"We don't have the heating on"

[Christonabike37]

Just reading another thread and seen this "we never have the heating on at night" and I've never really understood what it means, but now with energy prices I need to know if its really what people do.

Our thermostat is set at 15 always, in the evenings we up it to 20 for a few hours. I consider 15 off, and 20 on. Is this the same? Or do people just not have the heating on at all, like your house could be 0 degrees? How cold does it get at night? Surely it gets down to single figures most of the time?

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I put a dressing gown over me on the bed, that way if I need to get up it's right there and it's also a bit warm from my body heat. And slippers by the bed. Saves heating

I turn my heating to “on” for 2 hours every night and an hour every morning. The rest of the time it’s off. But my house is well insulated.
mid it’s very cold I have an “extra hour” button that I turn on here and there. Up until now my energy has always been about £100 per month but it’s relatively doubled (taking into account the fact that the heating isn’t on at all) so I imagine that coke December we will be looking at about £400 per month.

The above is true in winter ^. Haven’t had it on since about April though and I visage turning it on in Early November.

We never have the heating on overnight! I've always had weird anxiety about the boiler exploding lol. I turn my heating on around 6pm-8pm in the height of winter.

I like this idea very much.

Our heating is normally off-off. In the winter (Nov until end of Feb-ish) we put it on downstairs for an hour in the evening every few days just to stop the house from feeling damp. Victorian terrace with good insulation so it never really felt too chilly. The windows in our bedroom are open all year round as DH and I like a cold room for sleeping with a lovely, thick winter weight duvet.

I try to avoid putting mine up above minimum in the winter unless DD gets cold (rarely happens) and then only after she’s out in a jumper etc., or if we’ve got guests. It stays set at the lowest temp though rather than off, 6/7 degrees if I recall, to prevent the pipes freezing. Glad not have to spend the week ahead of winter with torn up old sheets, lagging the pipes to stop them from freezing and bursting, like we did when I was growing up! I do spend winter huddled under a heated blanket, and turn the heating on when someone is having a shower.

During summer and warm weather our heating is off. When we have it on, it's on a timer and overnight we turn the thermostat down so it doesn't kick in unless under that temperature, which is about 15 deg I think but probably lower. We all hate getting hot at night, though both my dds have eco non oil filled heaters in their rooms as they have chronic conditions and sometimes need the heat to help with pain

@LateSummerLobelia it's a cheap layer for the bed too without buying anything! I have been known to stuff it down the bottom of the bed, keeps my feet warm and toasty to get in to in the morning

Our boiler went off on April 1 when the April cap came in and that was that. It comes on briefly (combi) for hot water, but have not had anything go round the radiators since. And it has been perfectly fine because.. it's summer. We typically need to start turning it on again in mid October.

Thermostat gets turned down to about 12-15 over night depending how cold it is.
Can bear to get out of bed into the cold or the dreaded rush to the loo while your getting goose bumps.
Saying that I grew up in a household where the heating never went below 20 degrees so it might just be what I'm used to.

We live in a well insulated new build and we never have it on in the night.
Last winter I probably switched it on about 6 times in the day when it got cold but to be honest, we hardly need to use it.
I detest the house being warm when I'm in bed at night. I have the window open, even in winter.

@MassiveSalad22 hopefully someone already replied but I haven’t time to check the whole thread. But yes, turning individual rads off will reduce energy consumption. Think of it as boiling a full kettle vs half a kettle.

Wow. I’m surprised you think it’s normal NOT to have heating on in winter.

My heating hasn't been on since April. Even in winter it's only on for one hour in the morning so it's warm when we get up, then again for two to three hours in afternoon/early evening so it's warm when kids come home from school/college. It's turned off no later than six and residual heat takes us through till bedtime. We have a heated fur throw each - heavenly ❤️ - and if we get cold then we use those. My children don't tend to use them though, they don't feel the cold like I do.

i don’t think I have ever had the heating on at night - just a few hours in the morning and then early evening. I have made curtains to cover front and back door and draft excluders - massively helps. Have tried to cut usefor green reasons this past 7 years - hoping will help bills too. My gas bill for a 3 bed terrace is usually about £70 per month.

I don't even have heating. I live in the north and grew up without heating and only single glazing. Heating makes me so uncomfortably hot! I'm only in my early 20s so that may change when I get older.

All of my friends only put the heating on for an hour or so a day I believe

In my old house a Victorian terraced tented, the landlord didn’t do repairs and it was so cold and draughty.
even then I only had the heating come on 30 mins before I got up in the morning to go to work so it would be mildly warmer than Baltic.
then we would have it on 8-11pm. we didn’t have a thermostat so just had to have on a timer.

i now live in a new build - we moved in last winter and I set thermostat to only come on if it fell below 18 (newborn) it only came on once or twice the whole winter.
I didn’t realise how cold my old house was until I moved here.
im hoping that we have a mild winter and I don’t have to have it on at all.

We have ours set to 8 degrees overnight, which is "off" - it has only ever come on overnight a couple of times ever and they were exceptionally cold nights.

@Oldcottoneye 😩sorry for the typo 😁😁im lucky that my babies are all grown up now and generally away from home but I feel your pain xx

We have ours on for two hours a day in the Winter, when I get up I manually put it on for an hour and do the same later on in the early evening if needed. We usually don't need it in the evening until late November, or I might just pop it on for half an hour.
I manually put the hot water on as well, so on in the morning for an hour if I need a shower. One hour is long enough to heat the water that we use in a normal day, I sometimes put it on for an extra half an hour later on in the day if we need more hot water.
Honestly, I do this because I never worked out how to programme the boiler, but it works well for us

I never have the heating on at night - it’s way too hot. In the colder months I have my heating on about 2 hour in the morning and 4 hrs in the evening. I have my bedroom window open even in winter as the room is fresher and I sleep better

Heating goes off in April and back on late October. Between that I would use a halogen in the living room and perhaps the electric blanket at night. Heating is only on for coming in from work for a few hours. Never in the morning and never overnight unless its seriously cold eg -10.

It’s all off until we start getting colder/wet weather usually end of October.
Timer comes on at 6.30 for two hours and in the evening for two. Set at 17/18.
No tumble drier so I do crank it up if I have a load of washing.

DS is always on his computer which chicks out masses of heat. I’ll miss his room being warm when he goes to Uni.