To think 19 isn't too cold for heating

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DH is constantly turning the heating up saying he feels cold. Any more than 19 and I get too warm, but he would prefer 22, night and day. I only wear leggings and a t/shirt, he will wear a couple of layers and still complain. We use a summer duvet, we have it set at 20.5 as the compromise but neither of us are comfortable with that temp. What temp do you think is reasonable. It's a new build that retains heat very well.

If it’s under 18.5 I should say!

I have mine on 22 in the day then turn it down to 19 when going up to bed. If we'll be out most of the day then I leave it on 19 from the night as dont need it on higher when getting up and ready in the morning, I find I only need it higher when sitting down to start work (work from home).

My house is tiny and well insulated so my thermostat is set at 14. Any higher and it feels really stifling.

Get a dual-tog duvet, it's a game-changer! We have one, my side is 8 tog, DH's is 14 tog. He feels the cold, I'm always warm due to a fast metabolic rate. We have the heating on 18 overnight, 19 in the day which is perfect, he wears jumpers and I wear t-shirts.

The World Health Organization's standard for comfortable warmth is18 °C(64 °F) for normal, healthy adults who are appropriately dressed. For those with respiratory problems or allergies, they recommend no less than 16 °C (61 °F), and for the sick, disabled, very old or very young, a minimum of 20 °C (68 °F).

Our living room is about 18, & our bedroom is about 16 (we have had the bedroom window open for the last couple of years, I think we last closed it for a couple of weeks when The Beast From The East winter storm happened). I can't imagine deliberately maintaining a house temperature of above 20, we only put the fans away a couple of months ago!

18 in my house, but only first thing and in the evening. We don't have it on overnight or during the day.

Mine is on about 21.5 during the day, if I'm chilly I'll put it up to 23.

In the evening, when I'm sitting doing nothing much I will usually have it on about 24/24.5. I wear a thermal vest, and generally have a couple of jumpers on, one light and one thick.

At night it's on 10 because I hate the heating on at night.

This topic comes up on here every winter and it always amazes me that people have their heating on 18. My heating wouldn't even come on at all if the thermostat was set at that temperature.

I've lived in two different new builds, one very warm, one, my current house, more difficult to heat, but it's been the same for both of them; 18 would not get the heating started.

I wear and vest, long sleeved top and jumper and I like heating on 21.

Anything less than that and the air feels cold to me

I do have it at 18 at night I like to be colder

20 here.

With sleeping, have you thought about two duvets? I like a high tog heavy duvet, perfect. Partner doesn’t so he has his own. It also stops it being pulled off etc.

We have it at 19. I’d prefer it a touch warmer, but DH is a warm person. I’m not.

I disagree that it’s easy for cold people to warm up. When you’re cold in your bones layers don’t do much to help that. Then there’s having a cold nose, which is grim.

I like 19/20 degrees. But I’m a big fan of knitwear, and couldn’t cope without cashmere!
Never have the heating on at night, infact we shays have the window open.

Currently on 20 but it feels chilly. Don't have heating on in our bedroom though and the window will be open overnight

I'd be very cold in your house. Ours is 24 degrees. Have been known to have underfloor on 32 degrees.

19 is bloody freezing and miserable, hurts your hands. 22-28 is about my comfortable temperature range. I can't get warm if it's under 20 unless I'm actually under a duvet, which is a bit impractical in the middle of the day.

It makes a difference whether you're sitting still or moving around.

We refer to 19 as Granny mode because we only turn it up that high when Granny comes to babysit.

The rest of the time, 17.5 or 18 and a blanket will do.

I need it a couple of degrees off Barbados (stolen from another post and mad people in cold houses).

19.5 but that is in socks, slippers and a cardigan-I think I have inherited my mums ‘if you’re cold out a jumper on attitude!’. 17 overnight though, I prefer to be under warm covers in a cool room.

At 22 I would be boiling and skint!

18 in a morning and evening. No heating during the day or overnight and never any heating in bedrooms.

I am a v cold person and always wear lots of layers but 18 is warm enough for the whole family.

You need separate duvets. None of you is unreasonable, but if you are both uncomfortable, what's the point?
You wear a tshirt, he's wearing layers, that's as good as a compromise as you can get. You should stick with your summer duvet, and he should get a proper winter one. No one sleeps well if too hot or too cold.

I’d be freezing at 19

I was brought up in homes without CH, & a mad bitch of a mother who would sneak in & open the window when I was asleep - ice inside the window was a regular feature.

My CH is on all year round from 06.00 until 22.00 , & controlled by the thermostat set @ 22.
Anything less is Arctic to me.

Our heating is on a timer, we have an old house and it’s cheaper to put the heating on high for a few hours in the evening and an hour in the morning rather than low all day. So like today when it’s very cold our’s is 30C from 16:30-21:30 and 06:30-7:30. When it’s mild it’s on anything from 20-26C.

We have the thermostat set to 20c in the morning and the evening, 16c the rest of the time. I work from home but I wear slippers, dressing gown etc if it starts to get cold. At the moment it usually gets to about 17c by 5.30pm when the heating kicks in, so the house retains heat fairly well despite being a 1960s house.

I really don't know why we aren't demanding better heat retention from new builds (so sealed as much as possible with mechanical heat recovery systems, plus plenty of insulation).