To ask how cold your house gets with no heating?

[JaceLancs]

Quite a few threads recently and I am wondering how cold peoples houses get without heating
Im in the damp north west and quite near the coast so can be windy
3 bed semi built in the 60s
deep loft insulation plus boarded out, cavity wall insulation and double glazed windows and doors
We use draft excluders and thick curtains including door curtain
Without any heating on at all it rarely gets below 12, my old boiler had no thermostat and could only set by timer so we used to leave switched off between bonfire night and Easter or 1st April if a late Easter and although I have a newer boiler now still do same
DP lives in a terrace house further inland and has no heating at all - he benefits from either side and it rarely drops below 9-10

Coldest I've seen it this year is 12'c. Then I put the heating on.

Bloody freezing, it's colder in here than outside 🙄

I don't know why because it's a 90's house and we have double glazing, loft insulation and cavity wall insulation.

I'm in a 1930s semi. When I moved in it had been empty for a few days and was 12 degrees. Normally it goes down to 15 or 16 when the heat's off for a few hours. I put it on morning and evening, around 3 hours per day, to go up to 18 at the moment. (This is not as warm as I would like and still costing around £7 per day).

4 bed detached new build, 3 years old.

Ive not seen it go below 17.

1930s detached, 5 bed house. Kitchen currently 19.5 no heating on and I'm cold!! But lots of glass in this room and open plan so a big space

Stone cottage end terrace - 9 degrees.
In November.

Our landing/stairs is showing just a touch over 17 (temperature gauge on an old Barometer). I am batch making sausage rolls (in the Halogen oven) to freeze for our Church Christmas Party in 2 weeks so the kitchen is warm. No heating on.
The lounge is about 16.

Peak District and currently it's at 13.5 I've just got DH to put the fire on!

1930's terrace. It gets to around 14.5 degrees without heating at this time of year, maybe 12-ish degrees in the middle of winter.

Uninsulated flat built in mid 1700s - 9 degrees

Victorian semi. Three floor, five bedrooms. I’ve never seen the thermostat drop below 16. Even when I think it feels really chilly it’s usually about 17.

Our house is almost 200 years old and a semi. Our boiler broke down in the winter a few years ago and it dropped to 8 degrees in about 3 days.

It has mostly been 16-17 and drops in the evening to 14 ish.
Then I put the heating on to 17.
I have a heated throw this year so when I'm sat still I use that and it's worked well.
If only I could train the cats to close doors behind them!

Interesting the differences. We've just had a new boiler fitted and so have my parents and we both have a Hive, I'm interested to see the comparison in how quickly our houses lose heat given they're in a 100yr old stone built end of terrace and we're in a 60s semi with cavity wall insulation, but also have to consider that they're in the valleys and we're near Cardiff so it's always colder where they are.

At the moment I can’t tell, because I’m using central heating for an hour or two each evening so it’s being heated regularly enough that it’s true temperature can’t be judged. I’m also using the oven, kettle and running hot water through the pipes, these things all warm it up.

In the winters that I didn’t have any form of heating or hot water it got down to 2 degrees indoors and that’s when the pipes froze then burst.

This is the good thing about not having a thermostat - I have absolutely no idea what the temperature is!!

Our thermostat is set to 17.5 during the day between 7 and 9am and 3pm to 8pm - the heating only very seldom clicks on. Well-insulated semi detached with neighbours on “exposed” side very near too.

Our heating isn’t meant to come on overnight anyway, but I tend to turn it to 12 or so overnight just in case the timer resets itself or something.

I return it to 17.5 when I get up. Half the time it doesn’t click at all, or clicks at about 17. The hot water comes on about 5am ready for all the morning showers, and it also heats the towel rail in the bathroom, so that is probably what increases the upstairs temperature, but I can’t imagine it gets that cold overnight.

The thermostat is upstairs, the kitchen is probably a couple of degrees cooler.

They must have been the rich reverse cycle air con all year types! I found the opposite, that we seem to be comfortable at lower temperatures than many people in the UK after surviving single-digit-inside winters in a so called 'warm' country!

I've thought about a cat flap through the living room door!

In SE and it's currently 15. It did drop to 12 at some point and I nearly put the heating on!

I have the heating on for around 2-4 hours per day, so it never drops as much as it could. It's often 12c when I switch it on though.

I'm in the north of Scotland.

I have to admit, I have no clue how cold it would get. I haven't tried it out. Even when we are on holiday, the heating is set to come on when temperatures outside drop below a certain degree.
However, we have a detached house, stretching over three floors, with bedrooms in the basement/at garden level. House is half-timbered and was built in 1949. We do have double glazing now and central (gas) heating. We live a little higher up. In winter, temperatures outside can drop to -20 degrees.

In October, we left the heating off while it was still around 20 degrees outside. Inside, it was about 15 degrees. It's lovely and cool in the summer when temperatures can rise to 35+ degrees. In winter, however, the heating needs to be on.

we are in the SE in a semi built in the 70s, over the last week the lowest it has got is 11.5. Last winter the lowest was 9.
We rarely ever put the heating on. Probably 2/3 times last winter. We wear layers and hot water bottles etc.

12.3C is the coldest we’ve got so far. Midlands, listed cottage, single glazing, no insulation etc.

South here and my house gets that cold in winter. Frequently warmer out than in. I'm on oil too.