What temperature do you usually have inside your houses, what is the thermostat at, or when does the heating go on for winter?

[J.R.]

On 13/02/2023 at 22:13, toot said:

That is my gas heating turned down to not come on, and once the boiler is serviced at the end of the month it is going off until next winter.

 

2 hours ago, toot said:

Gas central heating turned on on Monday and thermostat at 18*oC.   

 

Do you consider that winter has started where you live Toot?

 

I was in the North of France 2 weeks ago returning here a week ago, it was certainly much cooler there but I did not need heating, here it is currently 30° each day, will be 31° for the next 2 days dropping to 12°.

 

I am in a caravan which has no thermal mass so when the temperature drops the inside will be the same within an hour, it also heats up massively from the sun which is a nightmare in summer (some nights I cannot come back in to sleep till 4am) but very welcomed at present.

 

My blown gas heating wont be going on for a long time yet and only then if I spend time sitting in the van like using the computer, all the time I am active, working and moving around I dont need heating.

 

Come winter proper it will be on for the limited time I am in there before and after sleeping, its off at night until the inside temp drops below 4°c, that is my threshold where its better to put up with the pain of needing to take a leak than getting up to do so, I have an electrical heater that comes on for an hour before I get up to make the mornings ablutions more tolerable.

 

So for me heating is not necessary unless I am sedentary, when sleeping I prefer it when temps are below 6°C, the current 12°c is optimum for my comfort.

 

Of course I dress with many layers of clothing so I can remove them as I heat up working and sleep in thermals when it gets really cold, it works out OK until I visit someone with central heating and/or a log fire, a neighbours wife is on dialysis and they heat to 25°c, if I go in there to help them with something its like I am hit with sudden heatstroke and I have to strip of nearly all my clothing as fast as I possibly can which raises more than a few eyebrows.

Edited 12 October, 2023 by J.R.

[Ootohere]

@J.R.Just Autumn now after the Tattie Holidays. 

End of this week the filling stations in Scotland start getting Winter Diesel & Petrol delivered.

 

I got a cheap tariff and am in credit so decided not to leaving heating off till it gets cold like i usually do. 

 

 

If the snow falls south of the Cairngorms & i see it in the glens that is getting towards winter.

2011 i think the snow fell here at the end of October and was on the ground till Christmas and they started taking away piles of snow just as a thaw came for the New Year.

Pipes frozen for weeks then. 

 

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January 2010 Glen Clova to Glen Doll.   Just 18 miles North.

Hopefully plenty snow this winter & Ski Season for the centres as the really good snow was during covid lockdown.

 

Edited 12 October, 2023 by toot