Central heating.

[warmsummersday]

Hi. My DP is being a pain and saying I have to stop using the heating so much. It takes so long to heat up to 20 degrees (which I think is normal temp.) Normally the house is at 17 or 18 degrees. Heating as been on for 3 hours this morning and it's still 18 degrees. We have a fairly big old house with crap windows and he keeps telling me we can't afford new ones.

What sort of temp do people keep their houses at and does anyone else have this problem?

i keep mine around 18.5/19, but we have recently had double glazing so the heating only comes on about twice a day for not very long.

We keep our heating on all the time. We have the thermostat set between 17 and 20C, and adjust it ourselves when we need to. There's a very fine line between too hot and too cold in our house.

DP told me it is too expensive to have it on constant but at a low tepm so I did it over xmas and there wasn't really much difference in the bills from the year before turning it on and off and having it on all the time.

Scorpio, has the double glazing made a difference? OH doesn't seem to think it will make a difference as the insulation isn't very good.

Last year I had my heating on constant but low. My gas bill was lower for that winter.

is it possible to have a big old house and be warm? nope. don't think so.

it has; the heating is on less and stays warmer longer. We live in a house built in the 50's.

My parents have a big old house with no double glazing and they have heating on alot too; they did have underfloor heating put in downstairs and has made some difference.

I have mine on 20 in the morning and around this time it starts to get quite warm, if I turned it down though the temperature would drop very quickly.
I tend to keep it on around 20 all day and by 8.00pm its baking in here and then I turn it off.

We used to keep ours on all day at about 18 but when we changed our immersion heater (was a pressurised one?) that wasn't warm enough so it tends to be left on about 21 now. If we aren't here during the day it's enough to come on for an hour and go off but the temperature drops quite drastically so when we are here I keep it on.

Problem we have is the thermostst is in the living room so we are sweating buckets in a sauna in there while the rest of the house is like an icebox.

We had new windows and doors and they made a huge difference.

We keep the house at about 17, you just get used to it really fast. We had put an extra radiator in ds' bedroom to keep it warmer but at 19 we found it unbearably stuffy so had to turn it down.