Central Heating - on yet?

[Homers Double]

Ours gets a boost first thing in the morning and sometimes in the evening depending on what room we're in. The open plan kitchen/diner/lounge extension in quite a cold room due to modern insulation and doesn't get much sun, I had the woodburner on in there all last weekend.

 

[PeteXXX]

Still in shorts here.. Slightly nippy first thing but it soon warms up enough to not get cold especially once walking the dog or out on the bike.

👍

 

[Tenkaykev]

Our heating went on on 1st October. 21 degrees from 06:00 to 22:00 and 19 degrees from 22:00 until 06:00.
Followed an interesting thread about dehumidifiers ( the compressor type ). A quite technical discussion about the heat released as the water vapour condenses, bottom line was you end up with more heat energy than the electrical energy used to run the dehumidifier.

 

[Drago]

Currently 18 celsiuses outside here, so heating remaining off.

 

[presta]

the idea that anyone would have their gas central heating on 24/7 seems very strange to me

Not really.

I have broken out the heated clothes maiden and dehumidifier

Which compared tumble driers and dehumidifiers for drying laundry, and found that dehumidifiers are 1.7 to 4.5 times more expensive, depending on whether your tumbler is a heat pump or condenser.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Not really.

Which compared tumble driers and dehumidifiers for drying laundry, and found that dehumidifiers are 1.7 to 4.5 times more expensive, depending on whether your tumbler is a heat pump or condenser.

Coincidentally Jonathan Traceys YouTube channel went into the economics of a heat pump tumble dryer vs a condensing one. Several of the people commenting pointed out that he'd used the full price of the heat pump tumble dryer instead of the difference in price between heat pump version and the condenser version.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLowUqwcc1s

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Hasn't been on yet, but I suspect that will change soon as today the roofers started stripping off my roof as the first stage of a complete re-roof. Give it a week and I won't have a roof (other than the temporary one). Brrrrr.

 

[Reynard]

If you're not worried about the sartorial elegance side of things, then a onesie is a good way of staying warm.

 

[Webbo2]

If you're not worried about the sartorial elegance side of things, then a onesie is a good way of staying warm.

I’d rather freeze to death than wear one of those. Do you nip down to Wallmart in yours.😉

 

[Pat "5mph"]

My CH is not on tonight, it's a windy but warm night.

I still don’t understand the concept of turning the heating completely off , isn’t that what room thermostat is for ?
In the summer mine is set at 14C and doesn’t come on at all.

I do the same - 13C in my case.
As you said, in summer it doesn't come on at all.
In winter I leave it at 13C even when I'm out, to avoid frozen pipes.
Of course, when I get home I put the temperature up.

 

[Paulus]

I've fired up the heating today and bled the radiators.
The thermostat is set at 18⁰ and did come on for half an hour.
MrsP feels alot better now even if the radiators are only marginally warm.

 

[Dan Lotus]

Oh it's worse than that: those hollow semicircular legs buckle and the top arms crack at the hinge and fall off. Ours is somewhat shorter than it used to be, with fewer arms!


I wonder what you have. Rohan "Stronghold Winter" are not lightly insulated and have to be changed for ordinary trousers pretty soon on entering a heated building!

We must have been lucky with ours then, as it must be 6 or so years old, and my parents is something like 15 years old, and has travelled all the way to Spain from the UK, over to Mauritius, then back to Spain!
They did need to buy a new cover, but I think they simply lost the one one.

I saw they have a new design one I think, that has much shorter legs, so perhaps that is why.

The troosers I have, are in all likelihood 'old man' trousers, but they seem to me to be fit for purpose:
Donald's Trooooosers

 

[Reynard]

I’d rather freeze to death than wear one of those. Do you nip down to Wallmart in yours.😉

I have a nice selection to stay warm and comfy in. Currently wearing a fluffy tan one that looks a bit like a teddy bear. The hood even has ears on it LOL.

But no, despite the fact that a onesie covers all the pertinent bits more than adequately, if I'm going outside the gate, then I do put proper clothes on.

That said, I saw a woman trotting a couple of kids in onesies and dressing gowns around Tesco last week.

 

[Drago]

My neighbour, who's lovely but clearly also barking, recently pulled up on the driveway and got out the car in her Jim jams.

We exchanged then usual pleasantries and she proudly informed me she'd just nipped out to B&Q.

 

[Reynard]

I've finally given in. More because the house feels damp after yesterday's deluges, rather than it feeling cold. It's 17C downstairs and 15 upstairs.

Storage heating on, but on the lowest setting, and I've just got the fire going. Not like the clappers, but just enough to warm the back boiler and thence the upstairs radiators a bit.