To ask what's your heating situation?

At the moment ours is set to 16 10.30am-6pm, then the log burner is lit. We're happy with that at the moment and us more economical than using two oil-filled radiators like we did last year (both home workers) during the day with the bonus that the whole house is warm

I live in a newbuild insulated building. The building stays warm enough not to need the heating on. Most homes here get way too hot in the summer.

My flat has radiators if I need them. We have some bizarre heating system where every single block in the newly developed area is piped with boiling hot water. So that keeps the (entire post code and) buildings warm in and of itself but it's meant to be low cost if used. I never use it.

I have a small portable halogen heater just to take the edge off on very cold days. I like the orange colour.

I am really sorry to read that you are living in such a cold state. You need to get your heating replaced and to get some form of grant or assistance for this. It is extremely bad for your health quite apart from being a miserable way to live, to be sitting in the cold. Please contact your local council. They have a household support budget for people who need a hand and there may also be other forms of grant or subsidy they would know about. Please don't continue like this but seek out help and support right away. You don't need to suffer such awful misery.

Not on yet.
have got the winter duvet out and quilts.
we also have a Lakeland drier now and that heats the living room really well! I love it.

I don’t like being too hot at night so when it gets really cold I’ll have the heating on in the bedrooms before we go to bed and then off after that

Can't believe the amount of time a lot of posters have their heating on! We won't be getting very far with solving climate change if this thread is anything to go by! We're only just past October and it hasn't been particularly cold at all yet. Why on earth would you need it on all day unless you had a medical condition that required it?
We have ours on for a couple of hours in the evening if needed, maybe more on a cold day at the weekend and occasionally on the coldest days, an hour in the morning. Wouldn't dream of having it on overnight when we're all tucked up under duvets. We live in a 1980s house so not a super insulated new build but honestly think we'd melt if we had it on as much as some on here. Seems very wasteful.
To OP, it doesn't sound like you're being excessive and you're right, 15 is too low to be comfortable.

Also if my house got to 14/15//16 for long periods like others are saying then my house would get damp and mouldy.

People have their heating so low! I have 17 at night and 21 all day.. it gets so chilly otherwise

On a timer 6am -8am an then 5pm until 10pm. Set at 20

I’m always cold, I’m quite thin and feel every bit of cold in my house so I have it set to 22 degrees in the morning from 6-7:30, I’m gone then all day for work and don’t get home until around 4:30pm after collecting DD from Afterschool so I have it set for 30 mins at 22 degrees from 4-4:30 then again at 6-8 22 degrees. The rest of the time it kicks in if temp drops below 19 to heat the room to 19.

Currently set to 19°. It comes on whenever it drops below that (have a hive). Might consider popping it back down to 18°, we turned it up a week or so back when we had covid.

Only downstairs coming on at the moment, and I expect that to mostly be the case unless it gets really cold outside. Upstairs usually runs at 1° warmer.

Have toyed with the idea of turning it off overnight, but it seems maybe a false economy to let the house cool significantly and then try to bring it back up to temp everyday. It's on for just short of 2 hrs a day in total. I might experiment to see.

House is 1 year old new build, NW England.

Kicks in when the temperature drops below whatever it’s set to, and using our fire a lot too.

Ours is set at 21 I think <glares at DH> and just clicks on and off as required.

However we live in a small new build which is ridiculously well insulated, so we don't actually use it that much. Both DH and DDog2 hate being cold, so while I make out that I only put up with it to indulge them, I'm actually glad the house is always warm.

We don't have a thermostat for the heating, we have individual thermostatic radiator valves and adjust the heat in each room accordingly; it means that rooms less used are not heated unnecessarily. We are in Scotland and it makes a big difference to how often we need heating; we have a wood burning stove we have had lit for the past month in the afternoon/evenings depending on if we are at home or not. The heating comes on for 2 hours in the morning to make it more comfortable getting up, but we now have the 15tog winter duvet on which is perfect overnight. We have a split heating system so we can have the back of the house, where the kitchen is, heated independently of the rest of the house; it can get to 4oC in there in the winter so we keep the heating on all day in there when it's that cold.

I live in an eco house and the only radiator is the towel rail in the bathroom, the house is currently 17° although if I could I’d have it a few degrees warmer as it feels a bit chilly

Keeping it off as much as possible. Sat in 14.5° lounge all day the other day. Put it on if I have washing to dry quickly or if toddler is here. Other years it's been on constantly from September if not earlier.

Hi, I bought an electric fleece and it’s a real game changer. Just throw it over my legs when doing computer work and watching TV. I just use CH to dry my laundry ( but I am child free)

Currently on for two hours in the morning and the same again at night, plus the odd extra hour if I’m at home and cold. I don’t mind putting a warm jumper on or cosying up on the couch with a blanket, but if I’m still cold doing that then I’m going to put it on. Luckily I’ve built up some credit over the summer so I should be ok this winter.

Air source heat pump here and at least one person at home most of the time.
House is set not to go below 19 (bedrooms) or 21 (daytime downstairs)/19 (night downstairs). It's zoned and only pulls heat when it needs to increase temperature. It mostly holds steady through the day and tends to run between 4 and 7am ish to get up to temp for the day.

None for us yet, we’re in Oodies on the sofa with throws, where needed.
However this weekend we’re sorting out our very ugly but very useful 60 plus year old working oil lamps. We use one in the lounge and one in the upstairs office.
It’s currently 18.4 degrees in our lounge, no heating needed at present.

Not on yet but I'll probably switch it on around Christmas and it will be 18C. For the moment, I'm fine with thick socks and a woolly jumper, plus a sofa blanket

I have ours on for an hour in the morning and couple of hours in the evening at 18. It’s still chilly but if I’m feeling particularly cold I’ll put it up to 19. Last year I was terrified of the bills so had it on 16 all winter. I was freezing the whole time and sat under a duvet most of the time. I really don’t want to do that again this winter, it made me feel ill. I will have to monitor it carefully.

We haven’t even considered putting ours on yet!
im still wearing shorts to work (in care!)
Only last week I got my jumper out to put on in the evenings.
Husband still wears shorts during the day and a t shirt

Last year for the first time I tried to not have my heating on as much and as a consequence my health suffered, cold went straight to my chest - this year I'm not going through that again so I have the heating on set to 22.

Ours is set to come on for an hour in the afternoon downstairs, just before the kids get home, and an hour in the early evening upstairs, just before the kids go to bed. The thermostat is set to 14 degrees but it is in the coldest rooms so the living spaces are more like 17 after the heating has been on.
It is getting chilly if we are at home before the heating is due on though.

I hate being cold. I have my heating on 5am to 8am and 5pm to 11pm. It’s set to 21.
I sometimes put it up.
Can not abide being cold. Won’t do it.