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Old 02-01-2017, 22:37
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Went into work this afternoon to finish off some things, returned home at 9, just before called into Burger King for a take away, by the time I got home two or three minutes later the fries were cold, it was 12C according to the thermometer. Put the central heating on and over an hour later it is still only 17.

Used to live on a converted factory and although the apartment was quite large it heated up quickly. Now I am living in a 50s cottage/bungalow,
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:38
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What did you get to accompany your fries? Was it a Whopper?
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:41
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Living in an old house with sash windows, my house never warms up, blankets & extra layers it is for me
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:50
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Live in a small flat and can feel the heat kicking in within 10-15 minutes. Luckily the place retains the heat so don't have to have the heating on for long. I so hate being cold.
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:53
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Twenty minutes max
3 bed detached bungalow with cavity walls insulated, roof space knee deep in insulation, and a combi gas fired boiler heating radiators
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Old 02-01-2017, 22:56
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Bleed your radiators.
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Old 02-01-2017, 23:58
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Sound advice Joe.
My house is a 3 storey town house, I have the heat programmed to come on at 05.00, until 07.30, as when my squeeze stays over she gets up around 07.00, and leaves the house around 08.00.
I get up when I feel like it, as I also only work when I feel like it or need to, and if it's cold I'll use an electric fan heater until I go out.
The heat comes on again at 17.30 and the house is fine by 18.30, it goes off at 22.30.
If I need heat at any other time, I push the over-ride switch.
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Old 03-01-2017, 00:21
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next time, stick your fries in the microwave, microwaves don't take long to warm up
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Old 03-01-2017, 00:36
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I've been here for 12 years, I'm still waiting for it to warm up
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Old 03-01-2017, 00:41
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It doesn't My hall is the coldest part and I regularly leave crates of juice/ milk etc in it as it stays chilled. Sash and case single glazed windows and electric storage heaters are not my idea of fun. Living in a listed building in a conservation area makes it even worse since it can't just be done 'done up'.

Good job I have two dogs that I use as a hot water bottle
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Old 03-01-2017, 07:19
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We have night storage heaters. It's usually warm enough, except when we have really cold snaps, and then they run out of heat at around 7pm and it is jumper time.
We have a lovely warm house during the day though when no one is In. Even when turned down they still leak heat.

Our last house was a new build. It may have been pokey, you could hear the neighbours taking a whizz through the wall, but at least it was well insulaTed.
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Old 03-01-2017, 08:00
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Old house here - thick walls and sash windows. It doesn't really get very warm at all, which doesn't bother me. I hate stuffy, hot, suffocating houses.

It's lush in summer - nice and cool.
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Old 03-01-2017, 08:22
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We live in a converted printworks.. generally takes about 20 minutes to warm up from cold (gas central heating). However, in the summer because it is an old industrial unit with enormous mostly south facing windows it becomes uncomfortably hot and even overnight the temperature indoors will not dip much below daytime temps.

We have very thick white blinds on the windows which do help during the summer but they aren't perfect.
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Old 03-01-2017, 08:35
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My central heating raises the lounge/dining area by about two degrees an hour on a cold day. When I first bought the house it was worse than that but over the years I've managed to improve it. Oddly it has never cooled down all that fast. I remember when I first got it that I had to have the heating set to come on at 1pm to ensure that it was up to temperature by 5pm (and it sometimes failed)..but it switched off at 9pm because it was still warm enough by 11pm without the heating.

But over the years I've added wall insulation, sealed around skirting boards started using draft excluders and added loads more loft insulation. So it's reasonable now. I think part of what holds mine back a bit is the open plan stairwell. I've hung a curtain around it but there's still a lot of heat that makes its way upstairs.

My thermostat has optimum start and this morning (moderate frost) it woke me up around 5:30am getting the downstairs to 19 degrees for 7am.
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Old 03-01-2017, 08:43
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My house would take several hours to warm from 12° to 18-20°. It's a small relatively modern, semidetached three bedroom house with double glazing and cavity wall insulation. I have a newish condenser boiler, radiators in all rooms and no other heating. Once it reaches temperature the central heating holds it well. I tend to keep the temp at 18° most of the time except at night when I let it drop a bit.
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:27
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Very slowly. When they built my place, the people responsible took a lot of short cuts to save money.
And unfortunately, they were things that aren't readily apparent so wouldn't show up in most surveys.
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:45
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Our house takes maybe an 30-60 minutes to go from about 17c to 22c,
It's a largish detached house that used to get very cold and be quite hard to keep warm, but the combination of cavity wall and additional loft insulation, and then replacing the windows with double glazed units means that it doesn't really get cold overnight/when not occupied now.

The bigger problem is that these days it's too warm much of the year, to the point where we have to use a portable AC unit in the living room (t's got windows that get the sun most most of the day).
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:52
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Went into work this afternoon to finish off some things, returned home at 9, just before called into Burger King for a take away, by the time I got home two or three minutes later the fries were cold, it was 12C according to the thermometer. Put the central heating on and over an hour later it is still only 17.

Used to live on a converted factory and although the apartment was quite large it heated up quickly. Now I am living in a 50s cottage/bungalow,
How much insulation is there in the loft?
My 1951 bungalow had only around 2 inches when I moved there in 1986 and since then has been topped up to nearly 12".
It never falls below 16C overnight and that's with a bedtime temp that is rarely over 19C.
It really should take your house a long time to fall as low as 12C
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:04
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:12
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:22
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"Cottage" is going to be the gimmick this time is it?
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:26
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Went into work this afternoon to finish off some things, returned home at 9, just before called into Burger King for a take away, by the time I got home two or three minutes later the fries were cold, it was 12C according to the thermometer. Put the central heating on and over an hour later it is still only 17.

Used to live on a converted factory and although the apartment was quite large it heated up quickly. Now I am living in a 50s cottage/bungalow,
12C? Have you got any insulation or double glazing?
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:47
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My house temperature will rise at about 2C an hour with the heating on.

It's a new build property, but the radiators are generally quite small.
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:33
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1963 semi-detached, modern double glazing, no cavity wall insulation, upgraded gas boiler and radiators throughout. Timer comes on at 6.30am and off at 10.00pm and the stat in the hall is set to 21 degC. House nice and toasty by the time we come back from our morning shopping/coffee house excursion late morning.

During really cold days/evenings we have the wood burner on and turn the heating off, as a way of saving a bit on gas (every little helps, as they say). At bedtime we leave the living room door open to allow residual heat to waft out into the rest of the house, which seems to work pretty well.

I never wear more indoors than I absolutely have to; normally in the coldest spells a T-shirt and jumper will suffice. Duvets are light summer weight all year round, anything heavier just feels too cloying.
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:46
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Living in an old house with sash windows, my house never warms up, blankets & extra layers it is for me
Same here. I love my soft plush heated over blanket, it heats up in seconds and keeps me snug and warm during the day and at night my dogs and heated under blanket do the trick. I have never been snugger or warmer.

Central heating is for sissies.
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