is it still too warm to put the central heating/fire on ?

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currently it's half ten, i'm in manchester, i'm in the flat
and i think it's time.

where are you ?
how cold is it ?
when are you putting the fire on ?
have you done it already ?

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

in london
a bit nippy
if only i had a fire, i might be tempted to put the heating on if it stays like this, haven't yet, still the cricket's finished, the kids are back at school, it can only be a matter of time...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

i pity the fools - 90 fahrenheit here in NYC (32) - my forlorn AC sits in the corner, unused since i moved in. I live in the basement. Basements are best!! cool in the summer, warm in the winter. something about the earth intelligently modulating itself.

― B.A. Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in Oxford, UK, and it's bluddy cold and miserable. It's rained all day and I returned from work to a cold house to shiver in. Gave in and put the central heating on so now all cosy, but it's not actually bad enough to light a real fire as well. Not yet. Maybe next week. Christmas cards have appeared in ths shops in town this week, so no wonder it's cold. Maybe it's really December and I hadn't realised.

― C J (C J), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Rye, southern coast of England
I *had* to open the window on Saturday
My parents sit out the winter and then decide put in on for a week in early spring when there's still some benefit

(Manchester was *boiling* last September)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

its fucking summer here still, nearly 20 degrees. anyways i like it cold, i have windows open in january.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on, apparently they've put the central heating on this very day.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

NYC still have the AC blasting away... Hot sticky and uncomfortable outside.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Is never too warm baby

― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Its 95 here. The City is a furnace.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

yr all nesh

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

yesterday was miserable and rainy. ceiling leaked for the first time in 6 months. wife was asking if it was safe to wear her parka.

today i have the fan on at work to keep me cool, sun is shining, no clouds to be seen. t-shirt weather.

english weather C/D?

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

see, now i was just thinking the same as i was last year.
bit nippy, but it's not *as* nippy. y' get me ?
still, fire on time this weekend i think.

cant wait to start seeing the leaves falling in the park,
wear a scarf etc.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 6 September 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i just checked my boiler to see if my central heating WOULD work if i wanted it to (last year i didn't and the first really cold weekend the CH didn't deliver)

(i expect there's an ile thread abt it: i wz posting wrapped in a duvet)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It's way too early for heating, you won't feel the benefit as my Gran would say.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 6 September 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Took my a/c out on Tuesday morning. Hasty? We'll see.

― Benjamin (benjamin), Saturday, 6 September 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Over here, you don't even think about turning off the A/C until the beginning of October, at least. We've still got the A/C going, and I have my ceiling fan running, even though it's a bit cooler than normal.

Looking forward to breathing clean air again, though. It will be nice. It'll also be nice not having to run to and from the car in an attempt to be outside as little as humanly possible. Fall/winter cannot come soon enough.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

scarf weather ! it's official ! i could see my breath las night.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

still not heating time yet, although we get a lot of warmth from the pub downstairs

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to say, when I was up at 6 o/c this morning I would definitely have argued that it was time for heating. We put ours on last night, only turning it off when we put the cooker on.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

We are still wandering round with the windows and back door open most of the time. This unforseen hardcoreness bodes well for winter proper I think as we don't have central heating.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine went on last night for the first time since the spring. It was bloody freezing yesterday, even at lunchtime.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Its a wonder 10 degrees or less in the morning. Its a wonderful time for hot showers in the morning.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely not time for central heating dude, have patience. The time is nigh.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

It is way too early for central heating yet. I'm anticipating it though, I was just thinking of chilly and bright days.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in Edinburgh up in cold Scotland, but thankfully my flat is surrounded by other flats that can afford to run their central ehating so our flat is kept roasting in spite of our gas central heating having been cut off.

― Craig Gilchrist, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ground floor in a stone building in Scotland. Heating on for 15 minutes all through the summer just to get my towel dry after I've had a shower :( I have a little quilt that I wrap around me in the evenings so I don't need the heating on yet, but it won't be long.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

they said saturday(?) was the hottest Sept 4th since records began.

that said, those 'records' only began in 1980.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Craig - knowing Transco and the fact you live in Edinburgh, I would get onto getting it reconnected with a matter of urgency. I can sense it is going to get bloody cold quite soon.

