Do you keep your heating on at night?

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We were poor growing up and didn't have heating till I was quite old. I suspect that has rubbed off on me a bit and even though I've got a good job and am doing ok, I always turn the heating off at night. My dc never complained. They are now adults themselves and also don't leave the heating on overnight.

Dp, however, thinks we are all total heathens. He claims to be freezing at night, his kids can't believe we turn it off. DD's boyfriend is also horrified by this. They argue that we are unusual in this respect.

Do people leave their heating on all night? Surely it's quite expensive to do so? I can understand if you're in a very cold house and you have a baby who you need to keep warm but barring that, are we the odd ones out here? If you are all leaving your heating on I may contemplate turning ours on at night when we have visitors

Heating kicks back in if it drops below 17. Higher during the day. The cold really exacerbates some health issues, so I feel it’s important to prioritise. My house, my bills, my rules, I guess.

Is it possible to switch the radiators off in the rooms that you don’t use to try save energy?

Good grief, no. It’s set to 8 overnight, so never comes on. I keep the bedroom windows open a little all the time too.

I have a six bed no insulation house over four floors. I have trialled the keeping around 18 for 24hrs versus the heating for a bit in the morning and a chunk in the evening. For us was way cheaper to heat twice - can’t member the figures but it was a third to half the cost. Heating is never on over night here. Had it in for an hour and a half earlier and it will Come on at 6pm. We override it when we want but we all reach for a base layer / big hoody first.

Does everyone know that if you have them you can turn off the radiator valves in your bedroom so that the house rest of the house stays comfortable through the very cold nights and your bedrooms stay cool? Houses don't have to be a standard 20 degrees (or whatever) throughout.

Generally not overnight but I think it is set to come on if it goes below 14 degrees in the house. When it's frosty like this though it's on all day pretty much. Been on 7am-1pm. I put it back on again at 3.30pm once I got home with the kids. It will be on now until 9pm. It's set to go off at 21 degrees but still isn't hitting that after being on for hours on end.

Only a f drops below 14

No. Can’t stand a warm bedroom. We have bedroom windows open all year round too.

I do but I live in a cold country - if I turned the heating off at night the pipes would freeze and burst. But I'd want the heating on overnight even in the UK, hate being cold.

Ah yes, you couldn't possibly be cold with a duvet on you! No one in the history of time has ever been cold at night with a duvet. They are truly magical.

I have mine set to come on in the winter at 14 .We had a really cold house growing up , ice on the inside of the windows in the morning and coats on the bed .A coal fire and that was it .I do open the bedroom window daily bar extreme weather. I like a warm quilt and a cold room

Mine is on 19 daytime and when its really cold I turn down to 17 at bedtime, or 16 if its milder.

I've just submitted my meter reading for November and the bill is going to be around £60.
(I pay monthly by variable DD)

I did that and DP just went round turning them back up again! We can't keep doing this or we'll end up with a broken boiler 😳

No. Husband also has bedroom windows open. Currently still on 4.5 tog duvet as too warm.

Heating goes off at ours at 10pm latest usually earlier. Residual heat is fine for us, though we do use electric blankets and hot water bottles. We prefer cold room and warm duvet and blankets. I’d be dried out like an old bath sponge with the heating on all night, and wake with a headache

Really? Have you ever thought that there are a myriad of reasons why some people run their heating through the night? For starters some people with disabilities, who may care about the Planet, as well as not wanting to end up in intensive care, may be the same people you are lumping in with your contempt.

Mine only comes on if the temperature drops lower than 14 at night, which it rarely does.

I don't even have any heating upstairs. It's bloody freezing.

It's never switched off here. It works on a thermostat.

I'm in an apartment in the US, in an area where landlords are legally obligated to not let the indoor temp go below 18°C from the beginning of October until mid May.

I think a lot of people don't understand thermostats.

Daisy and I have tried to explain how they control the workings of the central heating tonour DM for years. She either can't understand what we're saying or doesn't trust her thermostat to work as designed.

Mind boggling.

Oh 🙈

For Daisy, read Dsis...

Never have it on at night, hate being too warm. Use it rarely enough at other times also.