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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

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

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WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 19/10/2011 17:55

Dh wants to save m

OP posts:

TheHumancatapult · 20/10/2011 20:45

Titanic

Ty will loom at that but feeling as I use a lightweight chair with a fixed solid foot ate and a super low back may be to long and can't do wrinkles under my arse as since can't feel it I do not notice pressure sores . but it may well work on days when got the big power chair out

I confess I did school pick up for Dd with hotwater bottle inside my coat

I don't know when my feet are cold except when i loom realise they are trying to see how many colours they can turn as no feeling so have to watch heat as can't tell other way ( I confess to burning my leg on lap top charger never noticed till after Outch Outch and did I feel silly explaining to Dr why

Tianc · 20/10/2011 21:44

Ah, completely get the point about unnoticed pressure points. And ouchy ouchy about burns ? a common problem, I understand. Bummer.

inmysparetime · 21/10/2011 06:53

We finally bit the bullet and put the heating on for 3 hours to get the house up to 16 degrees for the evening, it was so nice to get into bed not seeing my breath

Jmurray · 15/10/2023 12:57

Be comfortable in your home , be stone cold . When your dead.😂

Blondeshavemorefun · 15/10/2023 14:41

This is 12yrs old

Where did you drudge it up from 😂

Gothambutnotahamster · 15/10/2023 21:49

OMG this appeared on Threads Im on - i didn't realise I'd been on mumsnet for 12 years!

valiumredhead · 15/10/2023 23:26

Gothambutnotahamster · 15/10/2023 21:49

OMG this appeared on Threads Im on - i didn't realise I'd been on mumsnet for 12 years!

Came up on mine too, bloody hell!

Blondeshavemorefun · 15/10/2023 23:28

And mine hence my above reply

12yrs on house is still set at 17/18 and warm

VerticalSausages · 15/10/2023 23:29

Glad to know that competitive inadequate heating has been going on for at least 12 years on MN

CheersToMe · 16/10/2023 11:23

mine too. I'll bet the OP's DH still hasn't relented! Mine certainly hasn't.

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:27

squeakyfreakytoy · 19/10/2011 18:32

God knows how humanity survived without central heating... its a miracle we are here.

Put some more layers and walk about a bit!!

I can enlighten you. I grew up without it. We had a fire. Nobody can have those in most places now.

Rosesandstars · 16/10/2023 11:29

I think it's supposed to be around 19/20 for a baby in the day?

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:29

LadyInPink · 19/10/2011 18:57

Does your DH mean to keep it at 17 all Winter or just for now? Ours is set at 17 at the moment as it's only Autumn now but once winter sets in i'm sure DH will up it to 18 possibly 19 (it's him who wants to save money here too but I don't mind at the moment as not too cold)

What difference does the time of year make? 17 is the same temp in January as October!

Superscientist · 16/10/2023 11:30

Ours is set to 17 for adults and 17.5 if my toddler is around. If we feel cold and already have appropriate jumpers we heat it a bit more for that time

I think 17 is a good starting point with a bit of flexibility as some days feel colder than others for the same temperature and depending on how active we are

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:32

Toobluntforboss · 19/10/2011 19:10

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.

No you would not boil at over 17. What a ridiculous thing to say! 17 is below the recommended lowest temperature for living areas. Unless you mean your thermostat is set to 17 in a drafty hall so your actual rooms are several degrees hotter? Even then you wouldn’t ‘boil’. It’s not ‘boiling’ in summer when it’s 25, for eg. It’s just warm.

Bagwyllydiart · 16/10/2023 11:34

I must be cold blooded, my thermostat is set to 15!

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:40

sparkle12mar08 · 19/10/2011 19:21

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.

How does that work? It won’t come on until it gets to 17, at which point the air temp is…17…surely?

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:55

valiumredhead · 20/10/2011 08:27

I hate CH, the heat from it is all stuffy and urghhhhh, so I have it on as little as possible. Has been on once so far this year just to test it. Anything over 17 degrees and I start wilting. It's 5 degrees out at the moment and to me it feels a bit cool inside so I have slippers and a cosy cardi on and am fine. I never have the radiator on in the bedroom, I like a big thick quilt and a hot water bottle instead. I love wood burners and open fires, they give off a completely different heat which isn't so drying.

If you have a wood burner your living space will by way over 17. You don’t ‘start wilting’ at that temperature. You wouldn’t survive summer if you did. Why do people always talk so much nonsense about heating?

cardibach · 16/10/2023 11:59

And I’ve just noticed this is a zombie. Apologies all. My points still stand though.

sparkle12mar08 · 16/10/2023 12:24

@cardibach It's a very old system with lines on a dial thermostat so there's a margin of error in reading it I suppose. All I know is that this year I'm still refusing to be miserable, and when we knock the dial over 17 it's maintaining at about 19° on the modern room thermometer we have. I think the loss in maintainable temperature is because our windows are now knackered and letting a lot more heat escape.

Curiosity101 · 16/10/2023 12:34

Is the thermostat just in one room? I've been tweaking our heating for a couple of years and have it nicely balanced. So what the thermostat is set to isn't necessarily what the temperature of the rest of the house is.

Our thermostat is in the coldest room and is set to come on when that's below 20 during the day, I cant remember what the night time setting is but it's lower. Then each radiator is thermostatically set so it only comes on when the room it's in drops below a specific temperature.

If our thermostat was set to 17C in the daytime, our house would be too cold.

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