Thermostat at 18 degrees

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My sister is telling me I’m a freak - but any hotter is awful, surely?

YABU - team sister
YANBU - me and the correct answer

14 here. But do have log burner which goes on when required - but def not every night!

Morgue temperatures to sleep 😍

21/22 any lower and it feels chilly to me.

My house feels cold at 18, we have it at 20 but off overnight and during the day

Being perimenopausal in winter is great, not much fun in the summer.

23 degrees constantly here. I live in a new build house as well. DH and the kids walk around in shorts and t shirts in the house. By comparison I'm wearing a t shirt, cardigan, fluffy pyjama bottoms, wool socks and I'm underneath a duvet and 2 fluffy blankets.

No, I'm hellbent on single handedly causing the global warming crisis. Neither am I hellbent on sweating my family to death. I have a medical condition that means I can't regulate my own body temperature very well. Once I get cold I stay cold no matter what. It's horrible.

How do you cope in summer? 23 degrees is nice and warm, not baking hot.

Yep, 18 max. Then turned off around 8pm so it's cold but cosy come bedtime.

So if that is the temperature outside on a cloudy dat, would you happily sit in the park with no coat on? Most people outside would be wearing coats walking around at 13⁰.

We have it at 20. I'd be cold at 18

Mines on 17 because I'm sick of buying heating oil and nearly bankrupting myself. I would go lower but partner is a complete twat about heating. Seems to think there's a prohibition on indoor sweater wearing.

this. My house doesn't feel warm unless the thermostat is on 22.

between 18 and 20 after that then its too hot, usually i put it on eg 18 then put on top a dressing gown if needed

Not everyone is menopausal.

I get depressed at anything less than 22, and I never want to get out of bed if it's cold.

Ah right yes, I see what you mean. I think it is more to do with placement of the thermostat than anything else. We have the one in the bathroom set to 25 because it's over the vent for the tumble dryer so it always thinks it's warmer than it is.

No one is unreasonble, its an unreasonable way of referring to differences in how people want to live

I am in pain at the moment due to feeling so cold, our thermostat reads 20 and Im in the living room with the wood burner

21 during the day, but heating is always off at night.

I’m not menopausal!

Unless thermostats are an indicator 😱

In this house 20 feels too warm and I have ro turn it down.

I have cold-induced asthma so it's 21C during the day and 16C at night.

I am prepared to reduce spending on many things except heat.

I’m with you all the way!

Are both of you my sister?

We do the same, (why heat the house at night?).

But there is a huge difference between modern homes with lots of insulation (they lose very little heat over night) and your typical Victorian built home.

We currently live in an old Victorian farmhouse without double glazing and, back when it was very cold in January, I woke up early one morning before the heating came on and, going down into the kitchen, the temperature there was 7 degrees C.

That really does show how much heat old houses can lose over night.

We haven't done anything to improve the house as we bought it a couple of years ago with the intention of knocking it down and rebuilding.

So we're just suffering with it until the builders start on-site later this year (it's taken us quite a long time to get planning and then to get the builders to be available)

Mine kicks in if it gets to 19, has to be on 19 or 20 for me to be comfy

And if it gets colder overnight your pipes can freeze then burst, causing flooding. Cheaper to heat to at least 10C than need an emergency plumber.