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AIBU?

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No heating unless it gets to 16

134 replies

eedon · 03/10/2015 18:43

Its been pretty sunny today, so hallway is 19. That's warm enough right? I've got my slippers and jumper on and if anything I'm a bit too hot.

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FarFromAnyRoad · 03/10/2015 21:08

What an enthralling OP.

IrenetheQuaint · 03/10/2015 21:09

Don't have a thermostat but I do have a room thermometer and find that anything below 18 in the sitting room is too cold. In my bedroom anything above 14 is OK as I have a thick blanket and hot water bottle.

Electrolux2 · 03/10/2015 21:10

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LeftMyRidingCropInTheMortuary · 03/10/2015 21:13

I have my windows open. The old folk in the flats below have their saunas, I mean, heating on and the heat is rising!

I'm in Scotland btw.

#hard

Sallystyle · 03/10/2015 21:14

17 is decent here because our house is very warm.

I currently have the windows open in the living room and I'm cold blooded! When all 7 of us and three dogs are in here the heat soon cranks up.

I turn it up when needed as I hate being cold and refuse to wear extra clothes because I hate feeling restricted by them.

My house growing up was freezing. We had a gas fire in the living room and one in the middle room and that was it. It was miserable. My mum bought us an electric heater for our rooms when we were teens but we could only afford to put it on an hour before bed. I never want to be uncomfortable in my own home again. I remember waking up wanting to cry at the thought of going downstairs and all of us fighting over the two fires which barely heated the house at all.

Bakeoffcake · 03/10/2015 21:14

We have ours set at 17 during the day and it never goes above 19, i find it too hot otherwise.

I don't understand why people have their hearing on overnight. It's not cold in bed, why do you need the heating on when everyone's asleep?

Sallystyle · 03/10/2015 21:16

Because I can't be arsed to set the timer.

I also don't want to go down to a cold house and wait for it to warm up again and I do get cold during the night very easily.

DeathMetalMum · 03/10/2015 21:22

Thermostat goes to 18 in the morning or below if it 'clicks', though will put it up to 20 if dc are having baths as it's always freezing upstairs, 15 at night. Though we have only had to put it on for a little bit in the mornings this week as it has been very warm and sunny come the afternoon so no need for any heating.

LibidinousSwine · 03/10/2015 21:29

I understand if it's a financial constraint, but the idea of people who can afford it sitting in a cold house baffles me more than anything else I read on MN.

If you're cold turn it on, if you're ok then don't. Why anyone would choose to sit in their house with several layers on waiting for the temperature to drop to an arbitrary number or for it to be a certain month is just crazy. Once your house is cold it will be harder to warm it up again.

RabbitSaysWoof · 03/10/2015 21:35

I dont understand changing the temperature for the time of year, if 17 is warm indoors today when its 15 outside, then wont 17 be just as warm when its 9 outside? I thought it just took more gas to get there when its colder out?
I grew up in a cold house and always wanted a toasty home, then I had a flatmate who would turn the temp up to 30 all the time, I would wake up feeling sick with a stingy face, now I love it cool I leave mine at about 18, my ds is a sweaty Betty, hes the kid that pulls he's coat off in december so I dont have to worry about him.

Spectre8 · 03/10/2015 22:04

Hmm I only turn it on if I still feel cold after having a blanket over me but I also take the view of waiting until at least November before considering it.

OurBlanche · 03/10/2015 22:04

Our is never switched off. It is set by times and left on all year round.

So its base is 16, rising to 19 as the sun disappears and the house temp drops. It goes back to 16 at about 9.30. We tried 18 last winter but needed the fire on, so we are trying 19 this year and will compare the cost.

Anyone who gets cold gets thicker sloppies (we tend to change into sweatshirts and joggers when we get indoors), slipper socks and a blanket.

Our bills seem to be quite cheap, if the sample usage charts are anything to go by!

