Heating Question.

[Raven]

On the Telly, Radio and in the Papers they are saying that people will die if they don't put on their heating. 
Up untill 25 years ago I didn't have central heating, nor did a lot of others. We all managed and it didn't affect our health just heating the living room. I still prefer a cool bedroom. Are people so blooming soft now or is it scaremongering by the media...... Again.

[klondike]

You had your heating on. The difference being you only heated one room. Still possible now but with a radiant fire of some sort you can sit up close to it and a fair portion will go to heating you. Not so easy with a ch radiator plus they usually sit under windows and you maybe want to watch TV.

[Ashy]

I notice a lot of people having loft extensions and they are taking their chimneys out. They will not have the choice of an open fire in future.

[Raven]

You had your heating on. The difference being you only heated one room. Still possible now but with a radiant fire of some sort you can sit up close to it and a fair portion will go to heating you. Not so easy with a ch radiator plus they usually sit under windows and you maybe want to watch TV.

Before I moved home after my divorce 22 years ago, We only had a gas fire in the living room. No radiators anywhere in the house. When I moved to my smaller house there were electric storage heaters. They got turned off sharpish when I realised how expensive they were to use. So once again I was back to a gas fire in the living room. No central heating in the house I grew up in either, open fires in the living room and the kitchen.
I also think we were healthier for it.

[klondike]

You were certainly colder for it 

[Diasi]

Our new-build house in 2014 only has central heating, there is no other form of heating except for plug-in portable heaters.

[Alex]

The bathroom is my worry !  I need to have the bathroom warm so the central heating goes on.   

[GrannyMac]

We're exactly the same Alex, and its the coldest room in the house! Heating will be going on, just for less time during the day.  We have a rarely used gas fire, we might try that as an alternative to the heating too see how it compares.   

[Diasi]

The bathroom is my worry !  I need to have the bathroom warm so the central heating goes on. 

Try a small halogen heater for the bathroom, it'll get it up to a decent temperature in a few minutes.

Never in my worst nightmares did I ever think I'd be having a discussion about cutting down on heating after living through the 1970s.

[Michael Rolls]

Nor me! Apart from one gas fire in the small lounge, every room has individual electric heaters, so I can heat as many, or as few, rooms as I wish - never thought of that as a possible advantage before!
Mike

[Alex]

Try a small halogen heater for the bathroom, it'll get it up to a decent temperature in a few minutes.

I've always thought it wasn't safe to have an electric heater of any kind in a bathroom ?   

[Raven]

I've always thought it wasn't safe to have an electric heater of any kind in a bathroom ?   

I think it's ok if your not having a bath or a shower.

[Alex]

    

[Michael Rolls]

use the heater to warm the room - then turn it off before bathing/showering - not difficult
Mike

[klondike]

So long as you have an extension lead. No sockets in bathrooms.