Author Topic: Heating on? (Read 15609 times)

Jaded · « **Reply #175 on:** September 27, 2020, 08:51:20 am »

I’ve been wearing socks with my sandals for a week or so now...

citoyen · « **Reply #176 on:** September 27, 2020, 10:16:06 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on September 26, 2020, 07:19:03 pm

Ours stays “on” year round, governed by the thermostat in the living room. Started coming on in the mornings on Thursday.

Same here. Ours kicked in this morning for the first time since whenever last winter stopped.

I put the heating on manually on Friday during the day because my office was f-f-f-f-freezing.

SteveC · « **Reply #177 on:** September 27, 2020, 10:31:53 am »

Quote from: SteveC on September 26, 2020, 06:41:01 pm

MrsC and I have just been discussing turning the gas fire in the living room on this evening.

...but in the end we didn't.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #178 on:** September 27, 2020, 11:15:54 am »

Jumper, trousis, socks, Proper Shoes. Even the conservatory at Fort Larrington is resolutely refusing to warm up today.

robgul · « **Reply #179 on:** September 27, 2020, 12:00:54 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on September 27, 2020, 08:51:20 am

I’ve been wearing socks with my sandals for a week or so now...

... in that case you're very much "on trend" from what I've seen in a couple of press articles today - even David Beckham was pictured in sandals and socks so you're in good (??) company.

andytheflyer · « **Reply #180 on:** September 27, 2020, 07:09:07 pm »

Yes. 2 days ago.

My wife, who has some Italian heritage, also has cancer, and is a bit down atm. Normally (and before she was ill), she'd want the heating on in late August, so well done to her for hanging out for so long.

cycleman · « **Reply #181 on:** September 27, 2020, 07:51:13 pm »

Not yet. Socks with sandles

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #182 on:** September 27, 2020, 08:40:17 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on September 26, 2020, 11:29:07 pm

Quote from: Andrij on September 26, 2020, 10:59:46 pm
[checks calendar] No.
[checks thermometer] Yes.

[checks YACF]
[sets thermostat to 25 degrees and timer to December]
[sells boiler for scrap and emigrates to Barbados]

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #183 on:** September 28, 2020, 12:05:23 am »

Turned the radiators on in the living room today. Made everything much more comfortable.

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Jaded · « **Reply #184 on:** September 28, 2020, 07:27:44 am »

We had a noticeable frost last night.

tonyh · « **Reply #185 on:** September 28, 2020, 08:57:27 am »

Fingerless gloves: On.

road-runner · « **Reply #186 on:** September 28, 2020, 09:48:25 am »

One of the benefits of living in a flat is that we never need to heat it because we have a steady 23°C coming from the folks in the flat beneath us.

orienteer · « **Reply #187 on:** September 28, 2020, 10:07:14 am »

So the people on the ground floor are heating the whole block?

Legs · « **Reply #188 on:** September 28, 2020, 10:15:04 am »

WFH with a hot water bottle this morning. Window fitters are here, working hard to get the outside on the outside.

fboab · « **Reply #189 on:** September 28, 2020, 11:32:18 am »

It doesn't seem to be. The other WFH person warms himself with banks of servers but my measly laptop is not doing enough for my feet. Thick socks and merino underthings are not helping enough.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #190 on:** September 28, 2020, 01:57:38 pm »

Quote from: orienteer on September 28, 2020, 10:07:14 am

So the people on the ground floor are heating the whole block?

I don't know what they do in Slovakia where road-runner is, but in Poland when I lived in a flat, there was a complicated system whereby different flats paid different rates per unit of heat. Discounted rates for being on a corner, for instance. We were on the second or third floor IIRC, definitely not on a corner, and the whole building was clad in some sort of polystyrene, so I'm not sure if our heating bill was reduced from not very much to even less or increased to still not very much.

road-runner · « **Reply #191 on:** September 28, 2020, 04:25:21 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on September 28, 2020, 01:57:38 pm

I don't know what they do in Slovakia where road-runner is ...

Nor do I! That is an interesting method in Poland, Cudzo.

SteveC · « **Reply #192 on:** September 28, 2020, 05:48:36 pm »

Quote from: SteveC on September 27, 2020, 10:31:53 am

Quote from: SteveC on September 26, 2020, 06:41:01 pm
MrsC and I have just been discussing turning the gas fire in the living room on this evening.
...but in the end we didn't.

We did this afternoon.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #193 on:** September 28, 2020, 06:03:54 pm »

Too hot for this Unit in the Fort Larrington solarium this morning

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #194 on:** September 28, 2020, 06:15:45 pm »

Ours has been on since the end of last week.

andytheflyer · « **Reply #195 on:** September 28, 2020, 06:21:22 pm »

Ours was, but I dropped my wife off to the care of the NHS for a week or so this morning, so I've turned it off. The dog does not care and I can put a jumper on if needs be.

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #196 on:** September 28, 2020, 06:51:18 pm »

My heating is on. I am sitting here wearing a t-shirt and short trousers (the uniform of covid lockdown). However I always obey my 85 year old mother so I pressed the buttons on the central heating.

spesh · « **Reply #197 on:** November 05, 2020, 02:53:54 pm »

I finally got round to switching on the heating today.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #198 on:** November 05, 2020, 06:26:42 pm »

I'm still holding out, though I've used the 'leccy fan heater in the Estate Office to warm my krutty shins until the Babbage-Engine up there has warmed the room a bit. It only ever sees the sun first thing in the morning, and then only in the summer. And it ent summer any more, because the plumbing has stopped howling when the cistern is refilling.

rafletcher · « **Reply #199 on:** November 06, 2020, 09:45:19 am »

Not only has our heating been on for some weeks (my wife feels the cold - around 3am she got up to put her dressing gown on over her nightie, despite our sleeping under a TOG 9 duvet

), I suspect we'll be having our first fire of the season on Saturday evening. And possibly the addition of the TOG 4.5 summer duvet.