To leave the heating on all night?

[Fockers]

Its -8 outside
Me & the kids under duvets but im worried about the dogs downstairs!
Would you leave your heating if that cold?

Ours is always off overnight and comes on around 6am. Timer is set for 6-10am and 5-10pm and I can boost it during the day if required. Thermostat around 19/20 degrees

12 is pretty cold to get up to - can't you put the heating on a timer so it goes on before you get up? Ours comes on at 6 and DH gets up about 6.15, then the rest of us about 30 mins after that. That gives the main rooms time to warm up a bit first. It goes off at 9 and we do sleep with the windows open a little bit otherwise it gets too stuffy.

20 overnight! I'd boil alive.

I don't leave the heating on because I'd feel like I was cooking in bed.
I have dogs that sleep downstairs and it does get very cold down there. I shut mine in their crate with a huge fleece pillow bed thing to lie on and some thick fleece blankets. They tend to burrow under them if it's cold. Been doing that for the 6 years or so we've been here and it's all been fine

We have our bedroom window slightly open most if the time (not last night though). I wouldn't leave the heating on for a dog, or even fluffball mookins the cat as our house stays warm for hours even with the heating off. I would wake up sweating like the proverbial pig.

I have the heating off at night and the dog has this heated pad www.viovet.co.uk/Pet_Remedy_Heated_Pet_Pad/c20964/?quick_find=155068&gclid=CjwKEAiAjvrBBRDxm_nRusW3q1QSJAAzRI1t7h9-vf3OXnyYenChBt5TjIqyKt3vook-R-ytDgcpARoCqz3w_wcB in her bed

I can't have the heating on overnight at all, I wake up with the most horrendous headache.

We have it set to 18 through the day from 5:30am to 10pm and that's plenty warm enough for us.

DS1 is in the army, he's on exercise atm sleeping outside in a hole. The poor sod must have been bloody freezing last night.

I've never had the heating on overnight and we are -5 here. I can't imagine it. But I do have a leccy blanket and the best goosedown quilt ever, it is so warm. I love being snuggled down in bed nice and toasty with the air in the bedroom cold. I also think I would start getting colds if I have central heating on all the time.

I don't even have the heating coming on automatically in the morning, I just put it on when I wake up if I'm home.

i had the heating on last night and struggled to sleep, i was so relieved when i heard it go off.
but -8 that is pretty cold. i might make an exception, i would for DC so i spose for the dogs, i might again make an exception

I get headaches if the heating is on overnight. DP gets up before me and often has the heating set to come on for when he gets up, and that's bad enough. I think I'd feel so ill all the time if the heating was on the entire night, let alone at 20 degrees!

i have in fact only left the heating on all night once, when the dc were very small and it was -6.

No way! I can't even sleep with the windows shut. Would wake up with headache. The dogs will be fine with plenty of blankets, a warm bed and each other.

If you're that concerned could you just have the one radiator on in the dogs/kids bedrooms?

Could dogs be given a hot water bottle? Filled from the hot tap rather than the kettle so not too hot and not dangerous?

Our heating is set to 20C until 10pm and then the thermostat goes down to 13C, so the heating will only come on if the temperature in the hall drops below that.

It never has, not even in the terrible winter 5 or 6 years ago when Scotland was having -20C overnight for about a month. We've never frozen and I really think heating on all night is totally unnecessary, unless you're routinely getting up with a tiny baby or sick child. And even then, cool bedrooms are better.

We have a programmable thermostat so we can set different temperatures throughout the day and night. We have our heating on all the time but at night the thermostat is set at 16 degrees. It rarely comes on overnight but did last night as it was about -6 here. My dogs are very spoilt as they sleep upstairs with us.

programmable thermostats are the way to go. They are pretty easy to install yourself if you already have a normal thermostat. Ours is set to low (can't remember what) at night and then it warms to 16.5c (in the hall, which is the coldest part of the house) by the time we get up. It uses the temp of the house to calculate when it needs to come on to get the house at the correct temp.

You can get covered dog beds now, our cat has one & I drape a fleece over for extra toastyness. Last night he had a hot water bottle in there too.

FlowerFairiee You are my kind of person

Suppose it's not a cold night, and your heating is off.

Overnight, depending on age and insulation, the internal temperature will drop. It might go to 15C or to 12C. You and your dogs won't mind because you are in bed.

So in cold, frosty weather, if you want to leave the heating on, set the thermostat to 12C - 15C, and it will be about the same as usual. It won't be stiflingly hot, and it won't cost you a fortune in energy. If the weather changes outside, the boiler will run as much, or as little, as necessary to maintain your chosen overnight temperature.

That' the beauty of programmable stats; once you've decided your preferred daytime, evening, morning and overnight times and temperatures, you can forget about them and they will take care of it.

BTW 12C is often recommended (by insurers) for houses, 24 hours a day, while you are away. It will prevent freezing and damp, and a lot of the time it will not even need to turn itself on, because outside weather and solar gain will keep it around that mark. During summer, it will probably never come on.

Get a smart thermostat, they're brilliant. We have Nests - 2 of them as our upstairs and downstairs are on different heating systems. Downstairs is set to come on if it drops below 19 during the day, IF someone is home. It knows if we're not home and doesn't heat the house. Off overnight (well, set super low to stop pipes freezing etc).

Upstairs is off during the day and then from about 5pm onwards is set to come on if the temperature drops below 18. It used to be set to 16 at night but now we have baby DS and his room feels a lot colder than ours. So the thermostat is in his room currently (Nests are wireless so you can move them around!) and we have our radiator turned off so we don't get too hot at night.

I'm not Bagel ours is freezing. DH had to go up to get Christmas decs before he went away until Christmas. Due to injuries I can't haul myself up there any more and I'm quite glad he has to go.

I leave mine on because ours is multi fuel stove so I bank it up at night with wood and Phurnicite so it stays on. Feed it before I leave for work and hope it is still on when I get home. It is a low heat though probably too cold for some. We wear jumpers! I have to remind the softy sons of that when they come at Christmas. They have gas CH.
fockers You could buy a Dimplex oil radiator as they cost pence to run and safe to leave on overnight if you are worried about the dogs. Depends on their coats really as farm dogs are outside. My collie had to stay out and I hated it when it was freezing. Poor dog 😥

The dog heating pads - what's inside them? One dog randomly rips things up sometimes, im not sure id trust him with a hot water bottle

I am the world's coldest person but wouldn't have the heating on at night. I sleep in thick pyjamas and a hoodie and two duvets and am snug as can be.

I put the heating on for an hour in the morning when I get up and for a couple of hours when I get in from work to warm the house up but other than that just wear lots of clothes.

Don't most boilers/thermostats have timers now? Ours is digital (changed about 2 1/2 yrs ago) with about 5 possible settings during the 24 hr period so it's set at 10 overnight, higher at 6.45am, down at 9 etc. Different settings for weekend.

Even if the thermostat in the house is a dial, most boilers have a timer, don't they?

Check your home insurance, some stipulate heating must be kept above a certain temperature to stop pipes freezing. This clause has been added in recent years to many policies.