Thermostat at 18 degrees

I'm with you OP, 18 degrees is perfect for the house during the day. I can make bread or do the ironing and not overheat. If I'm watching TV late at night I might pull the rug from the back of the sofa but that's all. DS is happy too.

Off at night. We live in a Victorian house with good double glazing and thoroughly insulated upper floor and lofts.

If my ex comes to the house, he whines endlessly about being cold but refuses to put on a sweater so I have no sympathy.

But then he whines if it's windy, raining, frosty, snowy, too hot, too sunny.... I realised, several years too late that he's a complete wimp. 🙄

Sitting here in woolly socks, warm trousers, t-shirt, knitted top, padded gilet and velvet Mistral coat. Thermostat set to 17.5c. It currently claims we're at 15.8c. It's OK.

My smart meter (turned to the wall generally ) says my bill from (presumably) midnight on Sunday is £22. I live in a 1970s two bedroom house built when warm air blown central heating was considered a good idea. So... walls and floors with vents for the air fllow and NO nice solid heat-retaining infrastructure. (Replaced with a combi boiler and radiators but still...) Sigh.

19 here. Off at night and only on upstairs if it’s freezing outside. Well insulated house with new roof so retains heat well.

My hive is set at 22. My boys room consistently shows at 24.
18 would be too cold for me🙈

Budget restricts thermostat to 17degrees usually, would choose 20+ if money were no object! Sometimes it is boosted when I know it’s really chilly - when all 4 dogs are sitting on my lap!!

My thermostat is in the hallway, and set to 15. If I have visitors, I turn it up to 16 or 17. Also, my boiler is in my garage, and if the temperature in there drops below 5, the boiler fires up to protect itself and the pipes. It’s really irritating, as I don’t want it to be on overnight, but I can’t change it. Dread the winter bills though 😳

Mines set to 15 but is in a cupboard so not sure how accurate it is. If it feels chilly I set it to get to 15.5. DH always sets it to get to 20 and it ends up roasting and have to turn it off. The rest of the house is always cold though, just the living room warms up. Joys of an older house with random draughts.

I have mine set to come on in the morning and at tea-time to 21.5 In between if it drops below 18, then it comes on.

If I am working from home, I can’t cope with 18, it’s far too cold. I’d be putting a coat, gloves, scarf and thermal socks on at anything less than 18.

I am exceptionally lucky that I don’t have to worry about my gas and electric bills. They average £138 a month.

DP read about that.

I've been trying to convince him ever since that I'm the best person to say if I'm cold, not some bloke with a fancy job. And if I wake up struggling to breathe from the suffocating heat of him turning it on to 23 at night ever again, I'm waking him up to go and switch it off.

Another vote for 23, I like to be warm and cosy!

Can you not see that walking from one place to another is entirely different from sitting watching TV or working on a laptop?

Ours would take all day to get to 18. 17 is about tops for us. It's fine. Our heating bill was £300 last month. Ludicrous

I have it set at 18 during the day when we are moving about but 19 in the evening when we are sitting down. 16 overnight because if it gets too hot at night it triggers my asthma.

Mine is set at 22.5, but I like it to be around 23. 18 is freezing cold for me. Would struggle to cope with that. Even at night when the heating is off, the temperature rarely falls below 19.

and also that a single thermostat is a scientifically accurate way of measuring temperature right round a house....again who'da thunk it?

I’ve just checked ours and it’s at 16 and we’re not cold 🤷‍♀️ We have no insulation downstairs though and it’s freezing in the winter so anything is better than the temperature down there 😂 Saying that though I always hated it when my parents put the heating on growing up as I was always too hot and it made me feel awful 🥵

Ours is set to 17° most of the time. Boost it to 19° if people feel chilly but only after layers added.

Never heating on at night! Sleep with windows open locked too.

Depends on the house and how insulated it is. Weirdly I turned ours down from 17 to 16 today as I felt quite warm. 17 is enough for us, but our energy bill is already near £400 so I am trying to be more careful with having it lower.

Gosh it's almost as if Humans have different levels of sensitivity to heat and cold!

Who'd have thought it? 🙄

Too cold for me, but finances mean the thermostat is generally set to either 16.5 or 17.5. I hate it.

There's already been a couple of the competitive under heaters on tonight 😂
I remember reading a similar thread a few years ago and a poster wrote that her heating was on constantly - set at 8 degrees 😂😂

18 is about as warm as we can get our house, we make 20 occasionally in a smaller room when we have both the fire and the heating on.

So 18 for me is warm and only happens in the evening. The small ‘warm’ room is around 12-13 degrees in the day. Upstairs is colder still. I’d be happy with 16-18.

No thermostat but a room thermometer and a large draughty old house that’s listed so limited options.

I like 21.5….don’t mind 18 overnight. Some rooms are cooler though. Our bedroom we have radiator on low and it’s 17c no way is 18c toasty! I wear thermals everyday from around Oct-April with wool over top and uggs. I think I run really cold

18 during the day, 16 at night. Well insulated house, any warmer and I feel like I am melting (don’t do well in summer at all!).