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When will you put on the heating?

  • 08-09-2013 08:39PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭


    It's gotton really cold in my apartment. I'd love to put on the heating but it's storage heaters which are expensive so I'll hold off for another bit. Would love to have a fireplace.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Bout 19:30


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Bloody storage heating is a curse!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    Bout 19:30

    Have you jumped timezones again?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    Bloody storage heating is a curse!!!!

    I just moved into a place that has it. I have noooo idea how it works.
    Better figure the damn things out before it gets properly cold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Sauve wrote: »
    Have you jumped timezones again?

    Yes.....quick call Ziggy!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Well it looks like picking up again during the week and possibly mid 20s for next weekend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    Mine has been on a few time in the past week but has been on for a couple of days now at this stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    It's gotton really cold in my apartment. I'd love to put on the heating but it's storage heaters which are expensive so I'll hold off for another bit. Would love to have a fireplace.

    had the heating on last night :(, swept chimney today, looking around for a decent deal on coal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Sauve wrote: »
    I just moved into a place that has it. I have noooo idea how it works.
    Better figure the damn things out before it gets properly cold.

    Be prepared for a shock with your winter heating bills!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    About the end of October.

    Can't wait to switch of the AC though, bills are killer.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Just went on today for the first time in months!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    Be prepared for a shock with your winter heating bills!!!


    They'll send her the bill in a parcel, by courier! :pac:


    Reminds me of this advert- "Morgan! Turn on the heating!" :D




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    They'll send her the bill in a parcel, by courier! :pac:


    Reminds me of this advert- "Morgan! Turn on the heating!" :D


    No it's ok, I haven't turned them on at all yet because I don't know what the story is.
    Be grand, I'm of the 'put on more clothes and do the hoovering to warm up' generation :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Pff, central heating. Lovely fire going in the sitting room at the moment :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,486 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    I had it on for five minutes last night only because the girls room was a bit chilly. Heated up fast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Built my own wood chip burner, works great. Cost less than the VAT alone on one winter's oil fill.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Lighting the fire is such a hassle so when the inside temp drops below 12 C. Usually end of October.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Howjoe1


    January..if it doesn't snow beforehand:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Well it looks like picking up again during the week and possibly mid 20s for next weekend.
    That's another reason I'm leaving them off. Once they go on they pretty much stay on. You can't control the heat like with central heating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Lighting the fire is such a hassle so when the inside temp drops below 12 C. Usually end of October.
    We just chuck a couple of pallets onto the coffee-table and throw on a cup or two of petrol. It's toasty warm in no time. Free heat. Ceiling repairs now, that's a whole other story. Rip-off Ireland is alive and well despite what they tell you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    We just chuck a couple of pallets onto the coffee-table and throw on a cup or two of petrol. It's toasty warm in no time. Free heat. Ceiling repairs now, that's a whole other story. Rip-off Ireland is alive and well despite what they tell you.

    We have a sheet of galvanise on the ceiling right above the pallets. Works a treat and warms the bedroom floors upstairs ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Put the heating on?

    I'm still wearing shorts the odd day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    What's the story with underfloor heating? It seems to me there's no way to put it on only in certain rooms. Is it expensive? It bloody well sounds expensive. Fecking heating.


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Built my own wood chip burner, works great. Cost less than the VAT alone on one winter's oil fill.
    Same here, but with a heat exchanger and it provides all the hot water & UFH heating. turf FTW ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Husband finally gave in in turned heating on last night.
    None on today.
    For winter we use solid fuel stove that heats rads, spare the oil, but I hate cleaning fire out. Messy and dusty.
    So wont be turning heating on or lighting fires for as long as I can help it . Aiming for October,
    Hot water bottles for the leaba and all will be well :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    October
    I wont let anyone light the stove before that...its nowhere near cold enough


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Same here, but with a heat exchanger and it provides all the hot water & UFH heating. turf FTW ;)

    I've the basic piping installed for a heat exchange, can't afford the unit yet, but the basic work is done.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Had it on for an hour last night and tonight while webathed the baby. The house got a nice airing and it's all toasty.

    Having lived for a few years in a country where it was cold but central heating doesn't exist, it's one of my favourite things in the world!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,546 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Was seriously tempted this afternoon to turn on the heating. Resisted though and put on extra jumper. Was hoping to hold out until the end of the month.


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I've the basic piping installed for a heat exchange, can't afford the unit yet, but the basic work is done.:)
    I used a homemade one on a stanley range once, just used a length of box steel 150 x 50 with plates welded to the ends and 1" sockets for the pipework.

    I put it on top and covered the range with insulation, it was not used for cooking.

    Worked a treat


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