So, has anyone started using their heating yet?

telecaster

The great pocket bleeder of our times, fossil fuel powered domestic heating. After months of respite its almost time to start forking out again.

Not till I can see my kids breath condense in their bedrooms will I turn on that ba$tard monster of an oil drinking burner though.

Have any of you pasty weaklings succumbed to the lure of home heating yet this autumn?

hell yeah. Mines on as we speak.

westendgirlie

Have you seen the price of oil?

I will be waiting until the icicles are forming on my nose.

ejmaztec

telecaster wrote: »

The great pocket bleeder of our times, fossil fuel powered domestic heating. After months of respite its almost time to start forking out again.

Not till I can see my kids breath condense in their bedrooms will I turn on that ba$tard monster of an oil drinking burner though.

Have any of you pasty weaklings succumbed to the lure of home heating yet this autumn?

There seem to be an awful lot of trees missing around my area.

the groutch

Heating?
I should introduce you to something called a jumper.

smash

westendgirlie wrote: »

Have you seen the price of oil?

I will be waiting until the icicles are forming on my nose.

When it happens, throw up a photo in the know your nerds thread will you!

SEPT 23 1989

I could do without heating but i live with 2 girls who always seem to be cold:D

donglen

Was on a hangover day today......put in on for an hour this morning.......switched to trusty blanket after that.

ejmaztec

the groutch wrote: »

Heating?
I should introduce you to something called a jumper.

I raise you three jumpers, two pairs of polystyrene underpants, and two hollowed out cat carcasses for footwear..

I try not to whenever possible. My house got noticably larger recently when I insulated the whole thing on the outside. Good few cms in every direction. So keeping it cool in the summer rather than warm in the winter seems to be the issue now. So hopefully I can get through this winter without turning the heating on at all even once. I cook and bake so much that I rather hope the heat will warm the whole house.

holystungun9

ejmaztec wrote: »

I raise you three jumpers, two pairs of polystyrene underpants, and two hollowed out cat carcasses for footwear..

I hope you let your dog sleep on your feet also.

CardBordWindow

The mammy lit the fire last night. Nothing like an auld open fire.

davet82

ladee-da, excuse me with your fancy pants home heating...

no, i've the exercise bikes out to work up a sweat and then wrap up in blankets to insulate the heat

ejmaztec

holystungun9 wrote: »

I hope you let your dog sleep on your feet also.

I drew the short straw and the missus got the dog.:(

zef

I'm cold blooded so usually would have had the heating on by now. I guess have been more cautious about using it with the price of it! See people buying hh oil in large containers now for e20.
Swapping to winter duvet tonight though.
Fleece throws on the sofa can look nice and keep ye warm.
Glad we still have the open fire, you can't beat it.

girl in the striped socks

No, not yet.
We're lucky though because our house is new so it's insulated really well. If you turn the heating on you would have to turn it off after half an hour. It's well worth insulating a house properly.
The only down side to it is the heat on a warm day. It's like an oven if there isn't a breeze blowing through.
I reckon we should get away with spending about five or six hundred on heating oil this year. Not bad compared to some people.

bbam

Once or twice in the last two weeks. Specially round bath time for kids.

Have a stove so I'll be out with the chainsaw soon.

123 LC

those portable radiators and heaters can save you a fortune..

Mr Benevolent

Nope. One of the advantages of an apartment.

Dravokivich

Confab wrote: »

Nope. One of the advantages of an apartment.

Top floor Apartment

All the suckers below me give me their heat. Probably won't be knocking it on again until end November / start of December when it really gets cold.

cassid

nope, not yet. Am dreading those bills €400 plus last year so staying off as long as possible.

sebastianlieken

Put on a sweater.

miamee

No not yet and I don't think I will be for a while unless temperatures plummet wildly in the next few weeks.

mike65

Heat you, not the room! A throw/blanket when you're slumped on the sofa is the future.

Hedgemeister

Bought a Wood Pellet stove three years ago and find its the best investment I ever made.
Before that I was killing myself in the bog and robbed buying briquettes. Now all the local bogs are closed.
10 kilos of wood pellets (@ 2.75 euro) heats the water / house for 10 hours, and no feckin ashes afterwards.

