To not open windows at home ALL THE EFFING TIME

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My mum is driving me mad with this… she constantly has her windows open at home. No matter the weather. Strangely it’s the kitchen windows she keeps shut. She’s always having a go at me for not opening my windows enough. I’m sick of it I don’t want to freeze. I do sometimes open windows when it’s cold for a bit of ventilation but NOT ALL THE TIME! Yes, my dad pays the bills, not her. Ps my bathroom and kitchen windows are open often. Please help as I’m made to feel like a bad person and that my daughter will have respiratory issues when she’s older due to ventilation. Yes my mother is nuts so they will be open when she visits! AIBU not to open them enough!?

It smells like cooking when I'm cooking, but that dissipates very quickly.

Have the bathroom window open all the time but that's it. My house is quite draughty so I'm sure plenty of air gets in.

Mine doesn't. If I cook then go out with windows closed, when I come back I can smell it. We use the extract fan.

Also, if I go away for two nights or more then the house needs airing as it develops a smell. It has trickle vents.

Yes air the hose.
No not all day.

Cleaner here, now the weather is cooler I've noticed a lot of my customers aren't opening windows and their homes smell of dog, or what they've been cooking the night before. I still open my windows a little in winter to avoid a smelly house.

Let's say your house is 17 in the morning, you air it and it drops to 16. You then put the heating on for an hour. Surely your heating is then warming from 16-17, rather than 17-18, so your house is still colder or you need the heating on longer?

At the moment when I get up in the morning I open the living room window for an hour or so. I also do 30 minutes of HIIT in there so I personally am plenty warm enough. After an hour I close the window. The room warms back up again without the heating on. Bedroom windows are open overnight as I can’t sleep in a stuffy room. After that we are at work, so all windows are shut. Right now the house seems to stay at about 18.

i love to open all the windows each am . Apart from the freshness , I am insure why I do it ? is it good for the house ? Or is it for the humans ?’! How do you do this when it rains ? i get wet window sills!

I’m a big fan of fresh air and like to have everything open in the summer

But opening windows when it costs a fortune to heat up your home is totally nuts

I rarely open mine. It’s fine. My mum used to open her windows all the time but doesn’t seem to anymore. I might open the upstairs window every week for an hour or so.

Why is it nuts?

You don't have the heating on and the windows open - it's one or the other. Not healthy for homes to be sealed up for months on end.

I meant at the same time would be nuts. I know people who have heating on while windows are open. School in particular
are notorious yet say they are struggling to pay their energy bills.

too true!

Trickle vents on our downstairs windows are open all the time. COnstantly reminding the kids that they must open the bathroom window when showering and for 15 minutes after to let the dampness out. Bedroom window opened wide every morning while I'm showering and getting dressed. Stuffy and stale rooms are just awful.

Freezing cold rooms after showering are awful too.

I love cold fresh air after a shower! Makes me feel awake and alive.

I love having windows and doors open. I hate the feeling of being in a box with ever decreasing levels of fresh air. I cannot sleep without an open window either.

I don't care about energy bills.

Every week for an hour!! Surely your house must be a bit musty with no fresh air ?

Last winter schools were told they had to open all windows and doors due to Covid.

That is horrible! Your house must be so stale!

It’s not. The bathroom window is opened, and the door is open when the wet floor is drying. But I don’t regularly air the house and no it doesn’t stink. It’s an older house and is draughty in places

It’s really not. Not stale at all or musty

I don't open windows as a rule and my house isn't musty either - I think it's to do with what sort of house it is. Newer builds might be more sealed up and smell a bit stale but our house is older with chimneys and ventilates itself without needing to open windows.

If the windows are open how does it not go below 16C though? Or by air the house in the morning do you mean you just open the windows for a few mins?

I keep my windows open al the time, the upstairs windows are open all the time and the kitchen window

its 18 degrees in here now which is plenty.

I also don't understand how it can be 16° or 18° inside when the windows are open and no heating on. Are you all in Spain or something? It's about 10° overnight here at the moment and we are not particularly far north.