How long is your heating on each day?

Mine is timed to come on at 7.30am till 9.00am and then I physically turn it on when and if it needs but its set to turn off at 8.00pm when the kids go to bed.

At the moment its only on for about 7 hours a day but might stay on tonight if its really cold lol

[timwilky]

6:30-8.00am and 5:00-8:00pm

Still I need to stop the wife turning it off and opening the windows. Damm freezing in here and she runs about in her nightie complaining it is too warm. She turns off the heating and opens windows at work etc and upsets all the patients.

Originally Posted by Jabba

I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out

Well you were lucky!
When I was a kid we did have centeral heating.
We had a pit in the middle of the floor, under t' hole in t' roof, where if we, were lucky we would burn lumps of mammoth pooh.

Them was t' days them was.

Now we are soft and moden so we have the heating on from 6 to 9 am and 4 to 10 pm. SWMBO insists that we keep all of the doors open so that the tempreature around the house stays even.
I kid you not, the misery of being cold must be shared around, the woman is bonkers, bonkers I tell thee!

If I have the temerity to close the door the moaning is worse than the cold. When she slopes off to bed I shut the doors and turn the fire on in the lounge and slowly toast myself.

8 hours, give or take. Thermostat controls it, 'comfort' temperature is 20C and 'minimum' temperature is currently 16C. When it's set to come on, it tries to keep the house at the comfort temp, the rest of the time it will keep the house at least at the minimum temp (and if I just tell it to not heat it all, it will still keep the house at 5C to stop everything freezing over)

Comes on just before I'd get up for work, about quarter to six, and switches off and half past seven so the house has been warmed for 90mins and will still be warm if she decides to go to work lol. By then, solar input is helping things a bit. Comes on again just after four in the afternoon and stays on until about half past ten, so again the house has been warmed for quite some time and the residual heat will last until we go to bed (and perhaps encourage us to as well).

There's no point heating your entire house to super duper temperatures if you're snuggled up in bed under a big duvet so just endure that cold walk to the toilet in the middle of the night! Likewise, when I get home from an early shift I tend to be in one room playing on the 360 so rather than heat the whole house we have a portable electric radiator that I switch on and put next to me to just heat me.

Biggest aggravation lately has been that with the cold temperatures, the house was dropping below my previous 'minimum' thermostat setting of 17.5C so all night the stupid heating kept coming on and off quite regularly and bugging me as I was convinced it was going wrong and ignoring my settings. Not to mention the noise it makes when it ignites and there's the rush of hot water through the pipes around the house (it's a new combi boiler, less than three years old, before anyone asks, and the radiators are hot within about 2 mins of it turning on, amazing!)

Originally Posted by Sally

Daryl B?

Heh.

24hrs until the ice goes away

Originally Posted by Sally

Heh.

I think he's a closet Scot

Tight bugger!

My energy bill(gas and electric) was £90 for 3 months

Typical Scot

Originally Posted by Jabba

I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out

Although a young thing, up until I was 12, we lived in a house with no central heating and just one coal fire in the living room to heat it. It was quite a big 3 bed house and there was no double glazing. The insides of the windows would regularly freeze. Occasionally, we had wee bits of ice in our water in the kitchen....






I do also remember this one time (at band camp) a tiny squashed, mutilated frog landed in my diluting orange....