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?

Everyday

I do, they're always open. But I like the rush of fresh air in through a window especially if I'm cleaning

The house gets aired then the heating goes on later on.

My house is freezing first thing in the morning. Not a chance I'm showering and getting ready for work with all the windows open.

So is mine but I like it! (Probably because of my menopausal blubber.) 😃

Every day. Doesn’t really make any difference to the heating as when it’s freezing minus temperatures outside I’m not exactly leaving them open all day.

In deep winter I set a timer so I don’t forget for just 10 mins. By the time I have opened all the windows downstairs, gone upstairs and opened all, made Ds bed etc, I go down and make a tea and timer off and I go back and close them all. On a nice day in winter some such as in living room get opened a few more times a day as it gets very hot there with south facing large windows

Try the anti burglar restrictors. If the can stop a man, they might stop a Maine coon?

• or go the whole hog and have a catio built!!

I open the bedroom and bathroom windows every day to air them.

It's no wonder so many people have mould and condensation problems if they never open their windows.

Can you not lock your windows on the latch?

Not at all. Heating is off all night and most of the day. Once rooms are aired, which can be done without me being in them if it's cold, windows get shut but trickle vents open. Trickle vents shut if cold, then heating on if that's not enough. Heating off at night and trickle vents opened again.

I'm not letting the heat out because the rooms are cold at point of airing. Yes they get even colder, but it's also fresher. The trade off is worth it.

People who don't open windows at all and who don't have natural draughts and constantly open trickle vents/external doors etc, it's not you who smells necessarily, but your house will. We all have a smell of "human body" that's personal to us, and different to traditional BO smell of the unwashed. We're all largely immune to our own smell, but others can smell it especially if it builds up in an unventilated room. Have none of you ever smelled "charity shop smell"? It's from where the clothes have been sitting around in someone's home for ages (having been washed and put away), then not rewashed prior to donating, so they smell of "people smell" and it's permeating the shop. That's what your home smells like to other people if you don't air your rooms.

I'm one of those who opens every day. I turn my thermostat down to 13° before doing it (don't want the heating clicking on and I'm a canny Scot!)

When the windows are closed and no heating is on our house is about 17.5°. I don't like hearing it above 19°. Central heating makes me sneeze. Dry air is cheaper to heat than damp air.

I don't like the stale air when we don't open the windows. I love fresh air.

We only use gas for heating and hot water (not the shower - that's electric) our most recent gas bill from 7 Jan to 6 Feb was £84. Most expensive we've ever had!

Same here, and bedroom windows open a few inches at night bo matter how cold.

About every other day for 30 minutes although a bit longer if it’s not too cold. I do it before I turn on the heating usually.

Will increase to opening every day in spring, I suffer from hayfever so the windows will be mostly closed from June to August, plus I hate all the summer bugs that get in especially moths in the evening !

I really can’t understand sleeping with the window open in the middle of winter but each to their own 😂

Never! Literally never.

Rarely in the winter. My bedroom window was open once last week I think. I’ve got more than twenty windows, there’s no way I’m opening them in the winter/for the sake of it.

People who don't open windows at all and who don't have natural draughts and constantly open trickle vents/external doors etc, it's not you who smells necessarily, but your house will. We all have a smell of "human body" that's personal to us, and different to traditional BO smell of the unwashed. We're all largely immune to our own smell, but others can smell it especially if it builds up in an unventilated room. Have none of you ever smelled "charity shop smell"? It's from where the clothes have been sitting around in someone's home for ages (having been washed and put away), then not rewashed prior to donating, so they smell of "people smell" and it's permeating the shop. That's what your home smells like to other people if you don't air your rooms.

This is bollocks.

Hardly ever through winter, except for my sons room as he likes his room to be cool.

We often have some of the doors at the back of the house open for the dogs to come in and out though.

All windows wide open for 20 mins daily to air the house.