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?

O didn't reeally suffer in the last heatwave ( despite being morbidly obese). I too just opened windows and enjoyed the light and used fans at night which was fine for me. So I am definitely of the prefer it warm variety of humans. We keep the house at 18/19 during the day which is a bit too warm for DH and a bit too cold for me!! I often have feet that are really cold on my working at home days and have to put on massive fluffy socks and slippers and wear thick fleeces. In the evening, I sometimes boost it to 21 for a while.

I don't like it too hot though. 28/30 is madness as a thermostat setting in the home. Fine outside though

Never more than 18°. I grew up in an age where there was often ice on the insides of the windows as we didn't have central heating as a standard so I wonder if that influences things. I now live in a draughty old house but 18° is still comfortable.

I was interested to see that a previous poster thought oil fired heating was very expensive to run, we have oil fired here and have found the opposite, my oil has cost us an average of £80 a month which I thought was pretty reasonable.

21 during the day here, 22 in the evening and 20 throughout the night.

Mine is on 18 atm, have been known to whack it up to 21 on occasions. I don't possess one of those miraculous jumpers which others seem to have. When it gets cold my legs start to feel stiff, my hands feel freezing and my nose is cold, don't think an extra jumper could help there.

I'm quite shocked. Our thermostat is turned up to 15 currently but when it's milder it's typically on 14.5. If we're cold, we use extra blankets, jumper etc.

When I was still teaching I used to get fed up with pupils wearing short sleeved shirts, no jumper because they don't like the colour and not wearing a coat to school then expecting my classroom to be like a sauna. Before anyone moans, yes, carrying coats around in High School is a bind but even mr form who had the use of a secure storeroom for their coats wouldn't wear one. Parents would egg them on by complaining that my room was too cold, tough was my response, privately!

Please come back op, I'm on tenterhooks. What temperature did you settle on?

It depends how you pay for your oil I suppose, whether you pay for it monthly or as a bill when you order, at the minute oil where I stay is around 56ppl. It also depends on the size of the house you’re heating, how old, how well insulated etc. Like I said I stay in an old sandstone farm cottage so no wall insulating but pvc double glazed and roof insulation, it does get cold quickly but with the new boiler it heats up fast and is comfortable now at 18.

I’m tempted to start a monthly DD for the oil heating even though I’ve heard people say it’s a rip off as you don’t get the savings but we are going to go with a local firm who regularly keep on top of the price of oil and adjust accordingly