"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?

Currently completely off, but when we use it we have it permanently on and controlled by the thermostat which I just turn right down at night. It goes down to around 10/12 degrees so very rarely actually gets cold enough to click on. If it does, it needs to! We never set it higher than 20 (around bath/shower times) and usually around 18 degrees for a

I have mine on thermostat between 6am and 9pm, depending if anyone is at home, then properly off overnight.

Our heating is switched off completely at night, and we have windows open in the bedrooms too. Can't sleep without fresh cool air! Our beds are nice and cosy and we have hot water bottles in them if needed and/or an extra blanket on top.
Winter routine is loosely this: heating off and windows open overnight, get up in morning and close windows, if cold during daytime wear layers, heating on from about an hour before sunset until approx an hour before last one goes to bed.

Having the heating off at night means the radiators never come on, no matter how low the temperature drops.

We are the same as NorthStarRising. My childhood house had just one open fire, no central heating at all. We had a electric heater on the bathroom wall to be used on freezing days only. Eider downs, blankets, warm pyjamas and bedsocks kept us warm.

I remember loving the frost patterns on the windows but don't remember the actual cold.

Even now I can't bear to sleep in a heated bedroom and have both windows open all through the year.

Do you mean in the winter?

Ours is never on unless we turn it on.

I think it does have automatic settings but we don't use them.

Why would you need it on in the summer?

Usually in the winter, if I'm really cold I'd put it on day or night but it doesn't take long for the house to heat up. So it's only on for an hour or so and not left on overnight

I'll be trying to avoid using it as much as possible this winter.

Oops. 18 for an hour in the morning and a fee hours in the evenings. Everyone has fluffy blankets and dressing gowns.

We have ours on a timer so it comes on for an hour in the morning and two in the evening (wintertime, not now!). The only time I ever have heating on during the night was when we had babies so were more likely to be awake in the small hours.

I can't sleep in the cold. I did manage to get mine down to 21° overnight last winter though. I'm going to try a degree lower this year, but if I start waking in the night it'll go back up.

I have a timer that switches the heating on at night. My home is well-insulated, it only fall a few degrees in temperature at night. I have a thermostat that says what temperature the house needs to be when the heating is. Apart from turning the heating on at the start of winter and off at the end, I never have to touch the controls to have the right temperature.

It is possible to have more complex thermostats that change between several different temperatures, depending on time of day and day of week. If I had one of those, and no timer, I might set the temperature at 15 overnight, which would be the same as off in my case.

I think if you have to touch you controls on a daily basis, you need better controls.

meant to say my timer switches heating off overnight.

Univalve · Today 16:11

I don’t understand this either. My plumber told me it’s more energy efficient to have the thermostat on a constant low than to keep switching on and off, because it takes more energy to heat a house from very cold to warm.

Yes, that's what we were told, so we have it on the thermostat to click on when it drops below a certain temperature.

The Energy Saving Trust says this is a myth, and that it is actually cheaper to just have the heating on when you actually need it. (sorry not sure how to do the quote thing).

Ours is on a timer so changes to frost setting which is 7 degrees from around 8.30pm. It needs to be cool in bedrooms at night, I cant imagine why anyone would need their heating on overnight when you're basically unconscious.

If I do get chilly I put fluffy socks and my dressing gown on.

So… your heating is on now, in Summer??? Our heating hasn’t been on at all, for months.

At night our bedroom is currently about 24 degrees Celsius and has been for weeks! Even in winter, we turning the heating off, entirely, when we put little one to bed at 8pm and the bedrooms very rarely go anywhere near 18, usually stay around 19-21 from the heating being on during the day. I can’t imagine keeping it on at night. I’d boil!

Ours was only on 5pm till 9pm. Occasionally earlier if it was partially cold. We live in the North

We don't ever have ours on overnight, even in the dead of winter.
For 2 reasons, I always wake up with a stuffy nose if I sleep with the heating on, DS is the same. And my husband is a human radiator.

Normally we set it on a timer so it comes on at 6am for when we get up.

Ours is on a timer, so it comes on from 5.30am ish in order to warm the house up for when DC wake, off by 8am because the house holds the heat well. Whilst DC are at school, it's off (even though DH WFH 3 days a week, it's still off. He has a small oil filled radiator in his office and blankets. It's fine). Then around 3pm it's back on until about 8pm, again, this keeps it warm enough until everyone is in bed.

Our thermostat sits at around 19/20, which is 'high' to some people, but it's positioned fucking awfully, in one of the hottest parts of the house, so if we don't have it at that temp there are rooms that stay freezing.

So, yes, literally 'off' overnight and nobody has ever frozen to death and the house hasn't frozen either. This regime costs us around £65 a month over the year, at the current price cap. We have a 5 bed semi-detached.

Bit of a misleading title!

Nevertheless, unless it's minus something Celsius outside over night there is absolutely NO need to have the heating on overnight.

Our heating goes off at night and that is off off not turned down, were in bed and cosy why would we need it on? We've never had it on over night and I've asked lots of friends and they don't either. I thought that was pretty normal.

Our heating generally goes on a timer from November for approx. 2 - 4 hours a day. We prefer to use this heating during the day as my DH works from home and I'm a SAHM. We have no heating at night, no matter the temp.

We heat for a couple of hours around mid morning then again late afternoon/early evening with it off or on eco mode by about 8 ish.

Eco mode is about 12 degrees.

We heat at about 18/19. We do adjust and maybe 20 if it’s properly freezing. Don’t need heating on overnight as under duvets etc and partner seems hot blooded and boiling!

megletthesecond · Today 16:18

I can't sleep in the cold. I did manage to get mine down to 21° overnight last winter though. I'm going to try a degree lower this year, but if I start waking in the night it'll go back up.

I can't get to sleep if it's cold, including waking up in the night, so we use hot water bottles so you are fine when in bed, even if it gets a bit chilly in the bedroom. One kettle fills 2-3 hot water bottles, and we have one each.

We have a very old house (mid 1700's) and there's no central heating, so no heating upstairs, but we have woodburners and an Aga downstairs. We just have duvets and hot water bottles and fleecy pyjamas at night in the winter. Why would you want the heating on at night if you are tucked up in bed?!

It’s only with a clever thermostat that you have have a different temperature overnight. Many would be just set to 20 or whatever during what hours during the day and then off at night.
We do 14 at night, but only since we got a new thermostat and it rarely kicks in.

We don't have a wall thermostat, so the heating is switched on or off at the boiler itself. I've turned the flow temp down as well. Just need to work out how to switch off the radiators in unused rooms this year (most of the radiator thermostats were broken when we moved in...)

Will be doing everything possible to not turn it on during the day this winter, but would never put it on overnight anyway. We use two duvets, hot water bottles and a selection of alpaca/cashmere bedsocks at bedtime instead!