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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago
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Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
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Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room? |
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Yep, the cottage I grew up in! Windows frozen on the inside in winter were a regular occurrence, and damp walls. The house was a few hundred years old and listed so getting permission to put central heating and double glazing in was a nightmare for my parents. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes the house I grew up in was bitterly cold.
Metal window frames with ice on the inside.
Awful.
Even when central heating was put in my mum rarely had it on  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes. When i was younger there was no central heating anywhere. Just coal,gas and electric fires. We had a geyser in the kitchen and bathroom for hot water. I'm grateful for my central heating now days. |
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Place I live in now doesn't have central heating. A couple of storage heaters downstairs, but we only use the one in the kitchen because of the parrot.
Just wear a jumper or a blankie when watching TV in the front room. |
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By *good-being-bad OP Man
over a year ago
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room? "
House I grew up in had a coal fire in the living room and a coal burner in the kitchen that heated the water tank.. any where else was unheated.
I have central heating in my house never turn it on, I heat the room I'm in, I see no point warming rooms, hall ways etc that I only walk through.  |
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As a child I grew up with coal fires downstairs & a hot water bottle in my bed.
As an adult, we lived without central heating for 7yrs.
Rented property, had storage heaters, which cost a fortune to run. Had a key meter for the electric.
we moved in, in spring and up til then I'd been putting £20pw on the key. First week out the heaters on cost £80, woke up every morning like in a sauna & by 17.00 the house was freezing.
Bought 2 plug in oil radiators & never turned the heaters on a agsin.
Moved from there into this house 2½yrs ago.
Ex council house, which had never been modernised. Hence going so cheap!
Had to be totaly rewired, replumbed & heating fitted.
Our first winter, the novelty of heating was brilliant... Saying that I doesn't get turned on til Nov & goes off in January. |
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By *uryWhipMan
over a year ago
Harringay |
Grew up in a house that had central everywhere except my bedroom. My late teens I used to stay out as late as I could at friends houses, run home to put on layers and bury myself in a pile of blankets |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I grew up living above a 16th century pub, the only heating was from the open fires downstairs. The chimney breast ran through the living room and kitchen, that was the only heat for the whole pub and flat.
I now have my own pub, it’s 17th century and has central heating all the way through but I don’t turn it on upstairs. I just don’t feel the cold |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
Paisley |
"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room? "
No. We eventually had storage heaters installed but the warmest room was the living room where the electric fire was on.
I was brought up in the 70’s. Coal miners strikes and power cuts. Had to get parafin heaters. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes, I was 33 before I lived in a house with central heating. Pyjamas, hot water bottles were a necessity. Dread getting out of the bath, because it was so cold, ice inside windows and break the ice on the toilet cistern to flush....if the pipes weren't frozen.
As for whether the young have it better? I guess they do but it's all relevant as society is today. I wouldn't go back to it, knowing what it was like. |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
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I remember staying with my brother in law during a particularly cold February in his in heated cottage. The water in the toilet had frozen in the U bend. I came down to find a frozen turd sitting on the ice.
I left that day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes I rented a place with my ex, chose it because of location, price and size but the crux was it had no central heating. We thought we would be fine with heaters. My God we were wrong. It was stupidly cold. I live with my radiators on full blast now  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My house has none. I have an electric heater and fire in livingroom and blow heaters in the bedrooms.
Coming home after a late shift is like walking into a fridge sometimes.
I'm moving soon though! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yep. I grew up in one and lived in one as an adult. Ice on the inside of bedroom windows was normal. "
I remember those days of ice on the inside of the windows |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes I remember the days of waking up to ice on the inside of the windows. We just had a coal fire in the living room, and a little Rayburn fire in the kitchen. I remember in the winter when it was really cold having to put our coats over the beds to help us keep warm x |
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Yep , up until I was 15 none of our many family homes had central heating . Coal fire , little portable heaters for other rooms if it was proper cold , and often I’ve inside the windows .
My first flat didn’t have it , my first two houses didn’t have it .
My current house does , and I love it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No central heating till 16...didn’t have shoes ...used to strap two slices of bread to our feet ...that wor us dinna. And in T’winter..we used ta toast it fir glip....we was ‘appy even tha we was misser-lable |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yeah, one fireplace to heat the whole house, I've inside the windows. The whole 9 yards.
While mum lit the coal fire, we could use a convector heater till it got going, but only on the worst of morning's.
I went to my grans all weekend most of the time, she got up before 6 am and got the fire going |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is one of the reasons my dad left the UK for America.....
He was a boarder in London and complained the flat owners never turned on the heat....
Coming from Jamiaca this must have been a traumatic experience.....
I remember growing up , my dad kept the heat at 75 degrees in the house at all times.... |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Yes, seeing as I've moved nigh on 30 something times I have experienced
Electric wall heaters,
Coal fires,
Gas fires (one of which I spotted a rogue flame in the wiring, not bad for a 9 year old)
Radiators (mobile)
No heaters at all (Holiday flat, brrrh)
and twice
Electric storage heaters (bloody useless things)
I've just down graded from treble glazing to double
glazing in the last three years, via another move! Before that it was always single glazing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
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Ours hasn't got central heating at all, we've got a wood burner in the living room and our windows are open all year round. It's a middle Victorian terrace and both neighbours have central heating. |
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
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My nan's house never had central heating run of a boiler, it was heated by a coal fire.
The rooms with the fires in were roasting, the other rooms were chilly. |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
Yep, didn't put storage heaters in this house till 08, before that it was an open fire & woodburner with back boiler in the kitchen for water. Moving soon to a house with poor insulation, many single glazed windows & an underpowered central heating system.  Still, i've heard Welsh mountains are quite balmy this time of year |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
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Yes I've lived in a house with no central heating. It's fucking freezing. I complained back then. I don't think I'm any softer I just now have the means to keep the house warmer. Why wouldn't I? It's a huge inconvenience if the heating fails. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
My nan's house never had central heating run of a boiler, it was heated by a coal fire.
The rooms with the fires in were roasting, the other rooms were chilly. "
And felt really damp. I can remember going to bed with so many clothes on. Fucking awful time. |
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"Without central heating?
I'd guess folk of a certain age will have, I often see statuses saying wish the plumber would hurry up fix the boiler it's freezing.
Are folk softer these days less willing to live without warming every room in a house?
Didn’t they have gas fires or coal fired in each room?
House I grew up in had a coal fire in the living room and a coal burner in the kitchen that heated the water tank.. any where else was unheated.
I have central heating in my house never turn it on, I heat the room I'm in, I see no point warming rooms, hall ways etc that I only walk through. "
same here |
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"My mum used to put the gas oven on in the morning and warm our clothes over the open door. "
Oh gosh yes, the wonderful gas oven heat in the kitchen! My Mum would pop into my bedroom and turn on a round fan heater for me to dress by, then it was run to the warm kitchen for porridge! We had a coal fire in the sitting room the evenings. |
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Have always lived in bloody cold houses. 
