Just clocked PIL thermostat reading

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25° 🥵. I'm slowly dying of heat exhaustion.

21 is about average isn't it?

DH is a builder and comes home physically pumped and wearing about 99 layers at this time of year. Every day he comes in and announces the house is too hot.

Then after taking his coats off and sitting still for half an hour starts muttering about ''this house is chilly!'' and cranks the thermo back up to where it was

I refuse to stay at my in laws for this reason. They have it set to 26 all year round. Last time we did stay there was in the middle of a July heatwave. The day time temperatures reached around 30, and, I kid you not, at around 10pm their heating came on. I actually cried.

@JenniferAllisonPhillipaSue

Visited MIL last week, was absolutely baking in her house. Found her thermostat, she'd got it set to 30!! I turned it down to 18, figured she could turn it up again after we left.

Really? You are changing the thermostat at someone else house wo telling them because it suits you and with no regard as to whether it suits them??

@Spectre8

Older people feel the cold more, one day that will be and your kids will be sniggering about you behind your back. Nice!

This!

My mum is the same . She’s 76 and when I stay I have to open a bedroom window or 3 because I wake up with a banging headache if I don’t ! But then she comes here and complains our house is cold . It’s set at 18 degrees which is comfortable but if you turn it up much higher , the boiler will just keep running and running because really the thermostat is in the wrong place so it always thinks it’s colder than it really is- and with us being on oil , we can’t afford to run out . Put it higher than 21 and you might as well just burn pound notes .

Ah this has reminded me of my lovely nana who died 10 years ago, I'd forgotten how boiling hot her house always was. You'd walk through the front door and it would hit you in the face like the heat when you step of the plane on holiday. She'd be wearing multiple layers with a blanket over her knee. Miss you Nana! Thanks for the memory OP.

@saraclara

Thermostats aren't all set accurately. My old one was set at 20 and I was comfortably warm. My new one has to be at a minimum of 22 for me to feel comfortable.

Yes and it depends where it is as well. Ours is where it 'feels' any slight warmth from cooking activity in the kitchen and promptly turns off We have to have it up high enough to compensate for that.

Mine is set to around 23/24 in the rooms we use (underfloor heating and all controlled by individual room thermostats). I really feel the cold! Dh is always muttering walking about in just a pair of shorts but the dc are like me and prefer it warm.
When we have the fire roaring it gets to about 30 in the front room, perfect!
We do have windows open during the day and our bedroom window open at night (although not with Arwen hanging around), I like to have fresh air, but I can’t stand being cold or bundling up in lots of layers in my house.

My dad used to complain about me needing the fire on at his. Now he has hit 70s he defo feels the cold more and has it on much more often.

@JenniferAllisonPhillipaSue

Visited MIL last week, was absolutely baking in her house. Found her thermostat, she'd got it set to 30!! I turned it down to 18, figured she could turn it up again after we left.

While I would find these temperatures oppressive, it seems a bit passive aggressive to turn someone's thermostat down in their own house

DM is the same and DH is recently following suit. Whereas Mother Nature has recently gifted me a core temperature a good couple degrees hotter than everyone else so perhaps it's more me than him

It's their house though they can do what they want to feel comfy. Why not?

And yes elderly people feel the cold more. Get cold more in fact due to circulation and stuff. That's why more at risk in winter if can't afford much heat.

I like mine on 22 most of the time and I'm only in my 30's. Bedroom at night more like 20. Any lower than that and I'm cold. Luckily we are in a modern middle floor flat so that does mean it doesn't take much to heat the place up.

FIL is opposite, he has his set to 16 and it's always freezing in his house.

Mine is on 19. But I have a pure wool jumper on over a T-shirt and thermal socks on… plus jeans obviously, I’m not an animal.

No heating at night and window open.

@Highlanders372

Ah this has reminded me of my lovely nana who died 10 years ago, I'd forgotten how boiling hot her house always was. You'd walk through the front door and it would hit you in the face like the heat when you step of the plane on holiday. She'd be wearing multiple layers with a blanket over her knee. Miss you Nana! Thanks for the memory OP.

Me too! I remember leaving the house absolutely red in the face from sitting in the front of a roaring coal fire and all of us falling into a stupor as we sat there watching telly.

I set mine to 30 😬

Oh god, my parents do this. Always 25 degrees minimum, it actually makes me feel quite ill. The last two times I have visited them and stayed over, I have ended up going to bed at 8pm just so I can whack the bedroom window open and cool down.

I'd be happy with ours at about 19, but we are open plan downstairs, and the minute anyone opens either the front or back door the whole house empties itself of warm air and the temperature drops like a stone. (And yes, I know that's not ideal, but I didn't design the house). So we've got it on 23 at the moment, down to 19 at night.

My folks' was at 27.5. Poor dad's sweating his knackers off but mum says she's cold. He's 74, she's 71.

I've had my thermostat at 22 for a few weeks now as I'm feeling the cold a lot more than usual. Ddog isn't complaining she is loving life lying beside the toasty radiator lol

I can’t believe some people have the cheek to turn someone else’s thermostat down (or up)!
I like it warm. I grew up in southern Spain. Being cold is miserable for me. For some reason people on MN see it as a moral failing if you feel the cold and prefer it warm!
Luckily I have a very well insulated, warm house.

Same at SIL'S. I feel hungover even if I don't drink anything. Dreading Christmas, we're staying over

Action plan is to open the bedroom window really wide as soon as we get there. That way we can actually sleep.

@ThePoisonousMushroom

I can’t believe some people have the cheek to turn someone else’s thermostat down (or up)! I like it warm. I grew up in southern Spain. Being cold is miserable for me. For some reason people on MN see it as a moral failing if you feel the cold and prefer it warm! Luckily I have a very well insulated, warm house.

I agree! If someone came to my house then changed the temperature (by 12 degrees!!!) I’d be really pissed off