Heating on yet?

I don't have central heating. I'm in retirement housing and all they allow are storage heaters. I haven't used them yet, and I'm still using a summer quilt on the bed. Probably change that soon.

Solitaire I'm sorry to say body type doesn't predict how warm you feel. As a chilly chubby I've spent my life feeling that fat is not insulation - just another layer of frigidity!

Had ours on for a few weeks even though we live 'down south'. And our winter duvet and I wear bed socks pretty much all year round (sleep much better with them on). Why be cold if u can be warm?!!

Mine has been on even over the Summer. I live in a Park Home (Mobile Home) which I had insulated last year. I leave my thermostat at 15C & it has been coming on during the night/early morning. I turn it up to 16C when I get up as my Lounge/Dining Room has 6 windows & is quite cold in the morning, however if it's a sunny day it warms up lovely.

I have also turned heating up if it's been a damp day as that makes home feel chilly. I also turn it up if I want warm towels for my shower & warm up wet room.

Radiator in my bedroom is turned down & I always have the window open a little even in the winter. Bed is the one place I'm really warm, I don't wear PJs in bed, if it gets really cold I put a fleecy throw on the bed.

I'm lucky that when my home is warm it retains the heat & I rarely turn thermostat above 18C, I have a thermometer in my Lounge so I can check temperature is above 21C

Yes, we have ours on and I'm boiling, but too idle to get up and turn it down.

Ours is on 22, most all year.

kittylester is that the Rempstone near Nottingham?

kittylester Is that Rempstone near Nottingham ?

Not as in "we've got the heating on", but it's been on for an hour a couple of times when it's been really chilly. The benefits of being menopausal - never feel the cold

Have to smile ... DH put the heating on this afternoon 'Just to see that it is working.' I am boiling ... !

Why have heating if you don't use it when feeling cold. If it's cold in September- heating on, if we get lucky and have an Indian summer in October heating goes off.

Not yet on in the mornings but late afternoon when it feels chilly and getting darker ... on it goes until about 10 pm...
I feel comfortable at about 20%.

But my enviable neighbour has an oil fired aga which is on day and night all year... scrumptious... and rarely too hot...

No, only once for an evening a few weeks ago.
It's like summer here today.
My thermostat is at 15 when I do put it on. Can't afford heat.

Teacheranne I did the same switched from Eon to Sainsburys and saved a lot of money, unfortunately Sainsburys contract runs out on the 31st of this month so am in the process of switching to First Utility, which is slightly cheaper than Sainsburys was.
I was once told that it is cheaper to leave the thermostat on permanent, although I do turn it of for Summer it is on all the time in winter.

Turn it on in the morning when I get up, warms the house up (and the towel rail in the bathroom!) and that seems to keep the house warm all day. If we feel chilly in the evening, we put the gas fire n in the sitting room.

We cannot turn our heating off. It is controlled by the thermostat, It is permanently set at 18.5 degrees C and only comes on morning and evening. In really cold weather we just light the stove during the day and it provides enough heat to keep downstairs warm until the heating switches back on again.

Thermostat at 21c - off until,end of Septemberish then on from 6.30am to 9pm until about April ish . So today for instance it hasn’t come on since first thing. Not sur3 if it’s on at the moment although it isn’t cold so probably not.

Ours is put on when we need it, whatever time of year that maybe.

Our house warms up very quickly so I pop it on for ten minutes first thing to take the chill out of the air. The evening it stays on a bit longer, maybe twenty minutes then i turn it off until the house gets too cold to be comfortable. I've been doing this a couple of weeks now but the winter quilt went back on about a month ago.

We have a second home in Cumbria when we are not there, there is a timer which goes on two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening most of the year, except the middle of Summer, however when we are there we have the heating on most of the time, when we go out for the day we turn it off, it warms up quickly when we turn it on again.We live in Sweden, the heating is well and truly on now, and will be until about April next year, we have already had to scrape the ice off the car windows.Warm wishes to everyone.

I hate being cold so put it on for an hour or so in the evening but turn it off after that as that is enough but would rather save on other things than heating and its off all day while at work so don't feel guilty

BBbevan , I had a woodburner in the house I had with ex dh, it also fed the radiators.

The record for running was when it was lit in early October, and kept going (without needing to be re-lit) until March! There is a knack to it!

Of course, keeping it going like that, also meant no cleaning out.

I haven't put mine on yet, but then I loathe being too warm. So, maybe another couple of weeks or so yet..

In a new build bungalow (NE Scotland) which has underfloor (concrete) heating. It's on 24/7, set at 22deg, apart from bedrooms, which are lower. Over the summer, no heating was called for, as the house is very well insulated and sat between 23 and 26 degrees, depending on the amount of sunshine. It lost very little heat overnight. I noticed about ten days ago that the hall floor was warm. That seems to be keeping the temp up to 22 in the rest of the house without any other floors asking for heat. Interestingly, in the winter, the bathrooms and bedrooms stay within set temp due to the heat from the hall, so the floors aren't 'asked' for heat, so stay cold. If we turn up the thermostat, the floors will heat, but this brings the temp up to an unnecessary 24 degrees plus. We understand this set up now, but guests still expect the floors to be warm because of the term 'underfloor'. I am sitting in an open plan lounge/diner/kitchen (30 X 16 feet) right now with the temp at 24 degrees. It started off at 22 in the morning, reached 23 due to the sun, then 24 as the oven was on at tea time. It will remain at 24 till after midnight, without this floor having come on at all yet since May. The main downside is that's less controllable than radiators, in that switching it completely off or on isn't as 'instant', but on the whole it's great.

Gosh, if the temperature in our house went up to 20 - 24 degrees all the windows and doors would be open to cool it down.