What do you set your heating at?

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Please settle an argument with me and my mother.

What do you set your heating at? Is it different in the day and the night?

Just trying to gauge what the 'norm' is here. We are South East (not that that makes any difference - temp is temp).

For me - 20 in the day, 17 at night. My boyfriend (who lives with me) is 22 day, 19 night so its gone up - I wouldn't want him feeling the cold.

My mother thinks a house that is 14 is perfectly reasonable, and not on at all at night. She rarely puts in on. This worries me desperately as father has had pneumonia and they are in their mid 70s. She is convinced I, and 'my generation' are wussies, and heating is bad for you, and they are normal and I 'feel the cold more than most'.

I guess I want to prove to her that that last line is inaccurate, and she puts her bloody heating on this winter, as I am super anxious about their health (particularly my dad). On a selfish note, I loathe going round there as I sit shivering, whilst being given a blanket and told 'oh dear, you do feel the cold don't you'. Like Im some sort of alien. The offer of heating is never there, and when it is put on, it is with much complaint, and mum performance huffing and fanning of brow. Ugh. Drives me nuts.

It would be good to know, the controls you use on the RADS for specific room temps?

It's Celsius, not centigrade

They're the same aren't they?

Yes, they are. Celsius is just a modern version of the word Centigrade.

It was known as the centigrade (=100 steps or graduations or degrees) scale before 1948, when the the International Committee for Weights and Measures renamed it in honour of Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. Now obviously 1948 is very recent, so some of us haven't entirely caught up yet! 🤭

22C day and night. Draughty house. Need heating on to dry clothes.

I prefer a “fresh” air throughout the entire day, windows only closed at night. I’d probably never put the heating on until December/Jan and then no higher than 18.5 but my DD is seriously disabled and cannot walk - her little legs have been absolutely freezing in the last couple of weeks so DH agreed (he was reluctant) to put it on to 19 (the temp says 17 or 18 but it feels colder sometimes).
We have a bungalow which easily gets warm (too much for menopausal me) but also can get very draughty if I open the back door and a window anywhere in the house.
As DD is prone to chest infections, or was when she was younger, I’m paranoid about her not being warm enough.
Plus.. given that the most she sleeps is 7 hours- being warm makes her more tired!

21.5 during the day, off at night.

Because it's cold?? Different houses are at different temperatures??

I'm not going to read all pages but I think I'll win at 26 (apart from between 10pm and 2am, we aren't mad lol). My mum is older and feels the cold so she deserves all the comfort she can get in her old age.

Makes no difference what your thermostat is set at. If the heating is on, it hasn't reached that temperature. What temperature does your house actually reach?

20 all day, sometimes up to 22 at our house day or night
my parents do 22-23, sometimes 24/25, it’s roasting at theirs !!

if heating isn’t on, and you don’t have a drier, how else are people drying clothes without rads on.?!

Oh wow - I keep at 21 day and night - no wonder my toddler always wants to run around in his nappy… 😔

Exactly, my thermostat could be set at 30, it would still only be 16-18 in some parts of the house. It's set at 20 in the hall and hasn't clicked off all day.

6am 19°c
9am 18°c
4pm 19
7pm 17°c

Min temps all year round.