What temperature do you leave your heating on at night? When it's below zero celcius outside?

[GoldAndSilverBells]

Just wondered, after a little debate beween me and a few other people yesterday.

Would you be so kind as to pick an option? (I will put what I leave it at a bit later.) Thank you.

i dont have it on,
my bed is cozy with a hot water bottle

Never. I can't stand sleeping in a hot or even warm room. My perfect night's sleep is when it is freezing outside and i can sleep with two thick heavy duvets.
I really want to go to lapland and stay in an ice hotel, that's the dream.

7 as that's the lowest I can set it. It never gets lower than double figures though so doesn't come on til morning when it's set to 19

Interesting the hot v cold sleep.
I wonder whether it's a hormonal / age thing?
I don't remember minding before menopause but since then I sleep much, much better if I am just on the cusp of being too cold. I need cold air and sleep with a window open. I have a sheet that I can snuggle into without boiling my head and a duvet that I keep at shoulder level.

The majority of hotel thermostats are centrally controlled, particularly in higher end properties. The one is your room generally has a limited range and so little impact on temperatures. And of course increasingly you can’t open the windows so there’s no access to fresh air which so many of us want.

Mine is the same (Hive?)

But despite living in an old house in Scotland, it has never been triggered to come on when set at 7.

Our thermostat is set to 16 at night. It bumps up to 20 at 6am.

Bloody Hell. My bedroom would reach 8 degrees or lower rt now if window open & no heating on overnight. I don't like camping. I like temps at least 13 when I get out of bed in morning.

Outside temperature is irrelevant to a thermostat setting.

I find your categories don’t match my choices very well. 14-16 at night is good to me (18-19 in the day). 11-12 would be completely unacceptable. 19-20 at night would be absurdly warm.

It’s been down to -5, no heating on overnight set on 10 so pipes don’t freeze. Small window open a crack in bedroom overnight. Only time it’s shut is if it gets to around -15 which is very rare. Lowest temp at the location I live at ever was -17.

The heating isn't on at night!!

I went away for a few days in November in the very cold spell and left mine on a 12 constantly, it's surprising how low it goes if it's not on for a couple of days, it soon got down to 12.

Ours is set at 16 year round 24 hours a day regardless of the temperature outside.

Thank you, that’s helpful. I agonised for a while about the temp i should set it to.

Mine is off at night. It probably gets turned off around 11 and back on at 8/9 ish. This morning I came downstairs at 745 and the thermostat said 18°, it’s been -2.5° outside for the past few days but the house isn’t freezing at all.

I never have mine on overnight . I turn it on when I get up.

Heating is off at night. I have a 15 tog duvet and a big hairy dog to keep me warm.

It's usually off at night but last night I knew this morning was going to be a cold one so set thermostat to 15. Turned up to 20 when I got up

Mine is off at night but there is enough residual heat in the fabric of the building to stop things freezing in the space of a few hours.

We don't have ours on at night. Our boiler does have a frost setting so it will fire up if necessary.

That’s logical, always amazes me when people set their thermostat in the winter to a higher setting than average summer temperatures but happily survive with no heating at all in the warmer months when it is actually nowhere near 23c or whatever, especially overnight!

I don't have the heating on overnight, because it wakes me up! It goes off at around 9pm, and my shutters keep it toasty until they're opened the following day.

I have a wool duvet and 1000-threadcount bedding that does wonders for keeping me warm!

I can barely afford to have my heating on in the dsy let alone at night. Always turned off.

16.5

23-26 does sound insane but some of that might be technology dependent.

I answered 11-15 because that is what we used to do when we had a boiler. Now we have a heat pump it would cost a fortune to let the house cool down that much overnight - we need to keep it warm overnight to keep it working efficiently. Heat pumps are efficient when maintaining a steady temp but very inefficient when dealing with a big temp change.