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Post by partickpotter on Oct 7, 2021 6:42:23 GMT
On a call yesterday with a few folk and discovered just me and one other person haven’t switched the heating on.
Mind you everyone else were just wearing t-shirts. I was wearing my Stoke hoodie.
We reflected that those of us of a certain age had grown up in houses without central heating and can remember ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows. Have we become soft. I mean, it’s not that cold just now.
Anyway, anyone else still holding out and just adding a layer of clothing to keep warm?
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Post by followyoudown on Oct 7, 2021 6:58:59 GMT
On a call yesterday with a few folk and discovered just me and one other person haven’t switched the heating on. Mind you everyone else were just wearing t-shirts. I was wearing my Stoke hoodie. We reflected that those of us of a certain age had grown up in houses without central heating and can remember ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows. Have we become soft. I mean, it’s not that cold just now. Anyway, anyone else still holding out and just adding a layer of clothing to keep warm? Central heating on pfffft I have the living room door open at least 8 hours a day so the dogs can potter about in the garden, I thought it was southerners who were meant to be soft. |
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Post by dutchstokie on Oct 7, 2021 7:11:45 GMT
On a call yesterday with a few folk and discovered just me and one other person haven’t switched the heating on. Mind you everyone else were just wearing t-shirts. I was wearing my Stoke hoodie. We reflected that those of us of a certain age had grown up in houses without central heating and can remember ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows. Have we become soft. I mean, it’s not that cold just now. Anyway, anyone else still holding out and just adding a layer of clothing to keep warm? You bits of kids dont know the meaning of cold ! We used to huddle round the freezer with the door open to keep warm !  ( we didnt really - but my nans outside bog in winter was sometimes a challenge ) |
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Post by partickpotter on Oct 7, 2021 7:53:54 GMT
On a call yesterday with a few folk and discovered just me and one other person haven’t switched the heating on. Mind you everyone else were just wearing t-shirts. I was wearing my Stoke hoodie. We reflected that those of us of a certain age had grown up in houses without central heating and can remember ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows. Have we become soft. I mean, it’s not that cold just now. Anyway, anyone else still holding out and just adding a layer of clothing to keep warm? You bits of kids dont know the meaning of cold ! We used to huddle round the freezer with the door open to keep warm ! ( we didnt really - but my nans outside bog in winter was sometimes a challenge ) I wonder what the (seemingly) departed and much (un)lamented eebygum would make of that? Luxury, I expect. |
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Post by noustie on Oct 7, 2021 7:54:04 GMT
Came home to find ours on full twat Monday because she was cold which was due having had to open every fucking window in the house as the dog we're sitting keeps farting.
Explained the geopolitical world we are living in means gas prices are through the roof so if it was bothering her that much put on more layers then turn the heating on once the dogs arse stops.
Instead came home on Tuesday to find her logical compromise of having the heating on full twat again with the windows open only half as far!
Anyone can now recognise my house as the one that smells like a sulphur factory and has tenners fluttering out the window
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Post by yeokel on Oct 7, 2021 8:08:13 GMT
On a call yesterday with a few folk and discovered just me and one other person haven’t switched the heating on. Mind you everyone else were just wearing t-shirts. I was wearing my Stoke hoodie. We reflected that those of us of a certain age had grown up in houses without central heating and can remember ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows. Have we become soft. I mean, it’s not that cold just now. Anyway, anyone else still holding out and just adding a layer of clothing to keep warm? Ice forming on the inside of bedroom windows, and pairs of trousers that could stand up on their own after my mum had left them on the washing line on cold nights - happy days. The Mrs has been nagging that she is cold for the last couple of weeks (incapable of putting extra layers on) so I finally relented and switched the central heating on, on Monday. Set it to 16.5° for the daytime, and 5° between 11 at night and 7 in the morning. And she’s still bloody moaning  And she is a Scot. I thought they were supposed to be used to the cold. Not that it is actually particularly cold at the moment in any case. What c’ost do? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 8:19:56 GMT
No but I'm wearing a hat indoors, dressing gown and slipper socks. It's not that it's particularly cold it's just the adjustment from spring/summer that shocks you. If it was like this in March you'd be buzzing. But I'll hold out until it's icy outside.
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Post by superjw on Oct 7, 2021 8:20:42 GMT
Definitely not got mine on fully yet.
There has been one cooler morning where my downstairs radiators came on for 15 mins but that's it up to now.
Im thankful I have a very efficient heating system, especially now these gas prices are insane but not everyone has.
The longer the mild weather stays the better right now!
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Post by heworksardtho on Oct 7, 2021 10:10:52 GMT
Only gets put on when it gets -1 , get a grip ffs
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 7, 2021 10:25:50 GMT
Hell no!!!! My lady sneaked it on while I was at work last week and although the radiators were Stone cold I could tell it had been on.
As someone alluded to above, I gave her a “gentle” reminder of the increasing energy costs and explained she is more than welcome to subsidise it.
