Anyone else using candles to take the edge off no heating??

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Im not a scented candle woman but I've been given a few over the years. I've currently got 5 burning in the room... it's a bit warmer 😬

I know it's much worse for me and the environment than putting the heating on but still...

Have you read the OP?

No, but I’ve bought done extra bog standard candles. We’re in a new build with a heat source air pump, so if breaks down, as it did in January, or we have power cuts, we’ll need them.

The long stick candles give off more heat than the tea light ones, in general. @PermanentTemporary

Candles are expensive, no?!

Not to mention carcinogenic

North East Scotland where it's 9deg. The house feels cold. 17.5 Deg? I'd be frozen. Ours comes on at 19.5

Why do some people on here assume everyone lives in the South East?

Clearly. Please think logically. Light a candle. Look at rhe size of the flame. How the fuck would a few of them heat a room.

Probably you won’t understand this point either, but a candle emits up to 80 BTU while a radiator could emit up to 10,000 BTU. If you know the price of the candle you bought and the cost of your heating you could work out whether you could more cheaply turn the heating for a short while or purchase five candles.

I spend a lot of money on candles, perhaps if I cut back I might be able to afford my heating bills!!!

We have candles on all year round, and burners etc

I did the other day, temps of 14
outside don’t really justify the heating yet and they make everything feel cosier even though I know they didn’t really warm anything. I’ve loads of candles too.

I think temperatures are misleading but I dont know why

Im in the conservatory at the moment, its 19.8 degrees. North facing, no heating on in here or the rest of the house.

I dont really understand why it sounds so warm.

The coldest it got last night in this room when I went to bed about 2am was 17 degrees.

I wasnt cold

We havent had the heating on at all yet and hope not to, the coldest months are Jan and Feb. We are in the south east.

The flowerpot heater thing is incredibly dangerous. I used to work for the fire service and we had an annual safety drive about them.

Please don't, it's not worth the risk.

Dunelm have some.

ekse just Google 'thermal curtain liners'

@TheHouseonHauntedHill

I see a lot of people saying (typing!) this. But there's no way I'd use both together. Maybe you aren't, but lots are.

(I want to find some curtain liners that would be insulating, but don't find anything suitable. Can anyone recommend anything?)

As students, we bought old wool blankets from charity shops and hung them behind the cheap cotton curtains the landlord put in.

I noticed that too. It's not just on this thread either. It seems to be a regular assumption on MN.

Hi - I live in South East London and the temperature here today is nearly 23 degrees, so no need atall for heating yet.

I am simply trying to plan ahead for potential cold periods during the winter - the tea light stove seemed like a fun idea that might be cheery and take the edge off any cold to come.

I have bought a wool blanket to line curtains and have lots of jumpers etc.

Growing up we never had central heating - and only in my late 30s did I have a flat with central heating, so I could adapt to most conditions. The potential cost of heating combined with the cost of living crisis is definitely a motivator however, as am on a fairly low income relatively speaking.

I said to dh earlier how mild it was considering it’s the end of October. We are in the SE. I like a warm house and our heating is set to come on downstairs if it drops under 22. It has only done it twice I think so far this autumn. Our house is extremely well insulated though.
We’ve had a few fires in the front room for cosiness which gets the room up to about 30 if we kept the door shut, we open the door so the heat can go to the rest of the house otherwise we’d all melt!
I do light candles quite often but I really don’t think they contribute to keeping the house warm 😂

We're on the south east coast and in our north facing conservatory, we've had the door open and its still 19 degrees in here