Who Leaves Their Heating On All Night?

[dave50]

One of the recommendations to save money on energy is to turn the heating off at night. I have never left the heating on all night. I didn't even realise people did that. What's the point when you are in bed?

[pastafreak]

I never have the heating on over night, it will come on briefly around 6am if it's extremely cold. Otherwise it's off until I get up. My bedroom is unheated anyway.

[wolf63]

I used to leave the heating on all night when the cats were alive. Most of the radiators were off but two were kept on - so each cat could hug a radiator.

Now that I am on my own the CH usually goes off at ten and back on for a couple of hours in the morning.

[jourdain2]

We certainly never have left the heating on all night. Never even crossed my mind to do so. it may be a generation thing. Our neighbours (early 40's 2 kids) are in flimsy shorts and tops after 7p.m. no matter what the weather.
I can remember, as a child, waking-up crying because the pain in my feet, due to cold, was so great - but I still never contemplated leaging heating on when I was in bed. No point.

[237SJ]

People with storage heaters have to leave their heating on all night.

[FatticusInch]

What is this ‘heating’ you talk of?

I don’t even have mine on, let alone leave it on!

[-SharonA-]

I've never done that. It seems pointless as you're sleeping in a warm bed. It seems a waste of money.

[Hopkirk]

When I was a young child in an unheated bedroom we used to get Jack Frost on the inside of the windows.

Thank heavens for proper heating. Ours is turned down at night, but will kick in if it gets cold indoors.

[pastafreak]

I used to love waking up to Jack Frost...but I don't remember our house ever being cold. My dad used to put the thermostat way up...while the rest of us sweated.

[jennyjoan]

Pasta - I'd know your dad was an American as any Irish men I know will not put the heat on. Mind you I did have one brother who kept it on all the time - you couldn't breathe if you were in his bungalow but you know I didn't blame him one bit as our old house was so cold and damp - my mother recalled him sneezing (she counted) 90 sneezes in a night and he wore a jolly bag on his head (hat). So i don't think he ever got over that.

I am a heat bug too - probably from having the icicles inside of the windows. LOl

[pastafreak]

My dad was from the Deep South...South Carolina. I think he must have missed the heat. He loved the summer months and got really brown. We kids...all redheads...just turned pink

[jennyjoan]

Pasta - I stayed in Virginia, North Carolina and some beach would that have been Myrtle Beach. Holiday of a lifetime - but there was also 2 wedding within that.

Excuse me

rehearsal dinner - lad da - in a hotel
actual dinner (next day - I think) that was a big wedding. her wedding took place in a hotel that actually had the stairs that were used in "Gone with the wind" - brilliant

but my other wedding -

rehearsal dinner at the house - I had brought loads of Irish tapes over as I had been asked, barrels of beer, chinese delivered meals
The Americans (Irish Americans but the ord Americans went mad over the Irish music).

next day the wedding - just a buffet - I enjoyed immensely and you know what most of the guests (not the stuffy Irish) but the Americans were dressed in T-shirts and shorts. ie Hillbillys.

Again I enjoyed every moment of the two weddings.

The hillbilly wedding my friend from here - it was her daughter's wedding marrying an American and my wee friend here was very proud and was not impressed but I told her over over and over again - of the two weddings I enjoyed the Hillbilly one.

[youngmafbog]

Mine is on 24/7 in the colder months.

It does have a multiple time/temp controller though so at night it drops to 14. If I dont do this the house struggles to get back to 19 on really cold days. I found it made little difference leaving it on as the boiler no longer has to be on full power for hours to get the house back to a reasonable temp.

[davebro]

Under the Parker-Morris standards that existed for council house builds up until the 70s/80s no heating was provided in bedrooms even though central heating may have been fitted to all other rooms in the property.

[youngmafbog]

That of course is a pointless exercise, the heat just dissipates through he walls/celling if the temperature difference becomes too much.

Most people these days have TRV's which you turn down for the bedrooms.