do you agree on the temperature of the home?

bylromarha

We disagree.

he turns it up, I turn it down.

It's the farce we carry out every year!

venus1978

Gemsgalore wrote: »

Couldn't live with the heating on only in the morning and evening for couple of hours, whether I was home or not ......the house would be freezing!! My heating is on continually from 5am till 10pm every day. I like the house warm and comfortable enough to only wear a jumper. We have the temp at roughly 23 during the day and let it drop from 10pm onwards (heating off).

I have to say though our house holds the heat really well. Loads of insulation.

bigheadxx

What about in the car?

In the summer OH has to have a/c on full for the whole journey. When it is cold she has to wear a coat zipped to the top and have the heaters on full blast. Are women less able to regulate their body temperature?

seven-day-weekend

Our house in Spain has no central heating and being an old traditional village house, no insulation either.

As it is halfway up a mountain it is like a refrigerator in the winter.

We both agree it is bl0%dy freezing!

We have a variety of heaters including a woodburner and, like the Spanish, only heat the rooom we are in and no heating at night unless the woodburner is still going.

We have jumpers, duvets, electric blankets, fleecy blankets and bodywarmers to keep warm.

My house in the UK has gas central heating. Bliss! We usually agree on when to put that on as well, 17-19 degrees usually

juno

My daddy keeps turning the heating on full and opening all the windows

Except he wouldn't open the ones in my end of the house, so I'd come home to a partially cooked parrot.

Shame I'm vegetarian.

Souk08

I live alone, don't have a thermostat but my flat is warm and my friends houses are all freezing. I have stopped caring what they think and started taking a hot water bottle and slippers when I stay over!

babyshoes

We had a few arguments when we first moved in together - I would have it on 20-21 and put it up if I felt cold, she would like it on about 18, we have compromised and slowly lowered it to 19.5 when we are home and awake, and 17 when we are alseep or out at work. (funky thermostat the landlord put in can do half degrees! yay!) I would let it go colder during the day, but I worry about our spoiled furry babies! (Though as other posters have said, they do have fur...) I also find it takes too long to warm up when I get home if it goes much lower than 17. I am now used to that sort of temperature and can just put on an extra jumper/fleece/throw/slippers etc if I feel cold. At night, I find I am usually ok once I warm up enough, she is warm quite quickly and sleeps with her feet out the bottom of the duvet!

I am sure if I had grown up here I would be comfortable with a slightly lower temp like many of you, but I grew up in a part of Africa where it seldom gets down into single figures, and even then only on the coldest night of the year - almost never single figures during the day! You can imagine the first few years were quite a shock, especially snow

sharloid

Our house is currently at... 10 degrees. I'm sat here with jamas, a fleece and a blanket and it's freezing! I'd rather wear layers than have to fork out more on gas though. As for the original question, we don't argue about the heating at all! We'd both rather be cold with extra cash. :P

looby-loo_2

tanith wrote: »

We are hardly ever in tune...:rotfl:I hate the weekends as OH has the heat on all day and evening . We do have it off at night but if he's in the house he wants the heat on.. I am home all day and generally manage with it off for most of the day ( I am rarely parked in one seat with the tv on, I potter all day) or if its really parky on 15* but before he comes in I put it up to 17* then its whacked up to 20* cos "its bladdy freezing in here", so no we don't agree on the heating...

I am dreading him retiring for this reason only , even now at the weekend I have to go out for a walk cos the house is too hot and don't even get me started on why I need the windows open for a couple of hours in the mornings :eek: its like a comedy act , I open , he shuts , I open , he shuts... :rotfl:Its a good job we can laugh about it...

I could have written this post. I always manage in the day because I'm busy pottering.

I did have a bit of luck. We had a new thermostate. I set all the times which took ages and was a really complicated and difficult job;), so difficult and complicated that the settings must never ever be altered again;). Unfortunately the instruction book is lost and the plumber would charge a fortune to come and show us again;) so he dare not touch it. He can only turn it up and down - but has not worked out how to alter automatic times.

I dreaded him retiring too. That was 2 years ago and I know the heating is on all day - even when he goes out, even though I've shown him up and down.

ailuro2

I have slowly over the years weaned myself down from 22 or over to 19.4 celcius. DH has always been just a bit warmer than me,but not much. I like it cooler than him at night-time.

So, when we're awake it's 19.4, when we're asleep it's 16. We live on a hill so if it's really windy the temp gets put up a bit as the wind seems to suck the heat out of the house.