Anyone else still not got their heating on?

[GeorgeandTimmy21]

It's soo cold and I'm struggling to dry the washing. But only ds3 and me are feeling the cold, everyone else is fine.

Yes, I'll get that. 🙂

It's cold, it's wet, the heating is on.

Keeping one room warm enough to be healthy should be a priority

i know it’s hard to relate to people being truly broke with all the style and beauty and Christmas threads and general MN I’m not rich click bait threads

Heating comes on every morning at 5.30am for 2 hours, thermostat is set to 20 degrees from about 4pm onwards once we’re all home from work.

A priority over what though? The council tax, the water bill, food....?

I keep my monthly outgoings within my income by not using the heating, collecting, drying and storing logs, using rainwater collected in buckets to flush the loo. I'm fast heading for 70, but i suppose it keeps me fit!

I am not in debt and would never consider debt.

Technically ( if you can talk about rhyming slang in technical terms) it’s boracic. Boracic lint = skint.

No. I was at my mums yesterday looking after her dog, the heating was on and I felt ill. I hate central heating with a passion!

Surely the 3yr old trumps everything. Get it on for goodness sake

poor kids. 19 is miserable.

i'm not surprised you "hate winter" Unless you are in a warm bed then 16 is insane. I'd say it was cruelty if you are making other live in that temperature.

Upfront - there will be people who have no wriggle room. High mortgage and childcare prices hit one demographic particularly hard.

but many do have room but don’t always want to make the changes

Water bill - we use two or three times the amount of water on average per household than in Spain so that’s something that can be tackled. See threads about having a bath and then a shower the next morning, not being able to shower in under 5 minutes, daily or more frequent showers , washing clothes after one wear , if it’s yellow let it mellow ?

food bills - go vegetarian - it’s the easiest way to eat healthy and cheap

I know people on UC who are getting hair dos and new this that and other - and then moan at me about not being able to afford something else. So people do prioritise differently- and when it comes to a child’s health I think keeping their air warm should be at the top of the list with critical bills

control your bills by turning off the gadgets , the telly, the coffee machine , the games console , not the heating , use less hot water , hanging a spare duvet over the window

Ours finally went on last week. The mornings had got too cold to ignore, my youngest was coming downstairs in two jumpers and still shivering. I keep it low during the day, about 18, then turn it up a little in the evening when we are all in the living room. Drying washing is still a pain though. I have a clothes horse by the radiator and it takes forever.

We've had ours on first thing and then whenever we feel cold. But we use Lpg as we live in a park home with useless insulation and occasional mould round air vents so need to make sure it's on often. In the last year we've had 5 months when we didn't have to buy any and 3 months when we needed to buy 2 so the theory is we're in front. Although dh has this bad habit of being cold and if the thermostat says it's 20 he doesn't switch it on because he thinks he should be warm at that temp. I tell him just put it up 2 degrees and when you're comfy turn it off, drives me insane.

I really feel that the Government should be doing more to help people, regarding heating their homes this Winter. How many children will end up in hospital, due to parents not being able to afford the heating, and so rationing it, to a dangerous degree. It is all very well posters saying heat the body, but it is inhaling cold air, that can be a real problem for the young, elderly, people with lung, and heart conditions, etc. I think about the people who have to run medical equipment all night long, others have to run 24/7. The Government needs to do more.

My heating isn't on because the hot water that the boiler is heating up isn't reaching the radiators for some unknown reason. There nothing wrong with the boiler. I have hot water and the pipes around the boiler get hot when the heating is switched on, but the radiators don't.

Plumber can't come till the 17th so just having to bear it.

Yes I have heating on because I’m not a martyr

Haven't had it on since March. No need yet because my flat is still roasting. It's mild for this time of year so I'm expecting the temps to drop soon and that will probably be the signal to fire it up.

I'm working from home today. Heating is off, rooms are at 13 degrees. Some of my windows are open. We have put the heating on in the evenings when DS is here as he feels the cold more.

Can you afford to put the heating on? I think expect your home will be getting terribly damp.

I try not to have it on at all
We can afford it but it makes me feel all hot and stuffy, especially at night
DS is like me and has his window open virtually all year road and DD is at Uni so poor DH is the only one complaining
When DD gets back for Christmas she will not doubt want it on all the time at a ridiculous temperature, especillay as she has some animals that need to be warm but for now I am resisting

We only turned the schedule on last night, previously we'd just been turning it on for 15 minutes here, 30 there, but DD2 was starting to stir at 4.30/5ish when the house got to it's coldest, so we've turned on the schedule.

The schedule only pushes to 19 degrees though. If we feel colder than that we'll boost it. The lowest it's set to is 17 degrees overnight and the house hasn't reached that yet - but it's chilly at 17.5.

We dry washing in the office overnight - which is in the detached garage - with a heated airer and dehumidifier. Means my office is always toasty in the morning!

Ooooh the first of the yearly heating martyr threads. Mine went on regularly about 10 days ago. It’s been cold enough here for me to get my hat and scarf out this week when out and about and thinking I should have worn a coat. The radiators in my bedroom aren’t working and I’m waiting for the landlord to decide if he will get them looked at. My nose was cold in bed last night although I prefer my room cool but not cold. My heating is on for 2 hours in the morning and then 5 hours in the afternoon/evening. At the weekends or if I’ve a day off and am at home and it’s cold it might be on more of the day. I pay £150 a month all year and am in credit. I couldn’t have it on all day and night like some people do. I don’t see the point of having it on overnight when in bed. That seems a crazy waste of money. We don’t have a fire, just the central heating.

I wouldn't like to sit still in 16, but we aren't. Overnight we are in very warm beds, and during the day if I'm in I'm not sitting watching telly. I'm busy, so not cold at that temperature. Evenings we put it up to 18/19 and we are fine at that.

I'm not a fan of a stuffy overheated bungalow.

I think if you have vulnerable people at home (and can afford it) you probably should have your heating on by now.
Im in the SE though and its not really 'that' cold yet. I dont have central heating but havent needed my little electric heaters yet, Im currently at the stage of wrapping myself in multiple fleecey layers, that seems to be working!
Thankfully I wont have a problem as Im hugely in credit to my leccy company, its just I always prefer being abit chilly over being too hot!

I can't believe how hot people have their houses!

Our upstairs thermostat is set at 10 degrees. Our downstairs one is currently set at 15. We don't routinely have hte heating on, only when someone is cold. We do generate a lot of cooking heat downstairs though (I cook roast potatoes every day) and there are always at least 2 people at home so it doesn't really cool right down. Plus we use a dehumidifier. My teens live under duvets, but they do that even in summer.

Like Parky04, we feel fatigued & unwell when the central heating is on high. It's much better since we ditched the carpets but is still a problem.