Anyone trying not to have heating on

[TheOpalFox]

Anyone else tried to not have heating on? Even tho your cold? It’s 8 degrees and I’m cold but can’t afford to have heating on all the time :( what a way to live!!!

Re your last par, yes that puzzles me too. I remember a few yrs ago early May, very bright and sunny but cool. Definitely not warm enough for summer clothes, but not so cold as to need heating. In the street I passed a man wearing shorts, t shirt and flip flops, and he said 'I'm fucking freezing, mate.' to his friend. That evening I was doing a door to door collection, and several times the door was opened by residents (interestingly, always men) wearing shorts and t shirt, while blasts of heat emerged from the houses.

15 degrees in Oct often is colder than same in Sep, because a daily max of 15 in Sep may mean 15 for much of day, not falling much at night. 15 in Oct has more chance of meaning 15 for 1 or 2 hrs, but considerably lower much of the day, then dropping sharply at night. In addition, a cooler day in Sep more likely to be a blip. Then there's a tendency to leave it on. Delaying until start of Oct means more likely to be a genuine need to have it onl

I’m 69 and have never yet considered putting the heating on before the clocks change, usually the weekend at the start of October half term. If it can stay off until Christmas so much the better. I do have an open fire and I collect fallen wood all year round, if it’s particularly cold AND wet I might light a fire in the evening, but I don’t like warm rooms and really prefer to layer up in warm clothes, with a heated throw over my lap - and a dog and cat to snuggle with. I think of the heating more in terms of avoiding frozen pipes and it seldom gets that cold anyway.

Im freezing. hoodie, thermals, blanket on.
No heating on here until November (we earn £170k between us but can't afford to have the heating on before November...madness).

I put mine on in the sitting room yesterday and left it on. I don't like feeling chilly I did put it on before for a short time but the weather warmed up again so I switched it off. The bathroom always has the heated towel rail on and is cosy at all times.

There's no virtue in not putting the heating on. People either don't mind lower temperatures or they do, it's just how it is.

I put the heating on when I feel cold and I’m already dressed appropriately in a jumper etc. I don’t understand keeping the heating off until an arbitrary date because the temp is so changeable here (south east). Last night it was down to 4, but the day before it was quite warm.

Yes I'm exactly the same! It's been really cold these last few evenings but I'm frightened of turning the heating on as the bills are so high. Everything is so expensive from food to utilities to clothing. I don't know how they expect us to live at the moment. It's only going to get worse when Rachel Reeves raises taxes as predicted in October's budget. We won't be living we will just be existing.!

Don't think anyone looks down on anyone, but it's become as certain as sunrise - every autumn this thread appears. I deliberately look out for it, and MN wouldn't be the same without it.

I put my heating on for the morning ie 8 till 10 ( so it's warm for getting up) and then if a throw isn't enough in the evening watching TV I'll put the heating on for an hour or so. I'm in London and although it warms up in the afternoon I find the mornings quite cold. I can't stand being cold, I'd get nothing done either. I'd rather cut back on something else and be warm.

That sounds unspeakably miserable. We are only a year or two younger than you and our parents used to hang it out until the clocks changed. Always with a fire in the sitting room and in my bedroom.

Our heating is always set to a few hours first thing and a few hours mid evening. In summer it's set to 15. I think I turned it up to 16/17 the other day. The heating has come on in the mornings regularly since about late August. I can't stand waking up to cold.

We aren't particularly chilly mortals and the heating is never up high but with a cardigan, and warm slippers, neither will I feel cold. If it's particularly chilly, usually at weekends, we light a fire in the hall and turn it up in the rooms we are using.

A couple of days it's been below 18 degrees on the monitor inside, I put it on just until it gets to 18. Double quilts on the bed now too. We have attic insulation but otherwise it's not very well insulated.

Im just glad I live down south as I don't plan on putting my heating on til November!
Nothing to do with being competitive or smug, it's just I know my leccy bill will double over winter and my current credit will cover me from Nov til march.
I think that's probably why alot of people talk about themselves into not needing heating til as late as possible!

If it’s on a thermostat it won’t come on if the temp goes up again though. Mine is never ‘off’ it just doesn’t get cold enough to come on during the summer.

There's a 'genuine need' if it's cold!

If you've got an open fire then you are heating the house, and it's not likely to feel so cold!

I blame all those people who voted Labour and meant we are stuck with their crazy net zero policies. Why can’t we drill for our own North Sea oil instead of buying it from Norway? No wonder heating prices are so high.

We probably couldn't drill enough. And if we did so it would run out even faster than it is and also be more expensive than other sources.

That said we are not managing the transition to net zero well in this country.

Oil/gas production can't be started on a sixpence and we aren't investing anywhere near enough to produce a managed decline rather than a cliff edge in production drop off.

This is really going to bite us hard at some point. Unfortunately the people not managing it probably will probably be dead or at least out of office by the time it completely screws us up on energy prices.

I’ve not tried yet no, it’s not cold

Jumpers and heated throws don't stop damp and mould. If it's under 20° inside then my heating kicks in.

I was as mad as a wet hen this morning. the towel I used from yesterday morning was carefully spread out over a chair to dry out. DH as usual stuffed his over the bathroom ladder radiator. Well this morning mine was missing, he said I've hung it on the bathroom radiator. Like buggery. He'd found his sopping wet, used mine, stuffed that under his so this morning two soggy towels.

Now I don't mind not turning the heating on, but how on gods earth will towels dry stuffed badly over a non operational radiator.

Are you willing to say how you voted?

Got up this morning - it was 5 degrees, heating went straight on. We live in a stone Irish cottage so if it gets too cold the thick walls tend to make it a bit cave like. We have to keep the house warm in the winter. People say to just put on an extra sweater, you can't let your house get to cold or it will get damp.

You are not doing your house much good, it sounds cold and damp and very miserable.

Until you mentioned the cat and your age I could have sworn you must be my Mother.. it’s a running joke in our family if we see a fallen branch or tree being felled that it’s a good job Nanny isn’t around.
She often walks her dogs dragging a fallen branch behind her or has a basket on wheels with twigs etc in.
She has a wood burner, that she says heats the whole house sufficiently, to me her bedroom often feels freezing and damp as it’s the furthest room away from the kitchen where the stove is.
My Mum grew up in poverty 70 odd years ago, shared tin bath in front of the kitchen and ice on the inside of the windows so I genuinely think perhaps she doesn’t feel it as much as others because, compared to previous years she’s toasty.
There is much I admire about her, although I have to say I’d rather she didn’t go collecting wood and just stay home with her hardly used central heating on, I hope you genuinely don’t feel cold rather then are worried about the cost of heating.

they came to put the heating on at work,
i had to open a window and someone turned on the fan
so stuffy!