Fascinating thread - how often do you open your windows?

[Threeyearslater]

Just realised today I don’t think we’ve opened ours since maybe October. Could do with doing so more regularly. Is this something others do regularly?

Daily. We always have our bedroom windows open.

Bedrooms and bathroom daily, downstairs not always so often. I get a bit of a condensation issue upstairs overnight though so that's why. I prob would open them anyway but not for as long. I'm conscious of heating on and windows being open is wasteful and costly.

My bedroom has big doors and they're open all the time. All the downstairs windows are on the vent and with the sheer quantity of animals demanding to be in or out nigh-on all day, the house is very well ventilated. I need my bedroom to be Baltic so I can be cosy under the duvet, otherwise I don’t sleep well.

Every day without fail. Usually just 30mins in the morning, bedrooms only, when it's cold outside

Every day as soon as I get out of bed, turn down sheets, open windows in bathroom and bedrooms, go downstairs, open windows there, eat breakfast, do morning tasks for about forty minutes, come back upstairs to get showered and dressed closing windows as I go (bathroom last) then off to work.

Usually sleep with a bedroom window open for about 75% of the year too.

This is not why I do it, but I live in a country where opening windows daily is one of the conditions of a normal rental agreement.

Bathrooms for an hour or so after we've showered, bedrooms half an hour a day after the heat has gone off.
Downstairs when mopping floor, cooking or letting dogs out.

Re heating - I have always understood that a dry house heats up quicker. So it's cheaper and healthier to let fresh air in.

This is not why I do it, but I live in a country where opening windows daily is one of the conditions of a normal rental agreement.

That's not a bad idea.

I'm obviously very in the minority here. It would never even cross my mind to open windows every single day! Not that I have time in the morning to traipse around the whole house opening and then closing them all. Nor would want to waste money heating the house back up from the outside temperatures.

I must be extremely gross and grim. Can't work out how that must mean my house smells of sweat though, that's got me stumped.

We don't have them in our rented home. Would love to!

Vile, minging and disgusting.
HTH.

Every single day and there pretty much open all night to unless extreme cold lol would hate a stuffy house

Hardly ever. I tend to have the front door open when I'm home in the afternoons with the screen door locked so fresh air comes through then.
My mum is an open every window every morning person and it drives her nuts if she comes to pick me up and sees all my windows closed.

Bathrooms - all day every day (lock before bed).

Bedrooms - all day in Spring/Summer if dry. Autumn/Winter for a hour or so every morning.

Living room - all day on warm days - otherwise for an hour or so every morning.

Kitchen - at least a couple of hours every day (always when cooking). All day on warm days.

We don’t have windows just large holes in the wall, glass windows are vile. We sleep in ice baths and take turns to whip each other with birch

October!!! Jesus, crack them open and let some fresh air in. Mine are open everyday even if it's snowing.

I try to daily - especially my bedroom as I have an internal en-suite and I worry about mould.

But I only have three windows in my flat so it’s not much hassle.

Upstairs windows all on the latch, so open a crack but locked

Downstairs windows open on latch during day but shut at night

Can't imagine having all windows shut all the time, much prefer knowing fresh air is circulating

Every day, throughout the year, bedroom open all night. Only time they are tightly shut is in a heatwave, when I have the air conditioning on, which also cleans the air and gets rid of the heat.
I can't bear the smell of stuffy, stale air in rooms - urgh!

Every day
Usually open the teens room to let air in as they stink. Down stairs not so much.

People who have windows open all the time even in winter - are your houses freezing/ heating bills crazy?

So unhealthy not to air out your house. You risk getting mould, plus a build up of toxins from all the cleaning products, paints and fire retardents on the furniture etc.

Nearly everyday, for at least 20 mins or so in the morning.

Normally leave the back door open from the kitchen when I'm cooking too.

I think it really important to 'air' the house.

Do you have a link to these "toxins" that our furniture, walls and products are building up around us?

Our cats are large (Maine coons) and I've not found anything yet that they can't get through.

@FenghuangHoyan

www.cdc.gov/nceh/publications/books/housing/cha05.htm