What's your thermostat set to?

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Just curious to know what other people's ideal temperature is

18° in the day and 12° overnight, it barely kicks in though as the log burner keeps the house warm enough. This time last year it was set to 25° so I have really noticed the difference.

19c during the day. We don't have our heating on overnight.

That's odd for it to be substantially colder upstairs than downstairs when heat rises. Do you have leaky windows upstairs? I'd try to find out what is wrong. It's always a couple of degrees warmer upstairs in my house with the radiators on high downstairs and low upstairs.

My ideal temperature would probably be around 19. But I have it set between 17 and 18 (off at night) mainly because of the cost of heating the house to a higher temperature.

Before the massive increase in gas and electricity, I probably would have had the heating on at around 20 (max 21), but that would be t-shirt comfortable.

Our heating system is turned off completely. If cold, we turn it on and the thermostat is set to 15, just for about an hour.

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Our hive thermostat is in the hall, which is colder, and it’s set to 17 all day then 14.5 overnight. This means the Living room and kitchen are actually sitting at around 18.5 and the upstairs around 19 or so during the day. The bedrooms are sitting at around 16 at night. We found that when we turned off the heating overnight it took hours to reach the set temperature in the morning. This way it heats up quickly, the boiler doesn’t kick in as much, and it’s actually costing much the same as when we tried having it on for a couple of hours morning and evening.

It's because of where the thermostat is located, warmest room in the house

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though our living room is currently 22 degrees as we’ve got the bio ethanol fire lit

Never set higher than 15, though if the fire is lit and the sitting room goes up to 16.5-16.9. I live alone and dislike hot rooms!

Do you have other heating in that room for it to be 22 but freezing upstairs?

This is the downside of working from home. When we were in the office all day the heating was hardly on during the week.

Oh, interesting, we don't have heating on overnight at all!

Shouldn't take that long, is your boiler turned up to a decent temperature?

Isn’t a boiler just on or off? How do you turn the temperature up or down? I can adjust the thermostat, but not the actual boiler…I think.

That's odd for it to be substantially colder upstairs than downstairs when heat rises.

Not if you keep the doors shut downstairs.

17 in the morning, 18 during the day if we are home and in the evening. That said, the heating came on this evening as it dropped below 18 and I turned it off as I was warm enough under my blanket.
We used to have it at 20 and felt cold if it dropped below that.

16. Used to be 14 at night, but we started having a lot of chest problems.

You can adjust the temperature of the water the boiler pumps around the radiators. Cooler means the radiators are less hot and it takes longer for the house to hear, but the boiler will probably run more efficiently.

18 during the day. 16 at night.

The house is old and poorly insulated; it rarely actually reaches 16 during the day unless I’m cooking, and is much colder at night.

17.6 (6am-4pm)
20.0 (4pm-10pm)
14.0 (10pm-6am)

Give or take...

Which means it never kicks in overnight.

Between 18-20 during the day and not on at night.

19°C at night.

20°C during the day.
21°C evening.

Direct debit is £250 p/m.
Electricity is very stable at £100 p/m.
We're currently £250 in credit after January's bill, so maybe averaging £130 p/m on gas.

But DH is saving £11 a day on transport, so that pretty much pays our entire energy bill.