3.4 degrees

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I woke up this morning to the thermostat thingy reading 3.4 degrees, I'm a tough old bird and always felt warm over night without the heating on but no more! How's everyone else coping?

It's minus 2 here. Freezing. I'm working from home and struggling with the cold.

3.4 indoors?!!!

Wow, that is cold!

Are you the heating troll out again in this cold weather . There's no way it was 3 degrees in your house. Unless you slept with all the windows open. Ours was 15 degrees when I woke up and is 18 now with the heating on.

Ours doesn’t go below 15, it also hasn’t been above 17 much this winter and probably won’t be. We don’t seem to have any damp problems at this temp so I’ll be keeping it here. 3.4 sounds unfathomably cold inside! Do you live somewhere very old and draughty?

Lovely and warm, 18ish, because we have the hearing on as normal. I’m not being a martyr to the cold.

indoors here it’s 9.5 degrees, no heating on.
Went out in the car earlier and it was showing -3.

Heating what? I have heard it all now!

I genuinely don’t understand how it could possible get to 3 degrees inside, only a short way into winter? Does your house have a roof or windows??

We had windows replaced this week, hours with gaping great window sized holes in the walls and no heating on. It was still about 11 inside.
And ours is an old solid stone cottage!

Is your house in the Arctic Circle?

And for lots of people it will not be a case of being a martyr to the cold, rather that they cannot afford to have their homes adequately heated this Winter. It is a thing.

Do you live somewhere very old and draughty?

Like a hay barn?

it was 15 in my living room when I got up. I’m not sure I’ve ever known it to be 3.4 inside

I swear this site is wind-up central.
3.4 indoors, where do they live in a meat store fridge?😂

Yup

My fridge is set to 3°, my house was 12.5 when I woke up and -4° outside.

Do you mean that was the outside temperature?

If you live in an insulated house, draughtproofed and with regular heating it's probably hard to imagine that a house can get down to such cold temperatures but it's possible.
The temperature here when I got up was -3 outside so 3.5 degrees inside would be possible in a leaky old house with no heating.
Before we replaced the windows, draughtproofed and insulated our house the temperature would drop like a stone when the heating was off (yes we tested this by needing a boiler replacement mid December the first year we were here), luckily we had a fireplace in the living room so could warm that room but the rest of the house was a lost cause for a week. Luckily it was just a week as we had the money to sort it and upgrade the house generally.
Thankfully most of us are lucky enough to live in houses that can retain some heat and we are able to heat our homes for at least some of the time so will never get to test this out.

@wonkylegs our house was left with no heating while we were away for 2 weeks at the time of the beast from the east (power tripped 2 days after we left...) house was still 5 degrees on our return. There were a couple of really manky fridges and freezers to deal with 🤮

A house will eventually, without heating, get to outside temperature if left with no heat input that's physics - how long it takes depends on the construction (insulation, materials, air tightness etc).

Someone in a poorly constructed /insulated house could easily get to 3.5 degrees if the outside temperature is -3/4 as it was this morning in the NE as that's still a temperature difference of 6-5/7.5 degrees.
If they hadn't been putting the heating on or only a little bit.

For most of us that's not going to be the case but it's going to be a possibility for some.

Maybe your thermostat display is broken. Ours reads single figures as the 1 doesn’t display. If it’s in the 20s it read c1 c2 etc as the top of the 2 doesn’t display 🙃 I highly doubt it was 3.5c inside your house. If it was 3.5 outside, then yes, fine and I’m coping fine, thanks for asking.

A tent will drop to 3 overnight. Even our simple timber cabin never did drop like that.

But trolls won't care. They will be coming in whipping up undeheating competitions

It’s down to 7.2 in my house, the heating has been broken for nearly 2 weeks and my landlord hasn’t fixed it yet. It’s pretty miserable.

@Lostflower that sounds miserable hope it gets sorted soon.
My old technical design professor used to say we should all keep pigs as they make excellent radiators (which is why livestock used to be kept under living space) .
I'm not sure it was a helpful tip but its stuck with me for more than 25yrs since I took his class. I tend to stick to specifying insulation, controlled ventilation and draughtproofing as it goes down with clients better.

I live in a field on top of a hill. It's open on four sides with wire fences and it's still 25C in here.