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My ex-wife used to call me tight for not putting on the heating as soon as it cooled a little, but I see it as not being wasteful and helping the environment.

I admit that I do take after my Dad a little bit in my reluctance to put on the heating and last year I was delighted to not put it on until November. :D

This last week a number of people in work said that they'd put their heating on already. I know it was a bit cold at night, but it's only September!! Surely it's too early for heating??

Anyone else using their heating yet, or are there more thrifty people out there like myself? ;)

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Put mine on only when its freezing, although Im reluctant as it takes ages to warm my drafty house up, and with central heating only it costs me a bomb.

Over £300 gas bill for a quarter last year.:eek:

Going to invest in a gas bottle heater, heat just the living room up. saving money:) and the enviroment.:rolleyes:

I tell the misses there are also other ways to keep warm.;)

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Please dont use a gas bottle heater - if you are a council or housing association tenant you will find that you are in breach of your tenancy agreement if you do. The reason?- they are not safe and give off carbon monoxide

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i need to be in tune with my wifes body temp
one minite sweating next minite cold so i just put on an extra sweater
until im told different

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i started putting my heating on about a month ago

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On a couple of nights this week it was really chilly so I had the heating on for a bit.

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No, the heating hasn't been on since before Easter......and it hasn't felt cold enough yet to turn it on.
If I remember rightly (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong)last year remained unseasonably warm until very late in the year.....I don't think we had our heating on until November.

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Mines been on for a few weeks now, also been putting the fire on at night for a couple of hours, real cosy.

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Havnt had mine on since march. Cant put it on at the mo even if I wanted to as I need a new system that with luck will be installed on Friday. The cold dosnt bother me so it will only go on when its cold enough ie around 2degc outside.

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Certainly have, and got the blow heating going in back room whilst on here.

Had it on end of August, just to turn off whilst I was sunning myself in Spain for two weeks early September.

There again, don't suppose I wear enough clothes in the house, as today .. just a stripey t-shirt and linen pants. I know they recommend to wear more to save on your heating bills, but can't stand heavy cardies, etc.

Will probably get warm once I start to do some physical work .. like cleaning the bathroom and vacuuming...eventually.:rolleyes:

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of course iv had the heating on!!
only at night though to warm up the bedrooms;)

im bloody freezing now, but thats probably due to the kids leaving the front door open:rolleyes:

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LOL ..gosh, yes, Panther, why do kids always forget to shut the doors !!
Used to explain to mine that I was not heating the street too.

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My mum always turned the heating off when the clocks changed in March and turned it back on when the clocks changed in October. Last year i forgot all about it - wondered why it was cold upstairs on xmas day thought has the heating bust - i hadnt turned it on!!!

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Blimey Shillelagh, you must be a pretty hot-blooded lady !

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You'll have to ask Spug about that!!! :D:D:D

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SPUGGIEEEEE, can you hear me lad !!!! Don't think a good idea to answer on here though ... well, could be interesting.. teehee.

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Im not a council tennant.

Id be ok if I had a carbon monoxide detector.

What other alternative heating is there that works and doesnt cost a bomb to use.

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talking gas fires ? ours is on now in living room, so i exile myself to the front room.:p

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carl told me last night i'm like a radiator, hark at the ice box there ;)

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Mr D - can you turn off the central heating radiators in the rooms you dont need heating?.... and INSULATE big style!
Floor to ceiling thick curtains, which get drawn a soon as light fades.
Thick door curtains behind exterior doors.
Extra loft insulation (goes without saying that one)
Sausage shaped draught excluders at the base of doors
Draughtproofing strips for doors and windows

Cavity wall insulation is expensive and when my landlord (was council) put it in last year there was one wall that they couldnt do because it had no cavity. It is the wall that is in the communal stairwell. The stairwell exterior doors are open in daylight all year round to let tenants cats come and go, so that wall was a problem - it always was cold to touch because it was conducting heat out.
I found Thermilate paint additive and used it on that wall and it no longer is cold to the touch because it now relects heat back into the room. I am so impressed with Thermilate that I have been adding it to ALL the wall paint I use when redecorating and have used it on 2 ceilings (will use it on the other ceilings too when i get the energy to do them)
Insulating Paint Additive, Insulating Paint, Paint Insulation, Energy Saving Paint

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My dad never used to put it on till november, even when it was freezing, he used to tell us to put a bigger jumper on. Now i have my own house and family, I always try to see how far i can go before putting the heating on. unfortunately the wife, put the heating on last week. I didnt complain as it was freezing cold :D

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Lets bsay that toast can be made. ;)

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I had a new gas (hot water/radiators) heating system installed in March and technically it has been 'on' ever since (even though there is an 'off' switch).
I am arthritic and am most comfortable with a constant temperature of 22C/70F day and night. There is a room thermostat so it looks after itself by not coming on when the weather is warm enough.
That's what thermostats are for for goodness sake!!!!!!

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i dont put our heating on its just an excuse for me to go get nice and warm by wrapping myself up in bed :p

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Heat! I'm still using air conditioning!

