or is 13 degrees a warm enough home.

[BlackBag]

DH does n't feel the cold. So we have the Spring duvet (8 tog) on the bed and never the whole thing.

The kitchen thermostat is 13 degrees and the woodburner get the sitting room up to 16 sometimes.

The children run around and don't seem to feel it. The cold makes me sluggish, irratable and depressed. If I'm running around tidying up it's ok but once I sit down at the lap top or to read a book I feel like my brain is grinding to a halt during the winter time.

DH is a DIY kind of person but tends to ignore all advice to fit extra radiators or get a proper plumber in to get the ones we've got work properly.

AIBU to want a warmer house.

i prefer to live in a small flat properly heated (22 degrees and 16 degrees room thermostat programmed for different times of the day) rather than a big house that is cold. that's more environmentally friendly as well.

My 'Check your home is the right temperature' thermometer says that anything below 60 degrees is too cold and you're in danger of hypothermia! EeK!

My house is about 20 degrees, which feels nice, but sometimes need a blanket on your legs in the evening. However, I may be the coldest person on the planet - I sleep with a 13 tog winter duvet all year round.

60 is just under 16celsius...

Pre-pay meters are usually installed to help people to pay back arrears in bills - it's illegal to cut off electricity, so the only way they can do it is to put in a meter where you pay as you go.

That's why they're a higher rate, because they factor in the money that the customer already owes.

Unfortunately, they sometimes stay high, because they are fixed rate, so they don't change when the wholesale price changes - a bit like a fixed mortgage in that respect.

Also, they might be higher than they should be if you move into a place with a pre-payment meter - especially if the elec board doesn't believe that they've moved and believe that you'rethe previous tenant trying to get out of paying (it's happened to a friend of mine)

I feel your pain!!! My house just about gets to 15c with the heating on for a hour or so every couple of hours - can't afford more often!

Our house is old, draughty, no double glazing and it makes me and kids SO grumpy. When weather was really bad before christmas my 8yr old DS was eating breakfast in PJ's, dressing gown, slippers and his parker!

Worst thing is I do loads of baking so I can stand in front of the oven to warm up! Then I eat loads of cake!

Roll on summer!

i have the heating at 23c- but the house is drafty through the old windows.. also would have fire going in the winter evenings... cant stand being cold indoors.
i have the heating at 13 if Im not in (just to keep the cats warm enough!! he he )

My DH is a nightmare for turning the heating off/down. I have an underactvie thyroid and even with meds I feel the cold something chronic so it causes no end of arguments on our house (which was 15 degrees the other day and bloody freezing).

We have a thermometer that states anything below 18 degrees really isn't good.

Dh andI constantly turn the thermostat up and down. He turns it up as he is cold, I turn it down as I am tight!

We used to have this dispute constantly when we lived in the UK, he would turn it down, I would turn it up. Now we live in 50c temps here in the ME, I turn the a/c down and he turns it up!
Sometimes our house is so cold I have to open a window to let the heat in. However, our arguments are in good humour. If he "put his foot down" I would leave him and find someone (who I have) who didn't think it was that important. Get a plumber in and get your home warmed up. Apart from anything else, people probably hate visiting you at the moment.

You are not being unreasonable.

DH and I are opposites, I dont tend to mind the cold (hate having any heating on in the bedroom), but DH is nesh and likes the house at 20 degrees. We compromise and have the heating on an hour in the morning and an hour at night, with thermostat at 20. Also DH insists on lighting the log burner.