What temp is your house right now?

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And do you have the heating on?

I thought it was a bit chilly this morning/last night but moving around today it was ok (hoovering etc)
We are sitting on the couch tonight with blankets, and ds just commented it seems to be warmer to night than last night. Checked the thermostat and we are sitting at 15.5 degrees. But we are ok tbh.

How warm is your house tonight?

(No heating yet and I think we are doing ok feeling cold wise iyswim? None of the kids have complained yet! Although we have a box of blankets by the couch. Have put up an extra set of double lines curtains on the main "cold" windows, put in extra foam on windows that were a bit leaky and tend to go to bed earlyish)

My heating is on "twice" today to see how much it costs (6am-7am, then 4pm-6pm). I've just come downstairs and my living room thermometer says it is 16.3'c

It must have been cold overnight, we dont have any form of heating overnight and it was 15 degrees upstairs. Dining room was 13.1 🥶 thankfully the lounge had held the heat well and was 19.1 so we ate breakfast in there and i popped the oil filled radiator on in the girls room at 7 and its now 19 degrees in there and the radiator clicked itself off at some point so they can get dressed in the warm

Can you let me know how much this costs please @BeyondThinkOfTheOptics as we are having ours on for a similar amount of time and I want to know a rough price. We don't have a smart meter

14 degrees in the house this morning. I'm at home with a cough so the heating will be on later

Knowing how much it costs someone else probably won’t help you unless you have an identical sized family doing identical things in an identical house.

The cost of having the heating on for that time is completely dependant on the size, insulation and use of the property.

Even if you both have the same size house, you would need to check all the other factors.

Then set to 16. Used to be 18/20

kick's in every now and then so house is warm but not hot if makes sense

Can you let me know how much this costs please @BeyondThinkOfTheOptics as we are having ours on for a similar amount of time and I want to know a rough price. We don't have a smart meter

you can’t know how much it’s going to cost in your house for the same temperature as it will vary depending on how insulated your home is compared to the other poster, added to which even in the same home this will vary as the temperatures fluctuate. It may cost poster A £30 per week but poster B has house with less insulation & with an older less efficient boiler, in a more northern town which was colder so it cost them £40 for the same temperature

@Talia99 Sorry hadn’t seen your post before posting the same

When I get the price, I'll put a load of info with it - just on the off chance PP is in the exact same circumstances 😁

BeyondThinkOfTheOptics You’ll need to put the outside temperature for each day, as that will effect how much more energy you use. Obviously if it’s 5degrees outside during the day you’ll use much more energy heating the house than if it’s 10 degrees outside

But that's in the living room which is a bit warmer than the bedrooms.

I'll move the thermostat to one of the bedrooms for an hour before DC bedtime. So the bathrooms and bedrooms get any chill taken out.

It's 9'c outside right now, and according to my living room thermometer it's 18.8'c in here

18.2 no heating on since this morning

(Tbh I'm too hot now at 18'c! I must be cold adapted 😂 going to go and have a shower -electric- in the warmth for a change, just to not overheat)

i bought a thermometer for my bedroom but the humidity is 74, the temperature is 17
why is that
what does that mean

@Willmafrockfit - it means exactly what it says. Temp 17. Humidity 74. That’s a high humidity so damp/ mould territory if you keep the house cold often ( it under 18)

My room thermometer thinks humidity needs to be under 60 and puts a sad face next to the humidity reading if it isn’t.

That seems to agree with what I’ve seen online.

Humidity will always be high after a night in a closed room because of the breathing that has gone on for 8+ hours. You need to then open windows in the morning.

when i went to bed lastd night it was 74 humidity!

i shall open the windows
it is above the kitchen which may be why?

Opening the windows doesn’t always help depending on the humidity outside but it’s a good start.

Can anyone advise what is the good range for humidity? My house is old and drafty which I think is probably good in this respect, but I do keep it quite chilly (ranges between 18 and 14 degrees)

Inside humidity is currently 48% according to my Nest thermostat

Online seems to suggest between 40 and 60, although some say 30-50. Either way, you are good with 48%. I’m assuming there are no special rules for old houses.

Ideally winter humidity is 30-50. Up to 60 if old house is ok if well ventilated. 74 is very high and not really healthy

Ours is 81 😱 large old Victorian house. We have 2 dehumidifiers running and it gets down to high 60s in the day but back to the 80s the next morning. It's rubbish!

Victorian houses are built to have blazing fires going to dry out the air, unfortunately.

I assume the heat in the chimneys going up the walls would have helped.