Switching off central heating

[WendyS]

Have you turned your central heating off for the summer yet? Do you switch it on/off on fixed dates in Spring & Autumn or according to the weather?

[pedderwo]

My wife turns ours off for about eight hours around the 31st July.

[Kathyan]

I use my heating according to the weather. If it's cold the heating goes on, if it's hot it stays off!

[ianess]

I use a programmable thermostat and just forget about it. 100% automatic regardless of the date.

[malaise]

It's p-ing down in Glasgow and freezing cold, so I think I'll leave it on the timer a little longer ;)

[doglady]

When I used to live at home, my dad would always turn off the heating at the end of March, and that was it until October. If we were cold, we had to put a jumper on. It used to drive me mad.

Guess what, now I'm married and paying the bills, our heating goes off at the end of March, and I get so cross with hubby for sitting around in his pants moaning that he's cold!! And I tell him to put a jumper and some trousers on.

[gessoo]

Mine's on as I type this. Have been cold most of the day.

[sense4all]

My friends Hubbie is a Policeman when the station heating goes off so does theirs. Sanctuary is offered to her and the kids from March 'til October. Her Dad is from the Middle East and she puts it back on if he visits, his face (Hubby) was a picture when she told him his work guests were less likely to hold it against him than his house guests.

[Gef]

I agree with ianess. Has nobody else heard of a thermostat?

[KARL]

We do not let clocks or calendars tell us we have ever to suffer being cold. Everything is thermostatically controlled 24/7 with the room temperature being set three degrees (Celsius, of course) lower when we are either in bed or out, otherwise we do not let it fall below 21. Annual cost (water plus four bedrooms etc.) is just over �400 for the gas. Insulation is now thorough in the 130 years old house.

[dancecaller]

Ours went on to "hot water only" for about 3 days last week. It's on again now.

We have a "set back" thermostat as well as radiator thermostats. I usually use that in winter to give us a warmer house for sitting around in the evening than when we're active in the daytime. In the summer it goes on setback all the time, only comes on if the wall thermostat (wellaway from a radiator) says the house is cold.