What’s the temperature in your home?

[70sShmeventies]

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.

8 degrees... It's cold. I'm working from home. Sat in a t-shirt, thick high neck jumper and oodie with hot water bottle. I have a little. Ceramic heater that I will put on if I get any colder (once I've put a hat on obviously)

21 degrees at the moment, I turned it up a notch on the thermostat, as it was set to 19, and I was feeling cold.

We will check this eve how it’s gone over two days.

it was amazing this morning to come back from the school run and the house was warm.

Me and the toddler usually cocooned in the living room with the electric heater on and off - I am sure that must cost more.

This house gets so cold, it’s a dump that needs so much work doing but it was the only one we could afford (and we moved 200 miles to a place we could afford!)

But we’ll see how we have done tonight.

We have to use a tumble drier though. 6 people, two in emergency services so dirty uniforms that need washing and can’t be hanging around for days to dry as they aren’t provided with enough. The house would be covered in wet washing for days at a time making the mould problem worse if we didn’t use it. But my reasoning is, we have no luxuries in life. We haven’t eaten out in years, never buy new clothes, I get my hair cut once every 2 years, last holiday anywhere was a decade ago. So my “luxury” is not living in a mouldy house surrounded constantly by wet washing.

22 degrees in the sitting room with the woodburner on. Toasty.

12-14 degrees rest of the house unless the heating is on, fridge like. I am airing the house for a couple of hours a day. Heating in 4-6pm which probably raised the temperature a couple of degrees.

Electric blankets on 5 beds, purchased during the summer in the sale.

19

100 odd year old semi detached. It's 14 right now the highest I can get it in winter with heating on is 15 and this would take a few hours. It's single brick so all the heat just goes straight out

Today is not typical, windows are being replaced this week so it is baltic with a gaping hole in the wall. It’s not much warmer than outside.

But it is usually about 17 in the day, heating on first thing then off if I can stand it until 5pm. It’s an old solid stone wall thatched cottage in rural East Mids. It’s actually a really warm and cosy house though and the new doors and windows should be epic.

I like it at about 20 which is easy to achieve but we are being frugal with the oil.

1930s first floor flat (four in a block style) in NE Scotland. We don't seem to get much heat from the flat downstairs though. Our heating goes on for one hour between 7 and 8 in the morning so it's warmed for us all getting up. We keep doors closed all the time which helps and it's currently 20° in the living room but we have laminate floors which always feel much colder.

The bedrooms never get as warm as the living room, they're usually a couple of degrees lower. The kitchen is always much, much colder unless someone is cooking, we don't have a thermometer in there to check exact temps.

The loft is converted into DH's man cave and it's too cold for him to do anything up there right now but there isn't a heater up there.

Thank you both.

I would really appreciate if you could let us know. I have bought a dehumidifier for downstairs (already have one upstairs). I have found loads of mould downstairs.

I have lived here over 20 years and never had mould where it is appearing ☹️

Last night when OP posted was probably about 17.5c (I switched it off when room reached 18c earlier).

Currently 17.4c. Luckily sun is out so hall and two rooms in front of the house which get a nice warm today. My washing from yesterday is currently sat in the sun - phew.

A bit concerned about the end of the week re cost of heating. Depending on which forecast I look at it's ranging 1-3c in day and -3--7 at night for a few days. Going to take some heating to keep it up around our usual 17-18c.

South east, top floor flat, 22 degrees without heating - I think we've got everyone else's heating coming up!

By top floor, I mean 2nd floor, it's not a tower block!

Dug the thermometer out this week as I don't fully believe the thermostat that controls the heating. Downstairs gets down to 15/16° overnight, upstairs was 12.4° this morning. Quickly warms up with the heating on but drops quickly overnight too.

15 degrees. We occasionally boost to 18 for an hour in the evening if we have people round but it’s blankets otherwise. The cat hates us. Open fire on weekends or if we have company, as it’s a cheaper option.

Agree with PP that said it’s crazy that two working professionals can’t afford to heat the house properly.

12 here. Am fucking freezing.

I live in a three bedroom cottage of unknown age (it was once thatched and has beams so it's a good couple of hundred years old), it is poorly insulated and has single glazing (tenant so out of my hands), the house is between 16-18° during the day but when I light the log burner later that will go up to around 19° downstairs and the bedrooms will be colder. It was 14° when we woke up this morning and I am expecting it to get colder now the weather is turning.

12.3 in bedroom
10.7 in living room

I have just put the heating on as my partner feels the cold. I am quite comfortable in my Oodie.

End terrace/semi-detached 3 storey house, around 200 years old

I swear to God this is now some people’s hobby. It’s 40, down to 25, oh, now it’s 18. Never put it on if there’s an R in the month, not until St Scrotiou’s day.

Downstairs thermostat 17, comes on for 2-3 short bursts per day currently. 18 upstairs office which is ok. 1930s extended semi.

Under 10° inside, in SW France.

It's on 21 when people are home at 17 when we are out
In the day time I have it on 21 but only have the radiators on in the rooms I'm using with a baby
We used to have it set to 23 in previous years
We have turned the electric underfloor heating off in the kitchen and put a radiator in but that room is really cold in the morning

At night time we turn off the radiators downstairs then put them on around 5 when I make the baby her milk

I really hate this cost of living crisis
I am luckier then most

Mostly around 14 degrees. Study and dining room colder. We have oil central heating and an Aga type stove in the kitchen so that stays at around 18 degrees. At the moment we are heating the sitting room and the large hall using the log burners and some heat travels upstairs to the bedrooms (but not much!) 1750's stone built farmhouse, listed building, single glazing throughout 🥶

Dogs not helping by constantly pushing the doors open and letting out the heat 😳

Ranging between 11.5°C - 13.0°C daily at the moment according to our Thermostat located in the Hallway.
No central heating on. In the Midlands.

Far north, 1960's semi detached, not the best house, temp often 16 or below, even with heating on ( as little as possible), it doesn't even touch the sides. Trying to keep warm in multiple jumpers.