Have you got your central heating on yet?

[Getmeoutahere5]

Yes or no? & where in the country are you?

No. But I won't last much longer. South East

@Gardai
It’s ridiculous – all this smug virtue signalling about not putting the heating on. Fair enough if you can’t afford it. I had to scrape the ice off my car this morning. There is no way I would have not had the heating on indoors. People who use a calendar instead of a thermostat to decide when the heating goes on are just bonkers.

We have single glazing and storage heaters in a one bed house. It's costing £4 a day just to achieve 14 degrees this week in Greater London.

That's with a big-ass curtain over the front door and plastic taped across the windows.

Renting sucks.

Yes, for a while, we are in Essex. I have a 2 bed house but it is tiny and well insulated- if I put the tumble dryer on I have to turn the heating off. It is lacking in many ways, but I enjoy it in the winter months!

Well, it's -13C here and there's a foot of snow on the ground...

Yes. Of course. It's really cold outside here in London, and we have a two year old.

I’m down in Cornwall and suffer from fibromyalgia. We switched the heating on at the end of October but with the thermostat set at 15C and I’ve just nudged it up to 18C. The heating is on 24/7 and just comes on when the temperature dips below that in the house. As it gets a bit colder then the thermostat will be nudged up a bit more.

We’re in rented and it’s a weird house as it goes up a hill sideways and is over four floors. The middle bit of the house is 1760’s and the front is 1880 and back is 2000’s. All the windows are the original sash’s.

Haha, I love this competitive hypothermia. We've had ours on for the odd day over the last month, we do benefit from living in a fairly new middle terrace so are pretty insulated, but this week it's been set to 22c and is coming on everyday now. It snowed here overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday.

Northwest and yes its on and still cold

Yes, it stays on thermostat all year round somit kicked in when temperatures dropped. I hate being cold or wearing ten million layers in the house.

I don't get all the competitiveness of not putting the heating on. Fine if you live alone but not considerate when there are others in the household especially children.

Stupid question. Fine to ask in October maybe but the whole of the country has been freezing this week, it’s the end of November for God’s sake so if people can afford to have it on then I’m sure they will.

I don’t actually understand why you would ask this?

London here. Fucking freezing. Heating on plus vests and hotties all round.

Had the heating on at 15 all day today (can't really afford it but sick child at home) and it was a lot less miserable!

Yes been on a month in East Anglia....

I agree with Delatron.

Unless you are struggling financially why on earth would you ask such a stupid question when it is 4 degrees outside?

Competitive hypothermia is clearly a mumsnet "sport"
Not feeling the cold doesn't make you a better person