Autumn Is Here

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Willopotomas · #1 Post by **Willopotomas** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:19 pm

It's getting chilly in our house, so I've busted out the autumn set of extra blankets and jumpers. Not quite cold enough for the full winter set yet.. Don't want them to not feel the benefit when the time comes..

Personally, I'm quite content with my beer jacket. Welcome to join me if you're in the "it's not December yet, so the central heating isn't needed" club.

D-Rider · #2 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:27 pm

Central heating? Surprised you even mention it - it's only mid September!

Time to remind the world how when we grew up there wasn't central heating - or heating at all upstairs - and in the winter we'd often wake up to ice on the inside of the windows.

Nah the heating will be off for a while yet.

Aladinsaneuk · #3 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:10 pm

Ice on the inside of the windows?

You were lucky

We were too poor to have windows and we had ice on the inside of our blankets

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:06 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Ice on the inside of the windows?

You were lucky

We were too poor to have windows and we had ice on the inside of our blankets

That's what comes of wetting the bed

HowardQ · #5 Post by **HowardQ** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:20 pm

At least you got a warm feeling before the "wet bed" froze!

You should have done what we did, we had plastic buckets under our beds for night time use, (posh people had a china potty!), as the toilet was not exactly convenient and could freeze up in winter.

Then again the Council eventually fitted one upstairs for us, so we did not have to wander down stairs every morning to empty the "slops".

Some of my mates in terraced houses had to go down the back garden to the loo, where they also had a galvanised bath hung outside, which was brought in to the back living room when anybody needed it, (to bathe in it not pee in it).

Before I was born my parents lived in a cardboard box so I can't complain too much.

Aladinsaneuk · #6 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:20 am

and you trying to tell t'youth of today that - they won't believe you...

HisNibbs · #7 Post by **HisNibbs** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:28 am

Southern softy here. Well the wife's from California. So "the heat is on".

blinkey501 · #8 Post by **blinkey501** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:41 am

Central heating on here too.

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:13 am

HisNibbs wrote:Southern softy here. Well the wife's from California. So "the heat is on".

blinkey501 wrote:Central heating on here too.

despairs

#10 Post by **mangocrazy** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:16 pm

I don't get this 'turn the heating off/on" business. Isn't that what thermostats were invented for? The temperature drops below a certain pre-set value - the central heating comes on, be it (nominally) spring, summer, autumn or winter. Simples.

Having said that the temperature here is north of 25 degrees C, with the sun beating down. Don't see what the fuss is, really...

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:27 pm

mangocrazy wrote:I don't get this 'turn the heating off/on" business. Isn't that what thermostats were invented for? The temperature drops below a certain pre-set value - the central heating comes on, be it (nominally) spring, summer, autumn or winter. Simples.

Not quite that simples .....

Our programmer has 2 settings "Water and Heating" and "Water Only".

So, to stop the gas boiler heating the water in the summer months when I want to use the immersion heater to use up some of the free electricity my roof is generating, I need to turn the gas-fired stuff off completely.

When the amount of daylight reduces, we'll switch back over again.

Willopotomas · #12 Post by **Willopotomas** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:20 pm

HisNibbs wrote:Southern softy here. Well the wife's from California. So "the heat is on".

blinkey501 wrote:Central heating on here too.

Someone is paying you pair way too much. Either that, or you don't love your motorcycles as much as you should.

#13 Post by **mangocrazy** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:11 pm

D-Rider wrote:
mangocrazy wrote:I don't get this 'turn the heating off/on" business. Isn't that what thermostats were invented for? The temperature drops below a certain pre-set value - the central heating comes on, be it (nominally) spring, summer, autumn or winter. Simples.
Not quite that simples .....

Our programmer has 2 settings "Water and Heating" and "Water Only".

So, to stop the gas boiler heating the water in the summer months when I want to use the immersion heater to use up some of the free electricity my roof is generating, I need to turn the gas-fired stuff off completely.

When the amount of daylight reduces, we'll switch back over again.

OK, that changes the complexion of it a bit. But isn't it possible to incorporate some kind of programming to give precedence to solar voltaic input? And can't you get a programmer that allows you to expand the number of modes to 3 - DHW only, DHW and CH and CH only?

fatboy · #14 Post by **fatboy** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:20 pm

It is noticably cooler now but not cold enough to activate my central heating system yet, I know when its getting really cold at because the central heating system has sneaked under the duvet and is asleep by my feet.
Its a Staffordshire Bull Terrier system, they dont do cold at all

D-Rider · #15 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:45 pm

mangocrazy wrote: OK, that changes the complexion of it a bit. But isn't it possible to incorporate some kind of programming to give precedence to solar voltaic input? And can't you get a programmer that allows you to expand the number of modes to 3 - DHW only, DHW and CH and CH only?

Quite possibly but to do that I've got to find the time to look in to it, then spend money to do it, then find more time to fit it.

So for now, far easier to just turn it off in the summer and turn it back on when the weather gets too cold ....... which certainly isn't mid September.

(That said, glad we had our Norfolk forum weekend back when we did - much more pleasant for camping than the hit and miss weather of mid to late September)