Anyone else popped their central heating on?

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:33 am

got my a/c on !

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:35 am

I was in Vegas a couple of months ago. It was 37c at night. I'm not surprised you have it on.

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:36 am

Turned my AC off 4 days ago, but we're back into the mid 80s from tomorrow so i might need to restart it

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:04 am

Montpellier, France: I thought about using a duvet when it dropped below 19 degrees but I've stuck to a single sheet so far and am holding off from any heating. Or a duvet for that matter.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:05 am

NRC wrote:Turned my AC off 4 days ago, but we're back into the mid 80s from tomorrow so i might need to restart it

AC for mid 80s? Yer great big wuss!

Just sweat like the rest of us do and appreciate you don't have a northern English boiler ticking away, waiting to explode.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:01 am

Not yet but I saw it was 19.5c this morning I would say the wife will have it ticking over when I get home tonight . Like to try not to use it until Oct but have to give in at times .

ralph · Post by **ralph** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:22 am

You actually turn yours off mate ?!?!

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:33 am

The wife keeps trying to put it on and uses our one year old son as an excuse. Emotional blackmail of the highest order.

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:15 am

I have a large floor standing GEC Electric storage boiler (no gas in our village). It takes about 3 days to get fully heated up so I always need to think ahead. Nearly put it on yesterday but thought I'd hold on a day or two.

Whilst we're on the subject - can anyone recommend me a replacement boiler / method of heating the house. Don't want oil and we have no mains gas / garden not big enough for ground source either.

Hendrickxz · Post by **Hendrickxz** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:17 am

Got to confess I had it on for a couple of days in AUGUST. It's been a crap summer!

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:30 am

I'm still wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

In fact I can wander about in my knackers whilst the wife has 15 layers on. Most evenings all I see of her is a pair of eyes peering out from her self constructed blanket fortress...!

LeadBelly · Post by **LeadBelly** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:37 am

I have to admit that I put mine on for an hour Monday night and Tuesday night. I find that I'm more easily/quickly affected by cold as I get older and the blood circulation gets less efficient and metabolism slows (the beta blockers dont help).
Thankfully I live in a well insulated mid terrace and can afford the heating bills, feel really sorry for oldies who have to ration when the can put the heating on.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:39 am

I'm as hard as nails.

If the soft buggers light the stove I'm going to sit outside.

I've told 'em.

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:43 am

I'm glad there are no photos of you all in your beds.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:46 am

Not switched on yet but close when I got up this morning although my excuse is having gone down with a streaming cold.

dushanbe · Post by **dushanbe** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:52 am

Mines been on and off as required. Can't see the point of being uncomfortable in my own house.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:53 am

dushanbe wrote:Mines been on and off as required. Can't see the point of being uncomfortable in my own house.

So we do have posters with some common sense

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:56 am

Not yet. The plus about living in an apartment is the the people below me kindly pass their heat up. So I'll let them turn their central heating on instead

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:58 am

Haven't felt the need yet.

But its coming!

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:01 am

Haven't even had the fire on since mid April, never mind the CH.

It isn't cold yet, simple as.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:04 am

Central heating has gone on at work. All the women were getting cold in their floaty summer dresses, while us blokes in suits are dying from the heat.

Newty · Post by **Newty** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:15 am

gawthorpe_view wrote:No point having it if you won't use it.
Programmer set at on 24/7 thermostats do the rest, it comes on when the temperature drops.
Steady temperature around 21°C with two air changes per hour is better for the fabric of your home, your comfort and your health, prevents black spot mould, condensation etc.

How do you control your air changes per hour? Does your central heating system have some sort of forced ventilation incorporated into the system?

I have to have a dehumidifier on most of the winter to prevent condensation because I cant bring myself to open the windows!

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:27 am

Newty wrote:How do you control your air changes per hour? Does your central heating system have some sort of forced ventilation incorporated into the system?

I have to have a dehumidifier on most of the winter to prevent condensation because I cant bring myself to open the windows!

I use the trickle vents on my DG windows, not an exact science it works.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:45 am

Newty wrote:How do you control your air changes per hour? Does your central heating system have some sort of forced ventilation incorporated into the system?

I have to have a dehumidifier on most of the winter to prevent condensation because I cant bring myself to open the windows!

Air changes are a natural occurence. Modern homes are more airtight than older ones and thus suffer from lower air changes. The air vents in windows allow the air to move across the house thus preventing it becoming stale, without severely affecting the internal temperature.

COYC73 · Post by **COYC73** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:45 am

ExistentialWanderer wrote:Woke up, lit a fag at about 5.30am and thought 'ok, enough's enough'. Sat there shivering my booty off. Been wanting to turn it on for a while now but hung in there like a trooper. Anyone else finally succumb?!

Heating.....!!!!

I've still got the fan on.....!

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:08 am

gandhisflipflop wrote:I second that about the Peterborough game. I got an abcess after that. Another cold game was a game I remember at Coventry around 2004 at the Ricoh arena. Absolutely freezing and we lost. I feel the cold very easily (unless I'm ******) so if it has to go on it goes on.

I was there too. Second coldest ive ever been. Dont think it was 04 but may be wrong. Was bloody freezing mind. And crap.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:15 am

Sutton-Claret wrote:I have a large floor standing GEC Electric storage boiler (no gas in our village). It takes about 3 days to get fully heated up so I always need to think ahead. Nearly put it on yesterday but thought I'd hold on a day or two.

Whilst we're on the subject - can anyone recommend me a replacement boiler / method of heating the house. Don't want oil and we have no mains gas / garden not big enough for ground source either.

Air source heat pump with Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:17 am

ralph wrote:You actually turn yours off mate ?!?!