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Have had ours on quite a bit this last few weeks, but only evenings. But after a couple of hours have turned it off has it's got to warm. Haven't needed it yet in the mornings.

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I am officially a "frozzen ******" and my feet and hands are always cold. My Dad has been staying with us for the last week and has had all the windows open !!! The storage heaters were switched back on in a couple of rooms about 3 weeks ago , albeit on low but it's nearly time for the winter quilt to make an appearance.

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His Lordships had the fire on a couple of times. it's been like an oven in my front room.
Has yet all iv needed is a cardigan on to keep warm. Its not that cold yet.

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I use the central heating when it's cold. In this country you can't go by the calendar and we've had some very cold spells recently so it's been on a few hours an evening when needed. It's never on for more than an hour and a half in the mornings and in the depths of Winter it comes on at 4.30 in the afternoon. Today I set it to come on at 7 p.m. It's never on during the night.

There's a thermostat on the boiler and one on every radiator. The house is never hot but I like to be comfortable, otherwise what's the point in having a heating system?

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I've not put the heating on yet, I don't really feel the cold until around late October/Novenber time. Yet me sister by contrast said she felt cold the cold 2/3 weeks since.

The cold bothers me so little that i goto work with 2 thin t-shirts on and a thin lightweight waterproof jacket on to keep dry.

Winters seem to get more and more milder every year, to my mind.
or mayby it's just me.

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I woke up this morning sweating buckets ! Still sleeping with window open BUT radiator was on ! Alec has set it for 7am ....so that he can get dressed in the warmth. Just wait till hes got his own place, see if he toughens up then when hes paying for it.

Big softie has even got a hot water bottle as well.

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When I first bought this house it had no central heating, just a solid fuel stove, and the person who was selling it said that it kept the whole house warm. Utter rubbish.

Besides being a pain, cleaning out the ashes, it made everything filthy.

I lasted four months, then had central heated fitted the week before my first Christmas here.

I've had it on a couple of nights this week, mainly because it feels cold just having come back from holiday. I always adjust the thermostat, as I don't like to be roasted, and weirdly I always have the windows open too.:D

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We have the windows open never mind the heating on,,,, I am always frozen and my hubby is always sweating,,,,,ermm somethings wrong somewhere :rolleyes:

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Living in a one bedroom flat as I do, heating has never been a big issue with me but I have to admit that most days last month I upped the thermostat a notch when it got too cold even though I was wearing a jersey.

It’s called global warming or the paradox of global warming as applied to the northern half of the British Isles.

The upper atmosphere ‘jet stream’ has moved a long way south, the north pole ice cap has melted far more than in recent years. In fact it is a record year for the polar ice cap melt. We have lost a little of the warming benefit of the Gulf Stream or more accurately the North Atlantic Drift.

Older people who are not quite as physically active as they used to be will feel the chill sooner than their younger counterparts, but a good way to keep warm is to make sure that you eat properly.

A shot of whiskey or rum is only a temporary solution and you will feel even colder once its effect has dissipated.

Hot soup is the best answer even if it is just Cuppa-Soup.

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A good tip is to take the Thermostat into the room you spend most time in, the new ones are battery powered wireless. This saves us a fortune, at night we take it to the bedroom. The installers allways place them in the coldest place, where you dont sit, like the lobby, so if you want to save put the Thermostat were you use it most.

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Fortunately when my heating was installed in March, I got to say WHERE the thermostat and radiators were put. The rads are on inside walls so I am not 'heating the street', and the stat is in the lounge.

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My thermostat is in my small lobby near the front door and across the lobby a couple of yards away is a radiator. Nice planning guys! Actually the electricians (loosely labelled) who re-wired my flat a couple of years ago had nothing to do with the radiator position. It was already in situ. But they were under instructions where to put the thermostat as they were for the smoke alarm.

I could have the mains plugs and light switches wherever I wanted them though but not the light rose in the ceiling.

However the fact that the thermostat is closeish to a radiator doesn’t cause me any problems. My flat does not get overheated nor does it get too cold. I can control the temperature of my living room by proxy so to speak.

It has always puzzled me why central heating installers put the radiators under windows and also one in a small kitchen. My kitchen one is turned off all the time though. But if my bedroom radiator was against an inside wall my bed would have to be under the window because the other two walls are backed with a wardrobe and my desk or the bed would have to be next to the radiator. The living room would present the same sort of problems. Where to put the furniture? However my outside walls are cavity insulated and the windows are modern double glazed so not a great deal of heat is lost. In any case drawing the curtains helps to keep the heat in.

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ah so i'm not the only one who does that then?

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My lounge and bedroom have very large windows which take up almost all the top half of the wall. At great expense, I bought heavy lined velvet curtains which reach the floor. There was no way I was going to allow them to put radiators under the windows! The radiators have individual setting switches and the bedroom radiator is set lower - I can stick my feet out of bed onto it when bedsocks aren't enough.