To ask what's your heating situation?

This is exactly what we do and it works. The home doesn't fall short of warmth for basic needs, even with teeny tots. It's reasonable to keep up overnight and keeps the boiler from over energy usage to refuel a poorly insulated home.

Almost constant heat and sensible when considering this; it will be colder sometimes... so pop a jumper or extra blanket on. It really is that simple. Fleece clothing is also super warming so when the temp does drop, Mr boiler kicks in to required min temp and hey, get cosy with the extras. It's a no brainer. Stock up and embrace the changes.

We must be prepared for more economical times ahead. Train our children to help understand cold is manageable, with sensible thermostat measures.

Also, help prepare for national emergency blackouts, long periods without heat.

Embrace the weather. It is not as cold as you think but keeping an eye now on costs and being sensible with the lower temp would be good for us all.

We did it in the 2nd war and will do it soon again so be mindfully aware your heating costs can be reduced and achieved without anyone shivering to misery right now.

We have it good right now. See how we can all make cost effective changes for the future. 18.5c will soon be unacceptably too high. Mark my words.

Hive heating and it's zoned. Set to 15 throughout the house (never switch it off) and if we need it warmer in parts of the house we turn it up to about 18. At weekends we bung a log on the fire in the living areas if we are cold.

Heating bills are high but budgeted for.

However, there's cold ...and then there's really cold. I grew up with no central heating, coal fires downstairs & nothing up stairs. So cold you could see your breath in winter at night in bed. Where we are now is no comparison on the cold scale but I can't believe we are paying so much & it's still not luxuriously warm.

Agree with you here, I’m not sure why the poster made it a moral thing about profits, or pretended Nordic blood meant they could live in cold homes, the nordics are very efficient at heating their homes,

leaving your home unheated leads to damp, and respiratory illness, dangerous for everyone, and particularly children and elderly, there is no child who doesn’t get cold.

just own it and say I can’t afford to heat my home.

My heating situation is that it's bloody expensive & seems to be way more than anyone else I know. I'm currently paying £419 a month for gas & electricity as well as feeding a log burner & visitors complain the house is cold. I'm wearing leggings under trousers & thick socks & slippers with thick soles. Every room in this house has two outside walls and we can't have cavity wall insulation because we are on a hill and there's a big void under the downstairs rooms. If it goes up anymore I will be wearing 2 coats and boots inside.

Your house will get damp, living in a permanently cold house is miserable.

I'd rather be poorer than cold all the time.

Mine goes on for a couple of hours in the morning until it reaches 18, same in the evening. Sometimes 19 if I'm very cold. Otherwise i use hot water bottles, blankets, wear layers and an oodie. I find dressing for the winter really helpful.

Set to come on if it did below 18c app says it’s been on between 2-5 hrs each day for last two weeks. Hoping to pick up an electric heater at some point as I’m on oil and I’m dreading having to top up the tank so want to eek it out.

I'm really lucky to live in a well insulated new build, my heatings on for about an hour a day and the house stays between 18-21 degrees.

Profits are not split out amongst shareholders. Shareholders get dividends, which is a very different thing.

Profits .... shareholders.

We have retrospective insulation. I rarely ever get sick. Moving around, doing activities warms the body up. My child rarely feels cold. I blame the nordic blood lol. I do, but this works well for me.

Have it set anywhere between 18-20 during the day depending who is in the house, 16 overnight.

We aren't short of money - if any of us is cold, we turn it up.

Shareholders??

You'll destroy your health and your house like that

My heating is off permanently because I don't want to go into energy debt. And I don't want to pay a huge chunk of my disposable income to shareholders.

I have throws over all chairs and fluffy duvets on the sofa. Fluffy sheets, and 2 duvets on each bed and a spare.

When the house is too cold, I press the 1 hour only heating button, put a timer on my phone and turn it off after 20 minutes. The residual heats works well.

I'm a bit of a control freak and don't like the unknown. This way, I know roughly what I use month, and no nasty surprises.

I would invest in spare 13.5 tog or 15 tog duvets. It's much cheaper than using energy, and you can put them away for next year.

This fascinates me how people have their thermostat set at 18 and feel any heat? Am not wanting insult anyone but do the radiators even get warm at that temperature?

Yes, they're burning hot. if yours don't even get warm then I suspect there's something wrong with your heating!

Well I guess it depends how cold your house goes down to as to whether the radiators get warm at that temperature! I know mine do!

This fascinates me how people have their thermostat set at 18 and feel any heat? Am not wanting insult anyone but do the radiators even get warm at that temperature? In last couple weeks I have ours switching on weekdays 6-7.30am at 21.5 (admittedly we are sweating by then but it will soon get colder mornings and I WFH so like to build up warmth a little) and this last week set at 22 degrees from 4-8pm. I have to get into bed by 9/9.30 as it gets too cold downstairs!

Normally only heat room the family are in (electric heater) but have thermostat at 10 degrees to hopefully stop pipes freezing.

Finally had to turn heating on today for one hour as it got too cold even my heated blanket was struggling.

My husband sets it to go on in the mornings up to 21° so by 8am I’m bloody boiling
if I’m home during the day at the moment I don’t really have it on because I’m usually doing housework so don’t get cold

but he would have it on all day

I’m constantly turning it down or off because he’s always putting it on

I’ve had mine on twice so far, 2wks ago when it got to freezing. I’m in a flat and it’s still 20-21 in my flat presently, so no need for heating right now. Beauty of flat living, plenty of downsides but this is one of the benefits

Have only put it on once or twice so far. Luckily we are in the SW so it hasn't been that cold. I WFH and use a heated throw which is fantastic.

We have hive and I have it set to 18 over night and 20/21 during the day. Husband works from home, and I am here most of the time with our 3 year old. If we cold, it's going on as I don't want to be miserable. So far it's around 3-4hrs a day.

HIVE controls:
Weekdays
6:15-7am @ 18°C
5:45-630pm @ 18°C
730-10pm @ 18°C

Weekend
8-11am @ 18°C
4-1030pm @ 18°C

When not on, it's at the frost protection temperature - 7°C!
We'll manually bump the temperature if things do feel a bit chilly.

Ours is off all day still. Dont use the thermostat. I'm up at 6am wfh and 3 others in bed before work and 6th form. They would sweat, so I am dressing gown, coffee and fluffy slippers. I get dressed warmly when they leave. It goes on for them coming in from work at about 5pm till about 9pm but only if cold. I don't normally turn it on till I'm cold. They would ask me to put it on if they were cold and I would. Its only been on twice this month so far. I have credit saved up so that's not an issue.