Reply With QuoteSound advice, whatever the subject ;)Originally Posted by blackal
No heating, no fires on yet, still in shorts. The big light in the living room is enough to heat the whole house
Sound advice, whatever the subject ;)
Put on tonight to ease the shower bedroom transition apparently…
I spend the last minute in the shower with the water the coldest it can go. Was a bit brutal at the start but I love it now. I’m always roasting 20 seconds after I turn the water off. Wife refuses though.
Looks to be pretty warm all next week round my way so I doubt the heating will come in the morning as it has been.
BTW with our new Smart meter fitted (the other one packed up) we have just got a £770 refund from BG.
Cheers,
Neil.
My windows are still open all day. I should see another year out without using the central heating.
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Just come back from a local Classic car show.
Scorchio now walking round.
Looks to be hot all week at least.
Heating didn't come on this morning.
Cheers,
Neil.
Dutch forecast for the next two weeks: heatwave. The first September heatwave in recorded (meteo) history. And yes it was 32C today.Just come back from a local Classic car show.
Scorchio now walking round.
Looks to be hot all week at least.
Heating didn't come on this morning.
We've just ordered a new gas fire, to be fitted in about 4 weeks' time. I'm hopeful we won't have to use it until at least Halloween. Maybe too hopeful.
Had the heating on a few hours a week or two ago just to take the chill off the air….
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Do you live above the arctic circle?
Lol no up in fife, Scotland had a few days of solid rain a few weeks back.
House kinnda felt like a tent just needed a wee boost…..lol
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On a kinnda tangent anyone got a 100 watt bar heater and how do they find them
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I also did this for a while, inspired by the Wimm Hoff 'Freeze the Fear' programme. I started at 15 seconds and built up quite quickly to 2 minutes at the end of every shower - when the water was ice cold in the middle of winter.
It felt utterly amazing afterwards!
I have no idea about the health benefits (or otherwise), but it worked for me.
Unfortunately I now shower at the local pool where I swim, so cannot do the ice cold showers there due to the pre-set thermostatic limits.
I haven’t read into it properly but seen a bunch of stuff on TV and online.
Cold water exposure is meant to be a natural antidepressant and there was a really interesting old bbc documentary showing this altho ugly sadly not on iplayer at the moment https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000599z
Small link from BBC london here https://youtu.be/8UA1lBqXOeo
it also uses a lot of energy/calories to heat the body if you don’t go back to warm after - there was an Andrew Huberman podcast discussing cold exposure to brown fat consumption in the liver. Time stamps here https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-lose-...e-based-tools/
Cold showers and cold swimming! Ugh. I’ll take this at 6pm any day.
Currently have the air con on and the ceiling fan at No 1, (slowest), setting.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Presume you are in the U.K. and not on holiday in Florida. Serious question in air con worth it?
For the few nights per year it is very warm for sleeping, I just sleep with a fan blasting on me which does the trick.
Air con 100% worth it.
Always went with that mantra we don’t get the heat to make it worth it. Ever since having it, it’s a bit like a boiling water tap. Can’t work out how we went all those years without it.
Have it on a lot.
It’s apparently also very efficient for heating although haven’t really used it for that purpose.
No, there’s a friggin heatwave.
Seeing how the weather is this week I can't believe that last week my wife put the heating on one day for an hour just to feel some warmth :)
Not in UK today, but not in Florida either 🥲 But air con is way better than a noisy fan at night. Can also be reversed to provide heating. All new builds in the UK should have them fitted as standard along with solar panels IMO.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Both myself and my wife love the white noise of a fan and it really helps us nod off.
A 30W fan should always be preference over 1300W aircon, if the conditions allow.
Burning 40 times more energy for air con should only be when it is really needed IMO.
Personally hate the draft from a fan and prefer the heat TBH.
My son has that sort of system in Florida Peter although strangely enough given the amount of sun they get I don't think I've ever seen any solar panels on houses there.
Cheers,
Neil.
In Fife too, our windows are open + patio doors when it’s not raining, wife had a fan running to circulate air the air last week, but, ran the heating for 10 minutes the other day just to check the system, all radiators hot, don’t want to find a problem come November, although a couple of times in the summer I switch the boiler off and run the circulation pump just to prevent silt/sediment from settling in the bottom of the rads or valves.
Forecast is for +3 early morning tomorrow... I'm pretty sure the heating will turn on.
All the usual windows still open and the back door is open all day. Glad that it has finally cooled down a bit.
Still 18° here sat out the back in shorts and tshirt with a beer and a Chinese
Still pretty hot in the afternoons here.
Had to get the sunshade over me when reading in the garden yesterday pm.
Cheers,
Neil.
Internal temp is down to 17 deg c and the daughters coming over, looks like the heatings going on tonight for the first time in about 4-5 months.
Tempted to tell her to wear more jumpers but can be bothered to listen to the whining haha.
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I go by the temp reading on the boiler in the garage and it's still 21ºC at night, so heating is staying off for now. I'll try to eek it out to November if I can
Part of ours is on today.
Thought would go another month or so but no such luck!
Turned mine on just now to test if it’s working but still have the windows open.
Did put the duvet back on the bed today but just the one, not the double.
Wife isn’t feeling the cold one bit currently so might make it to Nov.
Been with shell energy for years now. Paying £115 at the moment. Just put details into octopus and their flexible tariff is coming in at £106.
Ive just put my details into Octopus, considering my usage is supposedly low, especially as I work away and the gas and electric are off for weeks at a time they have just quoted my £406 per month, I currently pay £145...
I’m with octopus and have been for a few years - I find them very reasonable and they have several free periods of electric ( one today)
I’m on their tracker anf today’s electric unit price is 14.51 kWh- gas 4.97 kWh
They do a referral scheme if anyone is tempted - £50 each
just replaced my ancient Potterton with a Veissman Vitodens . Haven't had to use for heat yet. I have the Honeywell evo TRVs so now have opentherm . Hoping this saves some money as last year some dats was paying over £20 a day in Gas alone.
Still have comfort cooling on in SW London - apartment still pretty warn inside
Those gas charges look familiar, assume you have underfloor heating???
no underfloor heating . A total of 18 rads, a lot of which aren't even used as I have every room with zone control.
I'll be up for this
Had my veissman 10 years now. Been great with no problems. Apart from when the washing machine pumped all its dirty water into the gas chamber and valves. Still been working fine after that!
19 degrees this morning in my hall. Any colder and the heating will come on.
Cheers,
Neil.
Crikey.
My house rarely ever gets up to 19C even with the heating on full blast and the woodburner going too!
All depends where your thermostat is
Tado.
Every radiator has a thermostat.
Its just a very cold old stone walled farmhouse.
If you have a roomstat (which ultimately shuts down the boiler, independent of the TRVs - and it is located in the room with the wood burner - then it will be shutting down the boiler when that room is up to temp (by the woodburner)
BUT - could be that you are just pumping heat out through the walls.
I know.
All of our rooms have the ability to call for heat and fire the boiler and/or shut off independently. They are not simple TRV's.
This!
Plus we are on the side of an exposed hill, in a leaky c.400 year old farmhouse, which is also listed, meaning our options to improve things are rather limited, meaning we need to wear more jumpers rather than crank the heating up.
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