To think 17 degrees C is too low a thermostat setting.

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Mines on 24 at the moment. I'm still not hot and I have tracksuit bottoms, vest and thick lumberjack shirt on.

I can't concentrate when it's cold, I go into hibernation mode and slow down.

when everybody has different tolerance to heat/cold. It doesn't matter what temp we prefer or your dh prefers. If you are cold, and you can afford it, turn the bloody heating on, it is your house aswell as his.

Nobody should be cold Some people have no other option but from reading your post it doesn't sound like thats your case. You dont need our or your dh's permission to fullfil a basic human need. If he wants to be stoic and hero he can do that himself.

Goodness - surprised by this! Mine is set to 16. We do wear sweaters also if we are cold but rarely goes to 17 degrees unless it is absolutely freezing. Our boys are 5 & 3 and dont mention the cold (and they are very vocal if things are bothering them!) and we also have a 5 month old - who seems warm enough in his clothes. I would boil at anything above 17 degrees! Good luck with your heating bills.

Ours is on 17 at the moment and it's toasty - but then our house is well insulated and a semi. We only heat the living room, bathroom, spare room (because the DDs play in it) and only for those periods when we are 1) in the house and 2) not in bed. On weekdays this pans out at about 8 hours a day, on weekends it's more.

Our bill last year was about 20% higher than it was when we had milder winters, but overall it was OK. The thermostat never went up higher than 19 even when it was at its worst.

Am going to be working from home quite a bit this winter though, so am going to invest in a slanket so that I can be 1) naffly unfashionable, 2) warm and 3) a cheapskate.

We have ours at 16 or 17, just turn it on when we want it/feel cold.

Ours is set to 16 or 17 degrees, which keeps the air temp in the house at about 20-22 degrees. We're in an extremely well insulated detached. I'm a skinflint but I refuse to be miserable with cold this year.

I think I am missing something here. Doesn't a thermostat keep it at that temperature? If so why the need to turn it up when it is really cold?

Mine is off. Only comes on if below 5c. It's about 15.5 at the moment, but I dont have small children in the house
I think 17-18 would be reasonable

Ours hasn't been on yet, apart from yesterday when I ran it for a few minutes to test it. I was flippin' roasting.

Am I the only one that doesn't have a thermostat? Most of the the rads have thermostatic valves, and are usually set to 2-3 (max is 6 I think).

DH and DC don't seem to feel the cold, so I pad around in slippers and fleece whilst they prance around in t-shirts.

Ours is on 19c. The room temp. at the moment is 21.7c.

It is 4c outside. So me thinks it's going to be our first cold/frosty night.

I've just set the timer to come on at 5am tomorrow, on 20c.

DC have their fleece pjs on and DD has her welly socks on for bed. ( her choice!

Have tested out the heating in our new house and v. pleased to find it's amazing compared to the last place (which only had a choice of on or off for the heating).

I absolutely hate being cold so don't mind spending extra on heating, although our gas bill is much lower than average anyway.

YABVVU. Like backwardpossum I'm where it's coldest just now and we've only put our heating on this last week. It's insanely expensive to keep the house any warmer than that. I'm in my jammies, with a t-shirt and fleece on, and I'm perfectly comfortable.

My DC are small and don't seem to feel the cold much. Cold hands don't mean anything.

We don't like ours coming on so we have it low so that we can control when it does...if that makes sense? We have a log burner so the heating tends to go on for half an hour in the morning when I first get up and that's it. The house doesn't feel cold despite being an old house, but we are quite well insulated and are a mid terrace. I am the type to feel the cold, but I sit under a blanket of an eve if I am cold and wear socks or a jumper, which seems more sensible than having the heating on high.

Well, if you're cold, you're cold. I would find 17C fine, DH would much prefer it warmer because he feels the cold more.

I don't think it needs to be warmer for children, though, if they are normally healthy - otherwise how would they have survived until central heating became the norm 25 yrs or so ago

Me too, backwardpossum. It is soo cold! House is freezing too - 17 would be lovely and warm

I've not even got the heating on yet :) preens When we do though, it will be around 18, which is fine, as long as we keep all the doors to every room closed to keep the heat in - it makes a HUGE difference. Without that, with all doors open, it needs to be on around 22.

Oh honestly. How did people survive before central heat? Who the fuck cares? If you bloody have central heat, bloody use it! There is no credit for being cold or how many jumpers you wear!

Ours is set at 17 during the day as I am the only one home and like being a bit cold. It goes up to 19 at 5 pm so as to warm the house for my husband and son's arrival home.

But if I am too cold during the day, I turn it up.

Just checked living room temperature it is 17.2 degrees.

Ours is set at 16.

The timer is set to turn it on for an hour in the morning (if the temp in the house is lower than 16) and then for an hour in the evening in the winter. We haven't turned it on yet this year.

We do have a log burner, to heat one room, which we have lit a couple of times so far. And at night we have an electric blanket on the bed - hot water bottles foir the children - which we turn on for a few minutes before getting into bed. Our bedrooms are never heated at any point in the year, the radiators in there are just set to the 'defrost' setting and we have big winter duvets.

Have a big old house, can't afford to keep it toasty. We just wear more clothes.

23 degrees in our house, I just looked at the thermostat, mind you both log burners on, We don't do cold, nothing less then 22 degrees at least, I won't be cold for nobody, and no babies in this house.
17 degrees way to low, our air con in amidst summer is set on 16 degrees, I can't see how that would keep the house warm in the winter months.
We are not on the gas at all, two large multi fuel burners are keeping the house cosy and warm,

Ours is at 16 degrees (have a 15 month old with a cold, hence why I've had it on today!). Right now it's 17 degrees here in the living room and I feel perfectly comfortable with a warm cardigan on (and DH is in shirt sleeves). But if you're cold, turn it up! Having a baby in the house is the ideal excuse to put the heating on when you want it, I reckon!

Thermostats only tell you how warm the house is by the thermostat - unless they're fancy ones.

Might it be worth checking what temperature it is in the room(s) you use most? You may find it's colder there than you thought. Last winter we had ice on the inside of the bathroom window but the living room where the heater is was toasty!

(How's that for competitive coldness btw?

Our central heating has a timer, we have it between 18 and 20 degrees during the day going down to 15 at night.

I had ice on the INSIDE of my bedroom window as a child. I loathe being cold in my own house. I will economise on other things to spend a bit extra on heating.

-4 in Aviemore!! Flipping heck. I'm there next week on my holidays (seriously, we go this weekend)