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AFTER A COLD few days, it looks like autumn has arrived.
Temperatures are set to drop to as low as 4 degrees tonight, according to Met Éireann.
Across the weekend there will be a mix of sunny spell and showers.
So, as the autumn weather is most certainly upon us, we want to know: Have you turned the heating on this week?
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Time to fire up the stove. Timber, turf, heat and tea. Can’t wait.
@Greg Ward: kettle on the stove hot water for washing up ,tea coffee all the time nothing come near to a stove just wait till the power cuts come in November all the houses relying on all the new green fangled gadgets to heat their home won’t work
@Gerard Heery: well that’s just nonsense. I build an A2 rated house with a heat pump and solar for the heating. Even on an overcast day I have hot water 24/7. I then have two stoves as backup when the power fails. Looking to install an auto changeover diesel generator if power cuts are going to be the norm going forward
I’m talking in general most new builds haven’t even a fire place for when the power cut come
@Greg Ward: Hope the Minister for Bicycles don’t see that.
@Paul Crowley: that will be updated! He will be minister for Scooters.
@Gerard Heery: plus the stove is a great way of getting rid of some household waste
@qwerty: yes, but that’s facts Gerard has his opinion. Respect his opinion.
@john smith iv: thanks John it’s only a matter of time before he’s eating his words ,
I did on Tuesday and Wednesday evening for an hour, just to take the edge off. I never put the heat on when I’m in bed. The cold makes it easier for me to sleep. But I did need that hour both of those evenings. I had it on for a couple of hours one evening early in August too.
@Ger: You’re absolutely right about the cold making it easier to sleep. However it also makes it harder to get out of bed in the morning!
You definitely used this poll last year, because ‘take the edge off’ is such a poxy phrase. I’d go so far as to put in along with ‘staycation’ and ‘glamping’ as RTE D4 terms that the radiowaves have attempted to normalise. All I think of is forcefully taking the Edge from U2 off my radiator !
@Paul Cunningham: It’s been in use for fifty years that I remember. What’s your objection?
@Paul Cunningham: Just out of curiosity, what would you use instead of glamping and staycation?
@Paul Cunningham: Relax, have a shot of whiskey, take the edge off.
@Fandandi: a Holiday! A holiday in Ireland should not be termed something different because its somehow beneath people to call it a holiday.
@Paul Cunningham: I hear ya but I don’t think it calling it a staycation makes it less of a holiday. Its just word play on vacation which also means holiday. It just specifies that you are staying in the country and stayoliday doesn’t have the same ring to it. Maybe it’s actually your perception of it that makes you think it’s “less than” because the name itself doesn’t imply it.
Not until she closes the effin windows…..
Just repaired my stove, new seals, polished, chimney cleanered. Getting the timber and turf in. Valves on rads cut back rooms in not been used. Energy bulbs in. I will be turning off lights where its not needed. Looking to install new Combi condensing boiler. With rising energy costs savings have to be made.
No need, hit the pub on the way home from work, nice cosy coal burning stove there.
Leave around 10:30, home to chilly house and straight to cosy bed. Do a Groundhog on that and a low cost winter will ensue.
@Gavin Linden: low cost-it depends on how much you spend in the pub.
I’ve had windows open. South facing houses are amazing.
@Madra: Our house has four sides so one side is South facing and the other sides face North, East and West!
I don’t have heating but if I did I wouldn’t turn it on right now. It’s cool in my apartment, but not cold.
No I have not put any heating on will hang on until the place needs a heat
@JK: same here!
@JK: Same. I did close the bedroom window though, it was a refreshing night’s sleep for a change.
No. Don’t have the money for heat.
Of course.. it’s Baltic so it is…
Nope enjoying 26 degrees in Portugal. Restrictions gone mandatory mask wearing ended yesterday..Music dancing and craic you couldn’t beat it with a stick.
Texas experienced a very cold snap this year, and the new Green technology far greater than what we in Ireland have installed, failed drastically to keep the countries electricity on to provide heating . Ireland this year with the introduction of the new Green technology will also experience major cuts to its supply of electricity to homes around Ireland , compliments of the Green party.
@Laz Mahon: What are you waffling about? I don’t know what you have to gain by posting rants about oil-dependent Texas and politics, but get used to eco-friendly solutions. Texas didn’t winterise their power stations and the gas lines froze. They have a standalone network that wasn’t connected to the national grid for backup so they could overcharge Texans. Many of their houses and apartments are built of wood for a hotter climate. Of course their pipes burst and buildings buckled.
This is Ireland – I’ve worked onsite with GAA players who came to work in heavy snow with a cast on their leg. We’re more used to snow and we like brick houses and insulation because we seee the need for them.
I don’t have heating, but if I did I wouldn’t turn it on right now. My apartment is cool but not cold.
@Carrie Poettcker: But you’re typing your comments twice to try to keep warm?
@Carrie Poettcker: are you serious?you do not have heating in your apartment?
@lelookcoco: haha yeah it looks like it. Had a mixup trying to sign up
@Frédéric Slimane: I don’t. The building is from 1900s with no gas. I had a crappy storage heater years ago but it didn’t do any good and then it broke. Mostly I find winters mild enough I don’t need heating (I’m Canadian, if that helps!).
@Carrie Poettcker: true. Canadians have a core temperate of 8 degrees. That why thermometers don’t work on Canadians.
Not yet. Still horsing on the turf. I’ll wait a few more weeks before turning up the air to water underfloor system
24c here, will be ok for another few weeks
you can used to the cold with practice
True, the menopause also helps :-)
Only talking to the missus about it last night… Might have it on soon!
Going to fire up the stove when the chimney is cleaned next week
Top floor apartment (3rd floor) I’ve the balcony door open right now as I’m roasting. Apartments below must have the heat on…..
You mean give the neighbours lung cancer from breathing in your intoxicating plastic ect. You heard of recycling and or reuse and even reduce?
On all year round and thermostatically controlled
Kept above 7degrees at night and 19 during the day.
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