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Mildly Disappointed
24 October 2025 08:16:46
Thermostat still set at 15c and it was very close to clicking on yesterday. Garden thermometer just above 3c at 9am this morning (didn't venture out to check earlier as I had some work to get on with first thing).  The log burner was on for a few hours from late afternoon yesterday and there is some residual heat downstairs. The kitchen wall behind the living room fireplace is still slightly warm to touch. If today is sunnier it may keep it warm enough inside for the heating not to fire up
Jason

Salfords, Surrey

Mildly Disappointed
24 October 2025 11:13:03
Further to my earlier post it has now clicked on. A combination of the sun now being too low to add much warmth and a strengthening breeze must have cooled the house further. I noticed that 'first time it comes on' smell and felt the radiator in my office room and thought perhaps my daughter hed quietly clicked the thermostat on but it was still on 15. Now turned up to 17 to keep it on for a while. I shall light the log burner again this afternoon and look forward to a cosy evening of fish and chips and a glass or two of something pleasant
Jason

Salfords, Surrey

Gandalf The White
24 October 2025 11:53:42

Further to my earlier post it has now clicked on. A combination of the sun now being too low to add much warmth and a strengthening breeze must have cooled the house further. I noticed that 'first time it comes on' smell and felt the radiator in my office room and thought perhaps my daughter hed quietly clicked the thermostat on but it was still on 15. Now turned up to 17 to keep it on for a while. I shall light the log burner again this afternoon and look forward to a cosy evening of fish and chips and a glass or two of something pleasant

Originally Posted by: Mildly Disappointed 

Our central heating came on this morning for the first time - until now it’s been late afternoon onwards. It’s the same as you: the sun being a little lower and reaching the big east-facing hallway window later and for less time, plus a nagging northerly breeze.

Location: South Cambridgeshire

130 metres ASL

52.0N 0.1E



Windy Willow
25 October 2025 09:18:42
CH is on this morning and will be so for the duration of the next two seasons. Unless we have any warmer days, but that seems pretty unlikely for the foreseeable.
South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

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Jiries
03 November 2025 19:30:53
Heating came on some days and when on it goes off quickly as the house still warm from the conservatory heat since early Spring.  Yesterday was the max of 25.6C the highest under weak November sun so heating was not needed in the evening.   
Windy Willow
06 November 2025 10:45:53
Our heating is back off again, been too warm. There I was thinking it was going to be on and stay on! How wrong I was.
South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.

Brian Gaze
06 November 2025 11:05:51

Our heating is back off again, been too warm. There I was thinking it was going to be on and stay on! How wrong I was.

Originally Posted by: Windy Willow 

Same here. I've currently got the window wide open in my office and the temperature is around 21C despite it being overcast outside and no heating inside.

Brian Gaze

Berkhamsted

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Mildly Disappointed
06 November 2025 14:03:01
Warm enough here to leave the back door open so the dog can come and go from the garden as she pleases
Jason

Salfords, Surrey

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Saint Snow
06 November 2025 14:11:17

Warm enough here to leave the back door open so the dog can come and go from the garden as she pleases

Originally Posted by: Mildly Disappointed 

Watch out for the rodents this time of year!

At our house, we're in the season of 'the battles of the thermostat'. Everyone denies turning it up, yet each time I look, it's 'magically' drifted up from the 19c I set it at, to 22/23c.

Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

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Chunky Pea
06 November 2025 15:09:43

Watch out for the rodents this time of year!

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

The reason I don't leave doors open at this time of year, despite this incredible warmth. A few months back, the council dug up all the roads to lay down new water pipes or something, and it unleashed rodents galore. 

Patrick,

East Galway, Ireland.

Windy Willow
06 November 2025 17:37:15

Watch out for the rodents this time of year!

At our house, we're in the season of 'the battles of the thermostat'. Everyone denies turning it up, yet each time I look, it's 'magically' drifted up from the 19c I set it at, to 22/23c.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

It's highly likely that a rodent has no chance of getting or surviving in our house not with our young Lakeland. He doesn't like Hedgehogs! Or even fat wood pigeons chilling on the fence but at least they can fly away.

South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.

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Saint Snow
10 November 2025 13:19:51

The reason I don't leave doors open at this time of year, despite this incredible warmth. A few months back, the council dug up all the roads to lay down new water pipes or something, and it unleashed rodents galore. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

Eww!

😬

Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

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12 November 2025 10:47:44

It's highly likely that a rodent has no chance of getting or surviving in our house not with our young Lakeland. He doesn't like Hedgehogs! Or even fat wood pigeons chilling on the fence but at least they can fly away.

Originally Posted by: Windy Willow 

A lizard touring the ceiling in my bedroom two nights ago, in Hoi An. Now that would literally have driven your Lakeland up the wall!

