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

I love mine, takes about 45 minutes to get pretty hot and I turn it off when I get into bed.

Look for one in the Black Friday sales, there are some good deals out there. You can them with different controls on each side so you can have yours off if you prefer.

On the temperature subject, I like it low but not off. I grew up rurally in a very cold house, single glazed and no central heating. Now, my criteria are if I have to wear a hat to bed or wake up at 4am with my ears and nose frozen it's too cold!

No! It's only got to the point where it's on most/all of the day since this cold snap started this week, but we always switch it off before bed. I can't see why you would need it if you have a good duvet, and who wants to be boiling hot in bed? If you really are cold at night, an electric blanket would be a much more economical option.

Normally no, but yesterday was so cold and it took ages to get the temperature up in the house I left in low overnight. Tonight is back to off after 10pm.

Fuck, that is fresh. 😂

At night when up, yes, but I am a shift worker and don't normally go to bed until around 4am. So if I'm up watching tv, just in that room. Def not when I go to bed and never have it on in the bedroom as gives me a migraine and dries me out

I keep at least the bedroom heated, because I have a 14 year old cat. Maybe a bit ridiculous but she's been with me pretty much my entire adult life, different cities, jobs, friends, relationships, losses...she's still healthy except for a bit of athritis but I go pretty far to ensure her late years are fully comfortable. She's more than earned it.

I usually turn heating off when I go to bed about 11pm and then on again when I’m up at 6am. If it’s going to be crazy cold overnight then yes or if my elderly Mum stays with me overnight which is only about once or twice a year,
I won’t be cold in the day though!!

We don’t have a thermostat, just an on/off switch for the heating so it’s off at night and I switch it on when I get up and DH is always switching it off during the daytime, complaining he’s too hot. He is Scottish!! 😳

Absolutely not. It's -2/-3 at night here at the moment and we have the heating on 3-4 hours in the evening and an hour in the morning. At the weekends it might go on at lunchtime.

You don’t need the heating on at night if you have enough blankets and layers on the bed. My Nan never had heating and had one gas fire in the lounge. Bed time at hers was freezing cold and she warmed the beds with a heated frying pan and we had hot water bottles. I’d hid my head under the blankets until it got warm. Was never cold in the night though.
In my family home dad refused to out the heating on most of the time 😂 . Cold out of bed, warm once in bed.

I was raised in a cold house and I dreaded the winters. I only have the heat properly on if it's terribly cold. I turn it down to 16 during the night.

I have it on all day unless I'm hot if I'm at home. I just cannot bear the cold.

Nope we don't. Goes off around 9pm, I've an electric heater in my room which turns on automatically if the temp gets below 17/18 so the room isn't too cold for my 7 month old baby. Prior to having baby, I'd never have the electric heater on in night.

Heating comes back on at 9am when we get up for the day and is turned off when it gets too hot (after 1.5hrs) and will turn back on when it gets cooler.

I was pretty poor (at times) too, but one thing that resolved in me: never be cold! Heating is the first thing I'd spend money on. My DS and his wife; their house is never warm. Requests to turn the heating up are met with eye-rolls, etc. I think in the 21st century it shouldn't be too much to ask to get out of bed in the morning and not be freezing. I turn the thermostat down to around 18.5 deg at night. Relatively wealthy people who turn the heating down and huddle under throws; I can't understand them.

If the temperature drops to below 17 degrees during the night the central heating will come on to bring the house up to 17 degrees. It comes on a 7am to start warming the house to 21 degrees by 8am, then at 10pm it drops to 18 degrees, and down to 17 between midnight and 7am.

Last night I woke up and felt cold, so I grabbed my phone, opened the smart thermostat app and clicked "boost heating in bedroom" and the radiator in my bedroom came on for 10 minutes which was long enough to send me back to sleep.
I love central heating.

I've lived in wooden houses heated by wood fired stoves, with outdoor temperatures below -30 C. You have to bank up the fires, and be ready to get up in the middle of the night to put more wood in the stove. When you've experienced walking into a kitchen that is so cold the washing up liquid has frozen solid in the bottle you come to really appreciate being able to use a phone app to raise the temperature from inside your bed.

See that’s more than my heating comes on and we just leave it set to 18.5c permanently.

The most it’s been on all week is 3hrs and 52minutes and one day this week it
Hasn’t come on at all.

I didn’t know people had their heating on at night until I joined MN and I am old.
For those people who do put it on; doesn’t it wake you up if it clicks on at night with a bit of gurgling in the pipes?

No and the boilers in a cupboard in my Bedroom. Even if teenager went for a 5am shower it doesn’t wake me.

Oh lord. The Four Yorkshiremen have joined in 😂!!
Thou were lucky, we had to rub pig grease all over to keep ourselves warm and share a match which we'd sit round until we warmed up to minus 10°c.
People nowadays have no idea. Blankets? Luxury. My Nan made blankets out of old sacks she found in t'gutter.

Off but it will kick in if it drops below 12c

I've carefully insulated our house. It's warm-in the evening then heating goes off at 10 and on at 6.30am.

Beds have decent duvets.We don't need more.

No, our system is very quiet. We can't hear any "gurgling" or loud clicks. It's on a thermostat and clicked on at 3am I think.

And I live in a paper bag in the middle of the road. 😊

Have an air source heat pump (an older one) and really struggles to get the temperatures up in the morning, when its particularly cold it seems to only be able to increase by about 1 degree per hour.

We have an overnight cheap electricity rate,

in these sub zero temps ive been experimenting with turning it down to 17 overnight and 20 during the day, or keeping it at 19 overnight and 20 during the day.

My octopus app indicates that I spent £2 less per day on the days that I left it on 19 overnight so must be more economical for us to leave on!

YANBU. We have electric storage heaters, they charge overnight so we don’t get any heat from them throughout the night. I don’t think I’d even consider putting it on overnight if we ever moved to a property that had gas central heating.

We have electric under blankets on both mine and DH and DS bed (older child) so we’re always toasty and it literally cost next to nothing compared to heating.

Paper bag! Thou were lucky. I bet it were toasty warm at minus 15?