What temp is your lounge right now?

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I'm going to cave and put the heating on, it's currently 14c in the lounge. We try not to put the heating on if home alone.

I'm wearing an oodie and have a blanket but my head and hands are freezing.

What temp is your lounge?

16.9 but it really doesn't feel cold. I have a blanket over me and a cat next to me.

It’s about 23 in our lounge right now as the log burner is on. Rest of the house is cooler and thermostat is set to 18.

Currently 19.5 and the thermostat is set to 19.

I would be utterly miserable if it was 14 in here.

You have mould because your house is too cold. You need to get the house to 18 and keep it there, get the fabric of the house warm. And improve insulation.

Jesus warm up your house!!!
I’m currently in my living room and it’s 21, contemplating lighting the fire! Not sure if the heating has clicked on or not, it’s all underfloor throughout the house, the floors don’t feel chilly but they never do really.

22° and I don't have the heating on. Just a very warm eco house with massively thick walls. Just turning the oven on heats the bottom two floors to sometimes ubmnbearabke temperatures. I couldn't stand 14° I start to moan when it's that cold outside let alone in! Whack the heating on, you'll feel better for it

That’s as the house isn’t regularly heated op. It becomes damp. That’s why the humidity is so high.

this doesn’t fall under the banner of being careful. You already have damp in one room and that humidity says your house is usually unheated. So you will have more mould developing.

Eek! 12 degrees. Heating going on for a bit ….

There is no such thing, a house is only cold if it’s unheated.

I'm so worried that our energy supplier will put our DD up if we have the heating on anymore

House is currently between 14-15 degrees, we've just put the heating on and we have it on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. We can't afford to go over what we pay by DD each month as we need to be able to claw some credit back in the spring 😞

22.5 no heating on.

16.4 according to Alexa.

Probably about 18. I put the heat on last week fir the first time as had guests staying. It's set to 18 in the warmest room so the rest of the house is a bit cooler . But I do have a gas fire in the living room on most evenings.

20c. I am not being cold, if I were struggling to pay the heating bills I would economise on absolutely everything else before being cold.

14c in your lounge is bloody miserable.

20.5c, it's 3c outside and the heating has been clicking on and off for three hours to maintain that temperature throughout the day, or about £4.

21. I've got a throw and a shawl. 14 is too cold.

19, I've just turned it off as it gets too warm upstairs otherwise

22.5°c as heating is on

Mine was 12 this morning. We went straight out so heating stayed off. Came home around 2pm and with sun etc it had risen to 13.5. Put the heating on, set to 17. With that, cooking and cleaning etc it's actually sat at just over 19 now. Children going to bed soon so it'll be going back off again. I'm horrified it's been on so long if I'm honest - hate gas prices.

This thread should be posted to people who confidently state that they could never live in a "new-build box", that they are soul-less, no character, no features.

Perhaps, but they are build to modern standards and you are not sitting in 14c wondering why you're freezing your bits off.

My mum lives in an old 1850s stone cottage and I hate being there, even with the heating on it's fecking baltic. Every time I visit I can't wait to get home, we are in a 1960s detached which isn't up to modern efficiency standards but we've insulated and double glazed - when you live in a house with solid stone walls there is nothing TO insulate. Miserable.

So interested in this. I'd love to retrofit our house (it's a 1930s house and was renovated 4 years ago, but it's has cold floors and walls and is hard to warm up). Can I ask where you started with and how much you spent? Or start an AMA? 😅😅 I think we'd need to insulate the walls, and the loft before having a heat pump. And I'd love underfloor heating but it'd cost a fortune!

21 degrees at the minute, heating not on, will kick in if it drops below 20.

I'm in a Victorian terrace. I'm perfectly warm. A good boiler, double glazing, loft insulated, curtains drawn at dusk. I used to live in a much older house , we had a parkray fire in the living room. One xmas we had to open all the windows because it was so hot, there was snow on the ground, but the house was roasting! Older houses can be warm.

22 and I still have a blanket. I hate to be cold.

Old houses CAN be warm, but they are more likely to be cold than a new build.