Central Heating?

[roitelet]

Like you Squirell I don't know what central heating is! Two wood burners and they heat the whole house. It even gets too hot at times We have just had 12 cubic meters of wood delivered so guess what I will be doing in my spare time. Hope the chain saw still works

[Earthbabe]

Hi roitelet, sounds just like my folks when they had the house in Brittany. We spent Christmas there the first year they had it with no CH, only the open fire and the kitchen was in the garage, whose doors were draughty, as the floor in the kitchen wasn't finished let alone the units etc. It was cold but good fun. The next time we did Christmas there was soooooooooooo different as it was all finished. Although admittedly we tended to spend summer there and Mr E and I spent our honeymoon there. They had a great veg plot. We'd have bought the house if we could have but funds not there so it went to a parisian couple.

[JennieAtkinson]

PS yep, I would give up the CH for an open fire and back boiler, oooh, while I'm thinking, an aga as well......if the christmas fairy is listening!................ DDL

Think of all the cleaning DDL and ........ the dust, heaving in the coal, always having the fire laid, getting rid of the ash, continually having to get up to stoke the fire, waiting for the room to heat up, chilblains (sitting too close to the fire), burnt rugs ...... I could go on!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Jennie - that's no problem! a few years ago (mmm. crikey! 13!) we stayed in a cottage (in July!) for our hols....guess who got up and did the wooden stove everyday? Happiness! DDL

[sewer rat]

Jennie - Open fires are quite messy - when we moved into this house it required gutting from top to bottom and we only had open fires, no central heating at all (not to mention no kitchen ) but with all the building dust and debris, and a 6 month old baby, we didn't notice. Now, with the woodburning stove there is no mess, no dust, one annual clean and the heat is phenomenal for the size of stove.

Roitelet - what does 12 cubic metres of wood look like - three of us clubbed together and bought a timber lorry full of logs - 28 tonnes - we reckon we've now cut and split about 20 tonnes and my share should last me at least three years.

[ChrisB]

Hate to rub it in, but I was gardening in t shirt and shorts today and OH had just shorts on, and we've both caught the sun.

[valmarg]

Oh dear Squirrel, you take me back to memories I would prefer to forget! - the fireplace with the back boiler. You ran off a bath, got in it, and until the fire had heated the tank of water again, you had no means of topping up the bath. The water in the bath seemed to go cold long before the tank hotted up.

It also reminds me of frozen windows, inside and out. Very pretty patterns, but soooo cold. The morning flit across the lino to the bathroom. Chilblains. But there were no dust mites in them days. It took us all a lot to survive. When I look back at the conditions in our (me and my sister) bedroom, I think in winter it could have been rented out to Birdseye.

I have been told that central heating softens you, and for many, many years I have been quite happy to have been softened.

Winter weight (15 togs) duvet gone on today. CH won't be many days after!
I feel a depression coming on!!

Roll on Christmas, when we will have passed the winter solstice, and it will be getting light again, and we can start sowing seeds and planning for the 2007 crop of 'home grown'.

valmarg

[lyndap]

Yes,central heating on for few hours yesterday for first time!

[yoanbob]

last year we had no electric and no gas, this year we have double glazing and central heating, we put the autum duvet on today, wont get the winter one out till december, we put the heating on but cant remember how to use it, it was june when it went in!

[Spuds up]

Ours kicked one morning earlier this week.

Not been on since and it is quite warm in here at the moment. My job gets me involved with the forecasted weather during the autumn/winter so I am keeping an eye on it.

Looks to be quite mild for the next few days so no CH.

[Sunbeam]

CH goes on only at bath time our bathroom is long and narrow & on the outside wall of the house - it gets a tad nippy! The winter quilt is on & the fire laid just waiting for the mearest hint of a stay-in-doors day..!

[mandyballantyne]

Heating has been on for a few hours a day for 2 weeks now, heavy jumper also on!

What happened to that lovley sunshine

[Birdie Wife]

I spent a couple of hours at the weekend with my OH bringing in some of the peats we cut in the early summer for our multi-fuel Rayburn and collecting logs, we've had it fired up now for a few days and it's lovely to come home to a warm house. The only trouble is you can't regulate the temperature very well. Never mind, my Christmas cake turned out rather well all things considered! SO glad I'm not on oil.

[lincolnrich]

hi everyone,

made the mistake of putting on my central heating last night for the first time, and was late for work this morning... sooo warm n comfy, i just couldn't get out of bed!!! nice through.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi LR and welcome to the Vine! as you can probably tell we are all a bit mad here, but very friendly and helpful! know what you mean about in a morning, especially with the heating on - and the dark mornings - nothing like wanting to snuggle back down into the duvet! DDL