So when do you first turn on the heating?

[craigb]

Last night was one of those yearly mileposts around our place.

That is it was the first time this year that I've had to turn on the heating.
This is pretty normal for Sydney. Around Anzac day is when you generally have to do it.

It got me wondering though when the members who live elsewhere in Oz first turn the heating on.

Of course those that live in the tropics never do it I guess. ;)

[Lignum]

Luckily living in Melbourne we only realy need a heater for a few weeks around mid July:)

[Gumby]

You mean you turn it off sometimes :confused:

[doug the slug]

dont even have a heater, sitting at the computer in a pair of shorts, with the fan on behind me. seriously its a bloody cold night if I need more than a sheet and cell blanket on the bed. Mind you in summer sometimes it gets hot enough for two pairs of thongs. :D :D :D

[bitingmidge]

We usually have a cool night or two in late May, another couple in June, a week in July and a week in August.

So I guess sometime next month I'll have to clean out the fireplace, but we usually have to create a cool draft through the house to stop us cooking when it's on.

I do feel sad that some people have to live in the cold. :(

I have to work a hundred k's north of Doug when a lot of the cool weather is on, so don't expect to use too much of our firewood stash again this year.

We do burn candles in the fire recess sometimes so we can pretend.

Cheers,

P
:D

[Bodgy]

You're tougher than us, Craig. We began the heating during last week. In mitigation, we are up high in Sydney.

I well remember the day, as I moved the wood heater further out into the room (out of the chimney recess, where it disapated a lot of heat). Not only did I waste half a day on sheet metal work for the flue and surround, but I followed ??OzWinner's?? excellent advice on sweeping the flue. Duly bunched up some chook wire, attached to a pole and began, concientously, sweeping the flue. Problem was the stove was outside, under imminent attack from the angle grinder and stick welder, the flue was held in place only by a wooden prop. It slipped, the flue dropped 3 feet and 10 year's soot went from asshole to breakfast, all over Her Indoor's 'Vogue' interior.

Not a popular boy, thence on. Clean flue now tho.

[craigb]

and cell blanket on the bed.

What's a cell blanket? :confused: :confused:

[Bodgy]

Never been banged up, Craig?

[ele__13]

when it gets cold is when my Moccies come out for the year .... complete with flanny jarmies and mink blanket as well as the cell blanket that he that sleeps on the other side of the bed has im a frog i hate cold prob why i dodnt live in melb and live in qld now .. hehheheh cheers all jules

mind u it is nice tonite in singlet and boxershorts !!

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

It slipped, the flue dropped 3 feet and 10 year's soot went from asshole to breakfast, all over Her Indoor's 'Vogue' interior.

Not a popular boy, thence on. Clean flue now tho.

I did that with out combustion stove many years ago. :D Didn't trust the roof to bear my weight (rented house, saggy roof clad in rusty corro) so I removed the flue section (about 18") and proceeded to give 'er a hefty clean with a sweeps' brush from below. The chimney promptly dropped about 12" and deposited the previous 50 years buildup all over the kitchen. Ended up having to climb the roof to reposition the chimney and replace the capping anyway but that was another saga in itself.

I really should have moved the mulligatawny off the stove first... we were eating stew that gave you nice, shiny teeth for the rest of that winter. :o The cook was not happy.

I've no idea when we started heating this year... ducted heating's on a thermo set for 19 degree. Being in Melbourne, I'd guess it hasn't stopped yet, apart from the odd stinkingly humid night.

[craigb]

Never been banged up, Craig?

No mate. Of course not. I'm a law abiding and straight arrow kind of fellow. :p

[black1]

doesnt get cold enough in perth ta have one. lowest it gets is about 5 degrees c

[Sturdee]

It got me wondering though when the members who live elsewhere in Oz first turn the heating on.


I last turned our heater on 7 years ago, just after we had central heating installed. :D

Since then the thermostat adjust it automatically if the temparature drops below its setting.


Peter.

[Andy Mac]

Its just starting to turn now, a bit of a nip in the air at night. Our peach tree has lost all its leaves, the mulberry about half, and my wife is complaining the doonah isn't thick enough, so it won't be long before I break out the block splitter. Looking forward to washing crusts of frost of the windscreen in the morning and helping the chooks peck through their water bowl!:D
Lucky I've got a heater in the shed...

Cheers,

[masoth]

Living in one of Nature's deserts has it's moments - cooler on in the arvo and heater in the morning. Temps from 2C to 25C, icy wind filled with stinging Mallee sand - just great when finishing woodwork outside. :p

[silentC]

We put the heater on last night but the first time was about a week ago when we got a westerly blowing cold air down from the Snowies. Always get excited when that happens because it means it's been snowing!! Probably wont get up there again this year because of the house :(

[ptc]

About 2 weeks back.

[TassieKiwi]

Had a bit of filthy westerly weather over the last couple of weeks - just after we got the wood in :p . I love the summer, but the calm fine Autumn days suit me, and as long as there's wood for the big Saxon (and the Tassie Barrell in the shed:cool: ), and a glass of muscat handy the cold winter days don't worry me. Nice to welcome spring too.
I suppose that I'm a seasons boy.:D

[havenoideaatall]

Winter has arrived early, even in Melbourne, the first week of April it rained and I lit the woodburner for the first time. Last year it might have been May.

As I am on my own for a bit, and busy, I've lit it a few times to cook a meal to, after a rewarding day of woodworking, but have not lit it again.

A cup of tea and a jumper works wonders, that, and accepting dinner invitations.

We light the woodburner in the afternoon through May and use it all day from about June or July.

I reckon the weather in Melbourne might get a bit warmer before it gets colder. All this cyclonic activity up the top is playing havoc. Will hit mid 20s here from tomorrow.

