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Are you using heating yet?

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nope.

and i guess i ought to fix the busted catflap in the back door that a gale's blowing through.....

the war of "when to turn the heating on" that wages between me and me girlfriend is bound to start soon though...
 
Nope. Fortunately, me and fuct are both firmly of the 'put a fucking jumper on!' school of thought :)

I have the windows open during the day to keep the house aired pretty much constantly unless it's seriously cold. I *hate* overheated, stale air. Nothing better at the weekend than throwing open both front and back door and letting fresh, clean, cool air blow right through the house :)
 
I've had it on a couple of times for a half an hour or so in the evening, but really only for clothes drying or recovering from the lurgy. The bedroom door is still very much open at night cos I hate sleeping in stale air. Bit of a pisser cos there's no window in the bedroom, so once it's too cold to have the door open, there will be no ventilation.
 
yes we have but its because i have been ill, i was at one point stomping round the flat in 5 layers but still shivering so the cabbage put the heating on for me. To be honest once i get cold i could wear 8 layers and it would make fuck all difference, a steaming hot bath is the only thing that works. Saying that this week i have been constantly changing the duvet because one night i am so cold i need a hottie bottle and then last night sweating like a 55 year old? I would prefer not to have the heating on for as long as possible and have windows open as well.
 
we have had it on for a fair while now, just for an hour or so here and there to dry clothes and warm the huge, single glazed, gaping holes in the doors and walls flat :rolleyes:
 
secretsquirrel said:
Nope. Fortunately, me and fuct are both firmly of the 'put a fucking jumper on!' school of thought :)
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I wonder how many eco-friendly, recycling obsessed, wannabe environmentalists can't bare the thought of sipping their fair trade coffee in anything less than 25°, centrally heated stuffiness.....:rolleyes:

I need air, nice cool air. Give me a thick jumper and wooly socks over a stuffy, unnecessarily warm room any day of the year. And it's better for the environment, helps looks after the frogs and stuff.

:cool:
 
nope.

gonna have to start putting it on soon to dry clothes, they're now taking days to dry now summer's gone :(

like everything heat-related in our house, the heating is either totally ineffectual or bloody boiling. besides i like wearing big jumpers :D
 
Rohen said:
Room temperature is quoted to be 21 degrees celsius
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:eek: Really?? I don't think our living room(let alone any other room in the house) gets to that temperature any time except summer!! If it did we'd be sitting here in shorts permanently!!

Tbh the fire has been going on about 7/8pm the last few days but it has been a bit grey and dank.
We use the fire all yr round because it heats the water, though it doesn't go on every night and usually not til 9/10pm in the summer.
In winter it goes on about 4pm.

We don't have central heating.
 
I've flung open all the windows in the flat and it's 21c. Don't think I'll need the heating until next month...
 
EastEnder said:
And it's better for the environment, helps looks after the frogs and stuff.

:cool:
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Exactly! We live in worrying times with all this climate change. No point in aggravating the situation when it's totally unnecessary...
 
Of course the heating is on. It's cold, so the heating is on. That's the way it works!

It went on last week or the week before, I'm not sure.

No need to wear anymore than just pants in your own home.
 
EastEnder said:
Not many caves do.

:p
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:D :D :D But seriously folks. I'm such an old fart that I spent the first 11 years of my life with no central heating. Where I lived as a little kid had a gas fire and weird heater things that I have no idea how they worked (electric?!) At my grans it was a coal fire in the living room and paraffin heaters carted around the rest of the bungalow (terrifying really imagining my gran moving them about!). Plus, the only fitted carpet was in the living room. Elsewhere it was rugs on lino. All single glazing. I remember waking up to frost flowers on the inside of the window in winter... Anyway, I'll stop rambling about times of yore - but I think those formative years made me central heating phobic.

I sip my fairtrade coffee whilst wearing a nice snuggly jumper thank you very much! ;)
 
Onket said:
Of course the heating is on. It's cold, so the heating is on. That's the way it works!
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Awwwwwwww!! Poor ickle Onketywety......

Does diddums feel a bit coldy woldy????

Never mind precious, you just snuggle up with nice Mr Radiator and have a little sleepy byebyes.

:rolleyes:



To think, not so long ago they were conscripting young men to fight in the trenches!!!

Dear old Mr Churchill must be turning in his grave!

:cool:
 
Although i am a central heating user, what i do dislike is people moaning that they are cold whilst wandering about in next to bleeding nothing on, at that point they should be forcibly made to wear those big plastic sumo suits till they are warm enough.

Actually i have to say ITS FUCKING FREEZING IN HERE, I CANT FEEL MY GOD DAMN FINGERS PROPERLY and i have two jumpers on and a cardi!
 
I'm very much in the "pah!" camp, but the girlies here have taken to switching the heating on, and going "But it's COOOOOOOOOLD!".

Poor sods, what's it going to be like for them when it's -5C outside, not +15C?
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Heating? Put on a cardie....
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I told my flatmate to do this (well, not a cardiue but a jumper) and he looked at me like I was an alien.

He's a pain in the arse with the heating. Leaves it on all day, even if noone is in. Nothing worse than being out in the cold then coming into a boiling house.
 
The Boy said:
I told my flatmate to do this (well, not a cardiue but a jumper) and he looked at me like I was an alien.

He's a pain in the arse with the heating. Leaves it on all day, even if noone is in. Nothing worse than being out in the cold then coming into a boiling house.
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What the world needs is lockable cupboards to put around thermostats.

The other thing that irritates me is someone coming in, seeing it's 15C, so putting on the heating, which is currently set at 21C. But, since they're cold, they whack the 'stat up to 30C because they think it'll get warmer quicker if they do.

Of the people that do this, in my experience, they're about 99% girls. There IS definitely some kind of chromosomal distinction when it comes to understanding the subtleties of closed-loop control systems, feedback, hysteresis and proportional/integrative/derivative processes. Discuss.

All I ever get when I try to explain that there's no point using the 'stat as an on/off switch is blank incomprehension, morphing into withering looks, followed by resignation :D

</rant>
 
My last ex. had six tenants who ran the heating on full blast all winter and turned off all the radiators instead.

They said and did nothing when the pipes started leaking though - just sloshed around in it ...and she lost carpets, floor boards and ceiling.

:eek:
 
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