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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We were tempted but it stayed at 21.5c in the sitting room, so we didn’t , I did some knitting instead,  always warms me up and OH is always warm.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I think it was mainly because we went out to the supermarket and three buses didn’t turn up on the way home. We’d been standing out in the cold for 50 minutes. 

    It’ll not be on again until the temperature drops inside. This was a treat to cheer us up! 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I switched the underfloor heating on yesterday. 
    It's officially winter now . :'(
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I have lit the wood burning stove, which can get the kitchen and breakfast room up to 24° and though the arch to the sitting room up to 20°. I moved here in January. There is a fireplace in the sitting room, I'm going to have a wood burner put in it. No boiler fired heating in my new house, but it does have electric radiators which you can turn on when you need them and the sitting room has an automatic modern timed one with a thermostat. The house is very well insulated in the loft and has thick stone walls.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Ysera27Ysera27 Posts: 41
    On in October off in June. Of course, if it's unseasonably warm outside of this then the thermostat turns it off. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Ours came on yesterday but if it was down to me it'd be off again. OH feels the cold more but doesn't like putting an extra jumper on :angry:
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Today is the first time I've even considered it, but I went upstairs to find my missus working from home with the window open.  I'll just shut the door and put the electric fire on for a while if I feel the need.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Put ours on a couple of days ago. On automatic, so only kicks in if the temperature drops. I’ve noticed it coming on in the early hours though. It’s not so much the cold but the slightly damp feel in the air that’s a worry. Still got the summer weight duvet on.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’m not a fan of the ‘put a jumper on if you’re chilly’ line of thought - it doesn’t warm up your hands, or feet, or ears though, does it? Similarly I have never understood the appeal of those sleeveless gilets. Who is it whose arms are comfortably warm but whose torso is cold? I find it perfectly easy to do such manual tasks as need doing when wearing a shirt or a jumper: fortunately I’m not a bovine vet.
    Rutland, England
  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    My thermostat is automatically set on a timer to 22C during daytime and 21C at night.  In the winter I up the daytime temperature to 23C when it gets really cold.  I set it to like 16C when I go out and return within the day and to like 12C if I go away for days.  I have an iPhone App I can remotely set it with.
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