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Trembler49
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- Portimao, Portugal
I can't stand over-heated buildings, and in my opinion, most people do over-heat their premises.
I don't have a thermometer but it is supposed to be about 10-11 °C here today. I have my windows open but it is probably still a degree or two warmer in this room than outside. I'd guess it is about 12-13 °C here at my computer. I am wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt but I haven't bothered putting my big woolly jumper on yet. That will go on later once the sun has set and the temperature drops.
I hope to last another week or two before using any heating. Even when I do heat the house, it is only with one gas fire and one small gas wall heater. I doubt whether those 2 rooms normally get above 16-17 °C at any time between September and April, and the rest of the house is unheated. (Heat from cooking takes the chill off the kitchen. At other times, I only pop in there to make a cup of tea.)
My boiler completely packed up last winter and I can't afford to buy a new one so I was washing in cold water in an unheated bathroom when it was -12 °C. In the end, the pipes gave way to the cold before I did - they froze solid and cracked while I was away at Christmas. Fortunately, they didn't thaw until I got back!
Cold is bracing!
I'm guessing you are probably single, or at least not co-habiting with a female person?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ho ho, but yes - I would!
It used to be a bit of a nightmare visiting my parents in wintertime in their last years together. They both felt the cold so the house was always kept in the high 20s.
No matter how many times I told her not to, my mum would always turn the radiator on full in my bedroom before I arrived, 'to make it cosy'. I'd have to turn it off and open the windows to let the heat out or I wouldn't have been able to sleep. Then I'd take the blankets off the top of the duvet, which was plenty warm enough by itself.
The same kind of thing happens now when I visit my older sister. I went down at the end of August and the heating was on in the spare bedroom which I was going to be using!
Er, how did you guess?
My sisters often complain about the cold when they visit me, as did my ex. I compromise - they can heat the rooms to a temperature which I can tolerate wearing shorts and a tee-shirt. If that is still too cold for them then they can put more clothes on!
I was much less tolerant of the cold when I was slim - 45 pounds of extra body fat is a lot of insulation!
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
I prefer it cooler myself, I sleep with a window open all year round - even in the deepest snow there has to be at least a bit of ventilation! My ex was the opposite and used to like the bedroom warm. We had window wars.
One thing I really don't understand is people who, when it gets a bit cold, will turn the heating up to full blast and sit there in a t-shirt. It comes as a genuine moment of revelation when I suggest that they could save on their gas bill by putting a jumper on! My thermostat never goes over 20 degrees but I have plenty of jumpers and cardigans!
One thing I really don't understand is people who, when it gets a bit cold, will turn the heating up to full blast and sit there in a t-shirt. It comes as a genuine moment of revelation when I suggest that they could save on their gas bill by putting a jumper on! My thermostat never goes over 20 degrees but I have plenty of jumpers and cardigans!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Same rule in this household too... and it doesn't have to go on then ... but that is usually the right time. Then we aim to have the thermostat about 18 deg, it sometimes creeps higher when I come home and I'm freezing (suffer from Raynaulds). If I'm at home during the day, when it isn't on, then I notice that about 15 degs (according to the thermostat), that I start to not move around much and go into a conserving energy sort of mode - and so I bump the heating on.
I've also started recording our energy usage on iMeasure in a hope it will encourage us to be more energy concious.
wildjetskier
Active Member
- Location
- Ascot
Agree totally, get orrible headaches and such with no ventilation, and imo the thermostat doesn't need to be above 18 anytime
addictfreak
Guru
- Location
- Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Try living with 3 females!
wildjetskier
Active Member
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- Ascot
Heaven !!
meenaghman
Guru
If you're getting horrible headaches with heating on and having to open a window have a check with a carbon monoxide detector.. oh and another tip... if you have a chimney that needs cleaning..light a few fires in it first before cleaning / getting the sweep around...a warm chimney will be easier to clean.
wildjetskier
Active Member
- Location
- Ascot
Thanks for that, checked all ok, chimney swept all good. Just one of those things I think always been the same loved fresh air.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
My heating came on yesterday for the first time...automatically.
but it wont turn off.
we had all the windows open last night as we sweated it out at 24 degrees inside.
Waiting on the gas man to come sort it out.
but it wont turn off.
we had all the windows open last night as we sweated it out at 24 degrees inside.
Waiting on the gas man to come sort it out.
We have decided not to get central heating here, we have a gas fire, and electric storage heaters which work fine. Not planing to switch the fire on until the end of October. I do run cold, my boyfriend runs hot so I just put extra layers on and use a nice fleecy blanket. It's nice sitting with the laptop on my knee as the heat from it is rather nice. 
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I endorse that comment with all the enthusiasm of someone who almost died from CO poisoning a few years back!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Don't have the thermostat problem, although it's usually a little warm for me.
A mate I worked with went mad with his girlfriend eventually, walking round the house in a t-shirt and shorts was bloody ridiculous in the middle of winter - thermostat was on 25C plus....
A mate I worked with went mad with his girlfriend eventually, walking round the house in a t-shirt and shorts was bloody ridiculous in the middle of winter - thermostat was on 25C plus....
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Strange how this works, before I had my operation in 2008 it was the mrs that felt the cold, and me that didn't. Now the boots on the other foot, I feel the cold and she doesn't. 
