Doors open or closed with the heating on?

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What do you do?

Definitely close the front door.

Internal ones?

Unused bedrooms have the radiators turned down a bit, and we keep those doors closed. Also the bathroom door to help prevent condensation. If you have a separate door into your hallway, keep that closed as well.

With other internal doors, it depends if you have a draughty house or not. Ours is mostly open plan downstairs and there are no cosy corners whatsoever.

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Yes.

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No open plan here.

Shut all the doors to keep the warmth in

My house I’d semi open plan and has french or bifold doors from one room to another. All open in summer, all shut in winter to make the main living room lovely and cosy.

It was drummed into me as a child to close doors to keep the heat in! I still do it and I think it does help at this time of year. Switching lights off when you leave a room was another rule of my dad’s. I’m less vigilant on that one!

I keep them open so air circulates

Closed obviously.

I keep doors closed.

Air temperature will try to equalise, so If I want the temp relatively warm in the room I'm sitting in, I close the door, otherwise it will constantly be trying to heat the hall, stairs, and landing, which don't need to be warm enough to sit in. The radiator there is turned down.

Closed doors. The thermostat is downstairs here, but it's also open plan and hard to hear. If I had all the doors open upstairs, it would be trying to heat much more of the space.

However, I do open the door to the internal porch every day and get it up to the same temp as the living room as its unheated and this keeps on top of the damp. I must remember to speak to the plumber about sticking a small radiator in there one day.

Open so the air circulates, and so that DD's room gets some heating (because she won't turn her radiator on as it only works on the hot as hell setting, which makes her feel ill). But I'm not trying to heat just individual rooms, I want to heat the whole house.

It depends how warm it is elsewhere and how tight your heating budget is.

I keep bedrooms on the cooler side, so I keep the doors closed to these rooms. But I prefer to be able to move fairly freely between rooms downstairs so I often keep them open.

My parents are comfortably off but refuse to heat their house adequately and screech at you to close the door every time you leave the room, which is a bit irritating.

Ideally closed, but our dog disagrees and shouts at the living room door if we shut it, whether she wants to go though it or not!

Open, as no one in this house is capable of closing any doors.

Closed downstairs and but open upstairs to let the heat circulate. I also close the thermal blinds to keep the heat in in the evening.

All closed to keep the heat in, but it means I get an icy blast every time I go into the hall. I wonder about getting a radiator put in there.