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!

I wonder if / how many others feel physically sick if the heating is on full blast and all windows shut etc. I can't stand the smell and just the stifling feel of it it knocks me sideways so I layer up and have to have at least one window or the living room / bedroom doors open enough to let air circulate.

I find the dogs struggle in the heat too – one lived outside in kennels his whole life before we re-homed him and the other dog has always been murder for rolling around in freshly mucked out and made stables she'd sleep outside more or less all summer I think given half a chance. We only had one dog that used to love sleeping in one spot on the floor where the heating pipes made a nice little warm spot but otherwise the rest prefer to sleep nude and curl up into tiny balls with their head tucked under their tails.

@PinniGig

I wonder if / how many others feel physically sick if the heating is on full blast and all windows shut etc. I can't stand the smell and just the stifling feel of it it knocks me sideways so I layer up and have to have at least one window or the living room / bedroom doors open enough to let air circulate.

I find the dogs struggle in the heat too – one lived outside in kennels his whole life before we re-homed him and the other dog has always been murder for rolling around in freshly mucked out and made stables she'd sleep outside more or less all summer I think given half a chance. We only had one dog that used to love sleeping in one spot on the floor where the heating pipes made a nice little warm spot but otherwise the rest prefer to sleep nude and curl up into tiny balls with their head tucked under their tails.

I feel physically sick if it's on when I'm not actually cold! 'It's like burning £20 notes' as I say to my DH.

Our little dog never seemed to feel the cold, even in the last years of his life.

The cats are total heat-seekers and zone in as if posessed on radiators, hotties and electric blankets.

PinnieGig me! My BIL has a very well-insulated new build and they have the thermostat on the heating set to 25 degrees. I avoid visiting where possible and refuse to spend the night there as I can’t sleep. It is so hot and stuffy. My head pounds and I can’t breathe.

They’ll only visit my very cold and draughty Georgian house in the height of summer and they still find it cold, I guess because it rarely gets above 20 inside.

We never have the heating on in our bedroom and it never gets below 22 which is too hot! I have to open the window to cool it down.

My first house was a tiny two up two down terraced house. When I bought it, it didn't have any central heating (this was only 2001!). The bathroom was a single story converted outbuilding with single glazing. That first winter, the temperature in that bathroom got up to 3°c with ice on the inside of the window in the morning . It was so cold.

We don't have central heating and our house is very old and cold. Our bedroom gets to 5 degrees in the winter.

Working from home was tricky last year because it was too cold for my laptop to switch on!

Last night was the first night we had left the heating on. I set the thermostat to 7°c, it's in the coldest room (kitchen) and it didn't come on. But as I was turning it up when we got up, the boiler jumped into action about 9°c.
Upstairs isn't bad without the heating during the night but we were a bit worried about the pipes.

Last couple of mornings has been around 13 degrees. That’s quite unusual as most previous winters is around 14.5-15, so wonder if we’re in for a harsh winter.

One winter I was out of work because of an illness so didn't use my heating. Generally it took a full day or so for the house to cool down fully with heating off. The coldest it got was 4 degrees when it was -2 outside.

As cold as it is outside. Thin wooden walls, single glazing.

Checked our Nest just now and it was 14.5° in the living room, heating had been off since 10. We have it set to 13° overnight and it virtually never comes on (the sound wakes me if it does). No thermometers upstairs but it stays fairly warm if no windows are open.

I'm on holiday at the moment so the heating is off. I've been checking my Hive and it's got down to single figures. We fly home today and i'm wondering whether I need to switch it back on a bit earlier than planned so it's up to temperature for when we get in.

12 this morning but was perfectly warm enough in bed at that temperature.

We didn't have central heating for a couple of years and it would drop to 8'C in winter.

We have had no electricity since Friday due to the storm and our house is reading 6 degrees , we are all freezing

Used to live in a poorly insulated flat on a clifftop, with crappy night storage heaters. It would be around 10 degrees through the whole of winter.

Cost a fortune in electric fan heaters due to the size of the living room.

Triple duvets at night so heavy my legs would go numb 🤣

The views were amazing but I've rather overlook my local tip if it meant being warm.

@GoBrookeYourself yes, you're right. It's very irritating.

I am originally from Northern England so definitely used to the cold, but I now live in the tropics and my house is currently 34°c. I'm about to blast the AC on full pelt. It will probably bring my house temp down to about 26°c, if I'm lucky. I would absolutely love it to be much colder than that.

We also have the temperature police in this part of the world, they just do it the other way around - "what, you've already got your AC going? It's only 34°c! I wait until it's at least 40°c, and I wear a jumper with it just to prove how wussy everyone else is!".

As cold as it is outside. Thin wooden walls, single glazing.
Where do you live?

@GoBrookeYourself I’m not that poster but I can’t conceive that someone who is presumably in the U.K. would be cold up to 25 degrees. They must be freezing outside even during summer I mean, that’s higher than the average high in London for any month!

I don’t have a thermometer but I’d say over night down stairs gets to about 10. Upstairs stays warmer as it’s carpeted. Possibly about 14.

If it was left for a few days it would get very very cold indeed.

Downstairs the previous owners didn’t heat it due to cost and lived upstairs which meant even in summer it was cold.

It’s a very old building with single pane windows, and downstairs has exposed floorboards with a cellar underneath, so the cold comes up. Also the external doors are drafty.

Upstairs has thick carpet so retains the heat more. Yesterday I started keeping all the blinds lower, about half way to keep the heat in, during the day.

We fly home today and i'm wondering whether I need to switch it back on a bit earlier than planned so it's up to temperature for when we get in.

In normal times we are away for a month in winter. We need to turn the heating on three days before we arrive home to allow enough time for the house to warm through.

@TuftyMarmoset I agree about the 25 temperature, but that’s the minority, so not being able to conceive it makes sense. However, being shocked because people don’t let their houses get to 14/15 before putting the heating on is what I find irritating because the majority of people will probably keep their houses at an average of 18-20 during the day. So surely it wouldn’t blow any one’s mind that that’s what the majority of people do. I don’t know if I’m explaining my point very well

Our boiler broke on New Years Day last year and we couldn't get it fixed straight away - we had to move out as it was unbearable (especially with 2 young children), it took a good 3-4 days to warm up again once fixed too

It takes a long time for the temperature to drop, but the last time we were away in winter it got down 12 in the living room. Watching the boiler temp drop at switch-on was fun.

My son's north facing room was 10 degrees a couple of mornings ago.
Mine has been about 14.

We've put the heating on of a morning during the last couole of weeks and evening too.
We put it on in the dayrime properly for the first time yesterday.