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In thinking 17 degrees is a ridiculous house temp in almost November

101 replies

Fibilou · 27/10/2009 19:42

DH keeps turning the central heating down from 20 to 17 and opening every window in the house because he "thinks it's hot enough"
I am 6 months pregnant, freezing my tits off and getting increasingly annoyed with his stubborn refusal to accept that 20 is a perfectly reasonable temperature and a profligately ridiculous temperature.
He seems to think that most people have their heating on around 15 degrees !

OP posts:
TrillianSlasher · 27/10/2009 20:09

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_temperature

colditz · 27/10/2009 20:09

22 is disgustingly hot, and NOT good for your skin!

YoureTerribleMuriel · 27/10/2009 20:09

I was always rasting hot when I ws pregnant

StrictlyAvadaKedavraarrrrghhhh · 27/10/2009 20:10

Haven't got mine on yet but around 18 fine for us.

flyingcloud · 27/10/2009 20:11

20 is my minimum comfortable temperature, even in summer when it's 20 (ie no wind chill or dampness) I need at least a jumper on.

I used to have this problem at work. I HATE being cold and get very uncomfortable (and bizarrely sleepy) if I am cold.

colditz · 27/10/2009 20:11

Interesting link -= seems we are all wrong and you are actually right!

Perfect for me is about 18.

singalongamumum · 27/10/2009 20:11

We have ours set to about 18 as it starts to get chilly, but I do think windows wide open is unfair, especially if you're feeling the chill. You are pregnant, and that means you should have everything your way... surely?!?!?!

Elk · 27/10/2009 20:11

Ours is set to 15 and put down to 12 at night. It hasn't been on today as it is too warm and I opened the windows to air the house.

Dd2 was outside on her scooter in just her knickers and a top!!!!

MmmHmm · 27/10/2009 20:14

OMG maybe our thermostat is broken?! 17... 15?!?!

The heating is never lower than 20 in our house from about early Oct onwards, including at night.

If I'm still cold at 20 then I whack it up to maybe 25 to "warm the house through" for half an hour

Jumpers/cardis/thick socks help a bit but still feel the chill when moving around

Sometimes I have a piping hot shower to warm up too.

Then again I do have a thyroid problem (DH is usually a bit too hot but not madly so, so its not just me.

and we do live oop north...

but it is a new house with apparently decent insulation....

Not all the radiators are on though (none switched in the hallway, kitchen, downstairs loo and spare room). Maybe thats what offsets the costs?

MmeGoblindt · 27/10/2009 20:15

Ours is set at 21

MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 27/10/2009 20:15

Thing is though I think a lot of thermostats are not that exact. If it was actually 17 degrees I would find that freezing - I used to find DS's room chilly when we were trying to keep that round 18 degrees (and actually had a room thermometer to check it - PFB!).

The thermostat in our last house kept the house nice and warm when it was set at about 17-18, but I'm sure it was actually heating it to more than that and the temp setting was just a bit dodgy; I bet a lot of others are the same!

MmmHmm · 27/10/2009 20:15

Elk obviously you live in Hawaii, you are disqualified

MmmHmm · 27/10/2009 20:17

PS it was great when I was pg though, I have never been so warm in winter before, it was bliss

duckyfuzz · 27/10/2009 20:17

MmmHmm we are oop north too, in a modern house I admit that when its bitterly cold and the north wind is howling through we turn it up, but never higher than 19-20 and then only for an hour or so...

Cockavita · 27/10/2009 20:17

Ours is about 22

RubysReturn · 27/10/2009 20:18

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boyraiser · 27/10/2009 20:19

18, and lots of windows open at the moment as it's quite mild. Put a jumper on, have a throw on the sofa to drap round your shoulders when you are immobile.

But horses for courses and all that. The in-laws like it at 22c which we find stifling. My lot have it like Antartica - 15c or less at night in winter.

TrillianSlasher · 27/10/2009 20:19

Ours goes off at night, unless it's really freezing (like this Feb just gone) when it just gets turned down.

Elk - is it even coming on if it's set to 15?

We have a digital thermometer which says that the temp really is what it says - if we're set to 20 then it cmoes on when the temp gets below 19.5ish.

Cockavita · 27/10/2009 20:21

Ours is turned off at night too, in fact we don't have it on in the bedrooms. The doors are pulled to upstairs.

oldraver · 27/10/2009 20:22

When people are saying 'at night' do you mean in the evening before you go to bed or actually during the night when you are asleep ?

I think I have only ever put the heating on during sleeptime when I knew it would ber really bad weather. I'm now wondering if everyone else has the heating on while they are in bed

halia · 27/10/2009 20:22

get a thermometer, our thermostat used to be set to 18 degrees, after turning blue one day when working from home I dug out DS old nursery thermometer and the temp was actually 14degrees.

sweetkitty · 27/10/2009 20:23

Our thermostat is a big fat liar, it tells you it's 20 all the time when it is freezing.

I am constantly cold though, I have two layers on, fleecy bottoms, socks and slippers and DP is wandering about in shorts and t-shirt

Georgimama · 27/10/2009 20:24

Our heating is off at night - DS's bedroom themometer tells me the temp in his room never goes above 21 (presumably when heating is on, crappy old boiler without thermostat) or below 18. So we're warm enough. I do find most people's houses (and my office) stifling though.

Put a jumper on!

duckyfuzz · 27/10/2009 20:24

oldraver we never have ours on after 10pm unless its bitterly cold

Cockavita · 27/10/2009 20:26

oldraver - heating goes off at about 9.00pm. We have put it on low during the night when it has been bitterly cold in the deepest winter.