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?

Don't the WHO recommend a minimum temperature of 18c for the average healthy person? If you're regularly living in temperatures below that it can cause all kinds of health issues.

We have a log burner in the living room which keeps it unbelievably warm, easily mid 20s. The rest of the house is on thermostat at 19.5. Don't have heating on overnight obvs.

17.9 - The heating has been on for 6 hours

Our heating is all temp controlled and is set for lower temperature overnight and when we are all out at school or work. I do wfh some days but try not to boost it when it's just me home.

23.5 degrees and 44% humidity. Far too dry. OP, you want to be around 50% to avoid mould etc.

We live in a building with central heating, so one large boiler to heat 15 apartments on a municipally decided timetable. We’re on a lower floor and the hot water goes through our radiators at a high temperature. We’ve set them at the lowest flow but it’s still too hot for me. I get up to drink in the middle of the night!

But I’ve lived in cold damp places and not had enough money to heat them properly. It was miserable and I appreciate having a warm dry house even 25 years later.

22° bit unwell

Are u in the UK?

Mine is 16. Last year we let it drop to 11 and I was too cold to do anything.

Changing the subject slightly, I'm very jealous of these fancy thermostats thermometers and control apps many seem to have. I have an old style dial in the hallway and that's it - I want to bring us into the 21st century, what do I need!?

Are your radiators adequate? I found masaive difference in how easy it was to keep warm after changing radiators to correct BTU...

Same. My home has the original boiler and radiators from when it was built in the early 80s.
The timer doesn't work so we have to turn the heat and water on manually and the boiler is a bit noisy (white noise rather than clanking).
Some of the radiators are cold at the top, others are cold at the bottom.
I did bleed one radiator a few weeks ago, but I'm a bit nervous about fiddling around too much.

I'll be getting the whole lot ripped out and replaced probably next year. Then I'll get my fancy controls and apps!

It's a small house so doesn't need a great deal of heating.

Thank you for all this info! 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh dear, I can't imagine 😅 Bet it's worth it now. Well, we just started doing some research and saving money, so were only at the very beginning of that journey, so no rush.

You can get Nest or Hive. You need a plumber/heat engineer to attach thermostatic controls to all your existing radiators. Then you set a schedule for each room for each day. You can override this and boost as necessary. All done from
an app from your phone.

The only issue I’ve had is occasionally connectivity issues with certain radiator valves. And we have a strange system where if the radiators are trying to get to a certain temperature in one of the bedrooms it pumps up my underfloor heating to help - which means the kitchen can get too hot. So if you have underfloor heating I’d keep that separate.

You can get Nest or Hive. You need a plumber/heat engineer to attach thermostatic controls to all your existing radiators

You can do it in stages. Replace the thermostat with a Nest or Hive to start with. That will allow you to control your heating/hot water remotely. You can add the thermostatic controls to the radiators later if you want to.

What are people using to measure the humidity?

I have a lot of tropical plants, so I need to keep my house at a constant heat, usually about 20 degrees is optimal. We have solar panels that we got back when the rates were very good, so instead of selling extra back to the grid, we bank it for the remainder of the year, meaning we don't pay much at all for our electricity.

I love fresh air though, so a lot of the time I have a couple windows open. But my husband (and plants) like a warm house so, it’s a battle of wills really 🤷🏼‍♀️.

You can get humidity level checkers on Amazon. Usually under the plant section as a lot of humidity is very important to some plants.

21.5, about perfect. 22 is too hot, below 20 starts to feel a bit cold. That's wearing two layers, thermal vest & jumper.

we have a digital thermometer and hygrometer like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B1WB6JWV/ref=sspa_dk_hqp_detail_aax_0?sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9ocXBfc2hhcmVk&smid=A2IMOTIR4CKZKD&th=1

Heating has been on for 2 hours and it's 15.2 degrees in our lounge. Had to turn it off now as just can't afford to keep it on. Will put in on when DC home from school. I've got my dressing gown over my clothes!

With the heating on for 7 hours it reached 16.5

The heating has been off for afew hours and its currently 11.8

We're not at home, heating is on its usual timer but no one is there to have the wood stove on or boost the heating. It's at 12 degrees right now

Its half 6 in the morning and its 20 degrees. The kitchen, despite not being closed off by doors or any cooking being done, is a couple of degrees warmer.

Wow my house must be so hot compared to most on this thread! We set the downstairs to 23.5 and upstairs to 20. We find the heat rises so upstairs is probably hotter than 20 well it feels it!

We keep the heating set to this all night and day from start of November to end of Feb usually..DP is asthmatic though and the cold triggers it. Otherwise we probably wouldn't need it on 24/7

Do people who have issue bringing temp up have adequate and air radiators? Radiatorsmake massive difference in my experience and unfortunately many properties I've seen really need better ones. It made masaive difference in our house.

At 05.45 it's 19 degrees - outside is 0 degrees, London

Thermostat is set for 21 during the day and 16 overnight, but it's never kicked-in overnight as never gone below 16.