Home Heating Rules

What are your rules for home heating? My rule is that no matter what time of year, if I'm cold in a jumper, pants, socks and a blanket- I'll turn the heat on for twenty minutes or so. Guess who just turned the heating on in June?!?

I'll bundle up in leggings, sweats, thermals, bath robe, etc first.  If I'm still cold, I'll then fill up the hot water bottle and pull a big duvet around me.  That usually does the trick.  If it doesn't, then it's heating time. 

I'll bundle up in leggings, sweats, thermals, bath robe, etc first.  If I'm still cold, I'll then fill up the hot water bottle and pull a big duvet around me.  That usually does the trick.  If it doesn't, then it's heating time. 

This, but with an electric blanket in place of the hot water bottle, and I'll plug in the little electric heater to warm a room before I cave in and turn the whole heating on.

But I'm usually pretty hardy - growing up in a "sweater law" house with no central heating has meant that now we own our own place, we tend to not turn on the heating until November and turn it off in March.

I'm pretty adament that once I turn the heating off - usually mid-late April, I don't put it back on until Septemberish.   I like having a few months of a cheap gas bill!

I close the window vents, add layers, slippers, snuggle up in my tartan rug with my hot water bottle and a cuppa.   Will take a shower or bath if desperate.  Thank goodness this flat I now have is a new build and keeps the heat well!  The past sh*thole flat was so terrible that the oil filled radiator had to be on constantly.  

I'm usually freezing at work, so layers and a cuppa has to do.  

I have been almost desperate enough this 'summer' to put it back on, but have not given in...yet...        

I also have just turned on the heating in June, againstly my husbands "No heating in June" rule. But I am wearing socks, two shirts and I am still freezing. I am only going to leave it on for a few minutes to take the chill off...but its bloody cold!

I *might* have to turn the heating on today - still to be determined. Adhering to the 'no heat on in June/summer' except I have laundry that really, really needs to get dry. I'm thinking I'll get there without the heat, but that's my last resort.

With the damp wind out there today, it's freaking cold though!  Sure doesn't feel much like summer. 

I try NOT to turn on the heat but sitting working in the living room and my USB heated gloves are not kicking it - I give in and put it on for 20 minutes or so.

I always go as long as I can b/c its so darn expensive! I used to leave my thermostat on 70 always!

I'm pretty adament that once I turn the heating off - usually mid-late April, I don't put it back on until Septemberish.   I like having a few months of a cheap gas bill! 

This.. though ours goes on as late as possible (think we try to aim for November) I grew up in a house that used little heat, so used to layering and walking around with a duvet...

I turned the heat on briefly in the cold snap in May but I refuse to do it in June! It was only 51F this morning but I held my ground.

Usually just curl up with a fleece blanket and a warm cat. (He glares at me to spread out the blanket if he thinks it too chilly  )

We have storage heaters, so turning them on for quick fixes is basically useless--that said, I sat on the couch yesterday with wool socks, a hoodie, pajama bottoms, and our huge duvet all wrapped around me. It's June!

We have storage heaters too, so turning them on is no use. We have an electric fire, but the plug keeps getting hot and our cheap skate of a landlord has bothered to sort the Electrics out. Still I haven't been cold enough this year to think it was needed...

Generally, we don't put on the heater after it goes off for the season.  I don't remember when I switched our boiler over to water only, but it was a while ago.  Maybe March?  We had very nice weather in April, so I don't think it was on at all then.  I was tempted the past week to pop it on a couple of times, but it was less about comfort and more about wanting to have more heat to dry my clothing faster.

I do the tea/blanket/HWB thing before turning it on, but I do it more for our electronics than anything.  Once it's winter, and it is more regularly on, I turn it on on a schedule: usually a few hours in evening and in the coldest periods, an hour or two during the day.  For some reason, the boiler seems to mess up if we set the timer.

We're trying to save on the gas bill, but we're also trying to be green.  I have to admit as prices go up, saving money is more the drive than the environment.

I've been known to be somewhat chilly in long pants, socks and a sweat shirt in 80F weather so if I had my way, the heat would be on a lot. We had 95-100 degree heat last week which I really love but hate that every building has the air con up ridiculously high. Sometimes I'm tempted to carry around those stretchy magic gloves in my purse all summer, along with the sweater.

The rule in our house is that it doesn't go on until Jon takes pity on my poor frozen body and turns it on, sometime around October. The heating has been turned off since April and when I put it on for half a day at the end of May he totally wigged out on me.

The fight we have at the moment is the freaking windows. He likes to leave the bedroom window open all day and night and we have the low tog duvet on the bed now, so I am often freezing at night while he has the covers off.  We are total polar opposites in terms of temperature. He is like a freaking boiler while I am a desert rat come to live in the artic.

However, I do get my way more this past year because of the girls. My rule is that if I'm cold, they're cold but we, more often than not, just wear a jumper and that does the trick.

We put our heating on, on Sunday - I was freezing freezing cold and was already wrapped up in blankets and 2 pairs of socks and slipper boots! DH is more open to putting the heating on than I am but I am the coldest out of us both, my feet do get very chilly!