discussion Central Heating

[boatman]

Well guys we switched the central heating on this morn for the first time this yr an the house got nice an cosy an after a couple of hrs or so i see lilley starts jumpin about an i said to jen whats up with that crazy moggie ? well it transpires that she was after a bloomin great wasp as it was flyin about the livin room like a lancaster bomber an it seemed to me as big well it was action stiations with the flyswat an what with lilliey jumpin up at it an me tryin to swat it an jen came in the door an it flew into the kitchen the the hall way with lilly jumpin up at it well i was scarded out of my mind as im terrifeid of them an it went up to the door where there is light comin in well after all this terrifyin moments i flyswated it on the window boy was i scared an then to cap it all there is no evidence of a body an i hunted around an so did lilley as jen was laughin but i wasnt so no body its still hidien as im sure i dint get it an by the size of it was a qeen wasp Aaaaaaaacccccchhhhhhh an its still lurkin in our house an i dont feel safe now in our house Aaaaaccchhhh SO REMEMBER GUYS KEEP YOU EYES PEELED FOR ANYTHING FLYIN ABOUT when you switch on your C/H
chrisb

 

[PaulTRose]

only thing in this house that will be flying round when the heating is on will be the meter!!

 

[Nicko]

Might have been a hornet Chris. We get them in the house now and again. I usually try and isolate it in one room and then shoo it out of the window.

I do get wasps trying to hibernate in my wood pile so I've taken to giving the logs a good bang together before putting them in the basket to bring indoors...... only had one wake up after inadvertently bringing him indoors....

Nick

 

[AlanG]

Heating has been on for about a month already., Was minus 6 this morning when i set off to work. took ages to defrost the car.

 

[boatman]

Heating has been on for about a month already., Was minus 6 this morning when i set off to work. took ages to defrost the car

WOW Al better you than me at least its fairly mild wheather here have u had any of that white stuff ?
chrib

 

[AlanG]

We've been told there might be some on the mountain tops but nothing in the garden yet. I'm at about 620ft in altitude but it is rather exposed here.

 

[KarlW]

Heating has been on for about a month already., Was minus 6 this morning when i set off to work. took ages to defrost the car.

Wasn't the temperature but the rain this morning, drive to site felt like a full days work on it's own, and the motorway being closed due to a fatality didn't help. (Wreckage still the at 4pm.)

 

[Dave Ward]

Well, I've bought a 15 TOG Duvet. and a new woolly - the heating doesn't go on until we have two successive days of frost.................
( It helps that my flat is on the middle floor of a 3 storey block, so I have heat above & below & fancy double glazing helps to keep that meter reading as low as possible )
Dave

 

[BattleshipBob]

Ours has been on for a while but only for a few hrs, since Julie's health issues she's feeling the cold more.

 

[AlanG]

Wasn't the temperature but the rain this morning,

We had the rain last week on Thurs/Fri. Some local flooding and my pigs also broke out the flippers and were swimming around the farm

 

[Guest]

We have friend coming to stay from tomorrow, and she's from Aus, so now the heating is on half way on the storage heaters . Glad we have panels on the roof as the income from those during the summer does help this time of the year. By next week Christine promises it can go off again in half of the house !
Cave is so well insulated after the refit that it's stays quite warm just from an oil heater on frost free . I shall be moving into there from tomorrow. :smiling3:

 

[BattleshipBob]

We had the rain last week on Thurs/Fri. Some local flooding and my pigs also broke out the flippers and were swimming around the farm :smiling3:

Could have been worse Al, could have been pigs in space, ala muppets lol

 

[Tim Marlow]

Heating has been on since late September. Runs from 0700 to 0900 and then from 1800 to 2200. Now retimed in the afternoon to 1600 to 2200 and will add in a spell at 1200 to 1400 when it gets really cold. Need the heat with the RA, unfortunately, because I get stiff very quickly in cold conditions. Won’t go off now until April. Unused rooms don’t get heated though, unless we have guests, and the wireless thermostat gets kept in whichever room I’m spending the most time so it is most effective. Best saving I’ve made is splitting the hot water off and timing it different to the heating :thumb2:

 

[Tim Marlow]

Could have been worse Al, could have been pigs in space, ala muppets lol

Who hoo…..Swinetrek reference……

 

[Dave Ward]

Well, I've bought a 15 TOG Duvet. and a new woolly - the heating doesn't go on until we have two successive days of frost.................
( It helps that my flat is on the middle floor of a 3 storey block, so I have heat above & below & fancy double glazing helps to keep that meter reading as low as possible )
Dave

That's it - two successive days of frost - the heating has gone on - b****r the expense!
Dave

 

[spanner570]

Chris, don't mention 'Creatures' to me!

