Do you leave your heating on at Night?

I am from Australia too, Adelaide in fact. The nights have been freezing, literally. No, I don't leave the heating on overnight, as it is too expensive. Either my husband or myself turn it on in the morning. If I am the only one home, I turn it off aftr the early morning cold, & prefer to waer a warm jumper. I may have to to turn the heating on aghain around 12 noon, or 3.00pm. It then needs to stay on until we are all in bed. Basicly, I try to keep the heater off for as much as possible, & only use it for early moring & night. My husband, however, wants to keep it on all day. So I dread to think of the next electricty bill.

Hello,pinklilly,i do not use the heating now,i think melbourne is colder than sydney,the temperature here is around 13 degree and i can still bear the coldness when i wear more clothes. Also I am afraid i will have to pay an expensive bills if i leave the heater overnight. So how much do you pay for the electricity in the winter?

I live in Tasmania, where it is so cold that the water in the hose froze overnight, and we had to turn it on for a while to make the water run through so we could hose the cars off. We have a heat pump - which is like an airconditioner, but in reverse, and run that all night. It gets so cold that it cuts out due to the fact that it can't cope with it as the main part is outside. We have it set to come on at 3 in the afternoon, and then it turns off at 8.20 - which is about the time the kids leave to go on the school bus. My youngest (5) still wets the bed on occasion, so we can't have an electric blanket on her bed, and the others are fine. It was so cold this morning that the water in the bird bath froze, so I hit that with the hose when I was hosing my car off as well.

Melbourne girl here, as you know :) I usually have my heating on about the same times as you do. From late afternoon until my son goes to bed between 7 and 8 at night, becuase his room is always the first to overheat and I don't want to bake him whilst he is asleep ;) lol My partner usually turns it on when he leaves for work in the morning at about 5.30, and I turn it off when I get up, about 7. Ducted heating works really well, which is what we have, so i find I don't have to keep it on for extended periods of time, and as long as I don't leave any doors or windows open, I find the house retains teh heat really well...

My water bed is heated and I turn it right down in the morning when I get up then at about 7pm I put it up ready for when I get in at about 10pm or 11pm. I have a heater in my office and it's a small room so I can have it on low and be snuggly. I still wear lots of clothes so I can save on the energy and the cost. My kitchen warms up when I cook so that's good and I have a heater in the lounge room for when I watch TV. Heating costs are extortionate.

Hi Pinklilly. I am from Sydney and yes it's been mighty cold lately. I haven't left the heating on all night but there are times I accidently leave the electric blanket on. I mean to turn it off, but then find I doze off and it's still on in the morning.

Well, right now here in the USA, it is summer. We have been in the 80s and 90s so if I had an Air Conditioner, we would have that running a lot of the time now. Anyways, when it is winter and cold enough to need to run the Heater, I am known to turn it down lower during the day while we are at work, and then again usually at night when we are sleeping as well. I am one who prefers it cooler when I sleep at night anyway if I can.

ours is a wood heater so it is going all day every day. at night before going to bed, we load it up and turn it right down so the block of wood can last til the morning til about 6 or 7 am then someone stocks it up usually my dad.

hi pink,actually there is no need for using heat here in india,since there is heat already there.here only in some places is cold places like delhi,kashmir.i am living in comparatively less hot place banglore.here cold is tolerable,no need for any heat!but i love to live in such cold country.may be someday i can make it!

Wow, I wish it were cold here! I live in Singapore and right now the weather is soooo hot, even though it's been raining. :( I used to live in Taiwan before... during winter, we always had the heater on. We never switched it off, even when we werent at home. I think if you live in a cold country, the heater is something you can't do without. The cold can really be unbearable and make it hard to be productive. Once when we were out, our heater broke down, and when we got back the entire place was really really cold, especially the floor! I hate stepping on cold floors, especially when you just wake up! If it's possible, why not leave the heater on all the time? At least, it's justifiable. Being cold will stop you from getting work done; being hot doesn't. That's why I say, you can do without the aircon, but you can't do without a heater!

We have a gas furnace that is controled by a thermostat so i can set my thermostat at 80 and the heater wont kick on until it gets cold enough to do so. I leave it set at a certain temp all winter long unless it gets colder then i turn it up or if it gets warmer i turn it down.

I do leave it sometimes mostly in winter. It costs me more but still i love my room to be warm and hot in winter. It gets really cold in here on middle days.

well pinklilly..It seems you are fighting against cold.Infact the other comments in this topic showing a sign of battle with heater against cold..I like winter but I do not have to use room heater as the temperature does not cross below 8 degree celcius during Winter.So I enjoy winter sleeping under thick blanket in holidays...when I do not allow anyone to disturb..lol.Sorry to say .that.you have to keep your room heater on which increase your monthly expense.But winter has its own sweet flavour.I enjoy it..

We have left the boiler on at night,if the wearther has been extremely cold,but only if its below freezing,its just that we hate to let the house get stone cold,it seems to take forever to warm up again,we use gas for our boiler,there are other types of fuel,LPG and coal and wood,but the gas boiler was in when we oved to this house,so it stays for now

I do most of my baking during the weeknights to add some warmth to the living areas. The smell of homemade bread or cookies is wonderful. The baked goods are shared with coworkers and of course my hubby gets some too. The craft work becomes a focus for me.

Here in Washington state, we have a lot of 'cool and wet' weather. We have electric forced-air central heating which we keep at 67 degrees at all times. We have small circulating oil heaters in a couple of rooms that need a bit more warmth, like where our bird is. And we own lots of sweaters! If we turn our heat off at night, the dampness is a real problem, causing mold on the windows, etc. We keep the house at just the right temp. to save us having to deal with those issues. And we are quite comfortable.