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If you have a room thermometer, how warm are your rooms?

117 replies

AlternativelyWired · 03/04/2022 10:40

My thermostat is in the hall and that's the coldest place in the house so I pay no mind to it. The heating is off now as I'm in debt to the fuel company and not wanting to use the heating unless absolutely necessary. We are using hot water bottles at night, minimising using the oven, the hot water is only on for an hour a day, I've got thermal curtains over the draughty front door and patio door and when the heating was being used I had half the radiators switched off.

I've ordered some room thermometers to see just how cold the main rooms are when we are complaining it's cold. If you have them, what is the temperature in your living room and bedrooms?

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Jubaju · 03/04/2022 10:45

About 17/18 on average
Heating hasn’t been on downstairs for ages and only comes on in the evening upstairs at night.

CliveThighs · 03/04/2022 10:49

Currently

living room (south facing) 19.3
Bedroom 1 (south facing) 18.1
Bedroom 2 (north facing) 17.7
Bedroom 3 (south facing) 18.3

Our heating came on for 30 minutes this morning, but as the house is mainly south facing it gets heated by sunlight during the day, so the temperature rises even if the heating is off as long as theres a bit on sunshine.

If you have a room thermometer, how warm are your rooms?
LapinR0se · 03/04/2022 10:49

21.5 in the day and 19 at night but I live in Switzerland where the buildings are all temperature controlled.

LuckyWithMyLot · 03/04/2022 10:50

16.5 to 18 this week.

DrManhattan · 03/04/2022 10:52

19 max but its not on through the day

PuffinMcStuffin · 03/04/2022 10:54

15 this morning in the kitchen, we are now up to 17 but I'm only using the air source heat pump. Sitting room is 16 and will be until I light the stove this afternoon.
That's standard for us, we wear layers and move around when cold, or cuddle in under blankets in the evening.

ImBurtMacklin · 03/04/2022 10:57

Living room 17
Kitchen 14
Office 17
Garage 7
Bedroom 19 (in the roof with big veluxes so it catches the sun)

LardyDee · 03/04/2022 10:58

Living rooms at 21 when occupied, very rarely have any heat on in the bedrooms though, probably about 12 I would guess.

Sapphirejane · 03/04/2022 11:01

We have the heating on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening at the moment. Our bedroom and living room are the coldest parts of the house and average 17 in the day at the moment and can dip to 14 at night but normally stays around 15. The bedrooms on the other side of the house (kids rooms) gets so much sun and are about 20-21 in the day even in winter on a sunny day and drop to 18 at night. It’s an old house but we’ve insulated it as much as possible. I don’t often turn the radiators on in the kids rooms as there is no need with the sun.

I am using an electric blanket to heat the bed before I get in it at night and use a hot water bottle in bed and temperature then is not an issue. We have lots of blankets for the living room. We are wearing jumpers during the day if we are lounging around.

I grew up very poor and we had one gas fire in the living room which went on after bath time for us to dry off and get dressed. It was something I never wanted for my own children but despite earning what should be money we are having to really budget for energy, food etc.

Svara · 03/04/2022 11:03

I have a cheap thermometer I move around. Living room currently 12, bedroom over living room is 14 (both west facing), my bedroom is 16 (east facing). Heating was on for an hour this morning at 15 (only downstairs radiators on and thermostat by front door), living room will warm up when the afternoon sun hits it so heating can stay off.

Rifling · 03/04/2022 11:03

About 20 in all rooms. Heating is off but we live in a flat so our neighbours insulate us.

girlmom21 · 03/04/2022 11:04

Mines in the kitchen so quite a cold room in our house. It's 17 degrees in there with no heating on.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 03/04/2022 11:05

Bedroom was 14.5 when I woke up at 5.

Living room was 15.7, popped heating on for an hour and is now 17.8. Fine with that, am a bit on the chillier side but I've got a cardigan and a fluffy blanket so I'm not exactly going to freeze.

FastFood · 03/04/2022 11:07

I'm not at home but in my south facing living room, it was between 15 and 18° throughout winter, with very little heating (just a couple of hours in the morning)
No idea in the bedroom, might be cold at night since I always open the window.

Svara · 03/04/2022 11:07

@Rifling

About 20 in all rooms. Heating is off but we live in a flat so our neighbours insulate us.
I wonder what it will be like when most people use less heating? Will the elderly end up heating surrounding flats while trying to heat their own? Not the fault of those turning off their heating, and it would still be better than living in a semi detached house of course.
AgentJohnson · 03/04/2022 11:12

19 degrees in most areas and 21 degrees in DD’s room. We have underfloor heating and huge floor to ceiling triple glazed windows. DD has blackout curtains which considering she never opens them, means her room is about two degrees higher than the rest of the apartment.

I wouldn’t waste money on buying thermometers. If your rooms aren’t warm enough I would invest in draught excluders, reflective foil for behind the radiators, black out material to Velcro onto existing curtains etc.

I live in an energy efficient home and that has meant my heating costs are low average of (65 euro’s per month for a two bed appartement) and when I do heat my home it isn’t being lost to poor insulation. I hope once this immediate crisis is over that their is serious investment into fuel efficient homes.

SpringLobelia · 03/04/2022 11:16

We have turned our thermostat down from a regular 19-ish and now have it at 17. It's maintaining that reasonably well but dropped to 14 overnight and will drop to 16 in the day if we don't stay on top of it. yesterdai i felt a bit cold but generally extra layers have worked well.

AgentJohnson · 03/04/2022 11:18

The heating has been off since February but kicked in when it snowed a few days ago. The only down side is that this apartment is unbearably hot in the summer, I probably spend more cooling it in hot spells than heating it, in cold ones.

MurmuratingStarling · 03/04/2022 11:20

20-21 in the front (where the sun is streaming through.) 16-17 at the back. (Celsius obvs!)

CaptainMerica · 03/04/2022 11:24

We only have the heating on for a couple of hours in the evening. The bedroom is the only room with a thermostat on the baby monitor, and it's currently 11.9.

Truthlikeness · 03/04/2022 11:31

19.3 now in the main room - sun currently coming. It will drop as the sun moves round. When it gets to 18 I pop the heating on. I let it get colder when I'm sleeping (thermostat at 15, but that's not terribly accurate).

Bubbles1st · 03/04/2022 11:33

Baby's nursery where we have room thermometer was 11.5 at 7am.

This is why we are currently bed sharing more than I had hoped we would be.

FreezyFreezy · 03/04/2022 11:38

Thermostat in the downstairs hall near the front door reads 14°C. Our bedroom thermometer reads 15.9°C.

Chely · 03/04/2022 11:40

Thermometer in our integral garage, 13C
Smart meter in kitchen, 22C
Thermostat in hall, set at 17/18C
I turn it down when we go out but with a baby in the house it is always on and warm. House is only 15 years old and doesn't cost the earth to keep warm.

Nidan2Sandan · 03/04/2022 11:56

15.3 in the kitchen
16 in other rooms
17.2 in lounge

I like my rooms at 22 but cant afford that any longer so this is taking a bit of adjusting.

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