Off Topic: When does your central heating go on?

TheGreenMan

It's that time of year again.

People are battling with spouses and kids, arguing with work colleagues; opening and closing windows; digging out the thick socks; clinging desperately onto those tiny shorts in the hope we have a second summer: it's the annual heating debate.

Has yours been on?  Should it be on? Should we just put on more layers?  Is it too early to even think about it? 

Are you all about comfort and cost be blowed?  Are you environmentally and/or cost conscious and would rather wrap up than heat up?

I'm interested in how differently we all approach this......

B3

When a jumper doesn't work.
Had it on a few times this 'summer'

BenCotto

I find it strange when people stick to set dates for this. It’s a bit like saying I water my garden every Saturday whatever the weather.

If we’re chilly we turn the heating on. Simple. And it really is simple - one flick of a switch and you get an hour’s heat. When we had coal fired central heating that was a significantly lengthy task to get it running.

Pete.8

I usually turn it off from sometime in July until around mid-late Sept.
I did turn it off for a while when we had some warm weather in June, but it's been back on since then, but just for downstairs - I hate a warm bedroom

Chris-P-Bacon

 arguing with work colleagues; 

Yes.

Has yours been on? 

No.

Is it too early to even think about it?

Yes. 

Are you all about comfort and cost be blowed? 

No.

Are you environmentally and/or cost conscious and would rather wrap up than heat up?

The latter.

   

Fairygirl

I agree with @BenCotto. We often need it in 'summer'.
It can switch on anyway overnight if the temps are low enough.  My themostat is usually at around a low of 13 degrees, once the normal heating season is done, so it can come on quite often. As a stereotypical mean Scot, I lower it if it does that 
I have my bedroom window on the catch most of the summer though, even when it's single figs overnight. 

steveTu

On in November, off in April - about the same time I switch from T-shirt and shorts, to long trousers, socks and fleeces.

raisingirl

We never turn ours off. It's a heat pump with underfloor heating. We set the set point and just leave it. If it gets too cold, it'll automatically cut in. I think it's been on a few times this summer but is off at the moment. If it gets too chilly (usually when it's wet and feels colder) we light the wood burner. Mind you, I've got warm slippers, two jumpers and fingerless gloves on at the moment 

Dovefromabove

Ours usually goes on when the outside temp is down to the very low teens or so ........ or if we're both feeling cold ... if only one feels cold more layers and a mug of something warming are called for.  Mind you, I grew up in a draughty old farmhouse ... I don't like being too warm.  

Lizzie27

Ours is gas central heating and is set to come on automatically during the day/evening if temperature drops below 15c, which it has done a couple of times recently although not for long. It's not programmed to come on overnight unless it's below freezing point. Our bedroom window is always open.
I need to be warm so cost isn't such a consideration nor is saving the planet.

Dovefromabove

Heating on at night?  I don't think that's ever happened here.  Of course, on the farm the Rayburn would be kept in all night, but that only heated the kitchen ... frost on the inside of the bedroom windows was normal, and ice on a glass of water by the bed was not unheard of.