So, has anyone started using their heating yet?

telecaster · 17-09-2012 02:40PM #1

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?

17-09-2012 02:45PM

hell yeah. Mines on as we speak.

westendgirlie · 17-09-2012 02:45PM

Have you seen the price of oil?

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

ejmaztec · 17-09-2012 02:46PM

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 · 17-09-2012 02:46PM

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

smash · 17-09-2012 02:47PM

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 · 17-09-2012 02:47PM

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

donglen · 17-09-2012 02:48PM

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

ejmaztec · 17-09-2012 02:50PM

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..

17-09-2012 02:50PM

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 · 17-09-2012 02:51PM

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 · 17-09-2012 02:54PM

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

davet82 · 17-09-2012 02:54PM

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 · 17-09-2012 02:55PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:03PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:04PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:06PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:08PM

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

Mr Benevolent · 17-09-2012 03:09PM

Nope. One of the advantages of an apartment.

Dravokivich · 17-09-2012 03:12PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:25PM

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

sebastianlieken · 17-09-2012 03:26PM

Put on a sweater.

miamee · 17-09-2012 03:32PM

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

mike65 · 17-09-2012 03:32PM

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

Hedgemeister · 17-09-2012 03:35PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:35PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:52PM

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 · 17-09-2012 03:58PM

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

Mint Sauce · 17-09-2012 04:02PM

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 · 17-09-2012 04:03PM

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

bbam · 17-09-2012 04:03PM

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.

So, has anyone started using their heating yet?

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