creates heat as does exercise. I would rather be a source of heat naturally with the heating turned low!!
So our heating is on but it is kind of not on at the same time.
PS when we used to turn our last house heating off to save money. However with our last house also being high efficiency central heating we found that leaving it on albeit at a lower temp actually save money. It takes more to raise from a lower temp than to keep topping up with a little heat every so often to maintain the temp. Over a full day an insulated, draguht free house with an efficient central heating system leaving it turned on at a low but comfortable temp it is more efficient on energy and fuel I believe. However I am also a keen proponent of putting on an extra layer first. I wear woolly pully at home and have a padded shirt to put over should I feel cold. I also eat food when cold. Food creates heat as does exercise. I would rather be a source of heat naturally with the heating turned low!!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Onesie, thermal base layers and pink fluffy socks are my defence. I don't care about sartorial elegance when I'm as warm as toast.
cookiemonster
Squire
- Location
- Hong Kong
Not much demand for heating here but, this week, It's finally cooled down enough to switch off the air con units after 7 months.
That'll help my leccy bill.
That'll help my leccy bill.
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Having had a Smart Meter fitted a year ago, and being on an Octopus gas tracker tariff it's a bit of an eye opener as to how many kWh equivalent of gas we use. I top the house battery up overnight so it starts the day at 100%. If there's a bit of sun during the day that helps, night before last it imported 4kW but last night 12kW.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Heating not on. It’ll likely kick in around 5pm for an hour.
