If you don't have the heating on during the day,

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If you don't have the heating on during the day, how cold does it get in your house and what do you wear?

"Just put a jumper on"

In principle I agree, but I'm already wearing cotton long-sleeve top, with a 100% wool jumper over, jeans and woollen socks.

It's 14C in here.

Heating is going on!

It's about 14 degrees here, and I have underwear, vest, thermal long-sleeved top, fleece jumper, fleece coat and a slanket on, as well as trousers, socks and boots!

I am not too cold apart from my nose, toes and fingers...but I have got a cold so my internal thermostat may be a little off. I am not looking forward to proper winter arriving

I've got slippers a hoodie and a scarf on, plus thick leggings.

roll on 5pm and il stick the heating on to warm the house abit so the kids don't freeze getting out of the bath.

If I'm sitting around on the computer rather than doing my housework, I do chill down...but usually remedy that by keeping my coat on and having a piping cup of black coffee to hand - not much different from when I was a student really. Oh and I often have a cuddly cat on my lap as a hot water bottle substitute ;-)

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who regularly wears 3 layers and a scarf indoors in winter. Tights under jeans are a standard for me.

We keep our thermostat at 18 in the evenings, but during the day at 16 if we're in. Moving about definitely helps as does hot drinks (liked the tip about keeping it warm in hot water bottle).

The thing that gets me is that I know I feel the cold particularly badly (Reynauds) but the DCs run around in t-shirts in the same temps and although their hands are blocks of ice they just don't seem to notice.

If I'm feeling chilly, I stand up and do star jumps for 30 seconds I can't get too vigorous though, I live in a converted Victorian house and have a downstairs neighbour.

we don't have the heating on in the day but that's because we are at work. I turn it on for an hour at about pm for bath times. The house warms up really quickly and soon gets too hot, so i then turn it off and just keep a warm cardigan on and fluffy socks either over the top of my tights/normal socks and day clothes or pyjamas.

Central heating is currently on for an hour from 7-8am to dry off any overnight condensation, though might reduce that as not bad at the moment.

Woodburner going from around 5-9pm if it feels cold.

Temp in house now is about 19, drops to 17/18 overnight.

I am bloody lucky, I know.

We don't have a "display" type thermostat - just a wretched dial that turns, but no temperatures on it. I would LOVE to know what temperature it's set at so I could fiddle around with it and actually know what the temperature inside the house is.

I have the heater on timer right now - it goes on for a total of 3 hours a day - one hour in the morning, one hour at DCs bedtime (so they're warm during baths and such) and one hour in the middle of the night. It mainly is just to take the chill off.

I don't turn the heating on during the day while the DCs are in school - it's just me here and I'm keeping busy cleaning, baking, and doing laundry - so it's relatively warm anyway. If need be, I'll get out warmer clothing and just add a layer or two.

We're on a prepayment meter and it's expensive. I do like, however, that we don't get hit with a huge gas and electric bill in the spring. It keeps us on our toes so we don't waste it.

M&S heatgen long sleeved top & leggings, plus normal top/jeans plus Dh's woollen jumper that got shrunk.

The heatgen range doesn't make you feel trussed up. They are BOGOF on the M&S outlet website at the moment.

Alice: based on my previous experience of living in houses with thermostats (we don't have such advanced technology here) the numbers don't relate to the actual air temperature all that well anyway. You could add markings and numbers with a whiteboard marker/OHP pen so that you can note that "3" is a bit chilly, "4" is about right and "5" is too hot.

No idea what the temperature is but I've been working at my desk at home all day and haven't taken my fleece off since I took the DC to nursery this morning! I'm wearing fleecy slipper boots, thick socks, jeans, a long sleeved top, wool jumper and my fleece. This fleece has been fantastic value as I bought it in a sale in 1998 and it has got me through a lot of winters in cold houses! I have my thermal long sleeved vest and leggings to put on when it gets colder and often have a hot water bottle on my lap and a blanket to throw over my legs. And I have a lot of warm drinks and soup for lunch. I'm lucky and could probably afford to put the heating on if I had to but our bills are so high that I don't want to spend any more money ponders whether having a small radiator in the study may be cheaper than endlessly boiling the kettle for another hot drink.

On the two days I'm at home with the DC, we do a lot of dancing, running etc anyway and its a bonus that that keeps them warm. They don't seem to feel the cold anyway.
If its this cold and its the weekend with DP at home, then the central heating is likely to be for longer.

Knickersononeshead - unless you're in Tromso, and your house doesn't have walls, I doubt it's 4 degC. 14 maybe? Or you have a ghost.

I rarely stand still if I'm at home during the day... It's a bit of cooking, sit down with a cuppa, take the dogs out, washing up, do the crossword, bit of gardening... Husband works from home a bit, and I have accepted that he will put the heating on for some of that time. He has got better at turning the other radiators off and only heating the one he's working in, and less prone to working in shorts and tshirt... In February!

It was 10 degrees outside today and the house never went below 17.5, so no need for heating. The sun shone which probably helped.
Last years electricity bills were horrendous. I'm trying to do better this year.

I'm really trying to convince dh that we need a log burner. I refuse to have the heating on in the day but would burn logs to help take the chill off quite happily.

No idea of temp but it does get cold here and I refuse to put heating on just for me. Ideally I have thermal undies, topped with regular clothes (jeans, long sleeve t-shirt and jumper or cardi) Over that will go a bigger polo necked cardi/jumper/fleece that I can pull up over my nose if that's freezing. I might pull dh's housecoat over that or on a really bad day I'll just keep my coat and hat on when I come in from school run - if anyone comes to the door I have to pretend I 'was just leaving' lol.

I work from home so today - not so cold yet but I'm wearing:
2 x wool socks
wool tights
jeans
thermal vest
cotton t
Aran sweater knitted by my aunt
Hat
Fingerless gloves
Hot water bottle at feet and hands alternatively

I also do some running on the spot and star jumps or go for a jog around the flat! Warm up the old muscles and I will certainly be taking the kind Mr Cameron's advice by putting on ANOTHER jumper when temp drops some more - isn't he thoughtful????

M&S Heatgen.........must look them up! Thank you. hadn't heard of them before!

viva you still have to buy the logs! Unless you're lucky enough to have access to free hardwood .
Having said that, I reckon it's cheaper than central heating and it's a good dry heat. Warms the house so much more than the rads do...

if anyone comes to the door I have to pretend I 'was just leaving' lol.

If you are cold now what are you going to do in the winter.

It is warm in my house now, but I do have the rayburn on in the kitchen, and as the kitchen is the bottom floor, the heat rises up. Also I light a wood fire in the evening and my house has thick walls (200 years old) so keeps heat in well.

Sonly - that's when the duvet comes out!

Oh Helly that's sounds so cosy!

Thermal vests and good socks are key to staying warm IMHO.

I usually wear one of those, a t-shirt, and then a long-sleeved t-shirt or jumper over that.

I haven't switched it on as yet however I do have a range which gives a good background heat. Also have wood burners for the sitting room.

Kitchen is 20 plus. Other rooms are 16-18 degrees. Sitting room is 23 in the evening, it's cold sitting still, even under my fleece blanket.

Today I wore, jeans, fleece lined slipper boots, long sleeved t and thick merino jumper.
Toasty all day mainly doing the cleaning.