It's Oxxxxxxr! November! Who's got their heating on?

[Hill Wimp]

I did actually turn the heating on ready on the boiler yesterday evening but as it is controlled by thermostats in the house it didn't come on as it was too warm anyway.

However I am ready for that drop down from the 23 degrees it said it was at yesterday evening.

 

[numbnuts]

I've still got nothing on ......

That was a drop in temperature only 2c here this morning

 

[Roadhump]

Only just got my old cardigan out, should be another month at least before the heating goes on. Although, I might be overruled by Mrs Rh, she's so nesh!!

 

[ColinJ]

Reading some of these posts it seems that heating is a source of conflict for a lot of you.

I used to have to have that problem with my g/f and her daughter. I would be wearing shorts and t-shirt, them sleeveless dresses designed for appearance rather than warmth. Inevitably, one or both of them would complain about feeling cold!

I said that the solution was to leave the heating off and for them to put jumpers on.

The alternative solution was to put the gas wall heater on and for me to sit there naked to avoid overheating. They put jumpers on ...

It would still be an issue now because I don't like to heat above 18 or 19 degrees, but I will put the heating more than I used to because I am less comfortable at really low temperatures than I was when I was obese, and I want to keep my clot-prone legs healthy.

 

[Sandra6]

I don't know how the central heating works in our new house.
It comes on when it gets cold. It has decided it is cold and turned itself on a few times. I have no power over it.
I have started wearing socks again so it is clearly not summer.

 

[byegad]

Our heating has been 'on' all summer but never fired up, so costing nothing. In the last couple of weeks it actually fired up and warmed downstairs a couple of times, upstairs fired up for the first time the other morning. As the two thermostats are set up on different programs I expect we will see the radiators coming on more and more as the outside temperature falls.

 

[screenman]

I have underfloor downstairs and rads upstairs, when it gets cooler upstairs will come on at 4.30am for an hour and stay off until the next day, downstairs will stay on continously until about next May at a guess. It seems it is the best way to run our system and is amazingly economical, in comparison to other houses we have lived in.

 

[tyred]

Bah, heating is for wimps

 

[AlanW]

It certainly wont be long, 4 degrees on my ride in to work this morning

 

[keithmac]

My wife loves to balance our thermostat on the knife-edge between on/off for some reason. I just reset it to 18 degrees and the heating war begins for another year!.

 

[subaqua]

I wear shorts (not just for cycling) May to November, this year is no worse (seems warmer), don't envisage the heating coming on till near Xmas.

ours reluctantly went on to auto on 23rd December 2015 when MIL came down it went back onto only when chilly mode as soon as she elft.went back on auto in mid jan for a few weeks .

has been OFF since late feb . wear a bloody jumper peeps.

 

[numbnuts]

That was a drop in temperature only 2c here this morning

27c now in the south

 

[ColinJ]

It is 12.9 degrees here in the shade. It will be warmer in the direct sunshine but there is a breeze blowing so it will not be THAT warm.

I think the time of day, how you slept the night before, what you have eaten, whether you have exercised that day*** etc. make a huge difference to how you feel at a given temperature.

I have just eaten a hot meal and am drinking a big mug of tea. I feel fine at the moment and it is only 13.5 degrees in this room. If I'd had a cold drink and was eating ice cream, I wouldn't!

*** I got home late after a 200 km audax ride one November. I had been fine while cycling in the chilly conditions, but once I stopped my body temperature soon plummeted. I felt too tired to cook so I just ate a couple of sandwiches. I started to feel really cold so I sat directly in front of my gas wall heater but could not get warm. I ended up in bed with 3 or 4 layers of clothing on and extra bedding on top of the duvet but it still took me over an hour to stop shivering.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Tried it last night and am having the boiler serviced later this month too. Tad nippy on the commute this morning.

 

[screenman]

My Brother and his wife moved into their bungalow 16 years ago and set the thermostat at 26 degree's the heating has not been turned off since, nor down.