How warm is your house?

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I'm currently sitting in my noticeably chilly sitting room, cuddling the dog and resisting putting the heating on.

According to the thermometer, it's 16°C in here. It usually hovers around 18°C, which I find comfortable, but we've had the window open.
This might not be particularly astonishing, but I usually find other people's homes far, far too warm. So I was idly wondering what kind of temperature others prefer to heat their homes to.

Thick walled 200 year old cottage. It’ll reach 19 degrees which we are comfortable with. Don’t heat our bedroom at all but when the sitting room fire is on the heat travels up and it’s not needed upstairs. I’m a fan of putting extra layers on if cold. Oil can be pricey.
Grew up with no central heating and can’t stand overheated houses. Too stuffy and cannot breathe.
Those of you with 24 degrees, blimey!

Everyone is different. As others have said already, I grew up in a non centrally heated house, just the open fire in the living room, and the frost on the window panes was something else. But we survived!

I cannot think of anything worse than an overheated house. Just need to be comfortably warm. I do understand that everyone is different WRT heat levels.

Log burner plus free wood- it’s a good 25C+ in our lounge most winter evenings. Would be less if it needed paying for!

NB carbon neutral as wood grown over the road, sawn and wheelbarrowed over here by hand

18-20°

I have the thermostat set at 23, Ihate being cold.

Heating normally on between 16 and 18 anything hotter would be too much and ridiculously expensive as heating is via our oil tank, just checked nest app and tend to have it on about 4hours a day.

If it’s on it’s usually at 20 but sometimes 21.

Currently 19.5 C and I’m a bit cold but could go and get my dressing gown if I was that cold. Don’t have the heating in overnight so it drops to about 15 C.
We’ve got a Hive so I think it’s fairly accurate compared to our old one which said it was heating to 24/25 but definitely wasn’t.

@Cocolapew me too. I feel the cold intensely and its miserable. I always find other people's houses freezing and have to keep my coat on!

Wow, what a range! On balance there definitely seem to be more people who are happy with similar temperatures to me. So how do I always seem to manage to visit people who like to be roasting? (It's usually damp too, so like a sauna and my glasses steam up!)

I suppose actually, it's when it makes you uncomfortable that you really notice though - whoever said they could turn the heating up to 30°, I'm horrified! Tbf, I don't like it when it gets above about 23° in summer.

But like a lot of posters, I grew up in a damp part of the Uk in a house without central heating or the money to run it if we had it. Miss a fire or a log burner though - room like an oven because of the way the wind's blowing. Or one side of you toasty and the other side still freezing.

The flat I'm in now, very far away from all that, is mostly heated by our neighbours I think. We have heating pipes running through which are warm to the touch, so we must benefit from that.

We have crazy storage heaters (all electric block of flats) on a wacky economy 10 rate (not E7, we get additional afternoon cheap electricity to boost evenings) ... but once you understand properly how they work and keep an eye on the weather they are surprisingly good and quite efficient.

It's 21.6 in the living room currently, about right for me although a touch warm for DH.

About 22 in the lounge, much cooler everywhere else.

16°C at the moment. It feels cool tbh but I have my thermals and a jumper on as well as thick socks and a blanket. We might turn it up for an hour later on before turning it down to 14°C overnight.

It’s 19.6 in here and it feels very cold to me. I’d be happier if it was a couple of degrees warmer.

I like the term competitive shiverers Roomba. I'm trying not to be one! I definitely think anyone who has to sit still in one place and work or be ill or whatever deserves more heat. I'm just not convinced that anyone needs to sit around in just pants and a T-shirt in February. Especially not my OH while I succumb to heat exhaustion. So I got a thermometer to point at while scoffing about how warm it is to back up my argument.

But then I wasn't sure what other people thought was a reasonable temperature.

Don't have a thermostat but the thermometer says its 22 degrees, will be a bit colder than that upstairs but not much.

I can't bear it when houses are kept colder though, I spent one winter living in an old cottage that didn't have central heating, just wood fires - it would drop to around 11 or 12 degrees in the night so I'd wake up freezing cold to light the kitchen stove and huddle around it with DD to warm up. The upstairs wasn't liveable, would get below 0 even, I left a packet of wipes on the stairs and they froze solid!

thermostat Is set to 18.5 degrees in the morning and evening, 17 during the day, 9 degrees during the night. I put on a jumper if I’m chilly.

My thermostat is in the living room and set to 22. I still sit under a blanket but DH sits in pants only and DS has shorts and a t shirt on right now so I guess it must be warm but any colder and I would need hat and gloves on. It’s lower overnight and I restrict myself to 20.5 during the day.

It’s not competitive for me at all - as stated on this thread...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3805302-How-often-do-you-air-the-house-in-this-weather

...I simply prefer fresh air and feeling cool rather than hot, and my OH is the same. We can’t sleep if it’s stuffy or hot, so we never heat our bedroom. However if we have people visiting we always ask if they prefer it warmer and will adjust the heating accordingly.

I can’t stand being cold sitting in the house. Heating on and a wood burner in the winter evenings. Probably about 23/24 degrees, maybe more.

Lounge is maybe 24 currently as log burner got a bit toasty. Hall says 20 and is usually set to 18/19. Upstairs radiators are off other than bathroom. Love the log burner heat but not a fan of a radiator heat. Still- some of you have it bloody freezing! 14 degrees is nippy even with slippers and jumpers and fleece on. I know because that’s what I try for when WFH and it’s often just too cold and can’t feel my fingers

We're out of oil, so until the nice man comes tomorrow the living room and baby's room are 15 edging down (two outside walls and a dodgy window seal respectively), rest of upstairs is at about 18 and will hopefully hold most of that heat overnight.

Usually we keep it somewhere around 18-20 depending on how chilly people are feeling/how many components of clothing baby has figured out how to take off.

Need to get the oil people to put us on an automatic quarterly delivery!

Need to get the oil people to put us on an automatic quarterly delivery!
We have a monitor that goes into the tank from the company we get the oil from (certas energy), means we can check how much were using on the app and we have it set so they deliver whenever we get below a certain percent, life changer! Before that we were always running out.

It’s currently 22 in our lounge , thermostat is usually set at 21/22 but I do turn it up if I’m cold during the day , I don’t like wearing a lot of layers .