Lollipops23

I'm a top floor apartment, so the only time I feel really cold is going to bed. Stuck in the hot water bottle twice last week. Waaay cheaper than the rip off merchants that are gas companies.

Mr Benevolent

cassid wrote: »

nope, not yet. Am dreading those bills €400 plus last year so staying off as long as possible.

€400 per two months? Are you heating a mansion?

kfallon

It's not November yet!!! Tbh it's not even cold out anyway!

Mint Sauce

Nope, living in a well insulated timber framed house, actully still sleeping with the window open the odd night.

Last few years was living in 40/50 year old house, which wasn't fully double glazed, upstairs like an oven on a hot day, and an ice box some nights in the winter, cracks around some of the single glazed frames, and little evidence of insulation in the attac, and still didn't use the central heating until around november. Not a miser, it just has to be quite cold before I notice it.

Cant see the heating being used much in this new house, also my new house mates claim to have not used the heating at all this year.

krudler

heating? its september ffs, if you're chilly throw on a hoody, or drink something hot

bbam

kfallon wrote: »

It's not November yet!!! Tbh it's not even cold out anyway!

We live at 285meters above sea level in a very exposed location.
Believe me it has been cold in the last few weeks, wet and windy. Some mornings have been below 5c when I've been out early.

kfallon

bbam wrote: »

We live at 285meters above sea level in a very exposed location.
Believe me it has been cold in the last few weeks, wet and windy. Some mornings have been below 5c when I've been out early.

I'm talking about where I am!

veryangryman

kfallon wrote: »

I'm talking about where I am!

YEAH! :mad:

spatchco

got the wrap around insulation last year,,should have got it years ago,havent used the oil in 1- year so the ragheads are not getting any money from me,,LOL

Malari

I don't find it cold yet at all. And I'm always cold Winter duvet and snowboot slippers will come out first before the heating goes on.

kfallon

veryangryman wrote: »

YEAH! :mad:

You need to change your name to veryveryangryman by the looks of it trout!

ejmaztec

sebastianlieken wrote: »

Put on a sweater.

La de da sweaters. Jumpers is where it's at.

Gee Bag

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I live with 2 girls who always seem to be cold:D

That sounds like a plausible plot for a porno.

CardBordWindow

Gee Bag wrote: »

That sounds like a plausible plot for a porno.

A plausible plot??
Since when has a porno needed one of those!!?

SeaFields

A very serious dose of man flu has necessitated the stove to be lit for the last two days solid.

admiralofthefleet

thinking of lighting the fire, weve a load of nappies to burn

NegativeCreep

Do people not use it all year round??

demanufactured

Lit the stove few times on the last 2 weeks ...no oil here only solid fuel...will be buying coal on the next few weeks

BraziliaNZ

Unfortunately I share a flat with a girl. It was about 21c here in London yesterday and she had the heat on. The heat will probably be on now until May, she goes to sleep leaving it on and I have to get up and turn it off. She does about 5 washes a week. Anytime I've lived with women they are freezing cold, and they do far too many washes. Women are bad for the environment.

podgemonster

Heating is included in my rent so its been on all summer.

Fine iv had to keep the windown opens, drink loads of water, walk around naked and occasionally wipe down the sweat stains from the leather couch but il be damned if i'm going to waste free heating!

Jason Todd

Going to have to stick it on tonight I think. I'd just throw on a tshirt in bed and be grand, but the kids get cold.

grumble... bloody kids... mumble...

Yellowblackbird

How do you people heat your water?

maxfresh

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

How do you people heat your water?

Have been using the immersion during the summer to heat water for dishes and have a electric shower for washing
Going to hold out using the gas central heating for as long as possible

dark crystal

It's not even remotely cold here (Waterford City).

With the recent rise in Gas prices, I won't be using the heating until my extremities go numb.

Richard Dower

Be starting up the fire by the end of Sept. me thinks....it was rather cold last night!

planetX

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

How do you people heat your water?

electric shower, boil a kettle for dishes.
No heating here until we've passed the extra clothes, extra duvet barrier. Bloody price of oil.