Parents house is 9 degrees

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My parents think it is perfectly normal to have a house this cold. They have one very small room that they heat up to a good temperature and then the rest of the house is absolutely freezing.

Does anyone else have parents like this?

Husband is being an arse about heating. We
Don't have a thermostat, it's on timer. This morning I woke up after
It went off it was bloody freezing and turned it on. He firmed it off. I turned it on and he turned it off. Came in with the kids this afternoon and turned it on. It was freezing. He turned it off - you can see where this is going. This is not a money thing this is a thing that he has in his head that it can only be on at set times. Driving me mad. I'm not going to be cold in my own house.

Basically I feel your pain op.

My best friend never turns her heating on. I find it so miserable going round there. I have my heating on all the time, two duvets on the bed at night and am sitting on the sofa right now wearing a down jacket despite being next to a radiator. I feel the cold so badly.

Ooft, that is one house I would not be visiting!

Is it old or detached?

Mine is usually 18 without the heating on.

Mine is often 9 at this time of year. It's currently 11.9. Doesn't bother me too much but I do use an electric throw and at night I turn on the electric blanket for an hour or two before going to bed.

It's a generation thing, grew up in a house where we could frequently see our breath indoors during the winter. We had one warm room which was the kitchen. Even now I can't stand a heated bedroom and have the window open 24 x 365.

Ooh that's cold!

Our heating is on in the day, off at night (10pm-7am) the lowest I've seen it overnight is 17°!

And I wouldn't say that we have the most energy efficient house either.

Do they not have cetral heating?

It's not good for you or your house, though.

Is it generational or the type of heating?

We had no heating upstairs bar the bathroom with an electric fire, could get ice on the inside of the bedroom windows in a really cold snap, but all downstairs rooms were heated if only to "take the chill off" in those not being used.

We have a large house and only two of us living here. We don’t have heating on in all the rooms all the time because of the financial and environmental cost so some of our rooms do get that cold at this time of the year but we can control all the radiators, with the exception of the bathrooms, according to what we are doing. If any of the radiators in the house are switched on, all of the bathrooms get fired up too so we never have to wee in a cold room.

Mine’s 7.6 degrees at the minute and it does feel chilly. But I grew up without heating and then in student houses where no one antes to pay. I’m now mid 20s and used to it and with working 55 hour weeks I don’t spend much time in the house when I’m not in bed. Might turn the heating on as I’m in tonight

Mine is a bit chilly unless it's a sit about kind of day. I don't like the heating on at night as the boiler wakes me up. It's often 11 or 12 in the morning to be honest but we get up and go to work so I am not paying to heat the empty house. It's about 18 now with heating on and about right.

I grew up in a house like this so now I like my own home warm. I was completely miserable growing up and I don’t want this for my son

Omg I'd be in agony, if it goes below 19 in my house everything hurts 😂 my mam however is the opposite and has a wood burner and has it at top temperature all the time!

It's only a few months of the year so it's fine. No issues with either me or the house.

9 degrees is very cold, but as others have said, many homes were like this pre-central heating. You had a fire in one room, where everyone sat, and the rest of the house was freezing. Everyone took a HWB to bed with them.

I'm another who grew up with a coal fire in the living room and a stove in the dining room that heated the hot water and no heating anywhere else in the house. But in winter there was a small convector heater in my parents room and we were allowed to go in there on a morning to get dressed.

It was pretty miserable.

it did give me quite a toleration for cold. However this year I've found I've needed not to let my house get below 14° during the day and evening, although I still have no heating on during the night. But definitely now I'm in my seventies I'm starting to feel any lower temperature in the house during the day makes me feel ill.
So I really don't know how your parents tolerate 9° if they are older like me OP.

US. !!! 5 degrees in our kitchen !!!

You are describing our house.

We have no central heating or landline
No shower or bath , no hot water

We just recently moved in though and are waiting for planning consent to rebuild kitchen as it's single brick ,no insulation and no heater.

We live in one room where there is a blazing hot fire .

Before central heating, this was pretty normal, so it could be their age. One room heated either a coal fire.

Or, if they’re not well off, perhaps they are worried after losing their fuel allowance.

Please have a look at her boiler and bleed her radiators for her

How do you cope with that? No hot water, shower or bath? How do you keep clean? I think I'd rather do without heating than hot water.

@ZiggyZowie

Do you have to sit on your hands when you have a wee?

My grandma was the total opposite - she'd have the heating on full blast even in the middle of summer in Australia. I have so many memories of her sitting with the gas fire turned on when it was 30+ degrees outside.

I have a similar issue with my in laws, the house is always roasting and my DH went and stood in the garden for half an hour the other day as it was making him feel ill.

I grew up in a house like this and it was miserable. I had chillblains that were so painful. Radiators were only allowed on a low
setting and checked to make sure we didn’t sneakily turn them up.

I vowed never to have a cold house as an adult.