to tie DH up? . .

[FanjoForTheMincePies]

to stop him putting the heating off?

It's -2 here and he keeps turning it off!

i always find the windows open on the latch as well, which makes it nice and freezing when i go into the kitchen first thing in the morning!

it is a bondage thread!

my oh used to do this in our old house. the thermastat was in the front room. when the boiler boke and we had to get it replace the control was on the boiler rendering the one in the front room useless. i never told him so he would complain the heating was on too high and turn it down. he never knew until after we moved and i told him.

you evil genius!!

My OH is the same- he is wandering around in a T-shirt and I have 2 jumpers and a duvet - however I am feelin wretched with morning/all day sickness so that won't be helping.

Our thermostat is set to 16.... I want it at 18 but he says even 16 is too hot!

Grrr

I had this problem too,me too hot and DH always freezing,even the big bills did'nt get through to him,sometimes I had to stand out at the door to cool down and get some fresh air.Maybe we could compare notes and have a big swap day on MN,see if we could get a DP to match with us.

I maybe got a bit too hot after hoovering but couldn't say anything as i am stubborn and didn't want to lose face, so had to swelter

to DH who is probably reading this!

It's the other way round here, DP spends all day trying to put the heating on and I keep turning it off. I don't mind it on for a couple of hours in the morning and then all evening till we go to bed, but he doesn't seem to understand that the heating on 24/7 costs a shit load of money.

ours is at 22 degrees. I think I'd freeze if it were colder. We do live in a super cold old house though.

Actually, leaving the heating on 24/7 costs less money. We tried it last year and our bill went down. The house ticks over at about 19 degrees and it's far more energy efficient as you don't have to keep warming it up from scratch.

This is where terraced houses win hands down. (especially runt ones, though storage quickly becomes an issue.)

DP just doesn't get cold - he leaves the back door wide open while cooking, when we only have two rooms downstairs, and no hall either!

His parents used to have a Victorian semi with the original sash windows though, so he's used to things being draughty and thinks nothing of leaving the bathroom window open all day. He'd have our bedroom window wide at night but for DD being in the room.

But I have to say, it never gets truly cold here because we leech a lot of heat from the neighbours. The coldest I've seen the stat at (and admittedly the thing is useless and must be wrong most if not all of the time) is...12 degrees maybe?

Feels colder sometimes though. Bloody thing. We have the heating set to 20 degrees, and it comes on morning and evening.

The solution is to have the heating on and just have one room where the radiator is off.

He can go and sit in that one.

It is NOT cheaper to turn the heating on and off - it's much cheaper to keeep it on all the time in winter.

I dont have a thermostat. Just rads which you turn to desired heat.

But DDs room feels cold at 19 deg. Her hands are freezing in the morning.

I wonder if thermometer is wrong.........

LittleBear, you need to put a proper thermometer in the room.

you can get them really cheaply from wilko's or other places.

you need an ambient one.

I can sympathise with your Dh right now.For the first time in my life (thanks to being heavily pregnant I can only assume) I am the one who is consitantly boiling up I could just about lay naked in the snow. Bloody Dh keeps putting on the heat too.. bastard