Room temperatures

moonrakerz

Dreamnine wrote: »

their cat appeared to be in a permanent coma.

.............must be related to my moggy !

Pincher

I'm quite happy with 15 degrees myself, but there are other people in the house. There was this Italian woman who had no body fat who wanted to turn the thermostat to maximum and considers 25 a compromise!

Eco_Miser

The thermometer a yard away is reading 11.2°C, and I'm so warm my fleece is unzipped. My GCH isn't even turned on (it has been when I felt cold - that's about 8°). I'm 59¾, should I be feeling the cold?

richardc1983

Eco_Miser wrote: »

The thermometer a yard away is reading 11.2°C, and I'm so warm my fleece is unzipped. My GCH isn't even turned on (it has been when I felt cold - that's about 8°). I'm 59¾, should I be feeling the cold?

My god that is freezing, when its 18C in the flat its too cold to get out of bed!

penrhyn

I think you stop feeling cold when hypothermia sets in.:D

pineapple

Cardew wrote: »

In summer - even the British summer - you do of course get a big thermal effect in the house from the sun during the day, and the house loses that heat slowly at night because it is not cold outside.

It seems the right time of year to resurrect this thread! Just to say the above is not necessarily so. My house is an old stone cottage with very thick (rubble filled) walls. The result is that it doesn't have extremes of temperature in the winter and summer. Indeed it can be chilly on an summers evening and sometimes in the summer - it seems warmer outside! Anyhow having just found that 21 degrees is the recommended lounge temperature I need to get a thermometer to check things out. We don't all have temperature controls on our heating and some of us use solid fuel stoves/fires more than central heating.

HappyMJ

pineapple wrote: »

It seems the right time of year to resurrect this thread! Just to say the above is not necessarily so. My house is an old stone cottage with very thick (rubble filled) walls. The result is that it doesn't have extremes of temperature in the winter and summer. Indeed it can be chilly on an summers evening and sometimes in the summer - it seems warmer outside! Anyhow having just found that 21 degrees is the recommended lounge temperature I need to get a thermometer to check things out. We don't all have temperature controls on our heating and some of us use solid fuel stoves/fires more than central heating.

Nor does my new build extremely well insulated house. As you say you can walk outside on a summers day/evening and it's much warmer outside than in. That's what insulation is there for. I personally can't stand 21 degrees it's too hot. I have a stand alone digital thermometer not connected to the heating system it's about 3-4 foot off the ground on a desk or a shelf and I'm warm at 18 degrees. Bedroom is nice at 15 and it feels cold at 11 or under.

Swipe

18C is perfectly warm enough for me too with a thick jumper on. If my feet are still cold I'll put an extra pair of socks on.

rogerblack

At the moment, in here it's 5C.
I'm on the sofa under a blanket, with a keyboard under the blanket.

I'm working on insulating the house, but it's truly massive job.
As an interim measure, I've done one room 90%, with the floor ripped up, and insulated under, all the floors/ceiling/walls insulated (5-10cm board insulation), with vapour barrier on top, and plasterboard.
Add a small heat recovery ventilator, and I can heat that to 15-18C or so for 300W or so.

richardc1983

5c not good for your health!