My friends seemed like they were freezing …

[MyballsareSandy2015]

…. came round for a takeaway, heating on 20 when they arrived. They had layers on … removed some but soon put them back on. They stayed on even when I turned it up to 23 … I was boiling, sitting there in a shirt.

I would be cold at 20 and once I’m cold I find it really hard to warm up if sat still, putting the heating up a couple of degrees once I’m already freezing wouldn’t do enough to warm me back up unfortunately.

I’m astounded that people routinely heat their homes to 22 degrees! Your bills must be huge. My living room is set to 18 if I’m in a blanket, 19 if not. And I’m regularly told (by my mum) that my house is too hot

What sort of flooring do you have? I find laminate and some other hard floors really chill a room. My carpeted rooms are really quite cosy at 19 degrees, but bathrooms and kitchen are less forgiving. Your feet get cold.

I put the heating to 16 when I know HCP are coming to visit. That's very toasty for me and I want to fling the windows open. They are shivering in their coats.

So do you have your heating on all summer?

Also going to mention carpet. A couple of our rooms are gorgeously cosy and warm & can easily be 25 degrees when the laminate / wood floor room next door is 18 degrees.
The thermostat is in the hallway and I don’t think very useful because it really depends on where you’re sitting in each room. It’s probably best to ask them if they are warm enough and offer a hot drink while you raise the temperature of the particular room.
I’m always wrapped up warm at this time of year as I hate being cold and I’m used to wearing layers. Maybe it’s just what they were wearing for the day in general. Unless sat there in a hat and a coat.

If you're coming downstairs in the morning, and it's 20 deg, that will feel comfortably warm. but if you've been in the cold outdoors for some time, and then you come into a room at 20 deg, it may seem warm for the first ten minutes, but might not feel warm enough a bit later.

Being cold is so uncomfortable, I have left people's homes due to the cold. One of my sister's sits in her home with half her wardrobe on ! Hate that, I hate having to wear a gazillion layers and then my coat, I do that outdoors!

If you are thin, have blood circulation issues, chemotherapy, taking certain preventative drugs, elderly or young you need a warmer atmosphere to sit in comfortably. That temperature would probably be over 20 degrees at the coldest part of the home.

Bare in mind also when over 75 or are very young, ideally the bedroom temperature should not be below 17 degrees.

Who cares about climate change? You can’t possibly suggest people put a jumper on!!

I'm cold until 24.
Always have an oodie over my jumper until that temp.
Jumper only at 24.

Gosh I’d Hate to be a guest in your house!

Surely if you had guests coming you’d make sure the house was warm for them.

I respond d to a post a while ago about my sisters house.
last year it was 13 this year it was 8.
they are brilliant hosts but have a large house with numerous rooms they don’t heat.
it’s miserable to visit and I’ve said never again.

We visited some friends a few years ago in mid winter. They had leather sofas which were seriously cold and stiff to sit on, and which seemed to suck the heat out of you instead of warming up where you sat. I was chilled to the bone by the time we left.

I run my heating at 18-19 during the day; increasing to 20-21 in the evening.
The living room has the biggest radiator, so if we sit in there to watch tv with the curtains drawn and the door closed it'll get over 21deg, which I find uncomfortably warm but dp likes.

I have difficulty adjusting to temperature, it's related to a thyroid issue. So I could be somewhere cold for a while, then still feel it ages later although I'm now in a warm place or vice versa. I hate going to one relatives house because it's freezing in winter in common areas and boiling in rooms where heating is on. So if i go to the toilet I could be shivering with the cold 20 mins later despite sitting by a fire

Without wanting to get super-Spartist about it 😀, I do often think there is class-based element to this. I have spent much of life living in poorly heated and insulated houses, like many posters I'm sure, and now I find myself living in a nice little house, which I keep pleasantly warm at all times. I have a wood-burner, and it's a real pleasure on a winter evening. If the roof doesn't leak, and you're nice and warm, that's the important stuff done, for me.

No, it isn't shorts and T-shirt weather. I'm not a postman.

We are all different. Our thermostat is set at 20 degrees, and if I am sat working or watching TV I will be wearing a jumper at that temperature.

What's with the regular competitive underheaters on MN every winter? People who feel the cold easily are not morally inferior or lesser human beings.

20 is cold to me

17 here with an hours boost to 19 if needed 🤔 dreading summer

Have you had your thyroid levels checked? The needing a warm bath thing was a warning symptom that mine had completely checked out. Once I was on medication, it stopped being necessary.

I'm menopausal so generate my own unwanted heat, my argument is that you can always put more clothes on if you are cold.

I agree. I work in healthcare and 20° is optimum. If it’s cold then your insulation needs improvement.

I don’t know if my house is weird, but I’ve never had it over 18 ever
And most of the time it heats up in 20 minutes and then we have to turn it down
i’m wondering if the thermostat broke

We go to in laws most Christmasses and it’s freezing in a big house. At least half of us keep our coats/jackets on, but they don’t seem to notice!