To turn my heating up to 21 degrees?

[KindergartenKop]

How warm is your house? DH insists on it being 21 but I've set the heating to switch on at 18 and off at 19 degrees. Aibu?

22 here, 18 feels cold unless cleaning. I hate being cold at home and don't want to wear several layers in the house.

It's lower at night and in the middle when at work as we have pets at home.

keeping mine on 19 constantly, other than turning it up to 19.5 or 20 for a bit when it feels too cold - driving alexa (and myself) potty changing it every 30 mins or so since we got hive

@suomynona we have the same problem, 3 storey, really open plan house, and the ground floor is so so cold, but bedrooms are really hot! We ramp the heating up to 22/23 most evenings and have to have the fire on to heat the downstairs. 18 degrees would be way too cold for me.

Between 18 and 21, depending what I’m doing and off between 10pm and 6am.

Our house is very cold as I said and my little girl will still go around in a t-shirt. When we're out and it's 6 degrees or something she won't wear a coat, sometimes not even a cardi and I'm sure it's just cos she's grown up used to it

21 degrees? I would die of heat. I do grudgingly switch mine on when the DC claim they are freezing. I tell them to put another cardigan on, but they get cross with me. We have an Aga, and they are welcome to sit on it, if they are feeling the cold. When the heating is on, it is set to 17 degrees, which is tropical so far as I am concerned (disclaimer: I am underweight, so am not carrying layers of warmth around with me). I acknowledge that I am in a state of peri-menopause-related heat - but nobody needs their heating set to 21 degrees, never mind higher.

Fortunately ours is an old, draughty house, so the heat mostly escapes (to the DC's horror). Yet another reason not to bother with it.

We have thermostat wars here. DH and I set it to 20 but DS will turn it down to 10 and DD up to 28.

I like our house nuclear hot. I then open a window for fresh air... DH goes mad...

Actually, this is a v interesting thread. I set the heating to come on for 2 hours in the morning (17 degrees) so the DC don't moan unduly when they get up. It's then off all day as I don't want it on. It will then come on, if I prompt it, for another 3 hours in the evening (same temp - again, for the DC). I will light a fire if it's really cold downstairs, as that and the Aga combined give the general warmth a bit of a boost. However, I have switched my own bedroom radiator off completely, as I can't bear to sleep in a warm room. The DC both have two duvets. I have one sheet!

I’m always freezing the cold seems to give me cramp so my heating is always at around 18-20’C but it goes off at night so my DCs don’t cook as they hate the heat!

I used to be happy with it set to 17/18°C, and very rarely had it at 19/20°C, but my arthritis has got worse and I really feel the cold now, so I generally keep the downstairs at 20°C during the day, although the house is often naturally at that temperature, without the need for the heating to come on.

If I'm not moving about much, and I'm home most of the day, I may turn it up to 22/23°C and will turn it off when it reaches that temp, but it really depends. I did have it set for 20°C to come on at:

7am for 90 mins
then again at 12noon for an hour
then again at 4pm until 9pm.

We have 2 zones, so the upstairs is kept at 16/17°C during the day, although tbf, it hasn't actually come on yet as it's always around 18/19°C without the heating being on. The upstairs is only set to come on at 20°C for 90 mins from 6am, so that it's warm when people get up. It's then off all day and is set to come on again at 7pm for 2hrs.
This is set to 21°C. So far, it's often warm enough anyway and the heating doesn't actually come on.

Both zones are set to 16°C overnight (from 11pm to 6am), and if no one is home the heating won't come on and stays at the eco setting of 15°C. Generally though (apart from my bedroom, which goes down to 14/15°C), the house doesn't really seem to drop below 17°C so far and it's 2°C outside here today.

I've just turned my schedules off though as I thought I'd give the auto schedule a try. This allows the thermostat to create it's own schedule according to how we use it.

If this works out cheaper, I'll stick with it.

I used to spend roughly £1200 on gas and electric for a family of 4 living in a 70s semi with about 150m2 living space (4yrs ago).

Just moved into a much newer detached property with about 250m2 living space and a lot more glass. It has partial underfloor heating as well as the 2 zoned areas. Looking at my heating history, the heating has been on for an average of 4hrs/day over the last month (includes the Christmas holidays), and according to my smart meter I'm spending about £7/day on gas and electric, although that does include charging a car.

