Talk to me about how you have your thermostat set....

[Cerseilannisterinthesnow]

Now it’s getting colder?

New combi boiler installed in April with a thermostat you can take from room to room (Honeywell)

It has 2 settings so a morning and night and obviously what you set at the end of the second setting is what the temp will be kept at until the next set time it’s due to come on so I have mine as follows:

On at 6.50 set for 17oc
Off at 7.50 set for 14oc (this is when I leave for work)

The heating is then set to come back on at 6.30 set for 18oc and off again at 8.30 set for 15oc overnight.

What does everyone else keep theirs set at? Do I have it too high overnight? I did have it at 13oc over night for a while but found it very cold. I obviously don’t want to be using the oil willy nilly so interested to see how others do it?

For info it’s an old farm cottage, solid sandstone walls, double glazed, roof insulation done recently

13 is really freezing. 15/16 is probably a good minimum to keep it at times when you're asleep or nobody is there. In a stone cottage you will struggle to get it warm from cold so you want to keep it at a medium temperature all the time.

Personally 18 is too cold for me, I like it at 20 or higher but I appreciate it's expensive.

We have ours set to 15 but it's totally inaccurate and seems to result in a temperature of about 21.

18oc is fine for us at the moment, we have a coal fire which we use also so move the thermostat out of the living room when it’s on so it really only heats the bedrooms in the evenings, it may be out higher If the temps get any colder though!

Wow, that's cold. We have ours set to 16 at night 11-7 and when we're out 9-3, then 19 the rest of the time. However, if we do move it into a cold/hot spot rather than turn it up or down depending on the time of year. So, in the summer it's on a shelf in the sun and so never comes on. In the winter, we quite often put it in a drafty spot near the back door to give it a boost.

I have mine off at night and when we are out. It comes on about an hour or so before we get in and get up. I have it set at 22 as I am always freezing and our house is a bugger to heat.

I don’t set the thermostat, I just turn the heating on when I need it. I’m up and out the house within 30 mins in the morning so I don’t need it on then, will pop it on for a couple of hours in the evening.
Baby monitor currently showing 17 in the bedroom. Ended up sleeping with my leg out the duvet last night as I was too hot.

Ours is set to 23 day and night. It's an electric system though, in an insulated house. It wouldn't fall by much overnight even if it were off.

My heating goes off overnight, can’t bear to sleep with it on. There are frost settings to stop house dropping below 5 though.

I think the times when you are actively heating the house sound wrong. If you leave house at 7.50 then I’d have heating come on and go off earlier. So for example if I got up at 6.50 to leave at 7.50 I’d do heating from 6.30-7.30. Also unless you go to bed incredibly early then 8.30 sounds too early for the night. Mine goes off around 10ish.

I have four zones and thermostats covered by two boilers. The thermostats are set to 22 for when the heating is on, but I also switch off radiators in rooms we don’t use (spare bedrooms etc).

15 overnight and through the day but it rarely kicks in as the house is insulated so the thermostat rarely shows below 17. How very when I’m home it’s st 22 but Agsin it doesn’t run constant and only fires up when it drops below they. I am a cold person.

I have mine set to 13.5c. But that's just because of where the thermostat is, major pain in the arse. Thermostat is in hallway just inside front door, we live in a 3 story so downstairs heats up and turns the heating off before it's warmed through the top floor where ds sleeps, but if I leave it on long enough yo heat top floor then middle floor where dd sleeps is like a furnace.

Mine is at 27, though I turn it off at night.
I hate being cold.

Triple glazed large bungalow so heat is pretty well retained, or that's the theory..
In fact, I switch the heating on to max, so 32 when I get up, turn down to 20 after a couple of hours,turn it off when I go out and back to..dunno..depends..when I get back.
Never on at night cos I've got a warm and cosy bed
BUT I'm severely disabled now so don't/can't move around much.
And I've always been a 'cold' person.

Set to 18c for the morning when I get up and the same for 2hrs or so in the evenings
Rest of the time and overnight it won't kick in at all unless it drops below 5c (frost protection thing)

Mornings it comes on about 15 mins before I get up, for an hour so off before I leave the house
Evenings I think it's set 6.30 - 8.30pm

I'm not sure why anyone would change the thermostat between summer and winter, tbh - I don't change my preferred temp seasonally. We keep ours at 17.5 when we want heat and 12 when we don't, that works right for our thermostat location. We have thermostatic valves on the radiators in the other rooms to set a local max too.

With mine being such an old solid house it does get cold during the day if I didn’t have it set I’ve seen it be at 12oc when I come in so that’s why I keep it at 14oc during the day just now as thought it would use less energy/oil heating up from 14oc then from cold?

I also have the temp on the actual boiler set at 65oc so that it condenses

Mine is set to 22C all day (husband works at home) and 18C all night. Anywhere below 18 feels too cold to me

Old Victorian sandstone house. Heating is constantly set at 19 in winter. If the room temperature falls below 17 it takes hours to reach 19 again and the house starts to feel damp.

We have 4 zones with 4 thermostats that control a mixture of wet underfloor heating and radiators. We also have a wood burner. My bedroom radiator is rarely on as I need a cold room. Spare bedroom radiators are on the lowest frost free setting.