If all the heating in your house was switched off, how cold would it get?

[sotty6]

Our spare room is down to 9.9 degrees!

The living room would probably get down to whatever it is outside! Thanks to subsidence we have an ill fitting front door with massive gaps (door opens into living room, right next to the stairs!), and sash windows which also don't shut properly! Can literally feel the wind! We are awaiting new ones, window company say they may be fitted before Christmas so fingers crossed! Rest of the house wouldn't be too bad.

Aga and multifuel stoves are our main source of heat with central heating that takes the edge off the cold in other rooms.

Without any the temperature today inside would be between 9 and 12 depending on the aspect of the room.

We keep our thermostat downstairs, switch the heating off about 10pm, and then I work in a room on our middle floor which I have an oil fired rad in (everyone else goes to work/school, so not worth heating the whole house just for me).

I put the heating on downstairs about 3.30 for everyone coming home - it's usually around 11-12.5 downstairs at that time at the moment! That's after about 17/18 hours of no heating, so don't think it would get much lower. We have air vents and open fireplace in the room that the thermostat is in, so its probably the coldest room in the house. Top floor is def the warmest in our house, due to heat rising plus brilliant top floor insulation.

SE England. It's cold outside right now!

Down into single figures as we live in an old house with poor insulation and no double glazing.

I think 14c is the lowest. It's cool in summer and warm in winter (15yo apartment ground floor)

Our coldest spot is the kitchen and currently the temperature in the morning is 12 degrees

@thistimelastweek

Haven't got the means to test accurately.

So at a rough guess, it's fucking freezing.

On the plus side, really cool in summer.

Ditto! I'm in a sandstone house with no insulation in Scotland. It's Perishing. Or, as they say up here: 'Baltic'

My flat is 22 degrees and we haven’t had to have the heating on yet this year although it’s very cold outside ..it’s a new build and baking hot (too hot) in the summer but I appreciate it in the winter. I think we may be getting the benefit of the downstairs neighbours heat too.

Ooh i think at our worst we got to about 11 degrees.

when i first met DH we lived abroad in a cold country. We had multiple power shortages all the time. One night he came home from work to find me sitting on a kitchen chair outside in the snow reading by torch light because it was warmer outside than in.

14 or 15 overnight currently and that's when it's about 2-4 outside. It's usually about 20 when it switches off around 10.30 and the house is well insulated so the heat tends to stay quite well.

17.5 is the lowest I've seen it get, which is much too cold for me!

If left for long enough, the same as outside.
Heating off for 12 hrs overnight, drops to about 14 currently.

Opposite end of the scale, but our AC broke when we were on holiday once. The house was 46C when we got home at 2am.

14 degrees.

@shivermetimbers77

My flat is 22 degrees and we haven’t had to have the heating on yet this year although it’s very cold outside ..it’s a new build and baking hot (too hot) in the summer but I appreciate it in the winter. I think we may be getting the benefit of the downstairs neighbours heat too.

Pretty similar. Not turned the heating on yet and it's currently 20. South facing flat, well insulated with large windows. It did snow here earlier too.

In the summer it is ridiculously hot.

@PillowySoft please tell me more about the balloons as my mum could do with one for her fireplace.

I don't know in the night I've never checked but it's around 13 degrees in the morning when it comes on

Probably around 15 in the main part of the house and 9 in the bathroom. We don’t have the heating on overnight and that’s the lowest I can remember it getting. We are mid terrace so get the heat from both sides as well. Berkshire, Victorian house.

Ours isn't on. I switched it off hours ago because I was too warm and it's now 14 degrees.

Currently finding out as have had no electricity since 7.15pm last night

In this weather it gets to about 15 before I put the heating on but I reckon if I left it off for days it would be around 8

Was 11 when heating broke last year. Didn't check spare room but I imagine that would be around 9

Overnight it’s got as low as 14/15. But that’s when it’s really cold outside

Normally 15/16

I live in a very old grade 2 listed building, it’s oil fired heating so we only put it on once or twice a day (I miss central heating so much!) right now it’s 11 degrees downstairs and 9 degrees upstairs.
This week the house has been around 12.5 degrees during the day, when at home I’ve been wrapped up in many layers and blankets to keep warm to try and save as much oil as possible. The house only gets up to about 15 degrees with the heating on so it’s always too cold for me but we also have a wood burner which helps heat the living room up!

Ahh your houses are all so warm :-)

When we lose power in winter I keep the woodstove burning constantly and I keep a thermometer in the downstairs room that's furthest away. My goal is to keep it above 0C. I usually just about manage but I have to wake up every 3 hours to refuel the stove.

Without a heat source of some kind my house goes below freezing within about 24-36 hours on a typical winter day here.

We now have a generator so as long as we can get petrol we're OK. In a power cut here you can queue for hours for petrol though...

[quote muldersspeedos]@PillowySoft please tell me more about the balloons as my mum could do with one for her fireplace. [/quote]
I can't remember what brand we actually used but they are this type - www.chimneyballoon.co.uk