Central heating.

[Nanto2girls]

Hubby commented yesterday,how did we manage when we didn't have central heating.
Well,we had electric heaters in every room,except for the living room.
We had a coal fire in there.There was no gas in our street.
After gas was installed in the street,we were the first to have a gas fire.
A few years after that,hubby put the central heating in himself.
I must say,one of the best things he ever did.

[Plantaholic]

When we were first married we lived in a large house we shared with my Mil, There was a kitchen range in her kitchen which heated the hot water and we had an immersion. The only form of heating was open fires in both sitting rooms. A year later we had central heating, solid fuel installed but not in the bedrooms, we figured the heating in the hall and landing was enough to warm the bedrooms, after all who wants hot bedrooms, how wrong we were. That was in 1959/60.

[Qwerty]

We have always had central heating all our married life, we had a gas fire in the lounge in our first house too and in the house we are in now. This year is the first time we are without a fire so hope the central heating works ok, we never put the fire on it had to be sub zero temp to need it, I have a dyson heater to top us up if needs must and O H has a heater in his garage

[Oma]

As a child we only had a coal fire in the sitting room and 1 bedroom waking to ice on the inside of the windows was normal ,
Our first house had radiators in the hall and dining room but a coal fire in the living room , none in the bedrooms , I hated it but we also had a calour gas fire to heat the room till the fire took hold on a morning , then we moved to our old house that had duct heating but only downstairs till we had that taken out and central heating put in ,
I still don't like heating in the bedrooms , but if its been really cold I will turn radiators on for a hour to warm bedrooms up a little

[Daisy]

Nanto - I wonder now how we managed without central heating when we were children - but, in fact, we didn't 'manage' we were just cold! We had a coal fire in the living room and an immersion heater for water. That was it!

In our first house after we were married there was no heating, just the coal fire in the living room, and the house was almost new! We put electric storage radiators in but you didn't have much control over them so they always came on just as we were going out or going to bed! Still, better than nothing.

[Grauntie Mag]

I can remember the fire being lit in my bedroom when I had measles! Mother used to light the paraffin heater in the bathroom and put the electric fire on in the kitchen first thing in the winter.
When we were first married we had a new build with central heating. We considered ourselves so lucky.

[Mimi]

As a child we had a coal fire in the sitting room and in the front room , there was a fire place in mum and dad’s room so if any of us were unwell, and you had to be REALLY unwell we were put in their room so that they could light a fire . As a child I would get chest infection and chest infection and thinking about things now, lying in a bedroom with the windows closed and smoke coming off the fire if the coal was damp couldn’t have aided to my recovery .
When we were first married we just had a gas fire in the sitting room and nothing in the other rooms but we soon moved into a new central heated house and we have never looked back, couldn’t do without it now.

[Plantaholic]

I can remember having a fire in my bedroom when I was ill and my mother used to roll small balls of butter in sugar to ease a sore throat. My mother was first up and she would light the fire in the sitting room and put the oven on before we got up. I think we had a paraffin stove in the hall and a Tilley lamp in the toilet to stop the pipes freezing. There was an Ascot in the kitchen to heat the hot water also a copper to heat water for wash day.