Room temperatures

pothole50 · 5 December 2011 at 6:23PM

I dont have central heating, with us its all about balancing the temps of the heaters so that the chill factors is not too bad from one room to another, I am sitting in the lounge with the gas fire on, the temp on the digital therm is 17 but it feels warm enough the door is closed to the stairs where a small 750w panel heater just takes the chill off when the door is opened, when going up to the bedrooms which are not heated not cold enough yet. The doors to the lounge /kitchen/bathroom and toilet are all open, with the Dimplex 3KW Eco heater set to 17 keeps the temps constant, nice heater starts at 3kw if the temp is 14 or below kicks out lots of heat to quickly heat the room, 15 drops down to 2kw 16 drops down to 1kw and 17 off then ticks over at 1kw if temp drops to 16. Best gadget bought was the Ebac dehumidifier, my wife would have the oven on to cook, then open the windows to let out the steam and clear the condensation created by the gas and cooking from the windows, now she leaves them closed keeping in all that lovely heat.
Lived in the house 30 years the wall is solid brick no cavity and like the previous posters in the summer is always cooler than outside, 12 degree's seems to be the norm when its the same temp outside as inside just looked at the temp in the bedroom its 10 and outside its 3 which is about right for this time of year usually a 7 degree difference, but when you can remember growing up with ice forming on the inside of the bedroom windows 10 degree is warm!!!

HappyMJ · 5 December 2011 at 6:23PM

rogerblack wrote: »

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.

So why don't you use it? 300W what's that 3p per hour to bring the temperature up from 5 to 15. That's quite cheap and you'll be much warmer. If you used it 8 hours a day then it's only about £7.50 per month. I think everyone can afford that for better health.

StephenM_2 · 6 December 2011 at 12:21AM

22 degrees here. Slightly warm for me, but my wife's health is not at all good so she needs it warm.

rogerblack · 6 December 2011 at 1:22AM

HappyMJ wrote: »

So why don't you use it? 300W what's that 3p per hour to bring the temperature up from 5 to 15. That's quite cheap and you'll be much warmer. If you used it 8 hours a day then it's only about £7.50 per month. I think everyone can afford that for better health.

300W - if it was finished.
It's not - I've got to pull the plasterboard back away from the walls where they are just propped up to check fit, fill all the chinks in the insulation, fit the vapour barrier, fit the plasterboard back, make sure all the insulation is firmly attatched to the ceiling, board out the ceiling, while keeping the vapour barrier intact over it, and not dropping any sheets of plasterboard, finish the plasterboarding on the other couple of walls, then punch out a ventilation hole for an air exchanger.

I note at the moment that I'm having absolutely no difficulty breathing, and am lovely and warm.
If I happened to get the flu, or some sort of cold, then I'd move in there even before this was all done.

But my health unfortunately sharply limits the amount of energy I have for DIY - even important stuff like the above, so it's not going to be finished this week.

oldskoo1 · 6 December 2011 at 10:09AM

Mine is set to 16C in the hall but thermometer shows 18C in the bedrooms which is our target.

We use the gas fire to produce lots of heat.

VfM4meplse · 6 December 2011 at 10:21AM

I don't agree with not being able to move around your own home with comfort because you refuse to heat every room. If it doesn't make sense to heat every room, your property is just too big for you!

HappyMJ · 6 December 2011 at 12:17PM

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I don't agree with not being able to move around your own home with comfort because you refuse to heat every room. If it doesn't make sense to heat every room, your property is just too big for you!

I agree with it....Why waste money heating the bedroom during the day when it isn't in use and why waste money heating the lounge at night when I'm in the bedroom? Why waste money heating the bathroom all the time when turning on the heater on entering is so much cheaper? Why waste money heating the kitchen at all when it's only in use for half an hour a day maximum. I'd rather save the money and only heat the room I am in. Then again I use electric heating it's much easier to see how much is being used. Last 7 days = 73kWh.

Cambridge32 · 6 December 2011 at 5:02PM

Our house 'stat is set at 19C. Owing to the appalling and thoughtless radiator sizing choices by the landlord, the lounge/diner is overspec'd by 150% and the bedrooms are underspec'd by a substantial amount.
When I am at home on my own I keep the lounge/diner at 15-17C (bedrooms at ~13C), but when my partner is at home we go for 18-19C (lounge/diner). Even with the heating on full for a substantial period of time, the bedrooms will never be warmer than 16C in the winter.

Swipe · 6 December 2011 at 5:19PM

16C is perfect for a bedroom

pinkteapot · 6 December 2011 at 5:24PM

Our thermostat is in the lounge. Trouble with this is, on winter evenings we close the doors to the lounge and have the fire on to make it really warm and cosy. As a result, the heating doesn't click on and when we go upstairs to bed it's bl&&dy cold in the bedroom!