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!

We live in a new build flat, but we haven't had the heating on yet this year. The bedrooms are at 20°, I think downstairs is 18° or 19°.

We're looking to move and would like a Victorian tce, seemed like a great idea at the tail end of summer and now im terrified of the heating costs!

Extremely cold. 300 year old draughty cottage. We had three days of no heating or hot water earlier this month when the boiler broke down. Was not pleasant. Reminded me of the house I grew up in that barely had any heating except for fire in lounge, single glazed windows. Used to go to bed wearing thick socks, and in dead of winter a jumper and woolly hat too 🥶

it was about 0C last night, and some of the rooms got down to 16C by morning. But today is really sunny down here and the sun is beating through the windows and warming the house up.

We have a few electric heaters to use in case the boiler goes wrong.

I moved last year from a large victorian house that cost a fortune to heat. I would pretty much move into the kitchen extension area in winter as it was done in the mid 2000's and far better insulated. I'm now in a newish built (just under 20yrs old) and the difference is staggering.

thermostat is set to 20 during the day 6.30am to 11.30pm (but is on the wall next to the airing cupboard!) - bought a couple of cheap room thermometers recently and that means bedroom is about 17 and living room 18. I have it set to 14 at night, but it's never kicked in during the year I've been here - so the house obviously retains temp well.

There's a wood burner that I've never used, but I've got logs incase of power cuts.

The radiators are the originals, so not the new, super efficient ones, but no reason to change them yet.

Never thought I'd end up in a new build, all of the other houses I looked at were at least as old as my original - but it was location with this one. If I ever move again I will take insulation and heating MUCH more seriously as a factor over the aesthetics of the house.

My heating went kaput a couple of years ago a week before Christmas. The gro-egg thermometer in the smallest bedroom was down to 8°c.
Needless to say we all bundled into my bedroom which was the warmest room.

My South facing lounge is 12.4 currently. Best put heating on!
(Midlands).

12 degrees is the coldest I have seen it get. Usually sits around 14-15 degrees, if the heating has been off overnight.

We have just moved in over the summer, so interested to see if it gets colder. House is a 1990s detached and has all the recommended insulation/glazing etc...we even increased the loft insulation to >35cm and updated the old single panel radiators. The only other thing on our EPC was to put in underfloor insulation in the downstairs...but that would be a massive faff with lifting floorboards etc.

Feel it should take a lot longer to get to 12 degrees, which is annoying considering the updates we have made.

If I ever move again I will take insulation and heating MUCH more seriously as a factor over the aesthetics of the house.

Same here.

Funny MN saying 16 is cold when lots of people run there heating at 18. I run mine at 21 and 16 at night, I often click it up, although my neighbour has there's at 26 as they are from shorter country originally.

About 9 or 10. I've only started putting my heating on and only one hour a day when clearly both sides of my neighbours are not home (im mid terrace) because I notice how much colder my house gets when they aren't heating theirs. Since its just me and im in the lounge most of the time, a new wool underlay and wool carpet keeps the room warm for hours after the heating has stopped. When i go to rest of the house significant difference in temp, the air is almost stone cold to the lounge. So eventually I will carpet upstairs with wool underlay and wool carpet too.

at the moment I don't need to heat above 16degrees.

Also I have an electric blanket so make use of that, layering up and use my kettlebells to do some exericse thorughout the day to warm up.

Its not that im skint but I also don't want to spend all my money on heating.

Very old, stone, single-glazed house. Below freezing - ice on the inside of the windows, you can see your breath in the air and at its worst the plumbing has frozen up.

We're happy if/when we can achieve 16 degrees in winter. Closing the thick curtains at dusk, wearing plenty of layers including good slipper boots, throws on seating, hot water bottles, hot meals and drinks, using the oven to cook, 13.5+ tog duvets, flannelette sheets, pyjamas, dressing gowns, door curtains, draught excluders and lighting the fires, or at least a fire, all make a difference - not forgetting snuggling up with the other humans and pets.

I'm not recommending it, but equally I really wouldn't want to live in a house with the central heating on full blast and the occupants walking around in summer clothes.

I have never waited to find out! The living room plummets to at least 12 overnight but the heating always then clicks on first thing.

No idea

I heat to 16c overnight and 21c during the day - although the heating system has three zones so in the week when DC are at school I don’t actually heat the whole house.

Our electricity went off during the storm around midnight on Fri night/ yesterday morning. We're not on a gas line so our heating needs electricity to run. It got down to 12 just before we got our power back last night.

Really hope those of you with no power gets some soon. Its not nice.

Nothing below 25

I've never put the heating on

@Brokenrecord3006

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!

That's what I call cold :-)

[quote TuftyMarmoset]@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![/quote]
This!!

Of course I can conceive that people like different temperatures but not that high!

How do you breathe? If I had my heating that high I'd have to sit in my underwear and my asthma would have me wheezing like crazy. My eyes and nose would be dry as the Sahara desert 😳

I don't know anyone IRL who has their heating that high, hence why I was so surprised by the large number of people on this thread saying theirs is that high!

Got back from work today and it's 9 degrees inside!!

We were at 15 this morning when it was -5 outside. I think that's the lowest I've ever seen it, even when we've been away for a while I'm winter it's never dropped below 15. If it drops below 10 the heating kicks in automatically whether we are here or not.

Wow I'm so jealous of how warm people's houses are

The water in our loo froze one year when we went away in the winter. Flat was on the middle floor.

@LizziesTwin

The water in our loo froze one year when we went away in the winter. Flat was on the middle floor.

Oh my god that is cold!

7 degrees. Brr. Thermometers beep at us, a lot, warning of low temperature. No insulation, house too old. Great in summer and just layer up in winter.

The water in our loo froze one year when we went away in the winter. Flat was on the middle floor.
Wow. We have a flat on a middle floor and it is always toasty even with the heating off! That must have been a really poorly-insulated building.

You could have the heating set to 25 but it never actually reaches that temperature, just stays on all the time. Sometimes I turn ours up to 22 just to make sure it stays on all evening but the room temp doesn't tend to actually get that high.