My house is 19 degrees today and I’m freezing!

[Springandsummerarecoming]

I’m guessing I’m freezing as we’ve had some nice warm weather and I’ve got used to being warm but I’m so cold today. Dreading the winter when it will be colder and can’t have the heating on as much!

Unbelievable that so many people think they're suffering some sort of human rights atrocity because it's not 20+ degrees in their house

Do they really? Oddly I didn't notice all the posts claiming that.

What is unbelievable is that many people in Britain in the winter of 2022/23 will be unable to find the money to heat their homes at any level, let alone 20+ degrees.

Many vulnerable people will be at risk of dying in those circumstances.

It might not be a human rights atrocity but it's certainly a human right not to end up freezing to death in your own home in a country as rich as ours in the 21st century.

Didn't realise anyone had suggested it was? Ours was just personal preference, then pushed down a couple of degrees this year because of low income and high energy prices. Nothing to do with virtue 🙄 .

I thought we were just having an interesting conversation but in comes someone (as always) to accuse us of claiming our different preferences as a virtue Funny MN, indeed!

I like the temperature at 18, that feels plenty warm enough to me, in fact I'd be happy at 16. I'd be way too hot over 20. No idea why we all differ so much but we do, so there it is - and those of us happier at lower temperatures are certainly luckier (but not necessarily more virtuous.)

19C would be luxury in our house!!! It hovers around 15C and we find it fine. But we are not old (my dad needs warmer temps aged 60!)

I've been so cold too and have low thyroid function too which makes it worse. Can't afford to put the heating on but luckily have a heated throw I'm using.

I wfh and as I said up thread, my house got to 14 degrees finally by late evening. The house doesn't need to be heated at this time for my wfh, I use a throw, socks jumpers etc and hot water bottle.
If you need to, using a heater just where you work is cheaper.

Unbelievable that so many people think they're suffering some sort of human rights atrocity because it's not 20+ degrees in their house.

l would say that being able to heat your house to a suitable temperature should be a right in a nation as wealth as the U.K.

Didn't realise room temperature ideally as low as possible was a virtue until this thread

MN heating threads are hilarious, total competitive freezing. Posters claiming to be quite comfortable at 8 degrees in a light jumper, and declaring that 14 degrees would be "far too stuffy".

There's a definitive vibe that liking to be warm is a bit morally flabby.

Ours is regularly at 14/15. But I can't afford to put the heating on. I'm sure it is the same for many others. Looking forward to summer!

You should be grateful to us who’ve acclimatised (often through necessity) and manage to keep our heating off as much as possible. If it wasn’t for us there would be less fossil fuel left for you richer and less resilient types to waste.

🙄Good grief.

I'm not having the heating on now. The kids aren't too happy but its tough. Its going to be expensive so I'm not having it on in the spring summer, no matter what!

I've stopped wfh and now going back into office which helps too. I have a monthly travel pass which I had for hybrid working anyway so no additional travel costs incurred.

Fuel poverty is an absolute travesty and we should all be concerned about it. But saying winter will be “awful” if your house dips below 20 degrees really undermines the seriousness of it. 19 degrees is not cold - maybe less toasty than you might like, but in no way at all, ever, is it the kind of cold that has any detrimental effect on people…

I never said it was detrimental that my house was at 19. If you read the post again I said I was surprised I was so cold when it was 19 degrees and wondered if that’s because we’ve had some warm weather lately and I’d got used to that! People really need to read threads and not reply to something that wasn’t even said!

It’s 11 degrees here. It’s 16.5 in my house right now and was 13.5 when we got up. DS asked me to put the heating on and I had to say no. Clothes won’t dry inside or out. Fuck this shit I’m sick of being cold!

It won’t be 20 though in winter will it? It’ll be a hell of a lot colder!

I'm trying to get used to it being colder now. If I get used to a house at 18 now, then yes, I'll obviously need the heating on in winter but to heat up to 18 not 20 for example.
I've heard somewhere dropping the thermostat 1 degree saves 10% so worth tolerating colder.

As PPs have said 19 isn't cold. You might feel a bit colder than you'd like or are used to.
And I understand some people won't be able to have the heating on at all. That's terrible obviously.

It's 11degrees outside and my thermostat is set at 17. It's not so bad today as it's a bit sunny and the sunlight warms the room but yesterday I had to put the wood burner on to take the edge off. So we had at least one room that was warm.

We always try not to use the heating from April through to end of Oct if we can manage it even before the price rises. We have blankets for the evenings and the wood burner if it's really cold.

Our wood supplier has warned of shortages next winter so advised us to use the wood sparingly this winter so as to save some for next!

The eye watering direct debits people are getting make me glad I'm on a pre pay meter. I have £30 in there and I can put the heating on without worrying it's going to result in a huge bill. If it runs out too quickly I will need to make some adjustments but right now it's lasting pretty well. I'm spending less than people I know with DD's, who are too worried to turn the heating on.

It’s definitely colder where I am today. Jumper on, but I have still had the heating on to feel warm.

We used to set outs to 19 and bump it up to 20 if it felt a bit cool but in view of the costs of gas we've tried to keep it at 18 and we did notice it a lot at first but have got used to it now and rarely put it up to 19 - I do tend to wear warmer clothes in the house and sit with a blanket in the living room... it's worth a try IMHO. I'd say we have both definitely adapted to it being slightly cooler.

I’m sitting in the kitchen with a big winter cardigan and scarf on and am still cold - it’s apparently 18.5 degrees inside my house (according to fancy new weather gauge thing we’ve got). It’s 11 degrees outside.

All I can say is not all 19 degrees are created equal if there are folk on here who have their heating set to this temperature in actual winter because it’s not warm and toasty by any stretch of the imagination.

My house was freezing today too

I'm currently in long sleeved t-shirt, back door open and heating not on. I'm actually quite comfortable at the moment.

Yesterday I put the heating on at 2.15pm as I was so cold with fleece, socks and doors closed. My feet and hands were really cold.

I usually have heating set at 21.5 as I'm a chilly mortal and always have been.

Are you poorly? We haven’t had the heating on for a month, in fact we have the windows open!