Have you knocked your heating off yet?

[Deep Snow please]

Around September/October we normally get a thread on people turning the heating on, but what about knocking it off.

 

With glorious sunshine temperatures and maxima in the late single figures/early double digits you'd be inclined to forego the heating on a day like today. Anybody done so and do you expect to need to turn it back on soon?

[NorthYorksWeather]

I wish! I'm running low on wood and still have around another 3 months of wood burning left.

If I don't light the fire, the house will drop to around 10-13c and that's with thick walls, double glazing and good loft insulation.

Early May is usually when I can close the wood burner doors for the last time.

PS: Its 6c here with cloudy skies today

[Nick L]

Definitely not, the mornings are still cold despite the pleasant days!

[Dami]

No, since we have a new boiler, hubs is loving asking alexa to 'turn the heating on'

[Polar Maritime]

Arga still ticking over and will be for a good while yet I would think.

[Polar Gael]

End of May. Possibly. 

[Mokidugway]

4 hours ago, Dami said:

No, since we have a new boiler, hubs is loving asking alexa to 'turn the heating on'

We have a maid for that 

[markyo]

To be honest hardly put it on this winter,no need for it....us cave dwellers up North are a hardy lot!....Helps not living with a woman i must admit

[CongletonHeat]

The only months i don't have heating on at all are July and August, can't sit in a room below 18c.

[Deep Snow please]

1 hour ago, CongletonHeat said:

The only months i don't have heating on at all are July and August, can't sit in a room below 18c.

Bleeding heck, I can barely stomach a room above 18c.

[lassie23]

collected more wood from the forests of peckham in preparation for the cold spell

[Mokidugway]

1 minute ago, lassie23 said:

collected more wood from the forests of peckham in preparation for the cold spell

Not the dried bones of the Peckham deed then 

[snefnug]

Well usually 1 hour in morning and two hours at night (oil fired) then log burner in evening , but have to  admit to extending morning heat by 2 -3 hours over cold periods recently.  Log burner also in very cold periods runs all day, mainly weekends.  Mostly I work with elderly people during week their houses are Boiling - wearing layers is good, take layers off in boiling house, add them back at home.  Husband works from home , anathema to extend heating, wears vests, t shirts, jumpers, hat and gloves rather than switch heating on.  Good job I knit!  House built of slate walls, single glaze sash windows, in Wales, go figure!

 

Edited February 17, 2018 by snefnug

[lassie23]

3 minutes ago, Mokidugway said:

Not the dried bones of the Peckham deed then 

lol more remains than trees in peckham

[Mokidugway]

3 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

lol more remains than trees in peckham

[cheese]

Not a chance. Heating has been on every day and I can't see that not being the case anytime soon.

[philglossop]

As I live in a flat with storage heaters (never been on in 4 years) my portable Calor Gas heater is my god.

Still going strong here on 1 bar but not more than an 1 hr in the morning and during the evening after work.

Always loved a cold bedroom- lowest it got down to was 7.2c in December! Perhaps that’s why I’m divorced  

[Don Corleone]

Heating on for half an hour in the morning, then woodburner  in the evening. Also have a small open fire in the dining room.  Will probably have to get another load of logs  to see us out.

[markyo]

On 18/02/2018 at 03:00, cheese said:

Not a chance. Heating has been on every day and I can't see that not being the case anytime soon.

Typical Leeds softie! Unlike us real men in Sheffield,no heating on hardly ever.....never bothers us Sheffield Lads. We never moan about the the weather