Students house stat set at 28 degrees

[dingit]

At night! Aibu to tell her to turn the heating off. Other house sharers insist it's left on. Dd sleeps downstairs, the boiler is in the kitchen next to her room and keeps her awake. Also their heating bills will be huge. If she turns it off, I can't see any of them being arsed to come down and turn it back on, if they notice, especially when it turns chilly.

28 degrees is utterly ridiculous. Housemates need to get a grip. I'd rather sleep in the garden. Most people would be extremely uncomfortable in that temperature, and that's before the heating bill arrives!!!

28 degrees in the day would be bad enough!!

Are you in the house share? Can your dd not deal with it? But yes way to hot and the bill will be huge!

Does it have to be fully off? Can't they just turn it down?

28 degrees is ridiculous. 20 is ridiculous tbh.

But surely DD is old enough to sort this out herself?

Tell her to program it (of it is modern enough) to turn off around ten and stay off until about six. No one will notice.

28 degrees is nuts! Our thermostat is set to 21 I think.

I lived in a student flat where we have no heating apart from electric fan heaters, 14 foot ceilings and massive rooms with enormous single glazed windows. God it was cold! I think I wore every item of clothing in bed under multiple duvets and spent most of my time out and about. Heating bills non existent though because we were all too miserly to use the electric heaters. Used to blast the kitchen why turning the gas burners on the hob.

So 21 would be a middle ground really.

Yes she's old enough to deal with it, but she asked me what she should do. I've also told her to send in a meter reading to get an actual bill.
She's only 19, didn't you ask your mum things at that age? I still ask my mum, and I'm 50

Both my sons accomodation included bills. So no bill to pay. Student life doesn't end at 10pm either so they will come down and turn it back on. Perhaps a house meeting to discuss the noise of the boiler and the ecological impact might help.

Wonder what the landlord thinks? Their bills may be included in their rent so they might not actually be on the receiving end of an increased bill. 28 degrees is a bit too high in my opinion

It's a private house.
She's finding it difficult with the others anyway as they keep her wake until the small hours, as they shout to each other between their rooms. Then they start using the bathroom, and believe me that boiler is loud ( I've been there). During the week it's not acceptable as she actually goes to her 9am lectures!

Bills not included, they have an account with bulb

DD had this same problem and it never really did get resolved. Her housemates seemed to have no concept of bills and eventually she moved out.

Blimey I froze as a student.

Heating wars are part of the student experience. Definitely suggest she turns it down, but be prepared for someone to come and turn it back up.

Does it actually get to 28deg though? We used to turn the thermostat in our student house right up, but it never got anywhere near to temperature. Especially in the rooms further away from the boiler.

The only room which got hot was the downstairs one. The guy in that room was always complaining he was too hot whilst the rest of us froze. Would he swap rooms though? Would he fuck!

Is it actually 28 C in the house, or is that the number on the display?

I can't imagine anyone being able to sleep in that temperature. People have been moaning about it being too hot to sleep all summer when rooms have probably been less than 28 C.

They need to work out how to use the timer etc to heat it to a sensible temperature (21/22 when the house is occupied by awake people and 16-18 when empty or everyone is asleep). Surely a group of people intelligent enough to go to university and with access to google can work that out?

And yes, the heating bill is going to be extortionate if they heat the house to that temperature. Much better to do something now, before a massive bill arrives. And even if they're in a 'bills included' place, I doubt the landlord is going to quietly pay a huge bill without saying something - the extra will either be recoupable via the small print in the rental contract, or the rent will increase in future to pay for it.

If she is unhappy with the temp as most people would be!!) then she should not be paying out for the bill!I wonder if the know how much it is? They might get a shock when the first bill arrives!

Is the heating not controllable within individual rooms, eg by turning radiator down or off?

Turn the thermostat down to 22. If dd is unsure how to work the stat google should be of help.

Unfortunately the noise can be a problem to others. Could earplugs help

I'd get a migraine if the central heating was on that high, it'll be unbearable. Reduce the temperature by stealth, one degree a day until you get to a comfortable temperature. I do this at my mum's, her temperature is set at 25° which is too hot for everyone except her.

Definitely switch it off at night, it's ridiculous they need it on that high during the night.

Unlikely the heat in the house gets near that level. It is far more likely that it is much cooler and the other students mistakenly think that turning the thermostat up higher will make inefficient heating work better.

I do think however that this is something she needs to sort out herself. Her options are talk to them more, or find somewhere else to live. Try not to get too involved.

Ask her to bleed the radiator in her room & to ask her flat mates to do the same. Going on above posters comments, the radiators might not be heating up effectively.

Can people not turn their individual radiators off?

Actually if she can get hold of a thermometer she can check the actual temperature in the rooms. I suspect it will be way lower than 28 degrees.

@dingit - if I were her, I'd follow some of the good advice on here - bleeding the radiators, for example. I'd also be tempted to work out the cost of keeping the heating on overnight, and show it to her housemates, and if that doesn't shock them into turning it down at night, she could tell them that, as she doesn't want the heating on overnight, she isn't willing to contribute to the higher bills that will result.

Or she could take the sneakier approach, and gradually turn the thermostat down, over a number of days, and hope they won't notice that it's not coming on at night - then she can tell them they obviously don't need it!