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Central heating check
Is your central heating on? Mine isn't - normally is by November, but does it seem warmer than usual? Bit cold at night, but nothing the winter duvet can't withstand.
If the heating were already on for winter, I'd probably have it on. But there's some sort of psychological battle about delaying the first time you put it on each winter (or autumn).
Where are you at?
just manual at the moment.
will switch to the timer when/if it gets colder.
have put it on twice
It's nice that it's on full on all the trains now so that you feel like you've been fucking baked alive by the time you get to work
Reminds me I should get some logs for the fire before suddenly everyone goes mad for them
radiators replaced in the flat yesterday
because they had a weird radiator key fitting.
We complained to the landlord that no radiator key would fit it and it needed bleeding, so they sent a plumber round. He tried ever key from a big bag of keys and none would work, so told the landlord they needed to buy new radiators. Seemed a bit extreme to me, but it's not me who's paying. The plumber installed two new radiators, and a new tap in the kitchen because he'd noticed it was dripping and had talked the landlord into replacing it. Said he's gonna make a custom key for the radiators and sell them on.
Our landlord's a chump.
it's on
but not all radiators are at full tilt, or on very often, and some aren't on at all. I only put on the bathroom radiators if I'm about to have a bath or shower. Last night i woke up shaking with the cold (tbf I had a fever breaking) so i put on the radiator in my room full whack. I've come to work today and left that on, so my room is going to be unbearable when I go home at lunchtime. My skin feels completely dried out by central heating already. I hate this time of year and how bad it is for skin- the constant re adjustment between cold harsh natural air and artifical hot air. I might get some of that swedish formula stuff for boots ta lunchtime pr bathe in milk or something. I'm really cross today.
yep, set the timer yesterday
I could do without it but if I don't have it on a bit in the morning and evening I get a fackin' earful from 'er indoors, don't I?
It's a cold flat anyway. If I didn't put the heating on now the bathroom wouldn't properly dry out till spring.
No fear.
We have leaky sash windows and a card meter.
It's blankets, throws and manliness for me and my housemate.
Not yet - quite impressed with the insulation of the new flat.
Might have to this weekend if it stays cold though - nights are getting a bit nippy.
i miss heating being included in my rent
september-may, walk around in a t-shirt. feeling a bit hot? open a window!
i used to have this
it was the best.
had one of those little electric fan blowy heater things, pretty sure they murder your electric. used to set my alarm for 6am, wake up and turn it on, and go back to sleep for an hour or two. beautiful way to wake up.
getting out of bed yesterday at 6:20am was so it cold it was physically painful
Today was absolutely fine.
Conclusions:
either it warmed up a bit or I have developed a hardy manliness.
In answer to the question: only turned on to dry clothes at the moment.
this is a good point
the main reason I've considered turning it on is because it's taking about 3 days to dry a rack of laundry at the moment. Unsustainable. When the heating's cranking (or it's summer) it's all dry in < 1 day.
I don't have central heating
got night storage heaters instead. They are a massive pain.
We've got ours on.
yep
i'm not home very much (university = free heating) but it's brutally cold here right now and i got sick of losing the feeling in my right big toe
it's a bit cold but not too bad
probably start turning it on in the next few weeks