Ours went on yesterday evening for the first time. It also came on briefly this morning.

I can’t remember the last time we got through to early October before switching it on.

It stayed at 20-22C indoors this morning only the conservatory dropped to 7.4c the first single digit since 18th May at 8.9C as now the french doors had been closed since 2 night ago, was open 24 hours since May heatwave.  It open now and it rapidly rising to 15.2c so should reach 25-26c by 1pm sufficient to warm the house up to maintain low 20's.

We've recently switched to an EV tariff which has cheaper off peak energy but quite a bit higher in the daytime, so I need to experiment whether cranking up the UFH in cheap rate will keep the house warm during the day without using up too much peak energy.

Also looking at battery storage as a way to keep costs down.

Same here Gandalf. I think I've done well to get to first week of October.  🙂🙂🙂

I don't recall exactly when I did it last year but looking at my meter readings for the heat pump it certainly wasn't on before 28 Sept and hadn't used much juice by the end of October, so I would estimate about mid October. Had a look to see if there was one of these threads last year and couldn't find it.

Edit: haha, this *is* last year's thread. And yes, looks like it was about mid October, with the first fire in mid November.

I am fortunate that my wife doesn't feel the cold and my younger daughter, who used to complain the most about the cold, has moved out so she now has the joy of paying her own bills!

It will be interesting to see how my son fares as he returned earlier in the year after 3 years in Australia. So far he has only experience the exceptionally warm summer and early autumn here

I shall have to get the log basket filled ready for when we use the log burner again. That's something I really look forward to at this time of year

Mine's a cold house. My heating is off atm as my Rayburn is being serviced.  House feels chilly now and I'm looking forward to putting it back on when the guy has finished servicing it. 🙂🙂🙂

October also doesn't as last year and the year before was terrible wet dull month, had only reached 29.5c in 2024, 31.5C both once so CH was on a lot often but this year 7 out of 8 days 31.5 to 33.3C range, today was 31.7C at the warmest time of the day before clouds roll in. 

it dropping 28.8c now but very nice and warm living room 25.1C after reached 27C.  Even I am on fixed to 1st March 2027 still want to keep heating off as long as possible.  

We’re on an EV tariff and have two storage batteries that we top up off peak during winter.  The solar panels keep them topped up in summer.  We find it works well for us and it can be adjusted according to usage and solar charging.  

You're doing well.  🙂🙂🙂🙂