"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?

I turn my thermostat down to 10 degrees at 8pm.
It almost never gets cold enough in the house overnight to go on & if it's 10 degrees I want it to.

So, I don't have the heating on at night, apart from possibly one or two of the very coldest nights.

It's because if it's cold outside its colder inside and takes more energy to heat the house. That's what we find anyway. Our thermostat is set to 19 but if it snows I bump it up to 21. Ours is a large draughty edwardian house though so appreciate not everyone else is in the same boat.
We never have heating on overnight though as per PPs. I wasn't aware that was a thing outside care homes. Just 1.5 hours in the morning and about 3 hours in the evening.

We have hive and separate controls for upstairs and downstairs. If it’s really cold we put it on before we get in.
Havent needed the heating on for sometime now. I’m hoping the weather will stay as it is and then I won’t need the heating on.
I won’t turn it on until everyone is wearing thick socks, jumpers, fleeces etc. My motto has always been if you are cold out and extra layer on. Then if you are still cold I’ll put the heating on 😆😆😆

Off as in off. Ours has been off since about May. In winter we’ll put it on for an hour or two in the morning and from about 5-9pm. If we’re cold outside of those times we manually put the heating on eg on a weekend. No one is in all during the week day and at night we are wrapped up in bed so it would be totally unnecessary to have it on outside those times. We have solar panels so don’t need to put the hot water on in summer either. But we do live in the SW so not as cold as Scotland, say.

It goes off at night and on early in the morning

It’s fine, we have a really good duvet and I dislike heating on too much at night

You realise that the house doesn't heat any faster, right? This isn't a turbo function, it just means you're now making your heating system overwork to get to a temperature that will then be hotter than you'd like.

Why not set it to 40ºC and it'll heat even faster, yeah?

Do you not realise that on mumsnet it's a competition as to who can have the coldest house? It's like a badge of honour. Not one that I'd want personally mind you.

With the increase in the energy price cap, it a competition that some may win whether they like it or not.

Not everybody can afford to opt out.

Goes off not long after dinner back on in the morning. Always done this though and not due to costs.

I keep my heating off by default and always have. I'll put it on for an hour or so at night if it's particularly cold or if I have visitors round, but otherwise it's all hot water bottles, layers and duvets. I'm in a drafty Victorian so it always cost a fortune to heat and I'm on both a budget and a meter so I've always been aware of how much it costs to heat whenever it goes on.

My heating is off at night as it would be to hot to sleep.
Heating is set to come on at 6am ond off and 9am, and then at 3pm to 6pm. when we are not at home all day and depending on temperature outside.
if really cold it will be on through the day but never at night though.

I dry clothes the way you describe in winter, smalls etc on racks on radiators and some things tumble dried and sometimes put a clothes horse of damp clothes in the family room at bedtime to avail of the heat in there, with ventilation. And there is some drying outside in the winter too.

I am not sure why there are so many post about energy costs as it it seems nobody has their heating in anyway!

It’s been off for a long time now with the weather being so warm. During winter it’s set to 20 when we’re at home at 16 when we’re not and at nighttime. It doesn’t need to be on through the night when you’re under a big duvet.

You absolutely should not put wet clothes on radiators.

Get a dehumidifier. That solves the problem easily.

Heated airer in small spare room, window open slightly.
Zero issues with damp.
My house is also SE, south facing.
I cant bear CH, it makes me feel ill.
I prefer wrapping up as my username suggests

Mine is left on all the time I just turn it down before bed. And up when I want to be warmer. Never turn it off.

In winter ours switches off by the timer 10pm to 6am . Turns on 6am to 8.30 temperature 20 ish. Then comes on again at 4.00 as dd gets in at around 4.15-then runs to 10pm.
I like a cold bedroom and a warm bed.
I need to work out wfh, whether its better to just keep it on lower all day.

We have ours off at night. If my husband accidentally has it set so it comes on I wake up all hot and sweaty and annoyed by the noise.

My heating goes off completely in May and I don't usually turn it back on again until October. I live rurally so am on LPG gas.

I might turn on the immersion for an hour or so for hot water a couple of times a week.

I usually run the heating for an hour or two in the mornings and a few hours in the evenings in colder months, it goes off around bedtime. I try to keep the thermostat at 20 degrees, and I'll light the fire sometimes.

I'm in the South West.

Am I getting it wrong that some people are talking about running their heating all year round? That boggles my mind.

It's because if it's cold outside its colder inside and takes more energy to heat the house.

It does, but your boiler can’t make any more energy with the thermostat set one or two degrees higher. If it’s a 30kW boiler, it can only deliver 30kW whatever you set the thermostat dial to.

Our is off at night, the house is well insulated and if on the odd occasion we've forgotten to switch it off it becomes too warm to sleep. We've just had some insulation added into a flat roofed part of the house which we discovered had none so we should be fairly cosy this winter

We have oil heating so it’s a bit different but we’ve never had it set to be on at night.
We set it to turn on for one hour in the morning so the house is warm when we wake up and then we have it come on for one hour in the evening so it’s warm when we all get home.
If it’s super cold I’ll pop it on again for an hour when needed. We have been used to living in a very cold drafty cottage for over 6 years, the luxuries of central heating have been long forgotten 😂

That should be deliver any more energy, not make.

Timer set so it goes off around 10.30pm. There's some kind of setting that allows for it to come on if the house got to below 5 degrees or something, but that's never happened. I wake up with a terrible headache/migraine if I sleep with the heating on.

We have ours set on a timer to come on for an hour in the morning and 2 hrs in the early evening in winter. The thermostat is set to about 19 and it will come on if the temp is below that at those times. If we are home in the day we can push a boost button to get it to kick in for an hour. Of we have it on later thn the time the upstairs is too hot. If it's chilly downstairs in the later evening we either use a throw or if really cold light the wood burner. I hate hot bedrooms, just have a really thick winter duvet and pj's.