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Chichester 12m asl

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Gandalf The White
12 November 2025 10:59:04
Remarkably for November, our central heating has not come on in the mornings for over a week now; it goes on mainly in the mid- to late afternoon.

Currently sitting in our kitchen and the thermometer says it’s 21c inside and 14c outside.

Location: South Cambridgeshire

130 metres ASL

52.0N 0.1E



Windy Willow
12 November 2025 12:43:52

A lizard touring the ceiling in my bedroom two nights ago, in Hoi An. Now that would literally have driven your Lakeland up the wall!

Originally Posted by: DEW 

😂😂😂

You're probably not wrong! I'm sure he would have given his best and the whole village would know about it from all the excitable, high pitched, barking!

South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.

Windy Willow
12 November 2025 12:51:58

Remarkably for November, our central heating has not come on in the mornings for over a week now; it goes on mainly in the mid- to late afternoon.

Currently sitting in our kitchen and the thermometer says it’s 21c inside and 14c outside.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 

Our CH will probably be back on again at the weekend if it's as cool as it's predicted to be. Barely up into double digits during the day, come Saturday. We also have a yellow warning for rain! But that's another topic altogether.

South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.

Windy Willow
17 November 2025 11:41:59
CH back on again from last evening. I believe it will be necessary this week as we're under a yellow alert for Cold Health watch. It's looking pretty chilly this week, for sure.
South Holland, Lincs 5m/16ft ASL

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M.

Rob K
17 November 2025 12:40:53
I have a heat pump which uses minimal power when the weather is mild. I turned it on about a month ago but when it's mild outside the flow temperature is not much above room temperature. The weather compensation will do its thing and increase the flow temperature as the outside temperature drops. Currently 8ºC outside and the flow is still only at 30ºC. Had a fire on Saturday night for cosy ambience more than anything, and will probably have some more this week as you never know how many more frosty nights you'll get!
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

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The Dub Version
17 November 2025 13:42:30
Still no real need for sustained CH. 8 to 9c by day and sun still has power

Berkshire
NMA
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17 November 2025 16:27:50
The sun still has some power but not enough to warm my office. I find an oil radiator better than a fan heater which I've used previously.
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

Retron
17 November 2025 16:34:06

The sun still has some power but not enough to warm my office. I find an oil radiator better than a fan heater which I've used previously.

Originally Posted by: NMA 

It's about as weak as it gets, really - even the flies basking on a sunlit fence panel today were struggling a bit! The sun is now below 20 degrees at noon down here, and further north it'll be even lower. 

My heating's been turned on since the middle of October, set at 17C, and today it's been clicking on and off all day long - a proper winter feel to things, rather than just the odd 15 minutes here and there. It's the wind as well as the temperatures, of course, it effortlessly whisks heat away from the house... and the weak sun has no chance against that! 

It really couldn't be further away from the likes of June, where even on a relatively cold but sunny day (i.e. 17C) it still gets into the mid 20s upstairs.

Leysdown, north Kent
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NMA
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17 November 2025 16:54:12
Anyway the suns power is a moot point at this time of day and time of year. The front of the house gets the sun but the back garden none until mid February. A grass frost already here though the forecast suggests a temperature rise later as cloud arrives. Still waiting for an air frost. I'm back in the house now for the night and about to start cooking. 
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

Jiries
17 November 2025 20:24:12
I put heating on in the mornings and evenings now every day.  This morning the conservatory termperatures dropped to 3.6c so I put on the oil filled portable radiators which I got 2 to bring up to 16C while the warmth from the house enter also and the sun do the rest to bring temps up to 23.1C and rest of the house was 20-21C and 19C in my bedroom.  I have to close the conservatory doors at 4pm as temperature starting to drop.  I never use the oil filled radiators in the evenings only in the mornings so we can use it until 4pm.  Now is 8.2C and perhaps to see first 0C on Thursday morning as it forecast to have hard frosts over night Wed to Thursday morning.
NMA
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18 November 2025 07:16:24
I lived in a house with a conservatory once that we had built. We used a special Pilkington? glass and it was double glazed. The place was comfortable even with snow on the ground. In summer the temp rose but the shades prevented much above 30C on the inside and that was only with the sun beating down. It's all down to the type of glass. 
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

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DEW
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18 November 2025 08:12:56

filling the double galazing space with argon helpsI lived in a house with a conservatory once that we had built. We used a special Pilkington? glass and it was double glazed. The place was comfortable even with snow on the ground. In summer the temp rose but the shades prevented much above 30C on the inside and that was only with the sun beating down. It's all down to the type of glass. 

Originally Posted by: NMA 

And filling the space between double glazing panes with argon helps. Was that in place?

Yesterday my south-facing living room reached 22C with no C/H, and the panels on the roof were providing solar hot water at 46C. But I did put the C/H on for a timed hour early this morning to take the chill off when I woke up

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Chichester 12m asl

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