Room temperatures

MillicentBystander

Did I read earlier in the thread that less than 20c means danger of death?? !!!!!!?? Stupid 'experts'. The fact is we have all, 'experts' incluided, got so used to central heating that we have turned into a nesh nation. If it was totally up to me our main living room would be 18c and no more but I have an afore-mentioned nesh wife and 2 nesh kids so we compromise and have it at 19c. This reading is from my weather station, btw, not a thermostat. The days of cranking up the heating and walking round in shorts and t shirts have long gone.

Swipe

The strange thing about the whole room temperature issue is people are more than happy to sit in a T shirt at 18C in summer but feel the strange need to crank the temp up to over 20C in winter.

shegar

I have the heating set at 22 degrees, but I always wear a fleece or jumper at that temp......my bedroom is cold cos I like it stone cold with the window open and dont have the radiator on in that room, the electric blanket goes on 1 hour before bed time, but thats for my disabled hubby, its a single electric blanket just on his side........

HappyMJ

shegar wrote: »

I have the heating set at 22 degrees, but I always wear a fleece or jumper at that temp......my bedroom is cold cos I like it stone cold with the window open and dont have the radiator on in that room, the electric blanket goes on 1 hour before bed time, but thats for my disabled hubby, its a single electric blanket just on his side........

It's not 22 then. The temperature if it was 22 would be quite warm. Do you go out in summer in a fleece and/or a jumper when the temperature is 22 out? Get a thermometer and put it somewhere near you and see what that reads rather than rely on the thermostat.

I personally think a lot of these thermostats purposely over read to give you a false reading thinking it's warmer than it actually is when it might actually only be 19 or 20 in the room that you are sitting in.

Babies rooms should only ever be between 16 and 20 degrees ideally 18 degrees and that's advice from the NHS. As they sleep most of the time most of the house should be around 18. Why should adults be warmer as we are stronger than a baby? Aren't we? (excluding sick and elderly)

shegar

HappyMJ wrote: »

It's not 22 then. The temperature if it was 22 would be quite warm. Do you go out in summer in a fleece and/or a jumper when the temperature is 22 out? Get a thermometer and put it somewhere near you and see what that reads rather than rely on the thermostat.

I personally think a lot of these thermostats purposely over read to give you a false reading thinking it's warmer than it actually is when it might actually only be 19 or 20 in the room that you are sitting in.

Babies rooms should only ever be between 16 and 20 degrees ideally 18 degrees and that's advice from the NHS. As they sleep most of the time most of the house should be around 18. Why should adults be warmer as we are stronger than a baby? Aren't we? (excluding sick and elderly)

Yes I do wear a thin micro fleeces in the summer, im very rarely in tea shirts in summer,I wear long sleeve shirts or blouses,and while we are on the clothing subject I never wear shorts either.........But thats me..!

Yes maybe my thermostat is out , ive also got a thermometre in the hall , and they both read the same temp...........Also I dont know why we should be warmer than babies, but I cant see why a thermostat would give anyone a false reading..?...no purpose in that ..........Keep warm everyone...

VfM4meplse

Swipe wrote: »

16C is perfect for a bedroom

Your bedroom obviously sees some action!

penrhyn

Could that be the Australian actor Huge Action?:D

Cambridge32

shegar wrote: »

Yes I do wear a thin micro fleeces in the summer, .

I have a female friend who is like this. She really feels the cold and all summer she will wear jumpers until she goes on holiday to somewhere scorchingly hot (35C+), whereupon she will finally wear shorts and t-shirt.

In the winter her house 'stat is set ridiculously high (>23C) and she and her partner pay a fortune for their gas+electric (approx. 3x the amount that I pay). Last summer I was outside helping her partner do some gardening (it was about 21C and we were half-naked to keep cool) and she was shut in the lounge with the gas fire on!

shegar

Cambridge32 wrote: »

I have a female friend who is like this. She really feels the cold and all summer she will wear jumpers until she goes on holiday to somewhere scorchingly hot (35C+), whereupon she will finally wear shorts and t-shirt.

In the winter her house 'stat is set ridiculously high (>23C) and she and her partner pay a fortune for their gas+electric (approx. 3x the amount that I pay). Last summer I was outside helping her partner do some gardening (it was about 21C and we were half-naked to keep cool) and she was shut in the lounge with the gas fire on!

Ha ha yea sounds a bit like me, mind you I dont have the heating on in the summer and my windows and back door are constantly open then, Imust admit I dont like the temp going under 21 degrees during the day in the winter, and guess what?, thats the only time I wear shorts is when im abroad , but I dont think that 23 degrees is "ridiculously" high.!!, id call heating at 25 plus is high.......to me 21 degrees is a comfortable heat with a very thin fleece on or as one of mine is called (micro).........A heating engineer told me years back that 20 degrees is a heat that is okay if your doing work in the house , but a lot of people need it at 23 when just sitting.......as I say each to their own .....................................

Ive got a well insulated, DG.2 enclosed porches,keep draughts out and the home that holds the heat well, my GCH is excellent , last years yearly statement for gas alone came out at £467........
I do expect that to rise quite a lot this year due to all the fuel price rises , but heating is our top priority, im a miserable git if im cold...!!