Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: Central heating or otherwise?
My parents and grandparents used to believe that if you weren't warm enough indoors, you put extra layers on. These days it seems to me people just turn up the central heating. Tonight we have opted for the first choice. The fire is picking up slowly and chucking out heat, so outside is minus two but inside is about twelve degrees. We are nice and warm in our layers, and still resisting the urge to turn on the heat.
Are we odd to do this, or does anyone else do the same?
We only have the woodburner on in the living room and use extra layers. This is a big draughty house, no attic insulation at all and the windows are those old fashioned wavy glass ones! The upstairs heating (2 seperate systems for up and down) comes on for 2 hrs just before E goes to bed and that's it. So no Lloyd, I don't think you and CP are odd, and I'll bet you don't get many colds either.
I have a solid fuel Rayburn which I am ever so grateful for as I feel the cold badly, I may have Raynauds disease, my grandmother lost her feet to this. But I have made a concerted effort to not have it blazing away and have crocheted blankets and knitted socks to help keep parts warm. _________________ "If we reduce the amount of stuff we allow to accumulate in our lives, we won't have to organise it"
Elaine St James from her book 'Simplicity'
I would happily do the extra layers thing. But our flat needs to be kept at a constant temperature of 20C or it gets really damp and mouldy. I am wearing a 3/4 sleeve t-shirt. I would much prefer to turn the heating down and wear jumpers, but I cam't live with mould and musty smells.
I dread to think what our next gas bill will be. _________________ Aqui, T and Baby Jack!
In our last home after we got double glazing in, insulation etc (council house), everywhere got damp and mouldy so I can sympathise. Not sure that all this shutting things in is good for us, we don't get mould in this house.
Ours is hermetically sealed as well. Double glazing etc etc. No air bricks in the walls (?). As a result we suffer with mould, but keep the odd window slightly open.
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I become nearly hysterical when anyone goes near the central heating switch 
