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What’s the temperature in your home?

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70sShmeventies · 05/12/2022 20:09

I’m curious. What temperature is your home right now and where in the country are you? What sort of property do you live in?

4 bed 70s detached in the southeast and we are 18 degrees after having the heating on for a couple of hours earlier. Without hearing we were at 17 degrees.

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shivermetimbers77 · 05/12/2022 21:16

21 degrees , new build 3rd floor flat in south east , insulated to the hilt, haven’t had heating on yet. May change later this week.

colouringindoors · 05/12/2022 21:17

18 in lounge, 16 rest of downstairs, 14 upstairs.
South of England.
Vests, jumpers and blankets on...

elastamum · 05/12/2022 21:18

17 in the day and 20 in the living room in the evening. Goes down to 15 at night. Huge old drafty house. Bills are now about 9k.

Sunnysal · 05/12/2022 21:19

Northern Spain 19 deg . No heating but 2 degrees outside.

Mum2jenny · 05/12/2022 21:20

Currently sitting in living area with a temperature of 17.5 degrees and wrapped in a blanket, as heating bills are a bit expensive!!!

tillytoodles1 · 05/12/2022 21:24

About 23° 24/7. It's a council flat and gas is included in the rent.

fatsinglereadytomingle · 05/12/2022 21:25

East cost Scotland, new build detached 4 bed. I have 2 heating zones which is actually brilliant.
Upstairs is 16 degrees doesn't feel overly cold just a pleasant sleeping temperature.
Downstairs is 17.7 the Livingroom feels hot the other rooms are just comfortable.

the house holds the heat well so 90mins of heating a day is usually enough to keep it comfortable. I work out of the house a lot too so on those days the thermostats are set to 15 just incase of a cold snap but it never comes on.

HelenHywater · 05/12/2022 21:29

I've got my thermostat set at 18, to come on 3 times a day for 1-2 hours each time. It's off now and probably a bit cooler than that.

Except in the 2 top floors where it's freezing as the radiators have stopped working.

Victorian terrace house. Draughty.

LaurelGrove · 05/12/2022 21:30

Mine never really gets above 19 in winter. On the plus side it was just about bearable in the 40 degree heatwave.

It's 17.4 in my bedroom right now. I am fine as I'm perimenopausal and my internal thermostat is wonky. As I pay the bills I've told everyone else to stop moaning. They can put on another jumper.

veiledsentiments · 05/12/2022 21:31

On a big hill in Cyprus. No CH. Just come to bed. 14°C but the window open. Living room was 22° with a plugged in oil radiator. Yet to light fire.

Flowersintheattic57 · 05/12/2022 21:31

Boiler set to 16, water temp down a fair bit too. It’s ok while you’re busy but not great when sitting. Bearable though. 11 through the night. We’re East, sticking out into the North Sea.

Grumpycatsmum · 05/12/2022 21:33

18 at the moment. Was at 20 earlier as have house full of people with colds.
Detached house in Scotland.

Ricco12 · 05/12/2022 21:36

NE Scotland

25 degrees

Log burner is going

wildthingsinthenight · 05/12/2022 21:39

Footballmyarse · 05/12/2022 21:12

18 degrees at the moment and it’s fucking glorious.

It’s usually 14, apart from the one room that we have an electric heater plugged in on and off. The kitchen is even more bitter as the radiator is off the wall and the back door is rottting, it was 12 last night and I couldn’t bring myself to go in there to wash up.

We are doing an experiment today to see if it’s more or less money to keep the thermostat at 18 all day.

Probably won’t be, but I’ve loved today not sat freezing my area off.

I could have written this! 😊
Hope our experiments are successful

cushioncovers · 05/12/2022 21:43

18.5 in the bedroom and 21 in the lounge. CH been on for several hours. It was 16 in the bedroom before the heating came on and it was bloody freezing

Mouthfulofquiz · 05/12/2022 21:47

We are at 11.5 in a couple of rooms at the front of the house. 14 in the living room. 17 in the loft which feels tropical!
lots of blankets.
we are in a detached 1920s house. Southwest but a bit of an exposed location. Luckily the house is very well ventilated so no mould to speak of.

HomemadePickle · 05/12/2022 21:50

18 degrees. Large detached Edwardian house in London. Have started putting on ch for four hours a day for dh who has a cough he can’t shake. Just got a £600 gas/electric bill today and that was for when CH WASNT on last month. Next month’s bill will be epic!

Stickytoastandhoney · 05/12/2022 23:00

Thermostat set at 17. West coast Scotland

Workinghardeveryday · 06/12/2022 00:09

wildthingsinthenight · 05/12/2022 21:39

I could have written this! 😊
Hope our experiments are successful

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Please could you let us know, I want to try this but a bit nervous! Thanks

SignOnTheWindow · 06/12/2022 00:15

South East. Thermostat is set to 14. It feels surprisingly OK to me.

Fossiltop · 06/12/2022 00:17

12.5 degrees. Can only afford a couple of hours heating a day.
Mid terrace.

Firen · 06/12/2022 00:17

It’s been 20 as had to dry a lot of clothes and bedding. Only just got a proper thermostat, so I’d say ranges between 16-22 depending on whether we feel cold or not to put it on. We have a draughty Georgian house so would probably be better off keeping on more of a constant temperature as when it gets cold it’s freezing, but when it warms up I’m too hot (currently on a vest!). Have to keep it semi-warm at night as don’t want to the baby to get too cold. When we move I’ll get each radiator working independently and remotely and that should save a lot!!

purpleme12 · 06/12/2022 00:21

12: degrees. No heating. Although I've been out most of the day (thankfully)

wildthingsinthenight · 06/12/2022 08:46

Workinghardeveryday · 06/12/2022 00:09

Please could you let us know, I want to try this but a bit nervous! Thanks

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I'm getting nervy about it now! 😁
Had a very comfortable day yesterday but now doubting myself.
I didn't realise Martin Lewis had advised not to do it... Surely it must depend on your house though?
Ugh I don't know

glasshole · 06/12/2022 09:13

My heating is on 22 all day at the moment but that's because I'm recovering from pneumonia. As soon as I don't feel like a dead thing I'll be putting it back to 18-19c and just two hours from 5-7am and then 3 hours from 4-7pm. We are in bed for 9-9.30 so that should do us.