Aibu to find 17c too cold at home?

[Coffeeandteevee]

Apparently I'm crazy for finding 17c too cold.

I'm currently wearing a top, a hoodie and a big blanket/hoodie thing and I still have a cold nose.

Please tell me I'm not crazy and 17c is bloody cold to have it at home. What temp is your perfect temp at home in the evening?

That’s interesting @SirChenjins, thank you for sharing. Lights are a lot cheaper to run than heating, so worth a try for people feeling the cold.

I've still got my fan running all night from Summer, thanks menopause for saving my heating bills. Heatings not been on as yet, thermostats showing 15c and I'm comfortable!

I have mine lowish maybe 18 in the evening - goes off at 8ish but I hate hot house at bedtime. Makes migraine worse

Always have blankets on sofa and a heated throw for winter evenings.

I get raynuads and I'm always cold. Wear wrist warmers thermals and slippers also !

@ivykaty44

Mine thermostat is set to 25 (!) but the living room temp is never over 21.

where do you put your thermostat ?

It's in our bedroom next to the airing cupboard; both installed there by the previous owners 🤦‍♀️.

We're currently running at 17 and it's on the chilly side., but OK with a thick fleece. We'll probably bump it up a bit, but I'm holding out for now.

I love 19 to 21 degrees.
17 is too cold for me, we were in the 16-17.5 range for a while at the beginning of the autumn because we did not want to turn on the heating (it felt too early) and it was not very pleasant for our 2yo toddler

our house is kept at about 19/20. 17 is cold.

We set the temperature for 21.5 downstairs and 22 upstairs for the morning, and once the heating goes off it drifts down slowly until the heating comes back on in the late afternoon/evening. It rarely falls below 20 and if it does the heating will come back on automatically. Personally I'd rather be warmer but paying and polluting more just to not have to wear an undershirt and a sweater seems like a stupid and somewhat antisocial idea.

However, I struggle with anything lower than 20 celsius. There's nothing heroic or noble about not being able to chop vegetables safely because you can't grip a knife with your numb hands, or watching your baby visibly recoil when ice cold hands change her nappy.

The public health guidance is for a minimum indoor temperature of 18 degrees for healthy people suitably dressed but sedentary. It's at that level for a reason backed up by actual evidence: any less and you open yourself to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, flu and other respiratory diseases, and so on. Whilst it says lower indoor temperatures might be tolerable for healthy people who are active, it also suggests that anyone with COPD should spend at least nine hours a day at 21 degrees.

@Avarua

I work in a tropical country. If we put it lower than 24 Celcius people complain.

In the tropics, the lower you set the air conditioning temperature, the more energy you use and contribute to greenhouse gases so air conditioning thermostats should be set at 26C or 27C

@ichundich get one that is remote and you can take from room to room - its not difficult for a plumber to do and wouldn't cost to much.

Better to have the thermostat in the room you are in or use most - then you can take hot bed with you and set lower - though obviously don't have in the bedroom if you sleep with the window open

[quote ivykaty44]@ichundich get one that is remote and you can take from room to room - its not difficult for a plumber to do and wouldn't cost to much.

Better to have the thermostat in the room you are in or use most - then you can take hot bed with you and set lower - though obviously don't have in the bedroom if you sleep with the window open[/quote]
It's fine at the moment. We have thermostat valves on each radiator, so we just turn these up / down in the rooms that we want warm (downstairs and bathroom).

@Bluntness100

Mines about 23-24. I don’t like a cold house and am fortunate enough to not to have to endure it

Seventeen can be warm outside in spring and summer, but on a cold autumnal night houses feel very cold inside at that temperature and most humans would find it uncomfortable.

23 to 24 is lovely outside in summer but I would feel uncomfortably warm if my house was that temperature on an autumn or winter night. It feels completely different without fresh air. also love to feel cosy with a hoodie around the house and blanket on the sofa. If it was that hot in my house I'd have to sit in a tshirt then layer up everytime I wanted to leave the house! 17 is just right for us.

@Bluntness100

Mines about 23-24. I don’t like a cold house and am fortunate enough to not to have to endure it

Seventeen can be warm outside in spring and summer, but on a cold autumnal night houses feel very cold inside at that temperature and most humans would find it uncomfortable.

