Topic: winter fuel payment

[valmarg]

Good for you val! Central heating from within, and at least if it doesn't warm you up you'll be too pi$$ed to notice!
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Yep, Ollie, I'll be like the old readybrek adverts and have a gentle glow all round me. ;D ;D ;D

valmarg

[telboy]

Although our heating is on in the evenings now, during the 'summer' we turned the oil off & ran the immersion for 3 hrs./night. Worked out a lot cheaper, £7/month. We managed two showers/two wasihng ups, & the water was still pretty warm at the end of the day.

[davyw1]

The only time my heating is used apaert from heating the water is when the grand kids are here in the colder months other than that its never been on. My last Quarterly bill was £52.

This could be the reason why.

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[betula]

Cosy,have happy memories of real fires.

Not so keen on them when they have burnt out and you have to relay them

Mum used to light the oven and make the kitchen cosy.

I remember when the frost patterns was on the inside of the bedroom window.

You only got up in the night if it was absolutely necessary.

Happy days??

Come to think about it ,I don't know why we all didn't die of hypothermia.

Has central heating made us all soft?

[davyw1]

Yes Bet the good old days when you had sleeves and brass buttons on your blanket. Outside toilets with writing on the toilet paper and a candle to to keep you warm, sitting there on the loo with your foot on the door cos you were frightened some one would come in and the door opened outwards. we even had icikled in them days LOL
I think there is a lot to be said about open fire these days as its the cheapest form of heating at the moment, ok you have to clean it out every day but ut only takes a few minutes.

[grawrc]

Do you burn the fire all day in winter?

[manicscousers]

I think there is a lot to be said about open fire these days as its the cheapest form of heating at the moment, ok you have to clean it out every day but ut only takes a few minutes.

bit difficult when you don't have a chimney  ;D
I'd love one, by the way

[Jeannine]

I dislike being hot so right now I am comfortable without heat but John is starting to complain in the evening so I guess it will go on shortly..aagh XX

[lorna]

Charlie spent the last 5 years of his life in a wheelchair and he felt the cold. Now I am on my own I find that if I time the CE to come on for an hour in the morning. The bungalow holds the heat very well and I do like a warm bathroom!! I also have hot water for the whole day. I do put the gas fire on low if it gets really cold.

[valmarg]

Having read some of the earlier posts about ice patterns on the inside of the windows, surely I can't be alone in remembering the morning flit, off the bedside mat across the lino, and across the lino in the bathroom to the loo.

Central heating might 'soften', but I am more than willing to be softened. ;D ;D

What I cannot understand is the current 'trend' for laminated flooring.  Again, cold dreadful flooring.  Much prefer carpeting.

valmarg

[martinrowe]

What I cannot understand is the current 'trend' for laminated flooring.  Again, cold dreadful flooring.  Much prefer carpeting.

Laminated flooring can be good, but this depends on the quality.  Since laying laminate and hard wood flooring, the house has become warming and holds the heat better.

[betula]

Took this last year.............we are all electric..............still cosy.

No chimney.

[betula]

Better view...................had to laugh to myself,why are we posting pictures of our fires??? ::)

[telboy]

davyw1
Not gonna show you my grate but it's gonna be fired up tomorrow night as the forecast is freezing at night & 7' during the day for a few days! Loads - a logs - coal bunker full - oil tank up to the brim.
All down to clever buying. Not blowing a trumpet - penshener savvy!

[lorna]

Cos they make us feel cosy Betula :)