Central heating...

[Asset]

It's not just the financial cost one has to consider but of course if we don't care about the environmental cost then by all means tumble dry to your heart's content....

I manage not to have washing hanging on radiators in the winter without a tumble dryer. One of those clothes horse dryer things (available from Farmers at a reasonable price) in an out of the way area sorts the washing needs of a family of four here.

Reading these comments about what you are paying for gas & electric makes me think my costs aren't too bad now!

[Asset]

Put my heating on recently too. half an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening at the moment

I'm sitting at my desk with a blanket round my knees just now...

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[Asset]

Just another thought - if you live in a hermetically sealed, centrally heated house a little underpant moisture in the air would prob not go amiss

[*Bob*]

If you don't care about the environment, then by all means watch Gogglebox and Downton Abbey. Or don't do any of the other million things you don't 'need' to that suck kWh. He who is without sin, Rodney..

The washing line is perfectly usable for quite a lot of the year. Not using a tumble dryer for the rest of the time is 'not' going to save the world.

[Asset]

Every little helps bob, and tumble dryers use a lot of kwh

Not everyone has the luxury of a washing line outside either

[*Bob*]

Asset Wrote:

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> Just another thought - if you live in a

> hermetically sealed, centrally heated house a

> little underpant moisture in the air would prob

> not go amiss

no, it's one of those places with about six hundred cracks, air holes, drafts and dubious insulation.

I'm not a big fan of central heating on the whole and try to use it as little as possible. This way, of course, I can treat myself to some special electricity munching tumbling' fun without feeling too guilty.

[red devil]

My Mother-in Law's Tongue certainly appreciates my steaming trolleys...

[*Bob*]

Asset Wrote:

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> Every little helps bob

A conspiracy perpetuated by wind farm manufacturers and purveyors of shit light bulbs - who dread the day when someone comes up with something that will make a real difference.

Don't worry, I'm not anti wind farms and of course have these products. But it's all just token pissing in the wind at the moment really.

[solar]

This thread is pants.😄

[Asset]

It's all right Bob - whatever you need to think to assuage your guilt ;)

We'll all have stacks of cheap electricity soon now the Chinese are providing lots of lovely nuclear power for us.

But that's another thread....

[*Bob*]

And My Mum has solar panels! Can I put the dryer on please?

[Seabag]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> And My Mum has solar panels! Can I put the dryer

> on please?

I sit in the dark, with my pants whirring around in the tumble dryer

It's a worthwhile sacrifice *Bob*

I can't be looking at clothes on radiators either, reminds me of being a student/living in a shared house

No, no, no

[numbers]

Ugh clothes on radiators is rank but I hate using tumble dryers too. The clothes feel like they've been to the launderette which is another thread entirely.

I've got a brilliant, dare I say, stylish, wooden contraption+ from good old Dulwich DIY for the bargain price of ?27.99 that I hang clothes on once they've been out on the line. You should all try it.

Central heating before December. Pah. You're all a bunch of wimps.

+including new, never previously published, underwear and knitted tank top pics. Exclusive to the EDF.

[Disclaimer: I don't have a large family or indeed a small family.]