How cold is too cold?

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For a house?

Am I being unreasonable thinking 13 degrees is too cold?

I'm freezing.

What's normal?

I have my thermostat set to 14.5 in the kitchen which is a solid 5-6 degrees colder than the rest of the house (poorly insulated extension) so the main living area is probably around 19-20.

When the thermostat reads 13 in my kitchen it's bloody freezing. Far far too cold. The kitchen is riddled with damp because of it (but if we had the kitchen any warmer the rest of the house would be boiling).

My dp does not feel the cold. I do.

In the early stages of our relationship, I was staying at his quite frequently as we were both students, but he lived alone and I lived with my mum.

Over winter, he didn't put his heating on, and I was sitting in his living room, with about five or six layers on, shivering. I left the next morning and said I wasn't coming back until the house was warmer.

It took him three weeks but I stuck to my guns and we have compromised ever since. Tonight for example, the heating was on for a while, he was wearing thin pyjamas and bare feet and was comfortable, I was wearing fleecy pajamas and warm slippers and was perfectly comfortable.

But at 13 degrees, he would wear a warmer clothes and be comfortable, I'd be bundled up like the Michelin man, freezing and miserable. So I do not put up with it. I have just as much right to not freeze in my own home as he does to not boil. (so I don't crank it up to 22 like I used to, but it does go on when it gets cold)

That's not a healthy temperature, and if there were children living in a house that cold that I knew about I would be considering reporting to social services for neglect.

16c during the day and up to 19c in the evening.
13c sounds absolutely miserable

Under 17 is really noticeable. Mostly bedrooms are around 18 and living spaces around 19/20. When I was pregnant, though, I was roasting and would lie in bed in middle of winter with windows wide open. The thermometer said it was 14 and it felt great Poor DH had to go sleep in the spare room because he was freezing.

good grief all your houses will be to cold for us we would be freezing

we are roughly between 30-40 degrees at all times

i live in south wales in the valleys,we are a small street on top of a mountain,the next street is a 5 min walk down the hill

we have mountains surrounding us at all angles so no houses around us

it gets nippy here in the winter as we lose sunlight early, atm its -3 out

we have a terraced large 3 bedroom

i also haven naked children(sensory processing disorder means they cant tolerate clothes or anything on their skin) so need to keep them warm

its warming the air not the person for us,and they dont sleep so the heating is on full at all hours

i spend 50 gas a week 60 electric,more if its a cold snap

30-40 degrees! I didnt know it was even possible to heat houses that warm. In winter i dont think my house has ever been above 22.

I think if our heating was set at 13 it would almost never actually come on.

It's set at either 16 or 17 at night and when we're at work and it's only in the depths of mid winter that the heating comes on to bring it back up to those temps. Early morning, evenings and daytime at the weekend, it's set at 20 or 21 C.

Why aren't you heating your house properly? Cost, crap heating, or some other reason. If our house was below about 18/19 I don't think I'd ever get out of bed.

YANBU

Why is the heating set so low ?

Tell your partner you are bloody freezing and put up the heating to 20 C

I'm really warm blooded-anything much above 18 degrees kills me, but 13 is ridiculously low! I'll bet you can see your breath can't you?

My house is about 22, and I still have to wear think jumpers etc in winter. Can’t have it much warmer otherwise DH would expire.

I would be unwell if the house was only 13.

What is it with cryptic posts tonight?!

I rarely have it below 22, and even then I’m eyeing it wondering if I can get away with turning it up without OH pitching a fit. I can’t stand being cold.

My living room was 14 this afternoon and was ok for me in a jumper. I’d be sweating to death of my house was constant 22 degrees. Plus it’s not great for the environment.

With kids I would say 13 is way too cold. I’m assuming your partner is not allowing the heating on based on your post?

I'll bet you can see your breath can't you?
It’s been 12 in our kitchen before (no heating) and I’ve been able to see my breath so probably, it’s quite sad children are having to live like that.

I feel it if it's under 18oC in the day, 20oC+ in the evening when I'm sitting around.
Under 16oC and my nose drips.

The exception was when I was very heavily pregnant (and far too pregnant to fit in maternity clothes comfortably) and sitting around partially dressed in 15oC was perfectly comfortable.

13 degrees is much too cold. It’s probably warmer outside ffs!

I live in a flat and only have the radiators on in the living-room and the
bathroom. I prefer the bedroom to be cool and bed-covers to be nice and cosy. I have the thermostat set at 20 degrees and have the heating on between 6 and 10.30pm

13 is way too cold. I've got ours at 23 during the day (work from home) and drop it to 20.5 overnight.

The boys moaned they were too hot at night, so had to explain (yet again!!!) what the thermostatic valve was for on their radiators.

I've got severe Rheumatoid Arthritis, so if I start to feel cold it really kicks off.

I liked my heating on 22 minimum.

I'd say 13 isn't acceptable for living in.

WHO recommends 18, 21 if babies or elderly in the house.

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2008/06/18/cold-houses-and-impact-on-health/

We set to 15 if out/overnight and 18 during day if at home. Wouldn't want it colder than 16 ideally once up. Will occasionally increase to 20 if it's been a particularly long or cold day at work

Heating off here...currently 16 degrees. I rarely have the heating on during the day ..it comes on 5 till 10pm no higher than 21.
13 would be chilly.

At least 22 degrees in my house

13 is awfully cold. We left our heating off while visiting family a couple of years ago over Christmas and came back to the house at 11 degrees. It was freezing. We were in coats, hats and gloves until the heating kicked in. I can’t imagine living in a house that cold. Ours is kept around 19-20. Is there a reason you can’t turn the heating on?

13 is very cold. I hate to be cold so our thermostat heats up to 22.

Usually set to about 20° but with the heating off it rarely drops below 17° apart from in the kitchen.

I’m very cold blooded. Husband and child both run warm.

Sorry I didn't mean to tease I fell asleep last night.

It's not that he won't let me put the heating on, if I asked he would. But it costs a fortune and we are saving to replace the heating system which is currently LPG and really does cost an arm and leg to warm the house up to comfortable temperature.

The temperature doesn't bother him at all, but I feel frozen all the time. I feel like he doesn't believe me and thinks I'm just avoiding spending time with him.

It will be sorted in a couple of years when we can afford to replace the current heating system. No - I'm not that poster the other day who never put the heating on, but I did read with interest and was curious what kind of temperatures were actually being discussed and considered normal. We have some heating, mostly a small electric fan heater which obviously doesn't heat the house but will warm up the space you're currently in.

Thanks for your replies guys, I thought I was maybe just being a bit pathetic.