Spectre8 · 03/10/2015 22:17

never switched off! woah how much do your bills costs. I've had mine off since March.

MrsMummyPig · 03/10/2015 23:27

I never actually switch ours off I just have the thermostat set at 18 and it kicks in if temp drops below. Our bills are actually less now, apparently because the system doesn't have to work as hard as it would have to if you just heated your radiators up from stone cold a couple of times a day. I prefer it in winter too as the house is more or less a constant comfortable temperature, never too cold or too hot.

OhFuckWhatHaveIDone · 03/10/2015 23:34

YABU if your DP is smaller than you (and thus likely genuinely feeling the cold more).

EnlightenedOwl · 03/10/2015 23:37

No need to turn it off if temp does not drop below setting on stat heating won't kick in. So in summer the heating won't come on. Keeping a constant temp and not letting house get bitterly cold is how you make savings.

pigsDOfly · 03/10/2015 23:38

I have a newish boiler, 6 months old. The thermostat is set at 21 and will only come on if the house is really cold at that temperature.

At 16 mine doesn't even come on let alone heat the radiators.

It's not just this boiler as there was a similar post on here last winter with people saying they kept theirs at 14 or 16 and at that time I was in a different house also with a fairly new boiler.

TabithaTwitchEye · 03/10/2015 23:40

Ours clicks on at below 22! I'm a very 'cold' person though and have Raynauds. Also live in a 1st floor flat in London, which helps.

Salmotrutta · 03/10/2015 23:55

Hmm.
I'm not a lover of the cold but when you grow up in Scotland you learn to put a jumper on, stop whining and move around a bit.
I too remember ice on the inside of Windows when I was growing up - I didn't die of the cold.
People are very soft nowadays - hardly anyone had central heating when I was a kid. Just the "well off" types.
Families tended to heat one room which everyone congregated in and other rooms might have had a paraffin heater or something if there was a baby.

People would freak out at paraffin heaters nowadays but my folks had one for heating bedrooms in the very cold nights.

Friendlystories · 04/10/2015 00:45

Those were the days! One gas fire in the living room and a calor gas heater upstairs which my mum would put in our bedroom doorways for 10 minutes each before bed Ice on the insides of the bedroom windows in the morning and wool blankets on the beds tucked in tight so you felt like a mummy and could barely turn over We really are spoilt rotten these days, our thermostat is set to 20 and our house is always toasty.

MedusaIsHavingaBadHairday · 04/10/2015 01:45

Thermostat set to 20 here. No heating over night. I'm cold, have always felt the cold (and grew up in a house with no central heating) and bugger that if I am going to shiver in my own home as an adult... I'd rather go short on food or other essentials! Even at 20 degrees I'm in a fleece and under a blanket on the sofa !

DH on the other hand is in shorts all year round....

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 04/10/2015 02:05

Never switch ours off either, it's set to 18 all year round. Hasn't clicked on yet, our house is pretty warm generally.
Those saying 'use a blanket', how do you get anything done (washing up etc) with a blanket wrapped round you?

MrsRhettButler · 04/10/2015 02:28

Mine is set at 22 and goes up to 25 if I'm cold. In summer I put it to 16 and it hardly ever comes on.

I grew up in a cold house and loved it but as I've grown older I definitely feel the cold terribly.

MrsRhettButler · 04/10/2015 02:30

I refuse to have a cold nose in my own home, I pay so much to my gas company that they usually owe me a few hundred at the end of each year.

swimmerforlife · 04/10/2015 02:30

If it's just me at home I will put it on at 14. Tends to be about 17 for DH.

But I did grow up in big draughty houses back home in New Zealand with no central heating and only a wood burner as we couldn't afford heating (the crappy heater would only go on in the mornings during the depths of winter when their was snow, ice etc) So that temperature is natural to me and I would just put on some warm track pants and a big sweatshirt, unlike DH who has grown up with central heating all his life.

I still don't see the point in central heating

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