when is a house cold??

mrs_baggins

ok so I know its like how long is a peice of string??? I am so convinced that my house is colder than average despite having dble glazing and cavity walls insulated. the last few nights i have been sitting here fully clothed with jacket and gloves on with a fleece over me and I have been dithering! I borrowed a digital thermometer thats regularly calibrated so fairly acurate and various rooms are 14.2 and 14.3 around this mark. No wonder I am frozen!!! think the heating is going on tonight

OddjobKIA

eat more..........

latecomer

We've had the heating on for a good few weeks now. Admittedly our house is pretty cold due to having no carpets or underlay etc at the moment but I'm going to change our on/off timings so its on for all of the evening and a couple of hours in the morning. I wouldn't sit in my own house with a jacket on, money saving or not.

bryanb

Around 20c is usually comfortable. Is the loft insulated?

OddjobKIA

latecomer wrote: »

We've had the heating on for a good few weeks now. Admittedly our house is pretty cold due to having no carpets or underlay etc at the moment but I'm going to change our on/off timings so its on for all of the evening and a couple of hours in the morning. I wouldn't sit in my own house with a jacket on, money saving or not.

hear hear...

at the end of the day we do earn aliving for some reason and surley a comfortable home is one of those reasons

Doozergirl

mrs_baggins wrote: »

ok so I know its like how long is a peice of string??? I am so convinced that my house is colder than average despite having dble glazing and cavity walls insulated. the last few nights i have been sitting here fully clothed with jacket and gloves on with a fleece over me and I have been dithering! I borrowed a digital thermometer thats regularly calibrated so fairly acurate and various rooms are 14.2 and 14.3 around this mark. No wonder I am frozen!!! think the heating is going on tonight

Unless the house is super-insulated, it will lose heat. 14 degrees without the heating on in the evening is alright because it won't be making it far above 14 degrees outside during the day.

Weather report this morning said it would be 2 degrees overnight so I think pretty much everyone needs some form of heating.

I'm trying to be a little more sensible than I used to be. We installed a solid fuel fireplace and we're burning the roof trusses from our barn so it's free! (we don't live in the barn, lol) And our bedroom is really warm in the day so I watch TV up there!

TimBuckTeeth

I do not like too much heat and find it too hot in most people's houses but 14C is fairly cold for inside a house and about the same as the outside temperature currently.
Insulation will keep heat in longer, but unless there is some form of heating (from the sun, cooking, central heating etc.) then the temperature in a house will drop to same as outside.
16C is the minimum legal temperature for a workplace.
I would put the heating on for a short time, it will not take long or cost much to raise the temperature a few degrees, and as your house sounds fairly well insulated should keep it comfortable during the evening.

mrs_baggins

latecomer wrote: »

I wouldn't sit in my own house with a jacket on, money saving or not.

this is exactly what i thought last night!! sitting there fully clothed and freezing!! I have always been a very cold (bodily!!!) person and I thought i could last longer but I am admitting defeat.

the loft is insulated but not to a huge depth i think its 4 inches but as its mainly boarded over am not going to get all the boards up to relay any more. I think most of the trouble is that downstairs is all hard flooring so think I am going to get one room carpeted to see if that helps

MartialArtMan

I'm okay now after taking the dog out for a walk but earlier I had my think socks on and a fleece. The o/h has moaned a bit about not turning the heating on (although she has been very good) but snuggling up under a blanket and/ or putting on a thicker jumper keeps us just as warm so why bother?

It occurred to me a little while ago that we (my family) will bang on the heating if we're a bit chilly walking around in our t-shirts, nightdresses, etc, but really we should just dress more appropriately like in the ole days...

economiser

There is a bit of a generation issue here I think. Whereas we oldies dress up a bit in winter and seem to manage with living rooms at a about 60F and bedrooms rarely heated at all I find younger members of our family heat their homes to tropical temperatures, run around half naked and then complain about the heating bills.

vansboy

This will be our first winter here, so don't know what we're comparing it with, but today it was really warm, as the sun was streaming through our big patio doors, all day long.

& with us having living space upstairs, we're not heating downstairs, other than leaving the bathroom door open & relying on the underfloor heating in there, to be on constantly - whether that's right thing to do or not, not too sure.

But Doozergirls open fire & free heat is an option I want to avoid, for as long as possible - hate to think of all the repainting, the smoke will make But we've certainly starated thing it'd be cheaper than that oil stuff, in the tank outside!!

So, to answer the OP, guerss I'm still pretending it's NOT TOO COLD HERE.....YET!!

VB