― ___ (___), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in Melbourne, and it's just becoming Spring so the heater is becoming less and less necessary each day. A lovely thing indeed.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also in Edinburgh, i've had my heating on a few times during the summer cos it's been so cold. It was freezing this morning so i think i'll have start setting the timer to come on in the morning.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoping to be in a different flat before the need to crank up our terrifyingly expensive and inefficient storage heaters arrives again...

Last year we still had windows open in October and didn't use the heaters until November (we r hardy souls), but I don't fancy another December/January there.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Storage heaters are k-rub. I froze through the '95-'96 winter because of them and we paid £300 for the privilege.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That was us last year :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw that sucks :(

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone else go to a school where the heating went on in October and off in May no matter what the weather was like?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Civil service and university offices use this system too. Also my father, who has worked in the civil service all his life, used to switch our home central heating on the same day it came on in the office, which is why I am a fairly hardy person.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to a school where the heating broke down one snowy January so NO SKOOL!!!.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone know if there's any point/possibility of getting an energy efficiency person from the council or whatever to look at the flat, if you're only renting? I mean obviously our landlord doesn't really care whether it's energy efficient or not as we pay for it, but maybe there'd be some things we COULD do as tenants?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Our school heating pipes were always bursting so there were regular days off in winter.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Best course is to get the loft insulated if it isn't already. If the windows are only single-glazed you can retain some heat by taping up plastic sheeting.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha we live in the basement. All those bastards upstairs are getting our heat!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

When the upstairs tenants go out, pump insulating foam into their flat!

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

beanz, yes that is what the heaters are like at my work. They have no on or off switch. The powers that be turn them on in October and off they go in April/May.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It was muggy and gross all weekend here in Chicago, and then all of a sudden this morning, it was beautifully brisk and autumnal. Still too warm for heat though, especially in our stuffy apartment.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas cards have appeared in ths shops in town this week

I saw Christmas stuff at Lord & Taylor yesterday...right next to a clearance rack of summer stuff. Yes, most retailers live and die by Christmas sales, but honestly, this is way too early.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Here in Brighton on the sunny south coast I can't envisige needing to turn on the heating until October at the very earliest.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

QVC has been selling make your own Christmas card kits for a fortnight. No need for heating today - we have zero clouds in the sky, hurrah!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

brrrrr!

well it's now or never. i'm seeing ny breath here

― piscesboy, Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

New York Breath would be an awesome name for a screamo band.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I told myself a couple weeks ago I would try to make it through October before putting the heat on. Luckily, the weather has mostly complied.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

almost there

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:31 (fourteen years ago)

Todays a nice day.

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:37 (fourteen years ago)

had to lay down a fire on monday night. A FIRE.

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:17 (fourteen years ago)

lol peat

― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:31 (fourteen years ago)

firepak, i must shamefully admit

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

lol i can't light one either tbf

― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

lighting the turf isn't really the issue, it's the landgrab, cutting, footing, drying, bagging, loading, driving and stacking the stuff that scares me off

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

put the heater on today.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:22 (fourteen years ago)

I've had it on all summer.

― kate78, Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:25 (fourteen years ago)

― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:41 (fourteen years ago)

specially-slaughtered whales or commendably efficient use of the carcass?

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

The weather has been so nice that we've been toying with the idea of taking the air conditioners out and just running fans for now, but I guess our house is really well insulated or something because it gets just this side of uncomfortably warm at night.

― My hetfield very root with me what can I lou? (rustic italian flatbread), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

I mean, there have been a couple nights where - based on the weather outside - I thought it might be nice to kick on the heater. But then I get inside and the conditions are completely different.

― My hetfield very root with me what can I lou? (rustic italian flatbread), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)

I just took my jumper off.

― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:30 (fourteen years ago)

Been wearing three layers pretty solidly this last week.

― ledge, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:30 (fourteen years ago)

it's roasting

― conrad, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

all winter in NYC, yes.

and now it's going to be May all week. and by the time the polar icecaps melt, I'll be dead! muahahahahaha

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 March 2012 11:59 (thirteen years ago)

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