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?

Old house, single glazing in old sash windows, no thermostat....

It is currently 14.9 in one of the warmer downstairs rooms. That's with the heating being on for 40 mins.

I suspect upstairs is about 12, and top floor about 9 or 10. Our bedroom often has ice on the inside of the windows in winter

Mymadworld. Laughing at your crafty house. 😄

Abu to clap my hands and do a dance😁

Ours is timer but will click off at 19 degrees. Our living room is the coldest room though (big bay window) so it’s warmer rest of the house usually which is annoying as it’s usually too hot for me.

Think I posted on the wrong thread

I’m confused by people saying that their house is small, or they have lots of insulation so they don’t need heating set above —freezing— 18C or so. Do you even know how thermostats work? They get the house to that temperature then go off, whatever the size of your house or the level of insulation.

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We have open fires in the kitchen and living room that are on most nights from Sept/Oct from around 3 o'clock. Our heating is set to come on when the temp drops below 25 but ralely clicks on.

Those people with hotter houses, do they spend anytime outdoors at all? . How bloody rude - not everyone likes to be wearing jumpers and lying under duvets indoors! We're outside all day every day and like a warm house to come in and out of. Is that so difficult to understand? but this is Mumsnet and there's the annual competative thread of who freezes their arses off longest before putting the heating on

Ours is about 18. It's not warm enough, ive got a fleece, gloves and a blanket on.
But above 20, i fall asleep!

I don't get mumsnetters who do that. You see it on other subjects as well. I mean, the website demographics indicate largely professional people ie pulling in a fair wedge. But there are so many posts detailing how little money people spend, whether extolling the virtues of camping in the UK, or buying second hand clothes, or giving their kids a tangerine and a small wooden toy for Xmas that I do wonder why people bother earning so much money if they don't use it to live a nice life and have nice things.

Depends what I'm doing but anywhere between 16 and 19,any higher and I start to overheat and have to stand outside for 5 minutes to cool off.

I set mine at 22 set my heating wouldn’t or rarely come on otherwise. My kitchen has underfloor heating and it’s currently saying my air temp is 25 set but I don’t believe that. I’m comfortable but not roasting 🤷🏻‍♀️

22 is good - cosy.

If we are having people over I turn it down a bit...3 bed semi so extra bodies really seem to boost the temperature!

I grew up in a cold house, hated it. Home should be comfortable.

I don’t get the whole “if it gets cold we turn it up to X” the whole point is that a thermostat measures the temperature and knows when it gets cold and so to turn the heating on. I guess only perhaps if you don’t have a timer for when you are out etc? I don’t think anything below 21 is comfortable, but I have a new build so it usually only means the heating needs to click on for a couple of hours in the am and pm (timed not to come on in the day whilst at work) and sometimes I will crank up to 22 if feeling a bit fragile/ sedentary.

I don’t get the whole “if it gets cold we turn it up to X” the whole point is that a thermostat measures the temperature and knows when it gets cold and so to turn the heating on.
Maybe they are worried about their heating bill so don't set it on a timer to come on automatically when it goes below a certain temp but just turn it on manually when they decide to use it

Ours is set to 23 but with an open plan conservatory it rarely gets above 21. I've been cold growing up and vowed never to be cold again at home. We hunker down in the lounge area with doors closed and electric fire on when it's cold. I can't go back to mouldy clothes and possessions again

Overnight it's set to 16. It's a Hive so we set it to be a constant 23 at weekends and then during week 18 during day and then 23 from 3pm to 9.30pm. Still never reaches 23 tho

Ours is set at 22 and goes off completely at night. We both hate being cold.

22 here. Stupid thermostat is in the warmest part of the house so need it!

Good grief, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm actually still alive as I'd be freezing at the temperature some people have their houses on.

Mine is usually set on 21.5 during the day, but come the colder weather, as it is at the moment, that goes up to 23.5, which I'm comfortable with when I'm doing housework and stuff, and then I will manually increase it during the evening.

Sitting in my living room yesterday evening I was wearing, on top of my underwear, a light long sleeved jumper, a slightly heavier long sleeved jumper and a thick cardigan, I'd also left the scarf on that I'd been wearing when I walked the dog; my heating thermostat was set the whole evening between 24 and 25.5, I turned it up that high at one point because I was really cold.

During the night it's set at 10 degrees so it goes off completely. My heating would not actually switch on at 18 degrees let alone make the radiators warm so how do people keep warm at that temperature?

I live in a well insulated 4 year old new build with double glazing and have no health issues that would cause me to be particularly cold. Having said that, I've lived in various types of houses and never have I been able to heat a house at 18 degrees.

I have mine at 26-30 during winter. Big, open plan house that's tiled all the way through. Even with the heating up high it can still be bloody freezing. We have a big verandah too that blocks the sun. Badly designed for cold weather!

I will say though that I was in America last year during a cold winter. My aunt's house had a thermostat set to 20 degrees and the house was almost unbearably hot at night.

Just another point. My boiler instruction booklet actually advises that the thermostat be set at 21.5 generally, obviously not during the hot summer months, as that is what's considered a 'comfortable' heat setting for most people.

At 18 degrees I'd have icicles dripping off me.

It depends on the house. Our last house was fine at 19. Our current house is cold at 21 but roasting at 22.