To never ever put the heating on?

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In the last 2 years we have had the heating on a maximum of 10 days. We use hot water bottles at night and blankets and copius amounts of tea to keep warm. This means our electricity bill is the same in the summer as it is in winter (although we do bathe more in winter as in summer we mostly just have a wash)
We have 3dc all five and under and now when I visit other peoples houses I am sweltering! I end up in a vest sweating my head off!
Are we the only ones?!!!!

Ps this is saving us about £30 a month in the winter months.

We would be absolutely freezing without our heating on, our house is old and too open plan for that but if you are all comfortable and the dc are fine then why not ! Is your house a terraced ?

Copious amounts of tea - If you are boiling the kettle, you’d probably be cheaper just putting the heating on for a bit!

Your house might get damp, if you never heat it.

Sounds a bit miserable to me, to never, ever put the heating on.

This must be a joke?

My house would be a 11-12 degree damp pile if I didn’t heat it

Though I might’ve thought it was my dad if it wasn’t for the DCs

Why would you put yourself out like that? If you can’t afford heating, fair enough. But I like to use my money to bring ease, comfort and joy into my life. Otherwise it’s like living to serve money, money exists to serve me.

Sounds a bit bonkers to me, why live in a freezing cold house where you need to be huddled under blankets and drink copious amounts of tea to stay warm for the sake of £30 month? Madness.

No heating, and you are only saving £30 a month. Doesn’t quite add up.

I did this. Sadly my house is a very cold Victorian terrace and the neighbours were also stingy with the heating. It led to a damp house with mould.

I'd say it's fine if your neighbours hear, otherwise wack it on for 45 minutes a day to keep the damp off. This is what I do now and the damp and mould is gone mostly gone.

We use the heating as much as we want to, to be as comfortable as we want. We still pay the same for our heating in winter as we do in the summer, because we pay monthly by DD and it’s averaged out over the year.

We don’t like to be sweltering hot, though. We’re both quite happy around 19-20 degrees. We don’t heat our bedroom, ever, and we don’t run the heating at night either.

And ... just having "a wash" on those sticky summer days? You must stink.

Neighbours heat *

Poor kids, you are joking? all that for £30 a month

You are lucky if you haven't got damp and mould problems.

If being at room temperature makes you unbearably hot to the point you need to strip to your vest, there might be a physiological cause for it. It's unusual, anyway.

Please yourself at home. Why do you think anybody would think you were unreasonable to make yourself comfortable at home?

For £30 a month just put the bloody heating on. Where do you live?

Your kids will be on here I years to come - my parents never put the heating in, was I neglected?

You're probably spending more on kettle over use.

I’d rather spend the £30 personally. But you do you.

I don't either. I can't stand central heating, 5 minutes in someone else's heated house and my cheeks are flushed and I feel suffocated. I like to get cosy under blankets but the air needs to be cool.

I don't understand why you think this is significant.

It's your heating, your choice.

Other people choose to heat their houses for very sensible reasons. If you're warm when you choose to visit them, then take a layer off.

YABU.

As long as you don't have visitors. I hate it when I go to other people's houses on cold days and they haven't got heating on - so uncomfortable and unwelcoming. The cost of it all is a pain though.

We have 3dc all five and under and now when I visit other peoples houses I am sweltering!

Are you for real? Unless you are living in a very well insulated house, and in an area where it doesn't snow or drop into minus figures often then this is borderline neglectful when you have young children. I doubt very much that they're keeping warm with 'copious amounts of tea'. A HV or similar would be very concerned about a child living in an unheated home.

otherwise wack it on for 45 minutes a day to keep the damp off.
what's the point of that?

You are better off having it on low for longer.

No wonder if people complains that it's so hot, too hot, awful when the temperature barely reaches 25 outside. You are basically miserable all year round. Again, poor kids.

Unless you really don’t have £30 a month for heating, it sounds bloody miserable. I say that as someone who runs warm and doesn’t like to be too hot at all. (I’ve been sleeping just under a sheet since menopause hit!)

Oh but forgot to add we live in an apartment block so presumably get warmth from around us - we're hardly huddled like penguins.

@Doggybiccys we boil a kettle in the morning and keep it in the thermos so only one boil.

No damp, open windows when out in the day.

I used to spend so much money on it (not energy efficient at all) and checked our bank statements (still have a key meter) and it came up to 80 over the winter months and 40 over summer so we just thought we'd try it. And it was fine.

Semi detatched.