Oh my god my IL's house is SO HOT

[thespyglass]

I am melting. Melting.

I keep taking out the recycling to get a breath of air

Send all these heat lovers to Australia! We've had 3 days in a row over 40 (yesterday was 43) with the minimum at night 27. People are cooking biscuits in their cars on social media just to prove how hot it is. 😄

24 is the current temperature in Abu Dhabi. It's colder in Nairobi at 19. Kingston, Jamaica is 23. Northern Thailand is 28 so a bit warmer. Honolulu is colder though. At 23. Maybe you would stick the heat on in Kingston right now. But most people wouldn't. I'd be paddling and drinking iced drinks.

Of course those places are cool atm, it is winter there. No one would be ‘paddling and drinking iced drinks’ at 23 and I imagine anyone in Kingston looking at you doing so would think you absolutely bananas and not contemplate joining you. I don’t think it even gets that hot there, generally low 30’s in Summer but imagine they would leave the swimming for then.

A few years ago my spot at the dining table for dinner which was in front of the radiator was a balmy 32'!!!! (I smuggled the groegg downstairs to see just how warm it was!)

In our bedrooms at night it was 26 after leaving the window open all day and turning the radiator off: I had a toddler and only brought the 2.5 tog sleeping bags. 🤪

My sisters house is a bit like this , I just keep turning the thermostat down , it’s like being in the tropical house at the Eden project .

My parents and ILs houses are the same. Absolutely roasting. I wore a Christmas t shirt to the ILs for Christmas Day, no jumpers required!

Dad and FIL are not in the best of health and all are in their mid 70s.

@MyDcAreMarvel

24 isn’t hot that a normal room temperature. Op wear a t shirt and be thankful you are not paying to heat your own home. It’s December!

24 is waaaay too hot.

My ILs are the opposite. They are too tight to turn on the heating and we have to huddle around the woodburner with it's one log (twig). We layer up to visit. MIL loves knitting so they sit there in revolting jumpers. The whole house feels damp, but it is what they are used to so will never change.

My friends laugh & think I’m joking when I tell them we wear summer clothes on Xmas day to have lunch with my parents.
The heating is set at 26 degrees & good luck if you try to open a window!
This year Dd & I wore sundresses & DH wore shorts & short sleeve shirt - it’s the only way to survive it.

Those who keep their thermostats over 22 degrees (in the UK) are going to - almost literally - be burning money next year once the higher energy costs kick in. For the sake of the environment and our wallets, it would be much better for almost everyone to turn the thermostat down a couple of degrees.

My brother's is like that. Thermostat on 26. I couldn't sleep at all.

My Grandma always kept her flat very warm. I can remember on one visit that the heat caused my feet to swell and I couldn't get my shoes back on.

I'm in the twin hell of fibromyalgia and perimenopause. I'm either too cold or too hot and nothing else. Sometimes both at the same time.

24 is just about right on a beach with a nice breeze. Fully dressed indoors, though, awful.
Have they seen the news stories, how energy prices are going to soar next year?

WelI we're all different, even older people. I'm 73 and keep the temperature through the day set at18.5, a bit more in the evening, though never more than 21.5. I wear warm clothes though, thermal top and warm woollen jumper.

I don't think my Victorian flat would heat up to 26 even if I wanted it to.

Bedroom has to be unheated with window slightly open. I hate overheated hotels as it's often impossible to get the temperature down far enough.

I hate this and have this problem at home: DH is a real heat fiend. He walks past the thermostat and cranks it up; when I walk past it I turn it down!

It's not so much the heat itself per se... it's the artificially hot dry air that's so awful to me.
And it costs a bloody fortune.

@MyDcAreMarvel

24 isn’t hot that a normal room temperature. Op wear a t shirt and be thankful you are not paying to heat your own home. It’s December!

24 is absolutely roasting in a centrally heated home!

We have ours around 18/19 and we live in chilly north Scotland. That's a normal, comfortable temperature for most folk.

In our old house, the thermostat was set to 30 the house rarely warmed up past 17 C (it was a shite heater)

The current house thermostat is on 19 C and sometimes gets bumped up to 20. At my mother's house it was 17-18 I was constantly cold as a child. I really hate being cold. Dont much like being hot either

Thermostat in my parents’ house was at 29° last night. I was sweltering. It was very uncomfortable. They never open windows so it gets very stuffy.

Looking forward to being back in my perfectly pleasant 19-21° house very soon.

I’ve just left my dms. It was so hot I couldn’t breathe. Dm fell asleep, and I’m not surprised. It was so uncomfortable, I like the heat too.

My MILs house is heated to approximately the temperature of the sun.

Combined with the TV volume being somewhere in the 50s it is not something I have missed due to the travel restrictions!

Our heating is set to 18 in the evenings when we're sitting. I find most people's houses too warm. My mate is the opposite though - she's unhappy with anything less than 25! We meet in neutral territory