“Most humans”

About 19 is fine for me if I'm just sitting around. Heating is very definitely OFF at night, and the window slightly open, it makes me feel ill to sleep in a warm room.

YANBU 20C as a minimum for me and that’s not warm, just bearable with a jumper. Used to run at 22C but have dropped to save money

22. I would be so cold at some of the temperatures people are suggesting here!

I was going to start a thread about being grateful for small mechanical mercies as I realised this evening that my heating was operating on the timer not on the thermostat as I thought. The last 2 nights I have felt cold early evening and turned it up high and checked the handbook and pressure bar as nothing was happening at even 25C until after 8pm. The heating did start early morning and woke me up as too hot with winter duvet. So I checked again this evening and realised the engineer had set the timer in the summer when there had been a leaking pipe. As the clocks have gone back , it was on the wrong times for me. It's back on the thermostat control now as I do not know how to set the timer. I am in a converted Victorian flat with big rooms and high ceilings, am also a chilly person and wear 2/3 layers even in bed so usually have temp on about 19/20 degrees in evening. Also thanks to Sky for sorting out their timing problem.

"The public health guidance is for a minimum indoor temperature of 18 degrees for healthy people suitably dressed but sedentary. It's at that level for a reason backed up by actual evidence: any less and you open yourself to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, flu and other respiratory diseases, and so on. Whilst it says lower indoor temperatures might be tolerable for healthy people who are active, it also suggests that anyone with COPD should spend at least nine hours a day at 21 degrees." This is quite depressing to read , Otherpeoplesteens, as it maybe contributed to my father's death as he had lived all his life in cold houses with just a coal fire in living room. All other rooms including the toilet and bathroom were like fridges and may as well have been outside. He had emphysema and 2 strokes when he died and that was in the coldest time of February 30 years ago. That's why I appreciate so much being warm now and having hot water for baths etc. and why I have a warm duvet and plenty of warm night clothes. All my memories of chidhood were of being bloody cold all the time. Great for those few hot weeks of summer to have a cool house but otherwise just miserable and, as you say, actually harmful to health.

17 degrees here too. I don't usually sleep under the duvet either. If we had the heating up to 20+, I'd have to open the windows. I bought myself an Oodie but not sure how often I'll wear it

17 is warm if you’re running about doing chores but sitting still it feels quite cold. My son moans about being to warm all the time so I try to suck it up at about 17 / 18 but I think 21 / 22 is comfortable for resting without a nice thick blanket.

I checked our thermostat earlier today it said 16. We were both WFH and DH was complaining that he was cold but I wasn't...could be my age. I was also wearing a jumper and a big cardy over the top.

I gave him some soup, a hot water bottle and a blanket....he could've turned the heating up but he didn't mention it. I think he enjoyed being fussed over by me!

If you feel cold, you're cold. So you are not being unreasonable.

However, if you share space with others it's reasonable to find a way to make sure everyone is comfortable.

My husband and I are quite happy at 17°C, but when we have visitors, we usually turn the heating up a bit higher than we know we are unusually tolerant of being cold.

Houses in Canada are extremely well insulated and warm. We have forced air heating, through vents in the floor. It's 14 degrees (outside!) here this afternoon but it's forecast to hit a 'high' of 1 and low of -6 by this day next week. Our thermostat is generally set around 21-22 but I'll bump it up and down as necessary. It's very efficient so we don't need to have it on all the time at the moment but I cannot stand cold houses and generally my Canadian DP and friends are baffled by the idea that anyone would voluntarily be cold in their own home. Being cold indoors makes me utterly miserable - having no choice is one thing and is awful, but just the thought of willingly sitting bundled up like the Michelin Man or shivering under piles of blankets with a dripping nose to watch a bit of TV in the evening or getting out of bed/showering etc. in freezing rooms gives me the horrors, I'd be so unhappy.

It’s 24 here in winter with underfloor heating. 25 if I can get away with it

My thermostat is set to 17, occasionally I turn it up to 18, when it gets really cold I might turn it up to 20, but only if it's freezing. I do always have a blanket on the sofa to put over me though. My mum's is set to 21°. I'm just stingy!