How cold is your house without the heating?

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And how can you make it warmer?

Our previous house dipped as low as 9oC in the winter, averaging at 13oC last year. It had enormous rooms and windows with holes in the single glazing. As it was rented and listed there was little we could do. We stayed active until bedtime. Our children did not notice once they got used to it, I did but I also lived without heating throughout my whole childhood.

We are super insulated and it makes a difference.
At the moment, without heating it's cold, but not uncomfortable. We could get away with extra layers and water bottles and not put on the heating.

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Ours went down to 13c today. Our bedroom windows upstairs were open and the others were on the trickle vent so I suspect that contributed.

This evening was the first time we've had our heating on this autumn. Our thermostat is only set at 15 but it's enough to take the edge off.

No idea but as a pp, our house is very well insulated (because we have basically rebuilt the entire thing), but I also love a warm house.
So the minute I ‘feel cold’ and the heating hasn’t kicked on by itself, I whack it up manually. All the rooms have underfloor heating with individual thermostats so it’s a pain sometimes walking into a room where you haven’t remembered to manually increase the heat but generally I don’t let any room get below about 21. Ideally I like it at 24, dp finds it too warm!

I think it's about 17°C at the mo.

We keep doors closed where possible, curtains and blinds closed before it gets dark and draft excluders on and under the external doors. When we've used the oven, if the children aren't in the kitchen/dining room then we leave the oven door open afterwards so that the heat dissipates into the room and warms it up.

We have warm dressing gowns over our clothes and thick slipper socks on in the house as well as some fleecy blankets to hide under on the settee if it does start to feel nippy later on.

We have no choice but to dry our laundry on the airer, which does make the air cooler I think due to the moisture in the atmosphere, so we use a spin dryer to get rid of and much water as possible before putting it to dry.

Our boiler broke two years ago, in December. It was bloody freezing.

I wear my dressing gown over clothes when it’s too cold, thick socks and flannel style pyjamas for bed.

In terms of warming the house up, pin something like fleece blankets on the back of the curtains. Close curtains early, before it gets dark outside. Keep doors closed and everyone sit in the same room until bedtime. I’m sure others will have more ideas.

Think the lowest I have ever seen the thermostat is 17c. When heating isn't on.

9 or 6 if it was freezing outside 😫

Washing liquid froze whilst we were away

What am I really asking?
Nothing really
I’m just cold- recently moved, big old house.
Struggling getting the balance right. And the controls! The heating works, but I’m surprised at how cold the house is without it. It’s not drafty.

Freezing! It's a 300 yr old stone cottage with no wall cavity so no insulation and damp. It warms up for about two weeks in August! It's a gorgeous looking house, but cold - was actually nice during this hot summer.

The log burner in the living room, elec blankets to warm the bed up and hot water bottles all night work for us.

Today it was 13. We were DIYing so the heating was off as we were in and out. Now quite cosy as the heating has been on for the last few hours - ours is set for 18.

It's been 3.5 degrees outside today so heating been on all day. Without heating it would be hypothermia conditions.

Apparently a candle can increase the temperature of an average room with decent insulation by one degree F.

Goes to about 18c downstairs and 16 upstairs in feb. Atm goes no colder than 20 and 18

We haven't put the heating on yet this autumn, it's currently 19 degrees in the living room.

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This is what you need - yard long hot water bottles

It went down to 12 one day before we had various work done, and someone left the bathroom window open all day. Since then we have:

Replaced all the doors and windows (bar the massive velux, ugh) - the previous windows were double glazed but old, and some were blown; the glass panelled front door was single glazed.
Insulated the loft to a better spec, and put some insulation over the downstairs loo (single storey)
Had cavity wall insulation done - house is of an age where it should have had it, but didn’t
Thermal lined curtains in open plan living area (big windows)
Upgrade two out of the three radiators in the living area
Kickspace heater in the kitchen
Gas fire (faux woodburner) in the living area

The fire is lovely, looks really nice and has a remote control, but we rarely use it as the house is much warmer now!

Smart thermostat is set to 20.5 when we’re in during the day, 16 overnight and when we’re out. I don’t believe it’s ever kicked in during the night.

It says it was 11 degrees inside today before i put the heating on. Yesterday it was 9. I've just changed pyjamas to ones that are a bit tighter on me and I feel loads warmer. I have put the heating on now but it took ages to warm up.
My child hardly feels it! Was out without a coat today!!

Victorian house in Scotland and it goes down to single figures in winter. Insulate everything (under floors, loft, round doors). But also just wear more clothes - I
often wear a cardigan over a jumper!

Too cold. Old house, single glazing, drafts.

I had to put the heating on today, but we haven't needed it until this week.

Freezing. It's double glazed but it's a rented flat and isn't insulated plus there's no central heating. I have storage heaters and they're not much use to be honest.

DS and I layer up in the winter and have 2 duvets each on our beds.

In summer it's like an oven as there's nowhere for the heat to circulate so we can never get the right balance!

About 10 ... last winter over new year. Left house with no gwaring on for 5 days. Was so cold to come home to (did check thermostat out of interest! ), took hours to gear up. But that was with no snow, just normal chilli weather. It is a cold house tho.

I have a nice warm house now but once lived in a student flat where it must have got below 7 degrees because my olive oil went cloudy - it said on the label ‘may become cloudy at temperatures below 7c’. It was soooo cold and the landlord was useless.

Fecking freezing! Bloody hate our house, it costs a fortune to heat