Have you turned central heating on yet?

[gentlegreen]

I lit my fire for the first time last night to take the chill off - 5 degrees was taking saving the planet (and money) a bit far.

 

[subversplat]

I've heated this week for the first time

 

[crustychick]

we've had a few hour long blasts of the heating this week. might put it on a bit today as well.. .. brrrrrrrrr.........

 

[TrippyLondoner]

we've had a few hour long blasts of the heating this week. might put it on a bit today as well.. .. brrrrrrrrr.........

Same, just turned it off for now though, too hot.

 

[Badgers]

Ours is on and still does not work

Happy, happy, happy

 

[gentlegreen]

I finally light my fire and the gas pressure is right down - I'm guessing everyone else has it of full blast.

 

[coley]

Log burners ganning like the clappers, only now I am regretting storing the logs so far away from the house!

 

[gentlegreen]

Log burners ganning like the clappers, only now I am regretting storing the logs so far away from the house!

Do they still need chopping ?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It is at times like this when I am known to mutter to myself, or say loudly, "why am I paying so much fucking money every month to live in this tiny leaky Edwardian shoebox with radiators under the fucking windows I mean who the fuck deliberately puts radiators under the fucking windows? was this flat built by British Gas? fuck this I'm off to the pub, oh it's full up with tossers"

 

[dynamicbaddog]

I mean who the fuck deliberately puts radiators under the fucking windows?"

my living room radiator is under the window (the single glazed window)
bloody clueless council

 

[weltweit]

It's bitterly cold in my house now.

I think I will have a midday blast of heating now !!!

Sod the cost! And btw I am already wearing a thick jumper!

 

[coley]

Do they still need chopping ?

Naw they are split ready for the fire but SWMBOd didn't want an unsightly pile of logs outside the house and decreed they could be stacked in the paddock, now its a 150 yard trek every time the log basket needs filled and guess who is the trekkie?
and its now blizzarding, very christmassy

 

[keithy]

i live in a building where the bills are included in the rent and everyone is Egyptian. Heating is on permanently! Our radiators are broken though, just in time for me being laid up with some kind of fluey bollocks

 

[subversplat]

My sympathies to your bollocks!

 

[geminisnake]

Naw they are split ready for the fire but SWMBOd didn't want an unsightly pile of logs outside the house and decreed they could be stacked in the paddock, now its a 150 yard trek every time the log basket needs filled and guess who is the trekkie?
and its now blizzarding, very christmassy

Tell her to go get them herself!!! We just moved the coal bunker to virtually opposite the back door the other week Stuff unsightly, it takes priority over being cold every time imo.
Silly woman!!

 

[geminisnake]

Sod the cost! And btw I am already wearing a thick jumper!

But what else are you wearing?? You should have at least two layers of your top half and two is good on the bottom half too. And are you wearing all cotton?? Sooks the heat out of me that stuff. Wool, cashmere, angora and fleece are winter wear(and thermals )
I just remembered my long sleeved vests today

 

[coley]

Tell her to go get them herself!!! We just moved the coal bunker to virtually opposite the back door the other week Stuff unsightly, it takes priority over being cold every time imo.
Silly woman!!

Coal bunker? have you won the lottery?

 

[Riklet]

Serious pity for anyone who hasn't got central heating at the moment, or a fucking papoose/marsupial to live in...

...or no home

 

[geminisnake]

Coal bunker? have you won the lottery?

No, we only buy one bag a fortnight now(used to be three at this time of year but it jumped £5 a bag in price in 6 months last year and never went down again) I scavenge for pallets a lot. The nice men at the plumbing centre give me the ones they don't send back

 

[weepiper]

I must say I am not missing having to go out in the freezing rain/sleet/wind/snow to get coal in.

 

[mrfusion]

My dog is sleeping on my feet, so between him and a jumper I don't put on heating.

 

[coley]

Pity the poor buggers who rely on electricity and gas for their heating, town over Cumbria lost both their gas and electric on Thursday, how can builders get away with building a house without a fireplace? or more to the point, what daft bugger buys one?

 

[snotcock]

I never put the heating on - to heat the house adequately would be prohibitively expensive plus GCH seems to dry the air out, so I just wear a wooly jumper & a fleece when indoors. Mine's the only roof on the street on which the snow is completly un-melted.

 

[gentlegreen]

how can builders get away with building a house without a fireplace? or more to the point, what daft bugger buys one?

Those of us who live in town.

I have 4 fireplaces, but none you could safely light a fire in.

 

[spring-peeper]

It's -25 when I got up this morning, so obviously all heating systems are on. We use electric baseboards and a wood furnace.

I was happy to hear that we were going to get a warming trend (-8 to -15) and was happy - I could save on wood.

Then I phoned Hubby. Apparently this warming trend is due to a massive storm in the Washington DC area (250 miles south). So far, they have had over 3 dead and had to have 100's rescued by their military (whatever branch has 4 wheelers and snow mobiles), That's terrible!!!

Even worse, Mr. Obama had to take a motorcade instead of a helicopter to the white house....horrors!!!!

But still - bring on the warming trend.

 

[coley]

Those of us who live in town.

I have 4 fireplaces, but none you could safely light a fire in.

How come?

 

[coley]

It's -25 when I got up this morning, so obviously all heating systems are on. We use electric baseboards and a wood furnace.

I was happy to hear that we were going to get a warming trend (-8 to -15) and was happy - I could save on wood.

Then I phoned Hubby. Apparently this warming trend is due to a massive storm in the Washington DC area (250 miles south). So far, they have had over 3 dead and had to have 100's rescued by their military (whatever branch has 4 wheelers and snow mobiles), That's terrible!!!

Even worse, Mr. Obama had to take a motorcade instead of a helicopter to the white house....horrors!!!!

But still - bring on the warming trend.

Jeez, where do you live? The north pole?

 

[Ms T]

It's -25 when I got up this morning, so obviously all heating systems are on. We use electric baseboards and a wood furnace.

I was happy to hear that we were going to get a warming trend (-8 to -15) and was happy - I could save on wood.

Then I phoned Hubby. Apparently this warming trend is due to a massive storm in the Washington DC area (250 miles south). So far, they have had over 3 dead and had to have 100's rescued by their military (whatever branch has 4 wheelers and snow mobiles), That's terrible!!!

Even worse, Mr. Obama had to take a motorcade instead of a helicopter to the white house....horrors!!!!

But still - bring on the warming trend.

Yeah, Obama had to leave the climate change conference in Copenhagen due to a "weather-related event". How ironic.

 

[gentlegreen]

How come?

No Victorian terraced house in a smokeless zone is likely to have burned coal since the advent of North Sea gas.

I am actually sitting at my PC in what was once the coal-hole - and few of us would want to fill our front gardens with firewood even if it was allowed.

 

[gentlegreen]

A toasty 12 degrees in here and the sun is shining - so the fire is unlit.

I got a bit of a headache last night when I left the fire on.