Sleeping with the heating on?

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A couple of hours before DD (19m) goes to bed, I’ll put the heating on in the room just to warm it up for her. As it’s been getting colder. I’ve been leaving the heating on until I go to sleep with DS (7m) around 11pm. It’s currently -3 outside and really cold. Is it okay to leave the heating on overnight or should I not do that?

I’m pretty sure the last time I slept with the heating on, I woke up with a headache and dry throat so I obviously don’t want anything like that to happen to the kids. Thanks

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We have some very similar to these, they're honestly a game changer.

Well if you can afford it.

but I have a smart meter and I know it’s costing me £12 - £15 a day to have the heating in for maybe five or six hours in the day so be prepared for a big bill

I accidentally left the heating on overnight once and we all woke up with dry mouths, feeling groggy and the room just felt very stuffy.

I prefer a cooler room (not cold) and letting the warm duvet/extra blankets do the job of keeping me warm.

I'm another one who has never had the heating on at night, even when the DD's were babies. Always keep the windows open a crack too, unless it is absolutely freezing with a wind. We just have down duvets, 13 tog, and extra blankets if needed. The girls wear pyjams, DH and I just wear t-shirts and knickers/boxers. Occasionally I will pop bed socks on, but always kick them off in the night. The heating is on all day, goes off at 10pm, back on again at 7am.

We all need fresh air to sleep, and for it to be cool. The heating coming on and off overnight would also wake me up.

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I have a smart meter and I know it costs me about £7-8 to heat my flat 24/7.
It cost £10 when I turned the heating off for 6 hours and it had to climb back up to temperature when it came on again.

Sorry, that was to @catgirl1976

I don't tend to leave the heating on all night, but I have been sleeping wit my electric blanket on!- just on the first setting so not too hot, just keeps ne cosy!

@NewBootsAndRanty mine doesn’t work of a thermostat thing - you can’t set a temperature it’s either on or off. I can turn radiators down etc but the boiler doesn’t have a heating control thingy where it knows what temperature the house is

if that makes sense

Yep, completely - thats a right royal PITA.

Electric blanket on the lowest setting. Amazing.

That's what I have and at the moment I'm sleeping in what I did in the height of Summer plus a thin pair of socks, my feet tend to feel cold. I can't bear a hot bedroom and have the window open sometimes in Winter, I've actually woken up to snow on the window ledge sometimes.

Sorry that sounds a pain in the arse and very expensive to run. Is there any way you could get a thermostat installed ? It's a game changer. Mines like a portable thermostat if I'm a bit nippy I just put it up a bit. I wouldn't say it's much more expensive than turning off the heating then turning it back on as it needs loads of energy to heat a very cold house back up.

I hate heated bedrooms, I feel stuffy and headachy and can’t sleep. I hate sleeping in hotels for this reason.

I usually have the heating switched off permanently in the bedroom, and door shut all day so it is a cool sanctuary in there when I go to bed.

The last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling terrible, sore eyes, dry throat, headaches all the time. Realised yesterday the radiator upstairs was blasting heat, turned it straight off and had the best sleep in weeks, and feel much better today, headache is completely gone!
We had someone service the boiler last month, so presume he was the culprit for turning it on!

I guess some people just cope better with warm dry air than I do. Give me a thick blanket and hot water bottle any day.

Op those dials on your radiators are thermostatic valves. They allow you to set different temperatures in each room rather than setting one thermostat for the house.once the room reaches the temperature you've set in the dial, the radiator will switch off in that room and come back on whenever the temperature drops below what is set. You won't know the precise temperature without putting a thermometer in the room, but they generally have a snowflake symbol which is frost control and which will kick in if the pipes are in danger of freezing. We have our bedroom radiator set to that because I like a cold bedroom, the hallway set to 1, the sitting room to 3 and the others to 2. If you like a warm house you might want to up those by 1, but you shouldn't need to be running bedrooms at 5. (There will also be one -usually in a bathroom) without a diaal as a safety point in the system.

We have our heating on overnight - thermostat set to 14 degrees so comes on if it gets lower then that!

www.traderadiators.com/blog/thermostatic-radiator-valve-numbers

"The numbers on the valve roughly correlate to the room temperatures below. When the room drops below these temperatures, the TRV will allow hot water to flow into the radiator:

0 = Off

• = 7°C 1 = 10°C 2 = 15°C 3 = 20°C 4 = 25°C 5 = 30°C A fully functional TRV will detect the temperature of the room and automatically adjust the amount of hot water in the radiator accordingly."

They've actually finally done studies re the heating on low constantly vs heating on when you need it.

They have concluded that the latter is most efficient. I've read this from multiple sources now, but this is one of the studies.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/18833474.martin-lewis-cheaper-switch-heating-off-leave-running/

That's the thing though - "when you need it", for me, is all the time.

I have a central thermostat which doesn't work. If the heating is on, and the thermostat is at 30 degrees, the heating comes on even it's 40 degrees. The only way for me to control the heating is via the individual radiator settings. That, or to completely turn the heating off.

I don't heat my bedrooms during the day as I'm not in them during the day. I heat the room I'm in when I'm in it!

It’s cheaper for us to keep it on. £14 a day if we turn it off and have to reheat to 19c.

£12.50 to maintain a constant temperature.

I’ve been leaving mine on at 15 overnight and it’s been working well.

Fair enough - I'm turning my bedroom TRVs down to 1 or 2 when I'm not in there; the kitchen and bathroom are the same.
Still means keeping the heating on to keep the front room warm (I've tried a plug in heater and it was more expensive to heat just my front room)