Jezzzzzz Ralph you know herself . The only time of year she will now come to the Turf is August or May as the rest of the year is far too cold ... Hummmm she may have a point .

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:28 pm

IanMcL wrote:Air source heat pump with Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

Looked into that a few years ago - we have 'micro' piping in our house which apparently isn't suitable. We also don't have a suitable place to site one on the house within building regs. It would have to go somewhere away from the house and run the pipework across the garden back to the CH system

ClaretDiver · Post by **ClaretDiver** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:48 pm

YUp mines been in and off for the last week or so! A combination of my disabled wife not being very active her still trying to acclimatize from coming from South Africa and having lived in Thailand for a few years....gonna be a long winter!!!

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:13 pm

Sat here, reading through this thread sipping coffee.
Outside we've big winds and hailstones are battering the windows.
Not put mine on yet though.

Claret · Post by **Claret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:19 pm

Courtesy of the Daily Mash:

Nation divided over whether to put the heating on

13-09-17

BRITAIN is divided over whether or not it is cold enough to turn on the heating, it has been confirmed.

As pro- and anti-heating factions struggle for control of household temperatures, many fear that war is inevitable.

Emma Bradford, proponent of turning the heating on, said: “It’s definitely cold enough to turn it on, if not just to limber it up for when winter really sets in. Only an idiot would disagree.”

However Tom Booker, advocate for just layering up with a jumper, said: “We’re still seeing highs of about 17 degrees down south. If you’re cold, put some more sodding clothes on.

“I don’t trust these ‘heating people’. Who knows what else they are plotting? Probably to kill us all.”

A Met Office spokesman said: “It’s turned brother against brother, man against wife, Ant against Dec.

“It’s deceptively sunny enough to leave half the nation in denial that summer is over, while the other half is already banging on about pumpkin-flavoured coffee drinks.

“Fortunately, data from previous years shows that consensus will be reached in about two to three weeks with the arrival of ‘see your own breath’ weather.”

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:20 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:Sat here, reading through this thread sipping coffee.
Outside we've big winds and hailstones are battering the windows.
Not put mine on yet though.

Oh Buxton, you are tough. It must be all those bacon butties

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:58 pm

Sutton-Claret wrote:Looked into that a few years ago - we have 'micro' piping in our house which apparently isn't suitable. We also don't have a suitable place to site one on the house within building regs. It would have to go somewhere away from the house and run the pipework across the garden back to the CH system

Not an expert, however, the microbore seems ok now.
http://harvestcornwall.com/blog/2013-10 ... -radiators

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:59 pm

I put on a woolly yesterday. Sunshine today!

Pimlico_Claret · Post by **Pimlico_Claret** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:03 am

ClaretEngineer wrote:I'm still wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

In fact I can wander about in my knackers whilst the wife has 15 layers on. Most evenings all I see of her is a pair of eyes peering out from her self constructed blanket fortress...!

Same here, don't get it,I'm in a t shirt and shorts,the girlfriend is under more layers than Scott in the Antarctic. Surely there cant be that much of a difference in sexes?

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:14 am

My flat is in the middle of 3, and with 3 below, above me is a layer of lead flashing, rubber membrane, and then a foot of soil and turf

All that is heating my flat quite nicely and i have no need to even contemplate using my own leccy

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:07 am

Pimlico_Claret wrote:Same here, don't get it,I'm in a t shirt and shorts,the girlfriend is under more layers than Scott in the Antarctic. Surely there cant be that much of a difference in sexes?

Apparently up to ten degrees. Thats what they say when they moan when I used to have the aircon on at work in November!

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:08 am

COYC73 wrote:Heating.....!!!! I've still got the fan on.....!

I wear thermals even during the summer. I'm a cold person. To be fair, I only put the heating on between 5am and 7am at the moment. Takes the chill off the morning air.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:27 am

Fan on. Window open. Summer duvet on.

Was a bit nippy this morning I must admit but that's how it goes all winter!

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 9:00 am

Southwestclaret I sat next to one on the plane coming back from Portugal. His calves were bigger than my legs and definitely not a professional footballer because they were hairier than a bog brush.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 9:05 am

Pimlico_Claret wrote:Same here, don't get it,I'm in a t shirt and shorts,the girlfriend is under more layers than Scott in the Antarctic. Surely there cant be that much of a difference in sexes?

You should have seen her last night, blankets, duvet the lot.

In fairness i expected the heating to be blazing when I got back from the gym, alas it was off!

I suppose I ought to fire it up on an ''engineering test'' just to ensure its working

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 9:20 am

ClaretEngineer wrote:
I suppose I ought to fire it up on an ''engineering test'' just to ensure its working

In fairness that was the method in my madness. Only moved into our house at the end of July and rather than wait for the really cold weather, I wanted to do a test run on our heating. Still not got the timer working properly mind. Thermostat must be working as it turns itself off after a manual switch on, but I am buggered if I can get the heating to turn itself on.

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:32 pm

spadesclaret wrote:Oh Buxton, you are tough. It must be all those bacon butties

That and a thick jumper.

Falcon · Post by **Falcon** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:54 pm

Boiler is on 'auto' all year round.

If the thermostat thinks it's below 17 degrees then it chucks the heating on. Once it is satisfied it turns it off again.

Can't see the point of all the fuss and arguments. To paraphrase someone above, what's the point sitting there uncomfortable in your own house if you can afford the gas bill.

gazr · Post by **gazr** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:13 pm

My missis put it on the other day for the first time, but I must admit I was cold but I was stubborn and I wouldn't have or it in myself, been on for a couple of hrs past few nights