The 2016 "is your heating on yet?" thread

[rogerzilla]

It was 16 degrees in the living room when I got home so I lit the stove for an hour and a half.  I enjoyed burning some of the prunings I took from the garden in March, including some trunks that were an absoute bear to pull out.  There's a nice mixture of hardwood and softwood and it's all been kiln-dried to a crisp in the conservatory over the summer, so it goes up like a torch.

[Polar Bear]

No heating yet.   The insulation is working well.   

It'll need to get down another five or more degrees I reckon first.   

[Pingu]

IMG_4885_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[ElyDave]

Not when I'm at home, can't vouch for when I'm working though

[rogerzilla]

The usual male "over my dead body, until November" attitude 

[ElyDave]

The usual male "over my dead body, until November" attitude 

November, that's a bit early

[LittleWheelsandBig]

HK and I are feeling the cold at the moment, so we've tweaked the thermostat up a bit. The heating is on thermostat all year round, of course.

[rogerzilla]

I need to do the annual radiator clean (feather duster behind and between radiator panels) before I'll consider putting the CH on.

[Kim]

It's coming on from time to time when we go downstairs, but upstairs is maintaining a decent temperature on its own.  It's not come on with the alarm clock yet.

[hellymedic]

HK and I are feeling the cold at the moment, so we've tweaked the thermostat up a bit. The heating is on thermostat all year round, of course.

We mostly do this, though switched the heating off completely for the hottest part of September. (We were away from 6-13 September anyway and had a new boiler installed between 30 August and 2 September).

David feels the cold more than I do but his new grand piano ought to be kept a tad cooler than the temperature to which we have become accustomed.

[Mrs Pingu]

I think the CH would have been on a little by now, had we not had the stove.

[Aunt Maud]

Both wood burners chuffing away and a handsome pile of dry wood to get through.

[Polar Bear]

No heating yet.   The insulation is working well.   

It'll need to get down another five or more degrees I reckon first.

What do I know

Somebody has just fired up the boiker.  She's feeling cold.   Must be age ... *

*  It's her birthday tomorrow

[hellymedic]

... his new grand piano ought to be kept a tad cooler than the temperature to which we have become accustomed.

And the piano will also benefit from regulated relative humidity of around 45%. It's a tough life for wooden instruments!

Humidity had dropped to 44% this morning. I had hung out no laundry for three days as we had a guest expected this afternoon.
It has not yet topped 50% so I don't think we'll need humidifiers or dehumidifeirs.

[Basil]

Yes.  But just to check to see that it works OK. Honest.

[Jaded]

Out of interest, Roger, where exactly were you pulling the trunks out of? 

[Kim]

Yes.  But just to check to see that it works OK. Honest.

Anyone not done this?  Doom!

[T42]

Wood-burner has been going in the evenings for a couple of days now, plus a couple of electric heaters elsewhere.

[robgul]

We're just starting our first full winter with a new boiler and Hive control system (installed in April) so it'll be interesting to see how the far more sophisticated thermostat and timing controls work . . . it's set at 20.5 to kick in the heating but so far I'm only aware that it started once on Thursday - however, I have a sneaking suspicion that Mrs robgul boosted the Hive control on her way home from work on Friday.   

On the whole the house is pretty well insulated with about 40cm in the loft, 30mm double glazing and a heavy curtain across the hallway to reduce the strike-through of cold from the wooden front-door.

Rob

[andyoxon]

Far too early yet...    9am, outside 12C, inside 19C. 

[mattc]

The heating is on thermostat all year round, of course.

Indeed.

(could you please explain this idea to my SO? Thx! )

Far too early yet...    9am, outside 12C, inside 19C. 

Andy it was 4'c last week, as I think you know perfectly well

[rafletcher]

The heating is on thermostat all year round, of course.

Exactly so, and currently set around 16 on the dial. So yes, it's been on for short periods both morning and evening since about 2 weeks ago.  And I've had to scrape the windscreen twice so it was likely justified 

[PaulF]

Yes, but the dog had just been clipped and looked cold.

Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

[MikeFromLFE]

Yes, 'fraid so - Mrs M runs cold (and I think would have the heating on full pelt 11 months of the year left to her own devices).
Our living room is a big room that's got a hard to insulate sloping roof over half of it, so we use the CH as background heat and a storage heater in the depths of winter +/- a radiant electric fire at other times. I'm considering replacing both the storage heater and the radiant fire with one of these new-fangled Far Infrared Panels, but am having trouble finding independent reviews that say anything other than 'avoid the cheap Chinese ones'.


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[mcshroom]

Mine stays on the thermostat pretty much all of the time*. That's surely the point of a thermostat to heat the house when the temperature hits a set point, rather than when the calendar/your pride etc. allows you to turn it on?


*Along with the timer stopping the house heating when I'm out at work/asleep where there's no real need for it.