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?

Where on earth do you live?

It was -1.5 where I live. It's always bit colder than in the city, as we're in the middle of nowhere. I hate looking at smart meter now. Yesterday was 9 quid. Fair enough I've done laundry and dried it in tumble dryer, but still...

Whereabouts are you op? And what kind of house

Presumably - assuming the op isn't a heating troll- the house didn't fall from a normal household temperature to 3.4c but from a far colder house to one even colder, which might be feasible if she is in my neck of the woods which is -3c this morning.

I've got my thermals out and wore them for the first time yesterday. They are certainly worth the money.

I have my thermostat set to 15 degrees and the radiators come on when it drops below.

Whaaaat! My house is a toasty 21 atm, as I’ve just boosted the hive, if it drops below 18degrees it comes on automatically.

How did you get your house as toasty as 3.4C? I woke up this morning and it was -2C under the duvet, not that I’ve got a duvet – I burned it for kindling during the last cold snap.

Are you living up to your username op? Did you actually mean 13.4? Ours was just over 14 in the kitchen which is the coldest room in the house

I’m calling bullshit on it being 3.4 degrees inside, when that’s the temp outside…

Oh my, I didn't read carefully. 3.4C inside? 🤐How is this possible?

Thing is, last night was cold yes. But it wasn't extraordinarily cold.

My guess is that at least a couple of days last year were pretty much the same. And as for 2010 ... well.

So if it got that cold doing whatever you were doing this year, it must have pretty much done the same last year. And the year before that. And the year before that.

Unless this year you decided to do something like sleep with the windows open. Or not turn the heating on.

Don't you? It's not got above -1c here in my part of Cornwall yet today, but I've not let the house drop below 14. It was down to 12c indoors last week without heating. 80s build house, decent windows etc....

Well, I believe you op.

As a pp said, lots of people don't understand how cold some buildings can get especially if they've always lived in insulated homes / with heat.

Hope you warm up soon.

Mine was -15 in the kitchen. I think I'll have to sacrifice one of the reindeer to make a warm coat and boots 🥶

It might be that temp where you are but here (NE) it was minus 3 outside at breakfast time and has reached the dizzying heights of 2 degrees now at lunch time.
You do know that the temperature is not the same across the country?

Mine was 14C this morning, living room faces north. Thermostat is set to 17.5 and it's taking a while to get there, but with layers and blankets it's fine.

Am I missing something here. My DD for gas and electric this time last year was £129. This year it has gone up to £210 a month but with the government help of £66 a month takes it down to £144 so an increase of £15 a month from last year. My house isn't cold, I have a tumble drier going most days, the heating on for roughly 3-4 hours a day, am in the south so only this week has it started to feel cold. Am on the variable tariff. I can't understand why other people's bills have increased so much.

Why do people make up such rubbish. 3.5 degrees is only possible if windows are open all night!

My conservatory was 3 degrees this morning and the bathroom was a toasty 7 degrees so I believe the OP.

During a winter when I could not heat the house at all, so not central heating, no hot water running in the pipes, no oven running, even no hob rings, after several weeks of low temperatures, it did reach 3 degrees indoors once. So I do believe it possible, even though on the day it was 3 degrees indoors it was between -10 and -16 outside (winter of 2010).

When it did reach 3 degrees in my place, two pipes burst and flooded the utility room and kitchen, bringing the ceiling down. After that flood pouring out, everything was so damp that the black mould set in. Eventually I managed to fix the pipes, the ceiling, the damage to the floors and plaster, had the electrics made safe, and then finally managed to get the boiler done after 18 months without any heating or hot water. BUT it would have cost me a lot less, if I had had the money to fix the heating BEFORE the pipes froze.

Now I won’t let it drop below 5 degrees indoors because you wouldn’t believe what living in that devastation was like.

Ours was 15 this morning, heating was last on til 6-7pm the night before. There is no way a house was 3.5 degrees inside. Most boilers have a safety feature which kicks in around 13 degrees to stop pipes freezing.

Pipes don’t freeze at 13 degrees.

I don’t let the temperature drop below 5 to protect the pipes, as above.

it is possible for a house to be 3 degrees inside, not sure if the OP’s is, but it’s perfectly possible.

I didn’t say they did, that is what ours is and we can’t override it, lots of modern boilers are the same I think.

Where does the op say her heating was on at any point prior? I mean, I've been a hugely cynical about people saying that they won't put their heating on at all this year following the price increase and how feasible that it but presumably there comes a point when this would be the eventual outcome in a home where there isn't other background heat sources - cooking heat/ warm bodies - to keep the house warmer than the outside.

Meat Storage! 😆.