Heating On

[brainiac]

After a truly miserable dreich cold rainy day have finally given in and turned the CH on. Anyone still resisting?

[Vagus]

We turned ours on last weekend.
The motorised valve sprang a leak and it dripped through the dining room ceiling.
It was misdiagnosed as a leak from the shower pump and made worse when Dyno (who do work for British Gas) attended and ‘fixed’ the shower pump.
Six visits from various engineers and it was finally sorted on Wednesday...apart from half the dining room ceiling having a brown water stain and cracks.

[zebo]

No, extra jumper and I've even got socks on. I have lit the woodburner a couple of times as I have some old fencing to burn!

[brainiac]

Oh I'd loooove a woodburner! I was brought up in a Glasgow tenement flat in the 60s with ice on the inside of the windows etc and just radiant 1/2 bar fires and a coal fire in the kitchen, which I can remember getting dressed in front of, so I must be 'hardened up' to some extent.

Amazingly, back then my father bought a weird electric blanket contraption that went under the carpet in the living room, but it never made much difference, and there was always that horrible fishy smell at the adaptor from the amount of power it must have been drawing :)

[pastafreak]

douglas9401

Obviously an unqualified impostor, have it checked by a national utility company for a definitive answer. :-)

Haha...he *was* working for a large utility company...but not *that* one.

[Hopkirk]

Cloverjo, you are my kind of gal.

[gingejbee]

"Dyno, who do work for British Gas"....not surprising, since they are part of the same naff group, parented by Centrica.

[Vagus]

I tell you ginge, if they send us a bill for the four small bits of pipe they unnecessarily replaced then they’ll be getting a bill from us for replastering and repainting the dining room ceiling. What a bunch of clowns!

[ToraToraTora]

don't turn mine on until 1st Nov at the earliest.

[Baldric]

Sorted ours out over the weekend, bled all the radiators,set the thermostat to 18 and the timer for 0530-0730 so we get up to a warm house, works for us.

[Peter Pedant]

I have a gas fire which I use to heat the house
what temp do people keep their houses at?

[lankeela]

I've only got a convector which sits by the side of my desk - its only a small house and the stairs open off the living room so the heat goes up. I've turned it on a few evenings lately but have to turn it off after about an hour or so as its too warm (and I do feel the cold!). I recently bought a second hand fireplace with stones in the hearth thingy - haven't used it yet so don't know what it will be like but it gives the room a nice focus.

[ToraToraTora]

"Cold? You bits a kids don’t know the meaning of the word. You should have been with me on the Russian convoys. One night it was so cold the flame on my lighter froze." - Uncle Albert!