Room temperatures

BallandChain

What is the temperature in side WickedKitten? Our hall thermostat reads 19.5 and no heating on.

Cardew, I am amazed at the amount of people who say they can survive temperatures of below 15 degrees. It must be positively arctic in those conditions.

One place I lived in had storage heaters which were absolute rubbish at keeping us warm. I had one of those paper thermometers from Southern Electric and the gauge was on 18 degrees and next to that it said comfortable! 18 degrees and comfortable? I think not! This was in the sitting room! Now they are recommending 21 degrees for a sitting room. Can they make their minds up?

Kavanne

I kept the heating on 21 degrees last winter.. I ended up £200 in debt with the gas board!!

I've worked out how to use the thermostat timer and set it to 19 this winter!!!

Also we are going away for a full week over xmas so that should help. What temp should I leave the thermostat on whilst we are away? 16? 14?

Cardew

Kavanne wrote: »

I kept the heating on 21 degrees last winter.. I ended up £200 in debt with the gas board!!

I've worked out how to use the thermostat timer and set it to 19 this winter!!!

Also we are going away for a full week over xmas so that should help. What temp should I leave the thermostat on whilst we are away? 16? 14?

All you should be concened about is freezing pipes so setting it to 10C, or even lower, won't hurt.

Cardew

The point cannot be over-emphasised - the setting on your wall thermostat is not always an indication of the temperature in your living room.

Red_Cat

Cardew wrote: »

The point cannot be over-emphasised - the setting on your wall thermostat is not always an indication of the temperature in your living room.

Most houses have a thermostat anywhere but the living room, so there is a disjoint between thermostat desired temp setting and actual temp in the sitting room.
If I left the thermostat on 20degC in my house, my living room would be more like 24degC.

Cardew

Red_Cat wrote: »

Most houses have a thermostat anywhere but the living room, so there is a disjoint between thermostat desired temp setting and actual temp in the sitting room.
If I left the thermostat on 20degC in my house, my living room would be more like 24degC.

Apart from that, even if they are in the living room they are not exactly a precision instrument.

The siting, even in a living room can be crucial, in a draught - on a cold wall away from a radiator etc can lead to the 'living area' of the room being much higher.

I have a small LCD thermometer and moving it to different positions in an large room can give completely different readings.

brighthair

I keep everywhere else fairly warm - apart from my bedroom. I have a temp thing in there and it's reading 14c at the moment, usually drops to about 12c in the middle of the night. I do however have 2 x 13.5 tog duvets and a blanket on my bed!!

Wickedkitten

BallandChain wrote: »

What is the temperature in side WickedKitten? Our hall thermostat reads 19.5 and no heating on.

Cardew, I am amazed at the amount of people who say they can survive temperatures of below 15 degrees. It must be positively arctic in those conditions.

One place I lived in had storage heaters which were absolute rubbish at keeping us warm. I had one of those paper thermometers from Southern Electric and the gauge was on 18 degrees and next to that it said comfortable! 18 degrees and comfortable? I think not! This was in the sitting room! Now they are recommending 21 degrees for a sitting room. Can they make their minds up?

I have no idea, we have storage heaters and no thermostat. It is pretty warm though. Our house is 34 years old and fully double glazed with cavity wall insulation so we aren't freezing at any rate. If we were still in our house up north that was built in the 1850's we would have put on the heating a long long time ago. It's not really that cold in the Sw at the moment either which helps.

Wickedkitten

Red_Cat wrote: »

Most houses have a thermostat anywhere but the living room, so there is a disjoint between thermostat desired temp setting and actual temp in the sitting room.
If I left the thermostat on 20degC in my house, my living room would be more like 24degC.

Aye, our living room is the warmest room in the house. The only outside windows are double glazed patio doors which lead into the conservatory, it gets so warm with the sun hitting the roof of that and then leeching the heat into the living room, that even in November we used to keep the doors open.

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I saved lots of money on heating simply by having a portable wireless thermostat fitted. I only got the basic one ie temperature wanted, ambient temperature and a frost setting. We keep it in the lounge and we at 60+ find it just right at 20. We are very comfortable but we do dress according to the weather, the normal one layer plus undies and that can be vests, warm tights, warm socks etc

All the radiator valves are set on what felt right for each room but it did take trial and error so all the rooms are now in proportion to the wireless thermostat. the en suite radiator is full on and the bedroom rad is off but I keep the en suite door closed because we like the bedroom cool and we do have a top quality goose down duvet and flannel sheets so are very snug all night. However we can open the en suite door if we want some more warmth at any time

I feel `smug` I suppose because we have spare money in scottish power and we can afford to have the heating on much higher if needed. As it is now, it is on from 6 am to 11 pm. The sun also helps because it floods into our bedroom, lounge and kitchen and having k glass, it warms the house without the boiler having to kick in. Having the thermostat as it is plus the heating control on all day is just like having a safety net feeder tank, feeding bits of heat when called for by the thermostat