To ask what temp your house is?

[nokidshere]

This is an annual argument for us starting around this time of yr.

The central heating is set at 20 degrees. The thermometer in the hall reads 72 degrees Fahrenheit. I am a bit warm but I can cope just about with a light skirt and t shirt on. DH is cold and is wearing a long sleeved t shirt with a chunky jumper and fleece lounge trousers, socks and slippers.

I know he is cold. But he insists that the house is cold whilst I maintain it isn't. 72 degrees just isn't cold is it? When he is at work I have the windows open for air flow but when he is home he has them closed and turns the heating up.

How can he be cold? Why is he cold? And do others have this problem? He is retiring soon and will want to spend Jan-March with the heating up and the windows closed all the time and I will feel suffocated. Anyone else reached a successful compromise?

We bought Tado plugs for our heaters.
Best thing ever! German company and great product.

We programmed then individually for different times of the day/week and the house is only warm where and when we need it.

I also like that we set the DC rooms up so it doesn't go below 17 overnight, while the rest of the house is off.

It also checks the location on my phone and warms the house ready for when we arrive.

Ours is set for 20 degrees but the thermostat is in the bedroom which is the warmest room in the house. The living room is like ice (no carpet) and while i will throw another layer on my ds (nearly 3) will flip the switch and throw the fire on 😂.

When I put the heating on I set it to 18-20 degrees for half an hour and the house is toasty in no time.

It’s currently 16 and I’m freezing, however majority rule has spoken so we don’t have the heating on yet.

Ideally I’d like it to be around 22 constantly. Last night I was watching tv with 2 blankets and my dressing gown, but my nose was so cold!

We have an old Victorian house with no carpets on the ground floor, and only partial double glazing.

In winter though we have the heating on for a few hours in the morning and evening and that tends to be sufficient, although it was on a bit more constantly when we had all that snow earlier this year!

@speakout with our system you have to set a temperature. The heating is never 'off'

Omg the bills for having heatin on all night

I bet it would make hardly and difference to me. When I went from working (Heating on 6 hours a day) to being at home most of the day (heating on for 16 hours a day) it made no difference I could see to my annual gas consumption. I am in a modern well-insulated flat though.

(I originally didn't have heating on at night as this was my first home with a gas boiler, and the idea that might do something to kill me while I was sleeping scared me. But it turns out I don't need heating at night anyway, I sleep under a 4 TOG duvet all the year round and am never cold.

Thermostat set to 18, but heating only goes on in the morning and evening as we are out most of the day and don't need it at night. It has come on a couple of times over the last few days but I'm not expecting to need it this week!

Its easier to warm up than cool down do I think extra layers is the answer.

Lots of people aren't getting how some heating systems work.
Yesterday my nest was set to 19 during the day and 15 at night. The heating was only actually 'on' for 6 hours (cold where I am just now and big drafty house) and didn't click on at all overnight.
I was in all day yesterday, had both my husband and myself been out (with our phones linked to the system) then the heat wouldn't click on at all.

18 degrees

kaytee87

What are we not getting?

My heating was on for 2 hours yesterday.

25 without the heating on, am high up in a block of flats and don't use the heating ( have to use a lot of fans going in summer when I can't get it below 30).

@speakout I'm talking about the people saying it must cost a fortune to have the heating on all night. It's not actually on.

I have a heating on at night as well set to 18. It's about 1C colder in bedrooms so it's perfect. I am not in during the day most of the time and even if, by moving around and doing things I keep warm.
It's same price like having it on during the day... Maybe cheaper because electric (powering the boiler) is cheaper 😁

He may genuinely feel cold. Some people are like this. I found out the most important part to keep warm so you don't feel like freezing are feet. Maybe super warm socks would help him.

Set at 20C, that's fine for moving around - moderate activity but sitting down and not moving very much we'd all need the blankets out.

kaytee87

So you agree with those not having the heating on overnight then- because yours isn't on either.

Flipping cold at the moment, central heating on the blink. Someone is coming round to fix this afternoon, I can't wait!

We have it set to 19, and overnight it’s on a maintenance setting so it comes on automatically if it drops below 17. We have an 18mo though. Pre DS, it would have been off at night.

Our heating isn't on yet.

When it gets switched on at the end of October, I'd normally have the downstairs set for 19°C during the day and upstairs at 16°C. In the evening that may rise to 21°C in the lounge and 20°C in the bedrooms to warm them up before going to bed, but it depends on how we feel. It then switches off overnight.

Ours is off overnight but 23/4 in the day. It went on mid September anwill go off when I think the outside temperature is warm enough.
We keep the bedroom window open a little bit even when the heating is on.

Heating thermostat set autumn to spring at 16C. If I'm in a room will turn it up to 20/21C. Wear jumpers, fleeces, UGG style boots in winter indoors too. I have health issues and feel the cold more than I used to unfortunately. Grew up in a freezing cold house in the Highlands, but I am no longer that tough.

I read somewhere overheated houses are contributing to global warming (more than cars!), but I have had too many years struggling and feeling cold and trying to be brave about it. I just want to be comfortable now.

Ours really depends on who’s at home. I like it much cooler than DH, who sits around in a t-shirt and then cranks the heating up to 23c. I am more active and used to work outside so I find it stifling at that heat. 20c is plenty for me. Neither of us like heating at night though, and always have the windows open a crack.

He should put a jumper on - you’re right, he may be cold, but 20 degrees certainly isn’t.

Plus, sorry for ‘moral posturing’, but, you know, the future of the planet and stuff (see this morning’s headlines).

I'm in the UK. I'd rather use a blanket or put on a jumper, than be too hot.
We've got Nest and they're only set to come on if the temp falls below 9°C atm, so it doesn't come on at all. According to the thermostat upstairs it's 17°C atm, and the downstairs thermostat says it's 19°C atm, so the heating won't come on anyway. Late last night it was 14°C upstairs and 17°C downstairs.

My thermostat says my living room is currently 19 degrees. My heating temp is set to 18 degrees during the day and 12 overnight. We occasionally turn the heat up to 20 if it’s really cold.