How cold does it get inside your house with no heating during the day?

[Lochroy]

I've always felt our house isn't very well insulated. We have the heating on for 90 mins in the morning and 4 hours in the evening. I wfh during the day and previously would stick the heating on during the day if I felt cold, but clearly times have changed.

It's now 15.5 degrees in the house and our thermostat is set to a min of 16 so the heating has come on (I'm pleased but prob need to reset the min!).

It's a 1970s brick built semi with replacement double glazing. It's about -0.5 outside and hasn't been above freezing since Friday. I'm just wondering if this is normal or do we have an especially poor house?

(Notwithstanding older or draughtier houses will be completely different).

When I came in from work my house was 16.9c and -0.5c outside. Our house is a 1920/30 semi. Very drafty back door but double glazed.

mine is currently 13.3

If it drops below 13 the heating will come on

was 17.5 at 0745

will bring it up to 17.5 later. Overnight the heating will come on a few times to stop it dropping below 14.5, then back to 17.5 at the point we are getting up / dressed before we leave for school.

My downstairs stays warmer as I have an aga and a wood burning stove.

Outside was -5 this morning and my house is nearly 300 years old

My heating goes on for an hour in the morning, then is off until 5.30pm when I light the fire.

Yesterday the temp dropped to 12 degrees in the kitchen & sitting room.

12 in the kitchen, usually about 15 everywhere else. Currently. Up until very recently it sat around 16deg.

Our 1980s brick detached house with 1990s UPVC windows is a balmy 8 degrees when we come down in the morning.

We can only aspire to the giddy heights of 15.5 degrees.

I foresee several 10s of thousands of pounds being spent on windows and insulation in the near future. Ouch.

Mine is 16.1 degrees at the moment, heating was off all night and then on from 630 to 830 when it reached about 19.5 degrees.

The heating was on this morning until 8am to get us up to 18.5 degrees. It has been off since and the thermostat is currently at 16.5. I am WFH with an electric blanket over my knees and pretty comfortable.

90s detached box, decent double glazing, cavity wall insulation and insulation in loft (although we've been told this could be thicker). 0 degrees outside.

We have the heating on during the day, but overnight it was 19C in my bedroom when I went to bed (11pm) and 16.5 at 6am (before the heating came on for the day) - during the night we don't run any heat producing appliances (kettle, hob, oven etc.). It reached -3C that night. Our house was built in the 80s Some homes clearly need a lot more insulation.....

Having had broken heating for a few days I can tell you it's 12.

Ugh, we had none for 24 hours last week. Sending you warm wishes!

10.2 degrees according to Hive.

I'm a sort of end-of-terrace maisonette extension kind of thing, I think from the 90s. Currently the heating is set to come on if it gets below 15 degrees on the thermostat - I have those greenhouse type thermometers that show the lowest and highest as well as the current temp, and in practice in the middle of the living room it gets to 14 degrees before the heating clicks on for a bit. I manually boost for a little while in the morning and evening, to get to 17/18 or so for showering and to make it more comfortable to sit around in, otherwise it briefly comes on maybe once in the day and once overnight.

Depends on how cold it is outside. It's hovering at about 13°C downstairs and 15°C upstairs. It's about -2°C outside I think.

13.5 degrees according to the egg thermometer and it feels it too!

Middle of terrace here. With thick stone walls, but a bit draughty around the doors/windows and no loft insulation (because the loft is basically another bedroom. Thermostat in the north-facing dining room is currently 15c, and the weather station in the north-facing, single brick kitchen extension says 11c. Its -1c outside. I'm wearing 4 layers when working in my office, and have a small electric oil heater which is doing precisely nothing. Will turn on the heating soon.

Depends which room. The conservatory is the coldest. Kitchen is the warmest. Never taken a reading so no idea of the exact temp.

Most rooms still have their original fireplaces so it sometimes best just to throw a compressed paper brick on. My son has taken to tearing up waste paper/newsprint , soaking it and compressing it in this thing. When it’s dried out you have a compressed paper brick. Spray them with a little lighter fluid and you have a cheap and warming fire. The only thing is you can’t leave it altho I guess you could throw some water on it, bit messy tho.

To heating proper only comes on in the morning and again in the evening, too expensive otherwise. Big house, big bills.

No thermostat so no idea. But I just got a bottle of water from my utility room, I'm convinced the bottle is colder than when they're straight from the fridge 🥶

That's normal ime- one friend's house is 13*C with no heating!!!

We keep ours at 16*C

It was -6 outside when I got up this morning, and 10 degrees according to the kitchen thermometer. I heat the house to 18 degrees and try to keep it there throughout the day as I work from home mostly.

I've come home earlier than usual, before the heating comes on, and its 18. My house is quite well insulated, 1979/80 semi.

The lowest temp my house has reached (that I am aware of as I am not sure what it is doing in the middle of the night) is 15 first thing in the morning.

Currently, I am experimenting with the thermostat to explore the cheapest way to keep the house warm.

Usually, when I am out at work all day, I turn it right down so the heating does not come on. But getting back late at night to a freezing house which takes hours to warm, is not nice and seems to costs quite a bit. I am now leaving it at 17, meaning it will be coming on when I am not there. But it seems to cost slightly less to top up the heat than heating it up from a really low temperature.

When I am at home, I go up to 18 on the thermostat. The funny thing is sometimes I get hot when it's only reached 16.5, and other times, I still feel cold when it's reached 18. Can't seem to find a consistently comfortable temperature.

-4 overnight rising to -2 where I am today, heating on this morning for an hour ticked off when we left and was 16.5 at 8am. Came home at 2 pm and house was 13. Semi detached, double glazing, loft and cavity insulation

Should add unsure of age possible 1960s 70s

Our house is a 1930s build with mostly solid brick walls so the insulation is awful (only one cavity wall so we filled that)

DH has asthma so can't let it get too cold, so have it set to 17 at night and 18 in the day time as both WFH all day.

If we didn't, I'm sure it would drop to 15 or lower, so we're trying to put the fire on as much as we can at the moment because costs are through the (poorly insulated) roof!

We do have a small electric heater that really helps keep the living room and bedroom warm so that might be worth exploring if you can't heat the whole house. Or an electric blanket if you can get one

Good luck and roll on spring!

10 degrees ish.

I haven't been bothering to heat upstairs much, but it was 10 degrees in the morning for a few days running, which I have to concede is pretty low, so I've had the heating on upstairs, and it's been getting to 13.

Downstairs is warm as toast because we have a woodburner and our tiny house is open plan, so it's fine. It's just upstairs where you are highly motivated to get dressed Very Quickly Indeed after a shower.