Is your house warm or cold

taytobreath

I'm struggling to keep the house warm with the last few days, so I'm just wondering are any of you guys walking around with a quilt around your necks or are ye all insulated as fcuk.
oil or coal or gas, or humans or hot water bottles or piss

catallus

If you pay for gas to heat or run anything then you're going to go broke really really fast.

Body Heat ftw.

Lucyfur

Baby bears porridge

mfceiling

Gas heating. Rads up high and a monster fire lit.

And the missus still says it's cold.

Rasheed

Big turf fire in the range has the whole house lovely and toasty. Two fertiliser bags of it outside the back door will keep me going for the weekend.

taytobreath

yeah im the open fire kinda person. great heat off it, but when i wake up the next mornin im freeeeezin, oil is too expesive these days. i need at least 200 upfront too put oil in the tank,

oldyouth

Warm puppy on my lap. Mmmmmm!!

Mariasofia

oldyouth wrote: »

Warm puppy on my lap. Mmmmmm!!

Thats a euphemism right?

corkgsxr

Yep 28 kw boiler heating 6 rads. Bates heat out

Owryan

Cold would be an improvement for me.

Frosty McSnowballs

I'm wrapped up in bi curious lesbians, quite toasty so it is.

Senecio

Toasty here.

I'll die poor, but I'll die at 18*C.

taytobreath

There is people I know and they are freezing in their houses, and I've been in them, its like putting on a heater in a garden. Surely there must be posters here in a similar condition.
Walking around in a fleece all the time?

darrcow

coal fire heating the living room and gas central heating for the rest of the house. only turn heating on at 6pm then off at 9pm as cant afford anymore. we all wear woolly socks and jumpers. we have a choice food or heating.

Gavlor

T-shirt, shorts and a cold beer. If it wasn't for the fire crackeling I'd swear it was summer

Super-Rush

Open fire in one sitting room, don't have the stove lit in the other one but the rads have it warm. The bedroom is like a feckin sauna some nights.

Seedy Arling

Dont know if i am hot or cold. Coughing up a bloody lung here! Fcuk off man flu!

Cantona's Collars

Nice new boiler stove,toasty here.Feck forking out a fortune for oil anymore only to have some gouger nick it.

Cost a few bob to have it installed but it's already paying for itself,even the immersion is redundant.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Took out gas fire last year,found it too expensive and replaced with an insert non boiler stove I got on done deal for 180 euro.
Tis grand having the fire again and still have the gas to heat the rads and water.

taytobreath

Gavlor wrote: »

T-shirt, shorts and a cold beer. If it wasn't for the fire crackeling I'd swear it was summer

lol, im the same, if i wasnt in a tshirt , the house would be too cold, but its ahhhhhhhh feck it
i dont care im pissed anyway

taytobreath

stoves are the new fashion, i have one too, a stanely, and a god

Baked.noodle

Oil fired heating and cast iron solid fuel stove with back boiler to keep the house warm all day.

taytobreath

no one has yet to claim they are renting or owning a house that is impossible to keep warm

Mint Sauce

Are we gonna have an 'Are Ya Cold?' thread every weekend till about April now?

Frosty McSnowballs

taytobreath wrote: »

no one has yet to claim they are renting or owning a house that is impossible to keep warm

It's hard to keep a hunted house warm.

If its cold it means there are ghosts and they might get you tonight,

Bon soir

Gumbo

Timber Frame.
Built to 2008 Part L building regs so quite toasty but not as warm as a house built to 2011 regs.

Shane-KornSpace

Gas heated apartment!
Bang the heat on for an hour and its nice and toasty for the night

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taytobreath wrote: »

no one has yet to claim they are renting or owning a house that is impossible to keep warm

My last gaff that I was renting was oil fired and impossible to keep warm! We ended up relying on the fire in the sitting room and the electric blanket on the bed. We had to heat the poor baby's bedroom with an electric radiator for a couple of hours before putting him to bed. It was a nightmare!

The Dom

Reminds me of when George Baily snapped:

This old house, I don't know why we don't all have pneumonia. Drafty old barn, might as well be living in a refrigerator.

Sir Osis of Liver.

A mate of mine fcukin loves the cold.
When eveyone planning their fortnight in the sun hes off on cruises around the Antartic.In fact hes just back from a holiday in Alaska the mad bastard.

BeepBeep67

Got that spray foam insulation put in the sunroom roof and the bay windows best investment to date, has made a big difference.

Shark

Had the cavity walls insulated last week. The difference is incredible. No more drafts. Retains the heat much longer. Have open fire going in the sitting room and the gas for the rest of the house. I shall be toasty this winter!

mfceiling

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

A mate of mine fcukin loves the cold.
When eveyone planning their fortnight in the sun hes off on cruises around the Antartic.In fact hes just back from a holiday in Alaska the mad bastard.

I like his style. I don't mind the cold myself.

taytobreath

feck off cold and hurry up warmer weather

Sir Osis of Liver.

