If you work from home, what setting do you have on your thermostat?

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I find that sitting still, I feel chilly if the temperature is under 19.5 - 20⁰C. As the room I work in is north facing, this means having my heating on for several hours a day at the moment. What's your preferred working temperature?

I have to set it high - 22 degrees, because I have air source heating which takes hours to warm up. If I set it at 20 as soon as the temp gets to 20 the air source pumps stop, and won't be triggered again until temp falls to 19 - and wouldn't actually be warm again for several hours (by which time it would be 17 degrees)

21 but just the room we're in. The rest are all off.

21° all day. I can't stand being cold. I lived for 15 years in a freezing house without central heating and I'm not prepared to compromise on comfort. I work from home most of the time though I do have an office as well.

21C

Ours is 19. Tbh today was bit chilly. Might stick it up a bit tomorrow

I like it at 21c I don’t always have it up to that, but 20c would be my minimum.

No heating on yet, I use a blanket, hot water bottle and thick socks.

I dont wfh but I am at home in the day

House is 23 degrees all day as long as someone is in. If nobody is in then it's off. Rooms which I don't use have the radiators off eg sons room until he comes home from school. Office because nobody uses it.
Rest of the house is heated

Interestingly I had a discussion with my DC about this when my fixed price ended and my bill was due to shoot up. I told them I'm turning it down this year, we can still crank it up if they are cold but only if they are dressed appropriately. No coming to me 'freezing' in a t shirt in November thanks.

I have it set to 17 when they are around and 16 when it's just me during the day. After the first couple of days of definitely wrapping up warm we've all got used to it and don't notice it now. I bought us all warm boot style slippers and hoodies / jumpers / blankets are a plenty in this house.

I put it up to 18 one evening when we all felt the chill and we were too warm! It's amazing what you get used to. And also it's looking like my bill will now stay the same instead of shooting up, yay

I'm retired so what I'm reading above is my normal daily life living on a state pension. Heating doesn't go on at all until about 3.30, just before it gets dark, and then I whoosh it up to 21° until about 7pm when it goes off and stays warm until an early bedtime. During the day I wear a thick velour dressing gown over many layers and fingerless gloves. Sometimes I walk up to the public library and warm up. I feel the cold a lot more now I'm older, it's no fun.

16-17 degrees first thing and then off as long as I can bear it. Comes back on when it gets dark and colder.

6-7am 18 degrees, then back down to 16 until 5pm when it's back to 18 until 7pm.

I work in a thick jumper and under a blanket. I'm so worried about how we will afford the huge increase in energy bills as it is

When I was working in an office, commuting cost me £30 per week. That’s without adding in lunches, coffees etc. So, if I spend £30 a week extra on heating for a few cold weeks, then I’m no worse off,

I mentioned on another thread that I’m on a payg meter and I seem to spend far less than people I know paying a monthly charge. Despite my house only being single glazed. The other advantage of payg is that if I do find I’m using it too quickly I can make adjustments.

At the moment it’s fine. I have it on 20 for a few hours in the morning/afternoon and it’s costing me less than £20 a week. Can’t say exactly as I have been putting on around £30 every 10 days or so, but now have about £50 in credit in there. I don’t have the heating on in the evenings though as I run hot at night and like to get the house cold before bed.

16 which means in practice the heating is off as it’s usually around 18 due to retained heat. I work in a west facing room. The only issue is that the windows are a bit draughty.

17/18, I don’t like a roasting hot house. Would rather wear a hoodie/leggings/thick socks … when we go into our neighbours I feel like I can’t breath with the heat, red hot radiators . That’s hot not angry!

Set to 19C 7am-10pm here. That generally feels ok most of the time; i usually boost it to 21 for an hour around dinnertime and then it drops as the evening goes on. We are spending more on heat since WFH but less on petrol and coffees, lunches etc - i think overall we’re still a bit better off.

22. I like it warm.

I hate feeling cold, during the day if it goes below 20 the heating flicks on. I live in a very well insulated new build though and it stays warm for ages.

I've also got a little oil filled radiator which works well if I'm feeling a bit chilly.

Idris, I nearly gave up on them tbh, took absolutely ages to calibrate one of them but oddly the second one (in my office) calibrated instantly - no idea why.

It works, really well, no connection issues. My office is in the attic so being able to switch the radiator on from my phone or iPad without going down two flights of stairs works for me.

Having said that my oil filled radiator was fine too.

They are often on offer at Hive direct.

Heating on at 22-25 for the hour the kids are getting up and out then it's off for the day until 4pm for an hour or two when they come back. The residual lasts pretty much until bedtime.

I agree I can't justify heating the whole house just for me but I have been known to work in bed under big duvet

Im on a coal fore.. we put one on in the morning every day at the minute. If we were in the office we still would have put one on as it takes hours to kick in so coming home to a freezing cold house in the evening wasn't nice.

@Talith

Heating on at 22-25 for the hour the kids are getting up and out then it's off for the day until 4pm for an hour or two when they come back. The residual lasts pretty much until bedtime.

I agree I can't justify heating the whole house just for me but I have been known to work in bed under big duvet

Don’t you have radiators that can be switched on and off? I just turn the radiators off in the rooms I’m not using.

19.5 24 hours a day. DH WFH permanently and is physically disabled, and cold affects him significantly.
We had it on 20 last year, off over the summer, put it on in September, but tried lower to see if we could adapt, and it's been ok. The number of times the boiler kicks in is definitely far fewer at 19.5 than 20. When DD was very ill a couple of weeks ago, and at home all day in pyjamas, we had to turn it up a bit.

I don't actually know the temperature. Our boiler has a knob with a 1 to 6 scale for heat for the hot water system, and the same for the central heating. I have it set to a 4.

Heating is on between 5am and 9am, then goes off, comes back on at 4pm and off at 10.30pm. I'd have it on less but we live in an uninsulated Georgian flat with massive (and massively leaky) single glazed sash windows, facing north and halfway up a hill in Edinburgh.

I enquired once about having the windows upgraded so they were better at keeping the heat in. 'Upwards of £75k' was the answer. So I just turn the heating up instead, it's cheaper.