How cold is your house without the heating on?

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I am in a small Victorian terrace. Had new windows, new boiler and some insulation put in recently ( limited by nature of property). I am a bit disappointed by results. Downstairs area has an extension and is better insulated (some new walls) so if I heat that area it seems to retain heat for longer. Upstairs is pretty chilly. I put heating on at bedtime yesterday for a couple of hours and it was about 16.5. No heating on since then and it’s 14 degrees upstairs. I am in London by the way and outside it’s 5 degrees.

is that to be expected in an older house?

Currently renovating so living in a single glazed, static caravan in the garden. Today, at noon, it was 8' in the van- South East- with no heating on. Its warmer in the house with no heating on, which we have retro fitted double glazing and as much insulation as you can in a 1930's house.

Georgian stone house in Northern England. Very low ceilings, small rooms and thick walls but 11 degrees in here day and night now without heating. Condensation streaming down the windows in the morning. When it gets to real winter it will drop right down and there will be icy fern patterns on the inside of the kitchen windows, the shower will freeze and can't be used until the pipe thaws. Our health is suffering. One infection after another.

1964 house, heating was on last night and off this morning and was 14 detached home

1970’s end terrace, West Country on outskirts of town up towards moors (so can be chilly!) this morning it was 12c when we went downstairs around 9am; doesn’t go above 14c without sunshine coming through window or oil filled radiator on

It is 11 with no heating here at the moment. Boiler hasn't been working for a week, so no hot water either.

It is miserable and will get colder with the poor weather predicted for next week.
We are waiting for a plumber to get back to us, so....

19/20 in all rooms with no heating.
I like it around 22 but can wfh quite happily without the heating on - I just have a blanket over my legs at my desk. Sometimes though I do just put it on, we can afford the heating and also have individual heating/thermostats in each room and underfloor heating so no radiators. This means the heat seems to be equally distributed in the rooms as it’s coming from the floor of the whole space.
it’s not ‘cold’ and I don’t have heating on in my bedroom and sleep with the window open.

1950s semi and my house is around 14/15 degrees. I can just about cope with that as I hate being hot!

Check your humidity levels, if too high… that is what is making your house cold.

Unfortunately, a lot of insulation in a Victorian house may result in condensation and high humidity levels.

you may want to consider a PIV pump to reduce the humidity. I am certainly considering one after the 30cm loft insulation has resulted in a lot of condensation both above and below it.

1920’s semi.

Without heating it’s about 13 to 14 but that was awful as I’m ill, heating on with thermostat set to 18 so if it dips between 8am and 10 pm it comes on .

I have a 1920's semi in the south of England with very thick walls and it was 12 degrees when I got up this morning 😕

I live in a very well insulated house now that’s only ten years old…it’s chilly without the heating on (as you’d expect at this time of year) but if we couldn’t afford to put the heating on, we wouldn’t freeze to death, we’d just be a bit miserable. Lived in the much older single-skin style houses before and they are perishing! Moving into one again in a couple of weeks and dreading it 😭

Yeah, that’s pretty normal. The only think I would say is that you will sometimes need the heating on and windows open (not At same time) to avoid damp! Houses need to breathe, especially period houses.

It was 15.5 this morning when I came downstairs. House is 20 yrs old and has had additional wall insulation put in a couple of years ago. Put heating on at 9am when it was 15.5 and I turned it off at 1pm it was only at 19 degrees after 4 hours on.

I imagine in an older house even with the things you speak of it would still get colder quicker.

1920s 4 bed semi here, although neighbouring house has been vacant for over 2 years.

We don't put the heating on overnight. Just in the past week, I've set the timer to come on for an hour in the morning - as otherwise it's been 14°.

I work shifts, and DH wfh 3×weekly - we try not to boost the heating during the day, but will if it gets too cold and uncomfortable.

The heating is timed to come on in the evening for 2 hours, so will reach 18°, and we're comfortable with that.
DH doesn't seem to feel the cold as much, and teen DCs and I all have heated blankets - so we're toasty enough.

I'm in a house that was built in 1597. We came in yesterday and it was 5. It has taken 24 hrs to get it warm with the fire and electric heaters. There's no fridge in the house, no need 😬

3 bed Victorian terrace. Has gone down to 13 degrees if we don’t have the heating on at all.

I've stuck a thermometer by the door at the bottom of my flat stairs (which opens onto a communal hall indoors) to find out. It's really chilly down there.

My home is approx 100 years old. We live in south Wales. No heating on today at all and the house is 15 degrees. I actually prefer a colder house. Im busy running around during the day and I love relaxing in the evening on the sofa with lots of blankets on me!

I have an old Welsh blanket on the side of my sofa which is incredibly warm. I would recommend them :-)

Heating on Friday not, not on yesterday & dogs at for a friends 2 dogs last night. Their house is lovely but too hot for me. Came home this afternoon & it was 11° in here, felt fucking freezing after being at theirs & in the car (great heating!! Very tempted to go for a drive!!). It's taken since then (about 4) to get to 16° which is usually ok, but feels cold tonight. I'm tired (new puppy wanted to play, not sleep!!!) so I've turned the heating off & come to bed! Feet like ice blocks!!

Hasn't gone below 17.5 but we have a lot of insulation since we added 2 extensions (inc loft conversion) and refurbed the whole house over the last 7 years.

I’m trying to figure out why my upstairs is only 17° when the living room is 20°. The bathroom feels particularly cold but my kitchen is unheated which you would think would pull down the temperature downstairs.
I’ve moved the thermostat into our bedroom and turned down the trvs in the living room to try and equalise but as yet it hasn’t worked, if I turn the trvs down to 2, the downstairs rads don’t heat up.

The heating is set to 14° overnight and rarely kicks in.

My kitchen was 12° when it was 4° outside, as was my conservatory, which does have a small radiator.

Down to about 13 before heating comes on. Never have it on at night. 1970s detached. N Wales.

Condensation on all the windows in the morning.kids are being drilled in wiping down every day.

3 bed victorian terrace was down to 13.6 degrees on Thursday morning.

Our house is around 13.8 degrees when we wake up in the mornings, though we do sleep with the bedroom window open as otherwise it feels really stuffy.

It doesn't take long to warm up though - we only need the heating on for a couple of hours a day. We're in a 1930's terrace but we redecorated and added insulation two winters ago, and got a brand new boiler last year as well.

Im in a victorian terrace in the SE. Its been 5 degrees outside today and was 14.5 inside this morning. Weve had the fire going nearly all day so downstairs has been 24 in the lounge, 20 in the dining room and upstairs got up to 16 degrees. I put the oil filled radiator on in the kids room before bed and it was 18 degrees at 8pm when i turned it off and is still 17.4 now