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Post by AlliG on Oct 7, 2021 10:50:02 GMT
No. It would be nice if the bloke in the flat below turned his on soon though. A bit of underfloor heating in the evenings wouldn't go amiss.  |
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Post by wagsastokie on Oct 7, 2021 12:08:26 GMT
Shall put it on for a hour around the first of December just to check it’s still working
Then it will go on for the odd day in jan feb
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Post by Northy on Oct 7, 2021 13:57:12 GMT
Nope, a hoody and a pair of slippers on in the evening atm, marry a redhead, they still think it's mid summer past 10'c  |
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Post by dutchstokie on Oct 7, 2021 13:58:40 GMT
Came home to find ours on full twat Monday because she was cold which was due having had to open every fucking window in the house as the dog we're sitting keeps farting. Explained the geopolitical world we are living in means gas prices are through the roof so if it was bothering her that much put on more layers then turn the heating on once the dogs arse stops. Instead came home on Tuesday to find her logical compromise of having the heating on full twat again with the windows open only half as far! Anyone can now recognise my house as the one that smells like a sulphur factory and has tenners fluttering out the window On a side note: The Police love winter over here in NL.......they go around the estates looking at the roofs of the houses. Those with no frost/snow/dampness on them, they make a note of it. Knock on the door at 4am and bingo - hydroponics set ups everywhere and ganja by the sackful !!!  And the thick bastards still havent twigged why they get busted !!!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 14:02:07 GMT
No. It would be nice if the bloke in the flat below turned his on soon though. A bit of underfloor heating in the evenings wouldn't go amiss. They’re playing chicken with you. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 14:03:27 GMT
Came home to find ours on full twat Monday because she was cold which was due having had to open every fucking window in the house as the dog we're sitting keeps farting. Explained the geopolitical world we are living in means gas prices are through the roof so if it was bothering her that much put on more layers then turn the heating on once the dogs arse stops. Instead came home on Tuesday to find her logical compromise of having the heating on full twat again with the windows open only half as far! Anyone can now recognise my house as the one that smells like a sulphur factory and has tenners fluttering out the window On a side note: The Police love winter over here in NL.......they go around the estates looking at the roofs of the houses. Those with no frost/snow/dampness on them, they make a note of it. Knock on the door at 4am and bingo - hydroponics set ups everywhere and ganja by the sackful !!! And the thick bastards still havent twigged why they get busted !!!!!! That’s a commonly known tactic when it snows. |
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Post by NassauDave on Oct 7, 2021 15:37:19 GMT
Nope, a hoody and a pair of slippers on in the evening atm, marry a redhead, they still think it's mid summer past 10'c Just a hoody and slippers on is an interesting look............. |
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Post by Northy on Oct 7, 2021 15:40:09 GMT
Nope, a hoody and a pair of slippers on in the evening atm, marry a redhead, they still think it's mid summer past 10'c Just a hoody and slippers on is an interesting look............. new underpants are caught up in the worldwide lorry driver shortage |
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Post by dave1 on Oct 7, 2021 15:50:16 GMT
I've had my fire going a couple of times (not because I needed to just because I like it)!!!!
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Post by marylandstoke on Oct 7, 2021 15:56:50 GMT
You bits of kids dont know the meaning of cold ! We used to huddle round the freezer with the door open to keep warm ! ( we didnt really - but my nans outside bog in winter was sometimes a challenge ) I wonder what the (seemingly) departed and much (un)lamented eebygum would make of that? Luxury, I expect. Please, never even evoke that name in jest. |
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Post by musik on Oct 7, 2021 16:03:00 GMT
Heat, what is that?
We don't have that in this old house.
Usually.
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Oct 7, 2021 17:24:40 GMT
Remember about 40 years ago when I was living in the North East - probably as a nod to the diminishing coalfields - central heating was something those metropolitan twats in Newcastle might have installed but in Durham where I was it was a coal fire or nowt.
Thing was that only heated one room so it wasn't unusual to have to go to bed in a duffel coat or go to clean your teeth in the bathroom only to find your toothpaste frozen solid.
Yes the temperature sure could drop once the sun had gone behind the pavilion that particular cricket season.
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Post by questionable on Oct 7, 2021 17:55:08 GMT
The wife had it on last Saturday after her shopping exploits in Chester, her words take the chill out..
.... to that lark, as a punishment I’ve hidden the central heating remote controller, that’ll teach her, energy thieving so and so.
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Post by yyy on Oct 7, 2021 18:01:33 GMT
It's all about the log burners now gas prices are going up, love mine, shorts on in January, tropical
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 7, 2021 18:06:51 GMT
It's all about the log burners now gas prices are going up, love mine, shorts on in January, tropical Greta’s eyes will be swivelling when she reads this👀 |
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Post by yyy on Oct 7, 2021 18:10:27 GMT
It's all about the log burners now gas prices are going up, love mine, shorts on in January, tropical Greta’s eyes will be swivelling when she reads this👀 They'd be swivelling if she saw what gets used as fuel 😁 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 7, 2021 18:20:44 GMT
Greta’s eyes will be swivelling when she reads this👀 They'd be swivelling if she saw what gets used as fuel 😁 Puppies and kittens?😏 |
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Post by partickpotter on Oct 7, 2021 19:03:56 GMT
They'd be swivelling if she saw what gets used as fuel 😁 Puppies and kittens?😏 Baby Seals |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 7, 2021 19:27:09 GMT
Ha, puts me in mind of a former job where this woman who worked in the office relentlessly sent emails to everyone to donate money for seals, dogs, dolphins, you name it she was on it. One day I was talking to her and she explained she was going on an adventure holiday. I said “what you doing, seal clubbing?” She never spoke to me again🤣 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 19:56:52 GMT
Our heating came on for about 10 minutes one morning this week. I quickly adjusted it down another few degrees - don't intend to switch it on until the first real cold spell in November or hopefully December if I can avoid it. I put another couple of layers on but the wife doesn't like doing that and just moans about it being cold but even she's said we'll have to be more careful in view of the fuel prices. The good thing is that she hasn't yet worked out how to adjust the digital control system we've got (it is quite complicated) so she can't mess with the temperature.
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