If you are at home today, what temperature is your house?

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Without the heating on our house seems to fall to 11-12 degrees. I don't know if that is normal or if I just really feel the cold. We obviously can't afford to have the heating on all of the time but I just find it so miserable being cold.

It's sitting between 17° and 17.5° in my kitchen. The kids bedrooms are a little colder at 16° due to cracked open windows and shut doors (to stop the cats smothering beds in cat hair). Heating is completely off.

Later on with the stove going which also heats the rads it will get up to 18° which is comfortable for the evening.

19 here; I’ve put the heating on as it is cold today.

Heating was on from 6.30am until 8.30am and thermometer is currently showing that it's 18°c - although it doesn't feel like that if I sit down for any length of time. It's only around 7°c outside here today.

14 and dropping. It’s usually around 16/17 but we’ve had a power cut so boiler is off. Hoping it’s back on soon, dd just down for a nap in her 3.5 tog bag so will be warm enough for now… I’m getting into bed since I can’t do anything anyway! Brrr

It's saying 17 but feels colder than that!

12.6c in living room at 8am today despite having oil filled radiator on full from 6.15am - outside was -1c overnight so not surprised that it’s cold indoors too. Now we’ve hit 16.6c and it will only get cooler unless I put the radiator back on. Bedroom usually sits between 14-17c but can go up to 19c overnight but then we have issues with condensation.; we don’t have any heating in bedroom and all 4 of us sleep in same room (myself, DH & 3 year old DT’s). Other bedroom drops to about 12c overnight but it’s only used if we have visitors - will be DT’s room once they want to sleep in there; then we’ll have to think about putting some heating in there too!!

14 downstairs in the coldest part where the thermostat is. Heating won’t come on until it drops below 13 during the day. It doesn’t feel particularly cold.

13 in our house this morning. Just about bearable for a few hours but I have now gone to the library quiet space to work and it feels nice and toasty here.

Bright day, a little overcast. 17c downstairs, 14c upstairs and I’m perfectly cosy working at the kitchen table. Heating went off at 8am when everyone left for school/work & will come on later this evening when they return. Wouldn’t occur to me to switch heating on during the day as a matter of course. Nothing to do with the energy crisis, I just don’t like overheated rooms because they make me feel sluggish.
Old house but one that retains heat quite well.

Our conservatory isn't connected to the main heating system, so is the coldest room in the house normally and our thermometer is showing 13 in there. The living room is next coldest and is 16 degrees. The bedrooms and other rooms seem to maintain around 17 degrees with the heating off. Heating on and they go up to about 20 degrees, so it doesn't seem much point to put it on just for a couple of degrees.

The heating gets put on around lunchtime for an hour, just to take the edge off and then it's OK until it comes back on again in the evening.

Our house is 1990s built and while the insulation in some parts is poor, overall it actually keeps the heat relatively well (bit too well in summer though!)

It's been between 9 and 12 in my flat for most of the winter. It's shit but what can you do?

I just put the heating on for 15 mins every other day when I have a shower to dry towels out.

16 degrees, south east but badly insulated Victorian flat with no downstairs neighbour atm which makes it colder.
Heating will come on later for the evening set to 21 degrees.

14 in the hall where the thermostat is.

26. In the southern hemisphere though.

It's cooler inside the house than out.

17 but feels colder. heating will come on at 5pm, I can't afford to have it on all day.

@Myotherusernameisshy Christ that's cold! What area are you in?

mine was 16° (heating was on until about 2am last night, I was up) but not this morning at all, until I opened all doors & windows to air the house and it dropped to 11°, but I was hoovering & stuff, so that was fine. I've shut the doors & windows now & its 14°. The outside temperature is supposed to be about 5°.

Can you afford to get an oil heater and just heat the room your in? Or smart controls on your radiators.

working in 11° Must be bloody miserable 😩

No heating on at all. Hasn't been on for over a year. Temperature is between 9 and 12 degrees. DS and I have Oodies to wear during the day.

@BertHandsome

Has your electricity come back on?

Do you know why it went off?

Hope you & DD are ok!

Thanks for asking. It didn’t come back on until 7pm 🥴
But we lit lots of candles and kept the door shut, and had a chippy tea! Not the best of days but we have a warm house and fully bellies now!

There was an underground fault and a fuse needed to be replaced the at the substation. I rang national grid, and to be fair to them, they kept updating via text with expected times and numbers to ring if you were vulnerable so couldn’t really ask for much more. Glad the heating is back on now though!

Hi All, I'm one of the rare people who keeps their heat on min 22, unfortenatly i can not handle 15/16 degrees, regadless how much clothing i will wear (health issue and very under weight). At cold winter month my heating is on 24/7 with hive set to 22/23.

13.7 degrees this morning. Seemed much warmer than the 9 degrees it has been up until now!

Windows open, heating off and it’s 20 in the house today. Tomorrow the snow arrives again.

22

It was 14 degrees and I cracked, put the heating on for 30mins. It's new build so warms up and retains heat really well. Now a toasty 20

11 or 12. It was 10 this morning, so we had the heating on for about 3 hours which got it up to 14. The heating costs about £2/hour to run so we just can't have it on for days and weeks and months on end.