dh and the heating, every single year

[minxofmancunia]

Every year in the 11 we've been together the same bloody issue every winter.

Temp drops I turn the heating on, cue dh home from work "oh God I'm sweating, how can you stand thi" etc.etc. Covertly turns heating down/off. Me, shivering, go and put it back on again and so on and so on and so on. It's like a battle, sick of being freezing in my own house!

One time even when me and my dsis were sitting curled on the sofa in hoodies and sleeping bags just to watch tv, still refused to aknowledge how cold it was.

he changes the setting on it all the time so it comes on at a lower temp for less time.
It's not justthe cold that bugs me though ti's all the huffing and puffing when the house is a reasonable temp and the discarding of clothes everywhere and the theatrical wiping of forehead with finger tips to demonstarte perspiration.

Arghhh

Our thermostat doesn't work. At all. I had to turn it up to nearly 30 just to get the temperature in the baby's room to creep up to 16. It managed to reach a balmy 17 or so in the room where the thermostat is located. We're moving to a house with fires and heating. I'm very excited.

My dad does this to save money!

My Grandfather used to switch the (partial) central heating off when the outside temperature went abouve freezing!

Above, not abouve!

I turn it down and dh turns it up here

drives me insane. I can't bear being too hot inside. At least with too cold, you can just bung a warm blanket on your knee or put on a jersey and have a cuppa.

Too hot dries everything out too so makes him snore more (I am convinced)

and lol at Iklboo's suggestion

dh is the same. he gets very hot.

however this winter we had newborn ds.

i told dh that doctors tell you you must have your thermostat no lower than 20 with a new baby in the house

Being too hot in your own house is horrible. YANBU, sorry.

[coughs] climate change [coughs]

iklboo! pmsl thankyou! Will also store that one for future use

But being too cold in your own house is pretty horrible too - there comes a point when you have to have too many jumpers on and then have to switch to fingerless mittens when you need to do a bit of mnetting and too many woolly socks and your slippers don't fit...

I used to work in an office where I was always cold. Even in the middle of summer I would need to take a fleece in as it was so cold. One day they finally managed to get the temperature right, is was so nice not to have to have an extra jumper on and to not notice how cold I was all the time. 10 minutes later an email came around apologising for the failure of the air conditioning and it was fixed an hour later (sad and cold smiley!)

I have this with DP. I begrudge sitting in anything more than pyjamas and a fleece dressing gown in the evening, and will keep the house at a teperature that suits me. If I get too cold, I fall asleep - I've even done it outside on a bus with no heating. I've always been the same, in fact as a child, people used to call me a reptile as I am so cold blooded. DP on the other hand, falls asleep the minute the temperature goes above 16. If it's not at least 18, I fall asleep....NOT good! I keep the heat on during the day when he's at work, and use the laptop and MN to keep me warm when he's home!

I'm currently sat with the fan on in the bedroom because DP has the heating cranked right up.

PUT SOME MORE BLOODY CLOTHES ON, OR USE A FECKING BLANKET!

I actually feel quite sick and would rather be cold any day, sorry YABU.

I'm currently sat here with pyjamas, jumper and gilet on. A duvet over my legs and the dog, who makes a good hot water bottle , lying next to me. I hate being cold but don't have any choice atm because the heating and hot water aren't working (since this morning) and have to wait up to 5 working days until they come out, which means 7 days cos the weekend doesn't count.

We're not an emergency cos we have an electric fire and a shower and there's no baby/young child living here. I did offer to get one if it would help to get them here quicker

I'm usually the turner downer in this house, dp merrily turns the thermostat to 30, although I have explained that it doesn't actually make the radiators hotter, just means that they will never ever go off it's like peep show round here.

I have often woken at 3am to find the bloody heating still on, I hate heating on at night and often open the window a bit in the bedroom even in winter.

I must admit though this winter and the last one has been quite cold and I have found myself turning the heating off, only to turn it back on again half an hour later .

I blew up the thermostat, so noone has any idea what the temp is in here! I have a few ideas for you, though

1. Bring in an older relative (I use my dad)- they are more sensitive to the cold and can always be relied on to remark on how baltic it is in the house. Your DH then has to turn heating on, or look like miserable miser in front of your poor, shivering, thin-blooded family member

1. Put lots of layers on, "lose" his big chunky jumper and say nothing until he finally remarks on the cold (this only works if your DH, like mine, has a favourite warm, chunky jumper, without which he is doomed to freeze)

1. Bribe the kids to come down every 10 minutes whining "daddy we're SOOO cold"

My DH has a non working thyroid and is on thyroxine. He cocked up got his levels of meds wrong and is now fighting his way back to normal. ( how a grown man can take the wrong amount of meds for 8 months and refuse to get blood tests is a whole long story. )
Anyhoo it means he is ALWAYS cold. Our oil is horrendously expensive so I light the coal fire every eve and sit there in t shirt while he huddles in fleece ,thermal vest, gillet etc . I have no heating on in daytime at all. If I sit down then I cuddle a hottie.

Oh I meant to strike out the words surrounded by hyphens. That didn't work for some reason.

I have a weird cold-weather-booster-circulation-thingie, which means my hands actually get warmer when it goes below -5C outside. I swear, I can feel this valve in my wrists stretching (or something....it's actually quite unpleasant), and then blood flows into my fingers.
I'm quite happy to walk around gloveless and hatless in Sweden in December.
DP, OTOH, like his father and uncles before him, is now developing fricking Reynauds disease (or syndrome).
His toes turn white from standing on the bathroom tiles for a matter of seconds - say getting undressed to get into a bath.
I'll sit happily by an open window - in fact I'm doing it now.
That's what we do here - open and shut windows, rather than mess with the thermostat.
I open them, he shuts them. Repeat.
We'd have the thermostat problem if it weren't for the fact that he's tight!
There is no middle ground....you can have some surgery to sort Reynauds out, but I don't know how available it is here - his uncle in Canada had to have it.