Is your heating on yet?

[LaughingCat]

It’s Saturday night, I’m bored so I thought a quick poll would be fun.

We’ve still not put our heating on yet this year. We’ve got gloves, thick fuzzy blankets and socks on in bed. I’m not sure why.

I think my other half asked whether we should put the heating on in mid-September and my response was, “Well, I’m plenty warm still but if you’re cold, then just put it on.”

Now we’re stuck in some sort of detente, in the Yorkshire Dales, where neither of us wants to be the first one that breaks. 😂

How about you guys? Toasty warm with the heating on or styling it out with Snuggies and hot chocolate?

YABU - We’re sane. The heating is on.
YANBU - WE are the gods of winter! Heating off.

@girlmom21

you do know there's that handy thing on MN where you can post with more than one name?!?!

besides that, I TRY my best just not to engage with posters that annoy me, but your constant posts like your earlier one, kicking people when they're down, makes it a constant effort not to engage.

you must have that last sentence stored, it's FAR from the first time you've used it.

@girlmom21

& here we are again 😀

I can't stand dressing gowns, but I did wrap a couple of towels around me, but then there's still that transition between toeel/robe to clothes! I'd even laid them out as if for a small child.

my hair us down past my bum, but I'm contemplating a pixie cut so I can just quickly towel dry it!! (Currently just wrap in a towel then air dry, I don't heat dry it)

No but the fan is still on each night. We run hot in this house 🤣

It's been on for weeks here. I have a connective tissue disorder that affects my joints so the cold makes it worse. I'd rather eat tinned beans on cheap bread all week than be cold.

@NewBootsAndRanty which system do you have. I need a new one, but can't decide which one.

SE is a huge area with diverse types of landscape & housing.

@SkylightSkylight do you mean what heating system/boiler?

@SkylightSkylight I've never said that in my life

I turn my heating down at night just so it doesn't randomly come on and wake me up feeling hot and stuffy. That might be something random like 14. But there's no way it's actually coming on as the house won't get that much colder in just a few hours.

@NewBootsAndRanty

sory, that was unclear wasnt it!!

I meant like hive/nest/other...

I've not got hive or nest or anything; I've got a bog standard vaillant thermostat on the wall, and use the loop app to look at my smart meter usage (I don't have an in home display and my suppliers app/website doesn't always show my readings)
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I have my heating in for 1-2 hours a day in the room/rooms I'm using and my bill with the £65 government thing was £47 this month. Unless you are in a very tight financial situation I wonder did the wearing gloves to bed approach is some kind of boastful 'we haven't even got our heating on yet!' conversation talking point?

This. Some people genuinely cannot afford to put the heating on but some people are treating it like a fun sport. It’s a bit distasteful.

Ours is set at 14 degrees so not on yet. I am cold (but always an) but we're worried about high bills and DH and kids tend not to feel the cold so much.
At work the heating is on at about 23. Absolutely love it

I haven’t had the heating on yet.

I personally don’t think it’s been that cold in my house so far…. Lowest I’ve seen my temp dial was 17.6.

It’s currently 18.4. It doesn’t feel cold.

My friend who lives 20 mins up the road though was complaining it was cold and her dial was 15 degrees while mine was 18 so I’m guessing my house my be better insulated?

FirewomanSam The repeated expressing of 'holding out', 'glad others are managing to hold out', the fun side effect of your husband snuggling into you more and 'we'll put the heating on when our cats start to feel the cold' all gives a stench of 'what a lark wearing gloves in the house'. Rather distasteful.

You bet mine's on! It's -9c here and it's not even that late.

Brit in Canada here, also with sub-zero temperatures. Sitting indoors wearing a vest top, but we have a wood stove and unlimited free wood and also no energy crisis. There's been no increase in cost for us.
It upsets me seeing posts on this thread about how people are wearing outdoor clothes indoors to keep warm because it's too expensive to have the heating on.
Being warm should not be a luxury ffs, it should be a basic human right and I'm aghast that people have to choose between being warm and paying rent/mortgages/food etc. It's so, so wrong 😞

We’re on the south coast and it’s been 3/4 degrees the last few nights. We put the heating on for 45 minutes if we’re not in bed and the indoor temperature gets to 14. Otherwise the wood burner is lit, we’re wearing socks and jumpers all the time and using blankets if sitting still. Then DC are happy and none of it is really a hardship. It’s November; it will be cold sometimes!

I've been banging it on for an hour a day, usually when I've got in from cycling home and am cold. I find that hour makes such a difference to the temperature of the house for ages and enables me to stay a lot warmer than if I'd not put it on at all.

It also dries the clothes and coats/shoes that have got wet being outside and which otherwise would just stay wet so I have decided that some heating is much better than none, and an hour is "only" a couple of quid.

Mine is still off. I'm in Scotland, but it has been an exceptionally mild autumn here. It has started to get colder now, so I expect the house will start feeling colder soon.

The downstairs of my house is currently 12.5 degrees so, yes, my heating is on.

Re "no answers casually mentioning log burners" - the log burner I mentioned is in one room in the house, and lit in the evenings. The rest of the house is entirely unheated - the bedroom, bathroom, my sewing room and study are all around 12 - 14 degrees.

(Boiler broken) Kitchen is currently 13 degs, bedroom 14 degs and living room 15 degs. It is horrible. DH went to bed in a dressing gown, I woke up because I was cold (mainly because he is a duvet thief) and I feel cold to the core. It is also going to take ages to get the house warmed back up. This is not fun and shouldn't be a situation that people are forced in or something that is treated by others as a bit of a game.

Exactly.