Your thermostat temperature?

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So it’s cold and in our home the annual heating debate has begun. Dh thinks it’s acceptable to have the thermostat on 16. I would be far happier with 20 but we have compromised at 18 although he still complains about this and the cost.

We have a log burner which does heat the downstairs quite well but when we go up to bed it’s freezing. He doesn’t feel the cold like me and I genuinely dread this time of year and having to argue just to feel warm in my own home.

You can’t compare thermostat temperatures as I found that they can be “fixed” to any temperature.
It would feel cold in our house even though the thermostat showed it was 22degC, so I changed the base settings so that it read 18degC. Now, when it shows 22deg it feels warm - it’s the equivalent of 26degC previously.
No idea which, if either is correct and not sure whether the plumber actually made an attempt to set the readings to an accurate temperature when it was installed.

Having said that, heating is off from about 9pm until 5am l. When very cold i set it to come on at 4.30am. We get up at 6am.

Our badly sited thermostat in an old cottage is at 24 but each radiator has its own which controls the heat in that area. I can’t see that others don’t have this as mine are around 15 years old - and regularly serviced alongside the boiler etc.
We have zero heat after 10pm, sleeping with a casement window open, a 4.5 duvet that’s only just gone on (and was kicked off by both of us last night). We’ve woken to snow on the carpet but both of us wear socks in bed when it is cold.
It’s all down to individual tolerances.

You must be made of sterner stuff than me - I had a 13.5 duvet last night, a crochet blanket and a massive fleece 🤣

It was a physicist that explained that to me.

20° at night and 22.5° in the day.
I really tried to keep it to 19 at night but kept waking up cold for a couple of hours. 20 seems to keep it cosy enough to sleep.
Yes, I'm in layers day and night and have a thick winter duvet. No, my thyroid is fine thankyou and my iron levels are good, I give blood. I'm slim and active with low blood pressure. I just don't do cold.

It very much depends where your thermostat is. In one house it eas in cold drafty-ish hallway so it was set to like 15 but rooms were close to 20 because they kept the warmth

We have 3 thermostats. One in the open plan downstairs area which controls the underfloor heating (gas not electric), one in the hallway downstairs and one in the hallway upstairs. The 2 hallway ones are Nest ones.

Upstairs is set to 15°C, downstairs is set to 16°C and the underfloor one is normally set to 16°C, but this week we've turned it up to 18°C.

The downstairs Nest one also has a set time to come on for 1½ hrs in the early morning (40 mins before we get up). This is set for 2 hrs later on the weekend. This temp is set to 19°C.

This thermostat is also set to come on for 2 hrs at night, to 20°C, and comes on around 9pm, so that it's warm when we go to bed.

If it wasn't for our downstairs bedroom being considerably colder (5+°C less) than the rest of the downstairs, 9 times out of 10 we wouldn't need to have it on at all at night.

We added underfloor insulation last year, but it's not made much different, tbh, and this is one of the only 2 rooms left from the original house.

The other is the entrance hallway, which is also usually quite cold.

They both have earth floors/foundations with raised joists and a wooden floor. We've added good underlay and carpet, and added 100mm celotex directly under the floorboards in our bedroom last year, but I think our next step will be to add cavity insulation as well to completely fill the spaces of both areas.

The downstairs Nest is located just beyond the cold entrance hall, on the other side of an internal door. During the day, it's set to 16°C, which it almost never reaches, and even at night it's rare for it to drop to 16°C.

Upstairs isn't used atm, so it's set to 15°C all the time, but once dc are home, that will be set at 20°C for 2hrs early morning and again for 3hrs between 8pm and 11pm. It will also then revert back to its minimum temp.

Once dc is home this minimum temp will be set to 17°C during the day and 16°C between midnight and 6am. When the outside temps are 1°C or less, our upstairs does drop below the minimum temp of 15°C, and so will switch on as needed.
This usually means it may be on for a max of 2/24hrs spread out over the 24hr period.

Once upstairs is being lived in, it generally doesn't drop below 16°C, except maybe overnight in severely cold weather.

The open plan underfloor hearing is normally set to 16°C overnight, but this last week it's been set to 18°C, which it does reach at some point.
During the evening, say from around 7-8pm it is raised to 20°C, and this is lowered back to 18°C when we go to bed.

We have gch.

Our gas bill is already ridiculously high, and we're not even heating upstairs yet.

The Nest heating is on for 5hrs/24 in total (looking at the history) and the underfloor is on for abt 3hrs per day and our gas usage is already hitting £7-8/day.

Last winter, our gas and electric was costing us £100 per week. It is scary, really.

I'm actually very naturally energy-saving conscious, so I dread to think what our house would cost most people!

Ours is set to 16,as we have an open fire which we light if freezing outside. The CH is just to warm upstairs a bit

Perhaps they didn’t know how central heating works.

Gosh we never have the heating on at night, just wouldn’t sleep. It comes on half an hour before I get up at 6 in the morning,

Currently 12’ in my house and the heating went off 4 hours ago, it was on for 7 hours

Glad its going to get a little milder
Cant keep affording to put it on for 7 hours a day

Really don't see the point of having the heating on overnight while you're asleep. It's just a waste of money.

Not for everyone. I have it to come in at certain temp because I often get irritated sinuses if it's too cold. It rarely does but I am not risking it after experience I had in one flat before.
If house loses heat quickly, it can get pretty cold over night. So some people do have it on to top up. Let's be honest, housing stock in UK is not generally the greatest quality when it comes to heat retention. So no surprise people have it come on over night

Not if you need to avoid breathing cold air. I am asthmatic. My heating comes on at night if the temperature drops below 19.5c. There will be other health conditions where people need a warm room.

We don’t like it being in a hot bedroom so it all goes off at 10pm, but our small Victorian house is in a terrace , well insulated and with double glazing - the house temperature just doesn’t drop very far overnight. My mother moved from the larger family house to a more manageable 1970s semi when my father died and the temperature seemed to plummet immediately the heating went off at the timer.

Was 7' after 4 days away... House was only 11'this morning....
After 9 hours of heating, its still barely hitting 17'

19 during the day, 18 at night.
Anything more than 20 feels too warm and stifling to me.