Heating overnight

[Frotheecoffee]

Live in a flat and it's extremely cold overnight. Currently the hall is 14 degrees. Extremely cold throughout. DC is in my bed tonight. The thermostat on 15, and it will go all night I suspect. WIBU to leave it on all night or would that be terribly wasteful?

18 isn't low. Ours is no higher than that during the day. I have never had heating on all night in my life - I wouldn't be able to sleep. I don't usually have heating on during the day when I'm moving about, just morning and evening, If I'm cold I put a cardigan on.

Thermostat on overnight at 16.5 degrees.

when we’re in during the day it’s set at 18

Keeping the temperature at 15 degrees all night is not unreasonable! I'm amazed at people who say it is. If you were keeping it at 22 all night then that would be very different. It's arctic this week - literally! so I wouldn't think twice.

Mine isn't on at night very often because I'm peri and couldn't stand the heat. It wasn't on much at all the last few years as I wasn't working and couldn't afford it , it was bloody miserable though and I'm not going through that again now I can afford to have it on. Don't care how wasteful mn think it is

thermostat on at 13 at night.

heating will only come on if it's below freezing outside.
it's not a waste imo to not wake up to a house too cold to function in.

I would think that's a typical temperature for the vast majority of us at the moment. Our lounge is usually 14/15c in the morning. If you've got plenty of money then absolutely fine to have it on, but otherwise I'd rather have it on when I can't be under covers in the day. Having said that my DM is elderly and has her heating on around 16c in the night, she compromises by keeping it around this during the day when she's at home and layering up with dressing gown, extra socks, tights during trousers and blankets for when she's sat still.

Mines set at 18 24/7.
I hate being cold

If you can afford the bills, it's up to you how you choose to heat your own home. If you can't afford the bills, invest in a lovely electric blanket - you'll be steaming!

@SpringMeadows £220 on gas last month (we have gas central heating). So about £7.30 a day, maybe £8 or £9 if we add in a bit of fan heater when I’m working from home and the heating is off. 3.5 bed terrace. We are lucky to be able to afford it so I haven’t tried to reduce it beyond sensible things like turning the thermostat down when we go out and only heating the room I’m working in rather than the whole house.

I think that's reasonable at those temps. We have a couple of little oil heaters that keep the bedrooms at about 11/12 degrees overnight. I'd rather not have to but it drops to around 6 degrees without them which is really uncomfortable.

We have the heating on overnight at 15. I've compared it to turning it off and it only costs a little bit more but saves it being really freezing when we get up. We're just about to get a Tado thermostat which will allow us to have different temperatures at different times of day/night so I might re-evaluate. During the day we have it at 18/19 all day.

Just checked our account and we've spent about £80 so far this month. December was £160 in total. We have a 5 bedroom detached house, but we're on an octopus tracker tariff which is sooo much cheaper than the standard rate.

I'm the same as you. In fact, we've just invested in a 2.5 tog duvet as we've recently moved to a new build and we can't get the bloody bedroom below 18° easily (it has French doors which we need to get some kind of opening limiter for so we can have it open overnight, as opposed to relying on the vents on it being open).

Our gas usage was only about £35 last month it's so warm in herd and retains heat.

@Devilsmommy perhaps baby won't have a blanket or whatever because baby is fucking roasting hot ... cos you have heating on at 22 degrees all night.

@Frotheecoffee we have a free standing thermostat so I turn it on about 30 minutes before getting up. Could you look into a new thermostat so it's easier to manage? My bedroom drops to 12 in this weather, which is fine if I'm asleep with lots of bedding

Mine is set at 17.5 overnight. Too cold otherwise! Have experienced colder when the boiler broke down in a cold spell and there's no way I'd want a 15 degree room.

Mine is set to 16 degrees overnight. I wouldn't have it on at all but I've got an elderly dog and worry he would be cold.

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Get up an hour before him and put the heating on.

I do not know why you're rolling your eyes, PP is correct. 18-20 degrees is the optimum sleeping temperature for babies. You're risking overheating your child but carry on. It'll only be the child that suffers.

Everyones heating seems to work different plus everyone has different insulation. Our heating is 'on' all the time, but only activates if the temperature where its located drops below 15 at night or 17.5 in the day - which means it doesnt actually activate at night very often. Sometimes at around 4am for a bit on a cold night. But another house it might need to be on constanty to sit at 15.

So if you are cold, and you can afford it then i would heat the house to 15. I cant see why someone else liking 12 degrees at night should have any bearing on you.

I dont understand how people can live like this! 14 degrees! Brr!

For those with really cold houses, do you not get problems with damp and mould? Do you dry clothes inside or have a tumble dryer?

I've never had it on at night, no need. It comes on at 7am.

Ours comes on for an hour between 2am-3am to take the chill off. We’ve got a 1 year old that sleeps in his own room and it gets really chilly in there, then it comes on at 6am before he wakes up at 7am.

I think the thing to remember is no two houses are alike. My house is decently insulated so rarely gets below 16 degrees overnight in the lounge where the thermostat is.

I could say "I keep my house at 16 degrees overnight" (profligate, waste of energy, just buy a better duvet) or I could say "I set my thermostat to 5degrees overnight" (good stiff upper lip, shows moral fibre). But in both cases, the actual house is still about 16degrees. So it's a bit misleading to say how low your thermostat is set if your house retains heat and so never gets that cold in the first place.

Equally, a drafty house with old windows could have the temp set to 25degrees but never make it past 17. A better constructed house could have it set for 18degrees, reach temp quickly and stay there. So it's not a moral failing for someone to need their heating on more often!

It's not really about what temperature your thermostat is set to - it's what temperature your house actually is!