What temp is your lounge right now?

[Dunk19]

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?

The heating is set to 17, and the radiators are cold, so I’m guessing about 18/19. I’ve been busy though, so I’m not cold.

Too hot for my liking but DP is recovering from open heart surgery and is currently fluctuating between cold and freezing. Usually pop the heating to 18° but currently have it on a roasty 20°.

Thirteen. The boiler stopped working 2 nights ago, Friday about 9pm, so no hot water either. I didn't want to pay emergency call out fees when I can get by using hot water bottles & (omg) very hot curry this evening, oops. Is why I have waited until now...

I spent 2 hours putting down extra insulation in my loft earlier & was surprisingly warm for all that time.

I am phoning heating engineer tomorrow (Monday).

I bet the only option is to pay emergency rates to get boiler looked at this week, cross fingers hoping I'm wrong, that it can be repaired etc.

Thermostat is set to 16. Heating has clicked on a couple of times over the last 5 hours and it's cost £2.70 so far. I loathe heat, so I'm fine with it but I've got layers on and a blanket. I'm paying a fortune for the house to be barely warm 😞

20c, if it goes below 19.5 I either fall asleep or I'm in agony with my busted up knee!

About 20° according to my thermometer. No heating on, just the little wood burner in the kitchen.
Having lived in a ridiculously cold house up until recently this is a revelation .

No idea on temp- probably 16? I have only put the heating on a couple of times so far this year.

Fire has been on once or twice. Big fan of electric throws and and even bigger fan of a changing tip I got on here - electric hot water bottles.

Less than £20 on Amazon, heat up quickly and sat warm for ages. Life changing. We all ah e them. Not need to heat upstairs as they are so cosy. And great for a really nice bone warming warmth that lasts for ages.

And I've got a aga so we spend most of the time in the kitchen until I capitulate and/or it gets really cold and I heat the rest of the house.

21.1 degrees here

@Trinity69 hope he recovers well. It's one of those unfortunate things that when your body is in repair mode you generally need heat. Take a brisk walk if it's too hot for you!

Ok so it's 22° now humidity 90%. @Dunk19 you introduced me to this thing...

17.5 here. I don't feel the cold and we don't like the heating on too much. I think it breeds germs and the sinuses certainly get worse with the heating on!

However, 14 is far too low. Our heating comes on when it drops below 17 and we heat to 18.5.

20.5, perfect. Also sitting under a blanket. It will be cooler upstairs for sleeping and we don't have the heating in overnight.

We really feel it when it drops to 19. Can't imagine it being 14. Awful.

According to the sensor it's 20.5, I'm having a hot flushes so have on a strappy vest top. Although it is the warmest room in the house, cooler upstairs and the kitchen.

@MagnoliaGirlie we had to rip up and insulate the floor properly. We replaced the windows too, the walls were ok except for a small extension at the back, that had to be insulated too. The roof was fairly new so luckily no need for us to do anything else to it. Spent about 30k total.

We did a lot of research on various possibilities, someone came with a heat gun in the winter to check to see where we were losing warmth and went from there. I'd do an AMA except I'm still traumatized by the 3 months my home was a demolition zone 🤣

23.5 degrees. Lovely and toasty! ☺️

20.5.

Previous years I was fanatic about keeping it at 18 but I was just too cold and the washing never dried.

14 would be hell.

Dunno. I'll get off the sofa and see if the meat thermometer works in air!
I guess about 19 or 20. Not long cooked a roast and it's a small house so that will have warmed the place up.

Meat thermometer says 19.7C
Feels comfortable.

About 18 maybe 18.5 downstairs. Upstairs is usually colder.

Below 18 I can have 2 pairs of socks on and 2 jumpers and I would still be cold. I spent a lot of my student years freezing and I swore it wouldn’t happen again.

Theres a lot I would give up now before I would accept being cold.

I don’t get how your house can have new windows and insulation and still be cold.
My house is a 200ish yr old
stone house. When we moved in it was freezing. Each room we insulate and it’s bloody warm. Insulation done properly should make it as warm as a new build. Our warmest room has original single glaze (sealed) windows and brand new insulation for walls and ceiling. We barely need to run the heat.

My house is solid stone walls and lovely and warm. It’s very easy to insulate and cheap if you know how to do it yourself. It’s no different than insulating a brick house except you have to allow room for it to breathe, so a few inches off the stone inside you frame and insulate. Toasty room after that. No need to any old house to be cold with the right insulation.

Get a dehumidifier and keep the heating on. Air humidity shouldn’t go over 60% if you want to avoid mould.

I would rather spend money on being warm and keeping the house in good condition than replacing furniture and soft furnishing ruined by mould.

As a previous poster said, you are mainly heating the water in the air and the bricks up at the moment, you need at least a week of heating it to a decent temp for it to actually get warm reasonably quickly.

I've turned a small dehumidifier on that we have.

So the plan is to leave the heating on all the time set at 18c for a week, then will reassess after that and see what the humidity is but hopefully it will be easier to heat, once it's all dried out.

Hope the bill isn't going to drastically go up too much.

I don’t know what the temperature is, but it’s unbelievably boiling. The heating is on and the wood burner is like a furnace. The dog is lying on the colder kitchen floor in protest.

21 degrees, I don't think my house has ever got as cold as 14 degrees 🥶

That makes sense, it will cost to get it up to a reasonable temp. And 18 is not remotely warm at this time of year, but it will help the damp. And you will find humidity drops.