Have you put your heating on yet?

[Dave2002]

It's rather cold today - actually now thinking of putting the heating on - but so far resisted.
Warmer clothes are the first line of attack!

How about the rest of you?

[Petrushka]

Mine went on for the first time yesterday afternoon when my resistance crumbled but was on for a short time only.

Bearing in mind, the horrendous fuel bills that every winter brings (I'd rather spend the money on CDs) I try to resist for as long as possible and in fact this year has been as late as I can remember for some time.

It's not on at the moment but I can feel it should be.

[Mary Chambers]

I have it set for an hour very morning, and if the thermostat tells it to come on, it comes on.

Today I've put it on again, but am feeling a bit too warm now. My house is 90 years old and poorly insulated, tends to be very cold most of the time. Fuel bills are horrendous.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have it set ... and if the thermostat tells it to come on, it comes on.

So have I - and it was cold enough this morning for the thermostat to do its stuff for the first time since April.

[french frank]

Sweep came Friday and I lit the woodburner last night for the first time. Heating will go on when the clocks go back, for a paltry couple of hours. Might just as well not bother.

[Petrushka]

I remember at school when the heating always came on on October 1 regular as clockwork, even if it was a cold September or a warm October!

[umslopogaas]

My oil-fired boiler is on all year round, because it provides the hot water, but I have just turned on two downstairs radiators to warm the place up. Oil bills are ferocious. I also have a wood burning stove, but tend to save it for when I have visitors. The wood is free (I have some woodland behind the house) but I have to cut it ,which is quite hard work, and the stove really eats up the logs. It also makes a lot of dust.

[DracoM]

Hot water all year, but no radiators here in Ultima Thule yet.

[gradus]

No, I haven't even put on the fourth jumper yet.

[MrGongGong]

Sweep came Friday and I lit the woodburner last night for the first time.

SNAP

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

test run yesterday just to check radiators/pipes/pumps &c but not left on .... fuel bills are menacing eh ...

[Dave2002]

The wood is free (I have some woodland behind the house) but I have to cut it ,which is quite hard work, and the stove really eats up the logs. It also makes a lot of dust.

Cutting the logs warms you up twice, then!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Lovely and warm still here. We have a combi-boiler, only putting the heater timer on when absolutely necessary

[umslopogaas]

#12, it does, although its the carting wood around which warms me up, during the cutting the chainsaw gets hotter than I do! Great investment, I wouldnt want to cut logs with a handsaw, that really is hard work.

[VodkaDilc]

No need for heat here yet! House is well-insulated with new windows and doors, so should be able to manage for a while yet.

As someone has written, it reminds me of teaching days, when I would storm off to the Head to say that the instrumental staff could not be expected to teach in the cold. A couple of electric heaters were usually found to keep me quiet - but at all costs the rest of the school staff were not to be told about exceptions made for musicians. Even the 1st October switch-on date was being pushed back by a week or so in my last few years.