Has anyone put their central heating on yet?

Woke up early hours about 2am. Dog was still on my bed shivering, poor bugger so I got up and put a blanket on her. It's not even that cold yet!!!! Not looking forward to Dec and Jan when to when the cold weather really starts to kick in.
 
AKA 55 year old teenager said:
Woke up early hours about 2am. Dog was still on my bed shivering, poor bugger so I got up and put a blanket on her. It's not even that cold yet!!!! Not looking forward to Dec and Jan when to when the cold weather really starts to kick in.
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I'm dreading when we get a real cold spell. Gonna cost a bastard fortune just too stay alive! Missus has bought some nice thick blankets and hot water bottles for us all to help with things and I've only put the heating on once on the weekend just too make sure it's working. Until the temp goes to freezing we'll huddle together with our blankets and our dog too keep warm! Welcome to 2022!
 
mancityvstoke said:
I had one (the display thing)....it never worked so went in the bin.

To me they are just to stop you fiddling or to save them meter reader wages/costs
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I refuse to have one. My parents had one fitted and it stopped working and didn't work for over a year. They sent engineers out three times but they couldn't fix it. As a result they estimated them ridiculously high direct debit payments until it was fixed. My dad is 91 and my mum 84. Nobody could tell them what fuel they had used so being old school they were worried until it got sorted.
 
We caved in over the weekend….had relatives staying over and they mentioned how cold it was….fuckers, wife immediately put the CH on….now timed to come on each night for 2 hours.

Defeated
 
We're having it on twice a week now when the mother in law is round, although it's above 10C it feels colder with the wind. According to the smart meter it is costing us £2 to have it on for about 90 mins.

Rest of the time it's blankets and dressing gowns or out of the house doing something else.

Electric is varying wildly. A day when we do 3 loads of washing and have the tumble dryer on is up towards £7 per day, yesterday with two of us working from home and cooking for an hour, £2. For comparison the latter used to cost us about £1.50 a day, so the jump in cost when we have to wash the kids school uniforms etc seems disproportionate. I'll be on the British Gas website layer checking our usage figs.

Good reminder for anyone with a dryer, clean it out properly etc to ensure its efficient and can dry clothes faster.
 
bluetonium said:
We're having it on twice a week now when the mother in law is round, although it's above 10C it feels colder with the wind. According to the smart meter it is costing us £2 to have it on for about 90 mins.

Rest of the time it's blankets and dressing gowns or out of the house doing something else.

Electric is varying wildly. A day when we do 3 loads of washing and have the tumble dryer on is up towards £7 per day, yesterday with two of us working from home and cooking for an hour, £2. For comparison the latter used to cost us about £1.50 a day, so the jump in cost when we have to wash the kids school uniforms etc seems disproportionate. I'll be on the British Gas website layer checking our usage figs.

Good reminder for anyone with a dryer, clean it out properly etc to ensure its efficient and can dry clothes faster.
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And spin your clothes after they’ve been washed, it definitely helps with drying or before putting in the drier.
 
bluetonium said:
We're having it on twice a week now when the mother in law is round, although it's above 10C it feels colder with the wind. According to the smart meter it is costing us £2 to have it on for about 90 mins.

Rest of the time it's blankets and dressing gowns or out of the house doing something else.

Electric is varying wildly. A day when we do 3 loads of washing and have the tumble dryer on is up towards £7 per day, yesterday with two of us working from home and cooking for an hour, £2. For comparison the latter used to cost us about £1.50 a day, so the jump in cost when we have to wash the kids school uniforms etc seems disproportionate. I'll be on the British Gas website layer checking our usage figs.

Good reminder for anyone with a dryer, clean it out properly etc to ensure its efficient and can dry clothes faster.
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When you say clean the dryer out, do you just mean the filter at the front which collects fluff??
 
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