How much is your heating on at the moment?

[Lottie4]

Just wondering how much others have their heating on at the moment. I know we are all different, but really trying to get the right balance between being warm(ish) and cutting back. Ours is coming on as DH gets up 6.15am and goes off at 7.30am (used to be 8am but as I say am trying to be good). Is set to come on for an hour 3.30-4.30, but last two evenings it's gone back on, so am thinking might try 3.30-5.30 as I think boiler uses more when first starts up as running on max capacity. It's 16.8c in lounge at the moment and obviously we'll get colder weather sometime.

We haven't turned ours on yet

chipping this is the issue I have.
Upstairs I have none of the radiators on, except in our ensuite bathroom (as no one can work out how to turn it off...).
Downstairs the living room is randomly hot or cold, the hallway is warmish (where the thermostat is) and the kitchen is cold (not enough rads).
I don't really know where to put the thermometer to gauge an ok temp. I also think the thermostat is broken as it always seems to say 21 regardless of the day/time of year etc...

the thermostat is best positioned in the living room where you spend most of your time, unless it has some other source of heat, such an a stove or open fire. There should be no TRV in the room with the thermostat.

This will enable you to accurately set your comfort, most of the time.

If you need to buy a new thermostat, the Honeywell CM907 (wired) is extremely good, and enables you to programme different temperatures of your choice for different times of day and day of week.

There are comparable wireless stats, I am not an enthusiast as they have additional potential points of failure.

All the time. we lit the fire a few weeks ago and it hasn't been out since.

My heating system may not quite be the same as many of the rest of you have though .

Never in the morning, we're only up for an hour rushing about so don't mind being a bit cold first thing. We have blankets on the bed, fleecy mattress protectors and thick curtains. We have it on for 2 hours at night from when we get home and then it goes off regardless of how warm the house is. I'd love to have the heating on all day and night but simply can't afford it.

We lit the fire yesterday afternoon, i'm not planning for it to go out til spring now. Its just been ticking under today though, its not that cold really. We'll load it up again tonight for a roaring fire though.

Mines on all day, I'm off sick at home at the moment.

Less than an hour a day. It's set on 15-17ish and comes on occasionally in the early hours (if I forget to set it off at night) and sometimes in the morning for an hour.

This is very new for us, until a few months ago we lived in a draughty Victorian terrace! We've lived with iced-over toilet water and seeing our breaths in the morning for so long it's actually quite uncomfortable to have the heating on now we're in a well-insulated house.

I'm intrigued by the argument that it is less costly to have it on low all the time.

We are in a modern house but it is very open-plan/tiled floors so no chance of just heating one or two rooms and closing the doors. It's not been that cold (live in France) but quite damp, miserable etc so it just feels cold! We have underfloor heating downstairs so I have been putting it on in the afternoon (cheap rate from 2-5pm) and then lighting the log fire/turning the heating down. If I could set the thermostat (am useless with these things), I would have it set to come on between 2am-7am as it is also cheaper rate then.

I wear my dressing gown and sheepskin slippers a lot during the day!!

"I'm intrigued by the argument that it is less costly to have it on low all the time."

it is always less costly to turn it off. Heat loss, therefore cost, is directly proportional to (temperature difference inside the house: outside the house) x time

However it will be more comfortable if it is on low than if it is off.

I never have the heating on in the morning, even in the depths of winter when it's -6 outside. I'm not sure if our house is unusual (1950s built) but I find if the heating has been on until 10 at night, then it's not too cold in the morning. Also, we all rush around for 30-60mins and then are out, so I don't see the point.

I never have the heating on timer. I put it on if we feel cold - only ever in the evening and usually between when we get in, 5.30ish until 10ish. Has been on a few times in the last weeks.

I have put mine on here and there for half an hour at a time when it's got really chilly, but that's probably only 6 times in the last two weeks. I think I am benefitting from my downstairs neighbours heating as she has it like an oven in there and the heat travels up. I like it!

Not on yet. House is well insulate though and we have a log burner

not officially on yet, but

we are lighting fires in the sitting room, and it's a range that does ch/hw, and has a couple of heat leak radiators that are never off

if i have my way it won't be on auto until december! And tbh it really has not been cold. We are an old and draughty victorian house, but thick thick walls and on top of the sea, so north winds excepted it's rare we have a frost.
And the position of the house means we only really have two exposed walls so that helps.