Do you keep your heating on at night?

[EatTrout]

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

No. I'd get far too hot, for starters!

We have hot water bottles, and the heat turned off at night, but also live in a mid terrace house with neighbours who pump the heat out non-stop, so our house never feels that cold.
My sister has a massive single glazed victorian mansion style house where you can see your breath all year round. I couldn't live like that, even though the space is lovely.

Yeah, if it's cold we put it on - doesn't matter what time it is!

No never on at night.

We have it on until about 10 and then it goes off. Too hot to keep it on all night.

Duvets/blankets are warm enough. Add more blankets if its still too cold. Warm stuffy air from heating is horrible.

Nothing to do with being poor either.

Ours is set to 15/16 overnight , it never actually gets switched off . Our house is extremely well insulated and generally very warm and being in the SE it’s actually a rare occasion that it comes on in the night .

Our heating has the same settings all year round 14deg overnight and 17 Deg during the day and we will override it increasing it to 18-19 Deg if we feel cold.
My daughter throws off her covers overnight and wakes up cold so she has an electric heater set to 20 Deg and she has an electric under blanket too.

Ours is set to come on if it drops below 17. I grew up in a house with heating on overnight and DH didn't. It took me a very long time to get use to the house getting a little chilly over night and the cold run for a wee in the night.

Mine is off all night, from 10pm until 6.30am, it's on 6.30 until 7.30am then off again while I'm at work and comes on again at 4pm until 10pm again. I'm in a 1930s semi with double glazing in most rooms. It's much colder in the two rooms without double glazing,tbh. In my bedroom I have the window open a crack all winter for ventilation.

No heating at night. I'm guessing that the people who do have their heating on during the night don't give a shit about global warming.

@EatTrout when you say ‘having the heating on’, do you mean ‘heating is working and thermostat is set to 20cC’ or do you mean ‘it’s not working because I’ve ut the thermostat to 12oC so it doesn’t come on’?

And is ‘switching the heating off’ means putting the thermostat lower (again like 12oC) or putting down to 0/cold?

Because the more it goes, the more I’m thinking no one is talking about the same thing here.

I think it depends on the context... where you are geographically, how hood your house is at retaining heat etc. For us (we're in SE) it would have to be Baltic here before we would have the heating on overnight. At the moment, ours comes on for an hour in the morning and then 5-8pm, longer if needed but always off by 9.30pm latest. If anyone is working from home we use electric heated throws etc to stay warm.

No hearing overnight. Partner is warm bodied, we don’t get cold. Plus the noise of radiators can wake me up. 30s semi. it’s Set to 13 from 8:30pm so would come on but it rarely would drop that low tbh.

Constant source of disagreement.

I would rather it was off, he likes it on. Generally he's in bed after me so it's on 🙄.

Out bill is a fortune. Was on at 23.5° since last night. Bloody 23.5° - put a bloody jumper on!

Yes if its cold. I was brought up in a house heated by open fires and oil stoves. There was ice on the inside of the windows in the mornings and we had to keep an oilstove going in the outside loo to stop the pipes and cistern freezing. While I can afford it, I refuse to be cold or swathe myself in blankets, slankets oodies or any other bloody thing. I do wear warm indoor clothes and use thermostatic rad valves.

It's always ready to be switched up, if needed, day or night.

We never have it on overnight. It’s generally off between about 10pm til 6.30. We live in the south east though so don’t have particularly cold weather very often. When it’s occasionally -6 degrees at night I just set it to come on earlier in the morning so it’s warming up from about 5.30 but I still don’t leave it on overnight that seems really wasteful.

oh bollocks to your organic vegan pearl clutching. I don't fly anywhere or even take holidays and my car use is minimal.

It’s not cost effective to leave it on, set it at a temp and let it turn it’s self on and off. We gave it a try because someone told it it’s cheaper but it wasn’t for us. It cost us more to do that than it did to just turn it on and off when needed

same here - also grew up without CH and got used to ice on the inside of the windows.

mine is set to 14 degrees from midnight to 6am, then 18 until 6pm when it's at 21 for the rest of the evening when I'm more likely to be sitting down.

For power cuts and extreme cold I've got a wood burner just in case.....

No, I can't sleep in a warm bedroom. I like to snuggle up in a warm bed. I remember ice on the inside of windows too, from the days when there was no heating upstairs and winters were much colder. A bedroom that gets warmed up during the day/evening these days is a tropical environment compared to that, even with my frugal approach to fuel consumption.

Never on at night…..not often on in the day…..we have a log burner that heats the back lounge and kitchen where we spend most of our time ( just the 2 of us)

Set to come on if it drops below 17 which rarely happens

id hate for my daughter to be cold but equally if I he heatings too high I wake up fuzzy

We turn the main thermostat in the living room down to 10 degrees, so it will only come on if it is colder than that overnight.

I the last few years, I think it has only come on when we had more than a few days of snow (in SE England).

I have an electric blanket and put it on for a few minutes to warm the bed up before I get in to bed and switch it off as soon as I get too hot, which is usually around 15 minutes after I have got in to bed.

If I wake up cold during the night, which is very rare, I put it on a low setting for an hour.

Heating is always off overnight. Goes off about 10pm. I like my bedroom to be slightly chilly. We sleep with a bedroom window open all year round, whatever the weather

I think that ours is set to 12C at night, but the room the thermostat is in never drops to that temperature so it’s effectively off. Our bedrooms are much cooler than the thermostat room at night.