Page 3 | Thermostat at 18 degrees

Sally20099 · 20/02/2025 17:47

SmileEachDay · 19/02/2025 19:21

My sister is telling me I’m a freak - but any hotter is awful, surely?

YABU - team sister
YANBU - me and the correct answer

Brrrrr - 20 to 20.5 downstairs and 19 upstairs for us. Everyone’s different though and that’s what makes the world so interesting and fun

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/02/2025 13:15

HarryVanderspeigle · 20/02/2025 13:04

No one else does, it's my house and my boiler. I just turn it on and off on the boiler switch when we want heat. Have been able to program every other boiler anywhere I lived, it's just this bastard! Got a stupid circle touch pad like the original ipod's and never managed to get it to do anything.

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Ooh all sympathy. I could never work a friend’s ipod. Maybe whe boiler serviced can help in due course.

HarryVanderspeigle · 20/02/2025 13:04

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/02/2025 09:01

Is there someone in the house who does? Get them to show you. Please don't se-skill yourself.

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No one else does, it's my house and my boiler. I just turn it on and off on the boiler switch when we want heat. Have been able to program every other boiler anywhere I lived, it's just this bastard! Got a stupid circle touch pad like the original ipod's and never managed to get it to do anything.

RampantIvy · 20/02/2025 09:12

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/02/2025 09:01

Is there someone in the house who does? Get them to show you. Please don't se-skill yourself.

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Or get the plumber to show you when you get your boiler serviced.

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/02/2025 09:01

HarryVanderspeigle · 19/02/2025 19:27

I don't know how to use my thermostat, but with heating on a while it would usually be 17-20. Would often be 15 or lower getting in from work in winter. I presume the thermostat is doing something as it doesn't go to 30 or anything silly if we leave the heating on .

Is there someone in the house who does? Get them to show you. Please don't se-skill yourself.

tedibear · 20/02/2025 08:49

18 I imagine is lower than average. Mine is set to 20.5 which means it gets to 21 degrees then goes off. It's not on all day all night usually but mostly. Timer is set at 7am and goes off at 10pm but I sometimes take it off timer if it feels hot enough. Not often these days though sometimes I look at it as I'm so cold and it's saying 19 degrees and I'm like really 🤔 I'm frozen 😞

Augustus40 · 20/02/2025 07:52

17 degrees is hot in this house as it is very warm. Double glazing cavity wall insulation loft etc and keeps the bill low too.

Hazylazydays · 20/02/2025 07:49

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 19/02/2025 23:26

I also think that it makes a difference what you have become used to. I do love my central heating, and it’s obviously the norm now for most people, but I grew up in the 50’s, with ice inside the windows and frost on the eiderdown from my breath every winter. Only the kitchen was warm from the little boiler in the corner. And guess what, we survived!!

lol our house was like that too but I really can’t remember being bothered by it, we had a coal fire in the lounge.
now I’m a wimp and like it at 23 when I’m sitting at night, 19/20 in the daytime.

DecafDodger · 20/02/2025 07:16

RampantIvy · 20/02/2025 06:41

I disagree.
We had no central heating in our first house, and would wake up to ice on the inside of the windows in the winter. I survived but was was utterly miserable.

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Same here. I still remeber it vividly, shivering under blankets. As long as I can afford to keep a comfortably warm home for my kids, I will do that.

Bagwyllydiart · 20/02/2025 06:43

Mine is at 16, and I still feel too warm.

RampantIvy · 20/02/2025 06:41

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 19/02/2025 23:26

I also think that it makes a difference what you have become used to. I do love my central heating, and it’s obviously the norm now for most people, but I grew up in the 50’s, with ice inside the windows and frost on the eiderdown from my breath every winter. Only the kitchen was warm from the little boiler in the corner. And guess what, we survived!!

I disagree.
We had no central heating in our first house, and would wake up to ice on the inside of the windows in the winter. I survived but was was utterly miserable.

User19876536484 · 20/02/2025 06:35

SmileEachDay · 20/02/2025 06:12

TWENTY SIX DEGREES is the highest on here I think.

That’s swimming in the sea temperature.

AND more than half of you agree with my sister.

I do not know what to do with this.

Surely you just do what suits you? I’m not going to turn up our thermostat by ten degrees because somebody else on MN prefers a very warm house.

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SmileEachDay · 20/02/2025 06:12

TWENTY SIX DEGREES is the highest on here I think.

That’s swimming in the sea temperature.

AND more than half of you agree with my sister.

I do not know what to do with this.

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Spanielsaremad · 20/02/2025 06:09

ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/02/2025 22:33

12 degrees is dangerous and unhealthy. You're risking hypothermia.

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I've worked from home at this temperature for years. I've had maybe 2 colds in my whole life, no other illnesses. You're being ridiculous.

chocolatemademefat · 20/02/2025 00:19

Mine is at 23 - and I sit with a heated throw. If I had to choose between heating and eating I’d rather starve.

godmum56 · 20/02/2025 00:17

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 19/02/2025 23:26

I also think that it makes a difference what you have become used to. I do love my central heating, and it’s obviously the norm now for most people, but I grew up in the 50’s, with ice inside the windows and frost on the eiderdown from my breath every winter. Only the kitchen was warm from the little boiler in the corner. And guess what, we survived!!

I lived in a house like that too and we all fucking hated it.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 19/02/2025 23:58

I have digital thermometers in some rooms. I like 19-20 in the living room, 17-18 ok elsewhere and 15 in the bedroom at night. Obviously in warmer weather the heating is set lower to achieve these temperatures.

LondonLawyer · 19/02/2025 23:57

16.5 degrees on bedroom floor, 18 on living floor, I am taking no questions because this is the correct setting.

XenoBitch · 19/02/2025 23:51

Mine is set to 14, and I am comfy in that. I set it to 10 when I go to bed. My ex would have it set to 22 (he had Reynaud's).

ProfessionalPirate · 19/02/2025 23:33

This is an impossible question for us to answer because ‘18’ will feel very different in different houses, depending on the location of the thermostat (not just which rooms, but it’s height and proximity to any radiators or other heat sources) any drafts which will make the temperature feel lower, and thermostats themselves are generally not very accurate (as anyone that has used a room thermometer alongside a thermostat will know).

I live in quite a large house with 6 different ‘zones’ under separate thermostat control, and they all have to be set to different temperatures to achieve the same feeling of warmth.

PrepParent33 · 19/02/2025 23:28

I know I'm going to be at the extreme end of the scale here, but I find 14 degrees is perfect for me in the evenings. No heating during the day or at night. At night I like to sleep with the window wide open.

I think I may have been a penguin or a polar bear in a previous life 😂

AlternativeView · 19/02/2025 23:27

I think we are over 20 between 20 and 25 it comes in am and then pm and we boost the heat in the day if we are in, the boost is for a an hour.

We pay about 170 to 190 a month...

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 19/02/2025 23:26

I also think that it makes a difference what you have become used to. I do love my central heating, and it’s obviously the norm now for most people, but I grew up in the 50’s, with ice inside the windows and frost on the eiderdown from my breath every winter. Only the kitchen was warm from the little boiler in the corner. And guess what, we survived!!

LBFseBrom · 19/02/2025 23:25

I might have it on at 18 during the night, I do usually turn the heating down before bed because it is extremely warm in my place, don't notice the temperature though. I tend to wake very early and it is reasonable but I turn the heating up, go back to bed and it's really nice when I finally get up. Usually 23/24.

Vaxtable · 19/02/2025 23:24

Mine comes in at 17. In the evening I switch it up to 18 but only once so far have I put it to 19. 18s about right for me