This you OP?
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taytobreath

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

This you OP?
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haha thanks. im not that cold but its a struggle to keep the house warm, buckets of coal

tim3000

I can see my breath in some of the rooms of this house. Have a fire and a back boiler thing but it is notoriously inefficient and doesnt dissipate the heat to the rads at all. Curse this house.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Fire lit, back boiler pumping great heat to 10 radiators. Oil burner timed to come on an hour before getting up in the morning and at periods during the day until fire is lit again around 3. Nice and comfortable and quite affordable

oldyouth

Mariasofia wrote: »

Thats a euphemism right?

No, more of a labrador

Mariasofia

oldyouth wrote: »

No, more of a labrador

I hear ya ...... say no more

taytobreath

Laila Hundreds Paperwork wrote: »

Fire lit, back boiler pumping great heat to 10 radiators. Oil burner timed to come on an hour before getting up in the morning and at periods during the day until fire is lit again around 3. Nice and comfortable and quite affordable

you must have a good job

MadsL

Lived in a celtic tiger era apartment on the 6th floor. Concrete built and more draughts than an old man's pub. Storage heaters and the only way to be toasty was to stick the electric heaters on. Largest bill was regularly around the €500 mark.

April O Neill II

catallus wrote: »

If you pay for gas to heat or run anything then you're going to go broke really really fast.

Body Heat ftw.

Not if your abode is well-insulated. Sadly, this is a rarity in Ireland.

Boombastic

This old house is gettin' shaky
This old house is gettin' old
This old house lets in the rain
This old house lets the cold
On my knees are gettin' chilly
But I feel no fear or pain
'Cause I see an angel peepin'
Through the broken window pane
Ain't gonna need this house no longer
Ain't gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend no window pane

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

My dads house is the warmest house EVER. It's duel heated with solid fuel and oil. We have a farm, so my brother spends a lot of time going round with a chainsaw and an axe cutting up firewood, and there's two bogs too so lots of turf, so there's no such thing as being careful with it.

The house has recently had insulation be stuffed in between the walls and up in the attics too, and the house has recently been draught proofed, with thingys on windows and doors.

Then in sitting room and living room there's an open fire which anytime I'm home during winter, ill have belting out.

Then - you have the house I'm renting. God! I'm in a house share, that people actually move out of in winter as its so cold. It's a massive house, very cool the rest of the year, but then once it starts to get cold, it's awful. It's oil heating but nobody will put oil in the tank as a) nobody wants to commit to staying here that long and b) last time they out 200 in each someone at home all day left the heating on all the time and opened the windows when it got too warm.

The house is like an igloo. My clothes are damp in the wardrobe and clothes that I wash and hang up to dry, are still wet 3 weeks later.
I have electric blanket on my bed to keep bed from being damp, and I'm going to buy a radiator for my room and for the laundry room for drying clothes

taytobreath

i feel your pain

FizzleSticks

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rainbowdrop

I live in a fun-size house, really small rooms so easy to heat. The roaring open fire I have going here in the living room heats the radiators in the 2 bedrooms just lovely. The house is always roasting.

Off topic, but if I ever looked into the future at aged 18 or 19 and saw that I'd be on the internet on a Saturday night talking to complete strangers about my home heating system, I'd have given up on life there and then lol!

catallus

tim3000 wrote: »

I can see my breath in some of the rooms of this house. Have a fire and a back boiler thing but it is notoriously inefficient and doesnt dissipate the heat to the rads at all. Curse this house.

There's no real reason a back-boiler should be inefficient, i think, maybe you just need to bleed your rads.

April O Neill II wrote: »

Not if your abode is well-insulated. Sadly, this is a rarity in Ireland.

My experience of using gas was in a very badly insulated open plan apt with floor to ceiling windows and paper-thin walls, so maybe I'm not being very objective about the whole gas efficiency thing :rolleyes:, but still I get very badly upset when I see ads for calorgas and remember the €€€€€€100000's I paid to those bloody extortionate basterds. Although I do remember their sales assistant had a very sexy voice. She was very sexily voicedly robbing me. From cork she was, I think. Can't remember her name now. What a bitch.

The_Pretender

My house is like a sauna :P I'd open a window for a minute if it wouldn't lead to me having my head eaten off for letting the heat out :mad:

Galway K9

Boombastic wrote: »

This old house is gettin' shaky
This old house is gettin' old
This old house lets in the rain
This old house lets the cold
On my knees are gettin' chilly
But I feel no fear or pain
'Cause I see an angel peepin'
Through the broken window pane
Ain't gonna need this house no longer
Ain't gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend no window pane

lmao. shakin Stevens Is having a great time over there.

Dachipster

30kw stove in the living room, bit of work keeper her fed but big living room/kitchen warm and 400ltr tank upstairs full of piping hot water.

Oil fired boiler sitting in unused sitting room, never connected.