how often do you open your windows to air your home?

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We do most days upstairs, even if it's cold and wet, if only for 15 mins or so, but usually for longer I'm home a lot during the day and so can't help noticing how infrequently my neighbours open theirs. All our houses are the same with main and third bedrooms at the front so these are the neighbour's ones I see but I swear we're the only ones in our close of 20 or so houses who ever open the front windows. Even in summer, some neighbours windows stay closed. I'm clearly the odd one out where I live. What's it like where you are?

Curly we are all asthmatic here which I think is why I am so particular about the air in the house. We have a dehumidifier to dry any laundry quickly during the winter, and I also open the windows when the house is being hoovered and dusted to get the place as fresh as possible.

No way am I opening windows. It takes an hour for my heating to warm the house 1 deg C so starting at a low base temperature means it might be warm 5 hours later. We have powerful extractor fans in bathrooms, utility and kitchen, a dehumidifier in the laundry and a properly vented drier, internal doors are open too for circulation. The 5 outside doors are open and closed plenty of times in the day with comings and goings. And the house is definitely not fusty (or warm!).

Presumably if a house takes ages to heat up then it's quite old and maybe a bit draughty? So air getting in that way?

I think most airers don't understand the non-airers who live in modern draught-free, well-insulated housing with central heating.

The house is 35 years old with double glazing (not as good as modern ones but not draughty) and the loft is insulated. It is a 4 bed house and I'm now wondering how long other people's central heating takes to warm the house 1 deg. The gas boiler is now 24 years old, which is, I guess, the issue. How much quicker would a modern boiler be?

nemno we're in a similar aged house with ten year old double-glazing, only 3-bed so a bit smaller than yours but detached so we get no help from the neighbours.

Takes about half an hour for the temp to rise a couple of degrees, maybe quicker?

Definitely get a new boiler, you are probably wasting so much money!

Sounds like I should look into it, thanks Alibaba.

Open them every day for at least an hour in bedrooms. Bathroom one nearly always open. At least once a week I open front and back door to get the air through. It is a Feng shui thing apparently but. Leads the air.

I am a bit of a fresh air fiend.

We sleep with the bedroom windows cracked. On days when I'm home the house gets a quick tidy and the windows open for a bit, and whenever we're home in warmer weather.

Every window in this house gets opened every day and like so many other on this thread I always sleep with the window open, even when it's freezing outside.

In the ten years we've lived in this house I've never seen our neighbours house with a window open.

No condensation at all in my nice warm well-insulated house with closed windows.

My SIL is a window opener - her house is freezing!! We always take extra layers when we are visiting. It's not good for DH's arthritis.

I used to open them more in our previous house as it would feel stuffy. In this house, I hadn't felt the need, until recently when DH blocked up the icy drafts at floor level and I've since noticed the rooms getting more stuffy. The smallest bedroom is most likely to need a change of air.

I rarely shut my classroom windows, even on the mankiest days as I hate stuffy 'eugh de teenager'

Our windows are constantly open upstairs and I air downstairs each morning. We love fresh air and can't stand fusty rooms at all. It doesn't matter how cold it is, we have windows open.

Depends. Ground floor so have to be security conscious
Always have trickle vents open and windows locked on "cracked open!" setting. Living room one generally every day, the others more in summer
Also likely to have one or two neighbours cats in if the windows are open...