Our old oil boiler packed up (Black smoke coming from the flue pipe) a while back.
Thinking it knackered, I disconnected it and dragged it out into the yard.....
Only to spot a little foot sticking out of the air inlet fan! A mouse had got in the fan and have been minced up when I switched the boiler on. thus totally blocking the air intake which caused the black smoke.
I cleaned up the fan housing, and after dragging the boiler back into the garage and re-connecting the thing, it fired up first time!

So, I feel your pain (Sting)!

 

[Ian M]

Heating has been on since late September. Runs from 0700 to 0900 and then from 1800 to 2200. Now retimed in the afternoon to 1600 to 2200 and will add in a spell at 1200 to 1400 when it gets really cold. Need the heat with the RA, unfortunately, because I get stiff very quickly in cold conditions. Won’t go off now until April. Unused rooms don’t get heated though, unless we have guests, and the wireless thermostat gets kept in whichever room I’m spending the most time so it is most effective. Best saving I’ve made is splitting the hot water off and timing it different to the heating :thumb2:

Would it not be better to have it on continually but at a lower temp. It normally costs less to keep a building warm than it does to keep warming it up all the time. having said that we have yet to turn the heating on in the "main house" the price of electic is still stupid at the moment. So watching that. I swear that the meter whizzing round could heat the house at times.

We light the wood burner in the afternoon and sometimes befor if really cold. Minus 2c today, the first real cold of the season.
Firewood costs a fortune as well these days though. HAve a bit left in the shed but not that much.
Looking forward to next year. New Roof and Solar panels on and a battery ! It wont kill the leccy bill all year. Summer yes but it will only reduce it in the winter..
IF we can really get the bill down we might put the Central heating back in the main part of the house. Well down stairs at least. Not a fan of heated bedrooms.

 

[Mark1]

Thinking it might be cheaper to run my electric off a diesel generator at the moment! Living in a flat i would have to put it in the bathroom,not sure that would work out to well lol. Got a plug in radiator in the living room and a heated blanket for the bed,best £25 ive ever spent, just cant commit to firing up the storage heaters yet even if i have just managed to blag a healthy payrise at work:tongue-out3:

 

[Tim Marlow]

Would it not be better to have it on continually but at a lower temp. It normally costs less to keep a building warm than it does to keep warming it up all the time. having said that we have yet to turn the heating on in the "main house" the price of electic is still stupid at the moment. So watching that. I swear that the meter whizzing round could heat the house at times.

We light the wood burner in the afternoon and sometimes befor if really cold. Minus 2c today, the first real cold of the season.
Firewood costs a fortune as well these days though. HAve a bit left in the shed but not that much.
Looking forward to next year. New Roof and Solar panels on and a battery ! It wont kill the leccy bill all year. Summer yes but it will only reduce it in the winter..
IF we can really get the bill down we might put the Central heating back in the main part of the house. Well down stairs at least. Not a fan of heated bedrooms.

Doesn’t really work like that for us. I’ve tried it and it just burns more oil for no real benefit. We have poorly insulated solid stone walls and solid floors, and an unheated ground floor room, so trickle heating at a lower temp just means the cold spots stay cold. During the day we are quite busy on household chores or out and about, so it seems pointless to heat the house when we aren’t there.

 

[Ian M]

Doesn’t really work like that for us. I’ve tried it and it just burns more oil for no real benefit. We have poorly insulated solid stone walls and solid floors, and an unheated ground floor room, so trickle heating at a lower temp just means the cold spots stay cold. During the day we are quite busy on household chores or out and about, so it seems pointless to heat the house when we aren’t there.

A valid point. I thought you where also retired lol. I'm home and the good lady works from home (hence the heating in the annex/"office wing" lol