Have

[Buzzer]

Last year, winter here was on a Wednesday!!

Cheers.:)

[MICKYG]

No fire here yet but had to turn on an electric heater yesterday morning while having brekky for 1/2 hour. The wood fire is getting close to being lit for the winter, keep you all posted.

Regards Mike in GLEN INNES, almost the coldest place for winter.;)

[Rossluck]

Up here it's "When do you turn the air conditioner off?".

Not yet.

[echnidna]

There must more wusses living in Sydney going by this thread :p :p

We light the heater

To cook toast on
To dry something (like a coat of shellac on a cabinet)
And very occaisionally if it gets cold.

:cool:

[Wongo]

I am a firm believer of “if you are too cold put one on, if you are too hot take one off”. My wife loves to stand in front of the fire though. Different ways we grew up I suppose.

We have not used the heater yet but I am sure she will turn the heater on when it is unbearable in winter.

To me air con and heater are for the kids especially one is only 6 months.

[Grunt]

We've been using our heater in the evening for about 2 weeks now. The weather in Romsey is like Melbourne's weather except colder and windyer. It snows here every few years.

[outback]

I'll probably light up the heater next week, I'll need to get some wood first though.

May I suggest that Wongo visit Mick in Glen Innes, one cold cold hole that place, we have friends there, they keep us informed of how many degrees below it gets up to.

[echnidna]

I'll probably light up the heater next week, I'll need to get some wood first though.

May I suggest that Wongo visit Mick in Glen Innes, one cold cold hole that place, we have friends there, they keep us informed of how many degrees below it gets up to.

Just for the benefit of Taswegians & Victorians

Glenn Innes is very roughly about halfway between Sydney and Brissy.

Itsalot warmer down south fellas.

[scooter]

2 bl00dy cold places I've visited:

Nimmitabel, far East Gippsland, Vic , shocking.

Goulbourn, NSW. Stayed in a caravan there one time, in the morning we found the water in the dunny was frozen :eek:


Cheers.................Sean

[Shedhand]

I'm still in shorts and hair shirt. :cool: Panel heaters were on 1 night last week.
Overalls next month I reckon until October. Heater every night from mid may to mid Oct I reckon. :o

[silentC]

Nimmitabel, far East Gippsland, Vic , shocking
They haven't moved the Vic border yet, Sean. Nimmitabel is still in NSW, about 100km west of me on top of Brown Mountain ;)

[echnidna]

So both the coldest holes on earth are in NSW then :p :p

[silentC]

No, I've been to Benambra :p

Actually, when I was a kid I spent 2 years at Thorpdale Vic. I remember one day taking a frozen puddle to school for show and tell. Had to ask the teacher to let me go first :D True story, ask my Mum. She had to wrap it up in brown paper.

[DavidG]

You need the heater on when the bottle of water on the inside window ledge froze over night.

[Auld Bassoon]

Luckily living in Melbourne we only realy need a heater for a few weeks around mid July:)

Must be a different Melbourne than the one I live in :D

My thermostat decides when it's time for the heating to come on; it's been doing just that since around Easter.

This time of year, and into winter, I try and make sure that the first job in the shed is a good bit of hand planing. Surefire way to warm up;)

[Auld Bassoon]

Goulbourn, NSW. Stayed in a caravan there one time, in the morning we found the water in the dunny was frozen :eek:


Cheers.................Sean

Brings a whole new meaning to a "floater" :D

[goat]

iv'e had our heat pump running most nights for about 3 weeks, the last 5 hours iv'e been coming down with the flu so am now generating my own heat one way to save power i suppose :(

[Waldo]

G'day,

Once it hit's below 20, it's getting cool for me. Below 18 and it's getting cold, 16 or less and I know why I hate it in Melnbourne so much. I'm sure Melbourne is really part of Antartcia.

The heater has been going full bore for the last 3 weeks or so at my joint.

[W.Lill]

We have already had a day where the range was -3 to 14 so here is probably similar to Glen Innes, although on the rare occasions that I have visited GI it always seems bleaker (more like Bleakheath in fact).

Days like that in the tin shed and hand planing, hand sawing, even hand rubbing are the jobs of choice. We have been running the A/C for a couple of weeks now.

[Waldo]

G'day,

I reakon the coldest place I've been in in Australia has been Armidale, even the wind a top Mt. Wellington in Tassie wasn't as cold, thankfully I was driving through - stopped in at Kentucky for lunch. My old car hit 0 on the temp when I hit town, got great fuel economy as a result from it.

[scooter]

Thanks for the geographical correction, silent, woz "gunna" google it first as I wasn't sure but thought: stuff it.

It's attitudes and behaviors like mine that keep our forum ticking over nicely, you know. :D


Cheers................Sean, confused mexican

[echnidna]

G'day,

I reakon the coldest place I've been in in Australia has been Armidale, even the wind a top Mt. Wellington in Tassie wasn't as cold, thankfully I was driving through - stopped in at Kentucky for lunch. My old car hit 0 on the temp when I hit town, got great fuel economy as a result from it.

I'll second that, The New England area gotta be the coldest.

Its between Sydney and Brissy too!

Much warmer down south.

[dzcook]

well its getting down to the mid teens now so will be putting the jumpers and doona on soon here in nth qld gets cold for a few weeks a year if its below 10 deg start freezing will have to think about putting some doors and windows back up soon to slow the draughts that u need the rest of the year to cold down

[bitingmidge]

Today I went into firewood credit :eek: .

That means I've created more firewood in Summer than we burnt in winter. Given that we have at least 10 years supply stockpiled, that's not a good thing.

Still no sign of sub 20° temps.


P
:rolleyes: