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How warm is your house?

53 replies

schroeder · 08/01/2010 18:58

Just nosiness, but I noticed today on teletext that we are recommended to have our homes at between 18c and 21c. So if you have a central heating thermostat thingie what temp do you set it too?

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MadameMoe · 08/01/2010 19:01

Usually 15-17 in the day and 17-19 in the evenings. DD is 2.2 and DS 7 months, it's fine for us.

LIZS · 08/01/2010 19:01

No central thermostat here but most rads have individual ones. Rooms varying from about 16 to 22o today

frogetyfrog · 08/01/2010 19:02

Freezing. Thermostat set to 25! But its still bloody cold. I hate a cold house - went to a friends yesterday and it was sooo cold.

MadameMoe · 08/01/2010 19:04

I turn the heating up to 18 or 19 when people come round during the day, they still seem to think it's a bit chilly

Cybils · 08/01/2010 19:04

Not warm in the slightest. hence the quilted body warmer and cashmere I am wearing round the clock

Cybils · 08/01/2010 19:05

cashmere SCARF, I dont own anything else cashmere

YouLukaAmazing · 08/01/2010 19:06

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EVye · 08/01/2010 19:07

thermostat is 20 but often rooms upstairs are cooler.

Wastwinsetandpearls · 08/01/2010 19:08

between 8 and 10 degrees, we are about to get the fire going

watfordmummy · 08/01/2010 19:10

whole house is toasty, thermostat is about 22, but would kick up to30 to get house really warm.

Wheelybug · 08/01/2010 19:19

Our living room was 13 degrees the other day and the only way to get it up to 19 (on the radiator end only !) is to have heating on 24 hours. Which we have been doing since about tuesday as DD2 (9 months) is ill with bronchiolitis so needs to be kept warm !

Am not thinking about the bill (well I'm trying not to !).

cece · 08/01/2010 19:27

Our house is toasty. Currently got heating on 24 hrs a day. 18 degrees on thermastat daytime - but feels warmer. 14 degrees at night to keep the chill off when I am up feeding in the middle of night.

Also have log fire lit in living room.

satc2bringiton · 08/01/2010 19:28

Were on 20 and it's fine.

nickytwotimes · 08/01/2010 19:31

We have storage heating.

It is about 17 in the hall, 20 in the living room and dining room, 16 in the bedrooms. Very comfortable, especially after 4 yrs in our old house which despite being centrally heated was FREEZING.

SparrowFflamau · 08/01/2010 19:32

The thermostat temp all depends on the room it is in etc though - my mums has to be at about 25 to get the house properly warm, but ours is only about 17

MiniMarmite · 08/01/2010 19:35

thermostat is on 18 during the day and about 15 at night in this weather (we switch it off completely when it is warmer than about 4*C outside).

coldtits · 08/01/2010 19:35

Thermostat has to stay below 18 or the upstairs gets stifling

RatherBeOnThePiste · 08/01/2010 19:37

feels ffffrizzzzing but ids actually about 19

the rooms at the back of our house are much colder

Jajas · 08/01/2010 19:38

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hobnob57 · 08/01/2010 19:39

ours is set at 18. Except when it is this cold the frost thermostat in the garage seems to put the heating on 100% constant so we are sweltering and have no control over it. Flippin' new-builds .

Dreading our next gas bill

StarExpat · 08/01/2010 19:42

I have no idea what the temp is. But it's very very warm. DS is 15 months and likes it warm, as do I . We're still in a 1 bed maisonette so not too much space to heat. The stairs are a bit chilly, but the rooms are all toasty. I just adjust the radiator dials to make it warmer if it feels cold.
And recently started turning heating off (on the programme timer) between 10.30pm-3.30am so it's warm when we go to bed and warm already for when we wake up. I cannot deal with a cold house!!

AnInginAneAnA · 08/01/2010 19:42

No heating in the bathroom or kitchen, so temperature in those rooms can be well below 7 degrees in winter, there is ice inside the press in my kitchen atm, great for chilling wine, beer etc.

bunnymother · 08/01/2010 19:43

Ours is set at 22C day and night. Then on weekends DH cranks it to 24C and turns on the fire (that's too much, even for me)!! You can imagine our bill... Plus my skin is rhino dry. But we hate being cold, its just misery.

overmydeadbody · 08/01/2010 19:45

Thermostat's set at 18 and heating's on in the morning and when we get home from work till ten pm.

Pretty constant warm temp.

MrsFlittersnoop · 08/01/2010 19:54

Gas central heating is on 24/7. Temperature in our living room is 13 with supplementary 2KW oil-filled radiator on all day. Our bedroom is 10, DS's bedroom (no central heating on top floor - just oil-filled radiator at night) is currently 7. Hallway is 4.