Don't know if that's good or bad though (feels really high to me).

We’ll occasionally put it up to 21 if we’re cold but it’s usually on 19.

My parents permanently have theirs on 23/24 and I can’t sleep for sweating when I’m at theirs

Ours is set at 21. It only comes on for an hour in the morning and 4 hours in the evening.

Mine's at 22 and sometimes 23 if it's very cold outside. If I felt cold then, I'd turn it up to however much was necessary not to feel cold. Don't care what anyone else thinks. Everyone is different. Some people are still wearing shorts outside now and others are wearing long sleeves in July. So what? Who cares?

The funny thing is, I used to feel really hot at 19/20°C, now I often feel really cold and assuming it's actually cold, I go to turn the thermostat up, only to find the ambient temperature is 21°C.
9/10 I then won't turn it on, I'll just grab a blanket instead. The other time, I'll turn it up to 23°C and then turn it off once it's reached that temp.

Don't know if I'm feeling the cold more due to the large amount of glass, and open plan layout we now have, or if it's just old age.

Ours is on around 19-20. For a few hours in the morning and evening

Switched off on a a night

21 is our evening compromise for the house, itself. The older bits of the house, including the room with the thermostat in, never achieve those heady heights, while the newer bits turn into mini furnaces. Doesn't help that the older bits of the house have completely inadequate radiators.

Wonder if conditioning makes a difference. I grew up in a big, draughty house with open fires. We used to have hot water bottles and dogs in the bed. Sadly I can’t have a dog due to work, but would still make a hot water bottle if I were chilly, rather than put the heating on.

Our heating won't come on unless you have it at 19 or above. Mine is always on 21.5 but I put it up to 22.5 tonight as it's extra cold outside and the house did feel cold. Mine goes off at 10pm hate being too hot in bed overnight. The downstairs of our house is cold and draught if we're not careful about closing doors etc so that's my excuse.

I like it at 21-22. I need it cooler in bed though, about 17/18

20 degrees - on from 6am - 8am (we all get up, get ready and are out for the day between 6:30 and 8:15am), it goes back on at 4pm when the kids get home from school (so it's nice and cosy by the time DH and I get in from work around 5:30!), then off at 10pm so it's warm for the kids to fall asleep between 9 and 10 but has cooled down a bit by the time us grown ups head for bed around midnight.

I can't stand being cold and 20 degrees makes the place really comfortable - we all tend to snuggle under fleecy blankets on the sofas, and none of us lounge around in our undies, but it's plenty warm enough for us. If anyone complains of being cold, we have loads of hot water bottles.

I'm at 25+ degree households! Are you naturists?!

We turn it up to 19 when there's a freeze, I couldn't stand it at 23 let alone 28!

Thermostat set to 22 but it's on a timer so only comes on for 90 minutes in the morning and 6 hours in the evening/night.

Takes around 90 minutes to get up to temperature as we have good insulation etc then just clicks on and off at intervals after that.

My parents have theirs at 18 and my mum makes all manner of fuss when she comes here "oh my god it's so hot I can't breathe" lol, like she's in the frigging Gobi desert or something. Their house is definitely cold and trust me growing up there I never got used to it.

Like other pps with warm houses I'm damned if I'm going to fuck around with three jumpers, thermals and blankets etc in my own bloody house. I want to be comfortable in my living space. Anyway ime regardless of what you wear if you're somewhere cold you're cold - three jumpers just means that you're wearing three jumpers and you're cold.

When I was a student I lived in a complete shithole where all bills were included. We had the heating on to 25 day and night. I still think of that place with fondness.

I must have a broken boiler! My central heating is on now and it's at 42c BUT my rads are warm not boiling. I'm not a cold creature I don't wear a hat, gloves etc even when it's - 2. It's currently -2 where I live. Do you all have fancy thermostats or am I doing something wrong?!

I generally keep mine at 20, but go up to 23 if we are feeling cold. Both me and DH have conditions where if we are cold we feel more pain so being comfortable is more important.

We do both layer up before turning it up, but often it's not enough on it's own.