How warm is your home at the moment?

System

30 degrees . I like my warmth.:(

falady

Ours is about 20 degrees usually, but often I set the heating to 21. I hate being cold and wrap up warm and have a blanket on the sofa etc. I seem to need it to be warmer since I had my little girl than before - I feel the cold more for some reason.

We have a 2 year old, so need to keep it relatively warm for her. I like the bedrooms to be cooler though, though this often happens naturally as there are clothes, sheets etc drying on the radiators.

Luckily we are in a position to be able to afford to heat the house to a temperature we are comfortable with, but I realise that many people are not.

pineapple

When I used to rake out my solid fuel stove to re-light it or just while keeping it going. I used to keep the hot ash in a spare ashpan on the hearth because I didn't have anywhere to put it and didn't want to waste the heat coming off it as it cooled. What a numpty! I didn't realise at that point that those few glowing embers remaining in the ash were enough to produce significant amounts of carbon monoxide. Not enough to trigger the alarm but still not good on a regular basis.

CupOfChai

No idea, I've not measured it. Have you all got thermometers then?

I've said it elsewhere, but I really hate our heating. Makes me want to buy a house even more where we can have a combi boiler.

Pineapple I had no idea carbon monoxide would be coming off a pan of ashes either!

rising_from_the_ashes

Thermostat in the hall is set at 16 deg - heating not on so warmer than that just now.

Only have the radiators on downstairs as I hate it warm upstairs (radiators up there on frost protection) - currently have 2 windows open up there to try to get some air in the house.

I do have a thick door curtain / draft excluder at the front door and have recently added fleece blankets to the lounge curtains / patio doors which have made a huge difference to the temp in the lounge (typically the coldest room in the house:().

Quite comfortable and certainly not cold just now - I do tend to get really cold so wear lots of layers when I'm in the house (currently have thermal undies on under clothes and thick cardigan on - as well as a scarf which I have on most of the time I'm indoors as a lot of my clothes have round necks which let in a lot of cold).

The trick is to stop yourself getting too cold in the first place as it's then really hard to warm up .... move around now & then, have a cup of tea etc.

pineapple

CupOfChai wrote: »

No idea, I've not measured it. Have you all got thermometers then?

I've said it elsewhere, but I really hate our heating. Makes me want to buy a house even more where we can have a combi boiler.

Pineapple I had no idea carbon monoxide would be coming off a pan of ashes either!

Yes who'd have thought it. Just a few glowing embers in a very small pan of hot ash was enough to raise the carbon monoxide level from 0 to just under alarm point within the hour. I was getting weird health effects and it took a while to track down the cause and the source.
Re temperature I've got a cheap gadget which measures humidity and temperature. But temperature also displays on the CO detector.

tessie_bear

ours is at 14 degrees...when im home alone i wear lots of layers and keep moving and turn heating on for a few hours when the kids come home...bit like dr zivargo:cool:

lobbyludd

the house without heating is about 15 degrees at the moment during the day, this is comfortable for me and the kids if we are active (playing/light housework etc).

When not active we are snuggled under throws.

Blasting the heating on for an hour in the morning and 2 in the evening takes it up to a balmy 16-17 degrees during those periods (it's set on very low).

21 degrees is far too hot for me, it makes me feel light-headed, sleepy, nauseous and uncomfortable.

It's cold season though - and DS has viral-induced asthma, so I'll have to increase the base temperature soon to accomodate a decent air-flow (windows constantly at least a crack open) without worsening his symptoms if he comes down with anything. (cold OR dry air sets him off, but warm moist air encourages mold growth which also sets him off - so I have to aim for maximum air exchange with the outside, heating it as it comes in and letting the old, warm stuff escape ...)

System

CupOfChai wrote: »

No idea, I've not measured it. Have you all got thermometers then?

I've said it elsewhere, but I really hate our heating. Makes me want to buy a house even more where we can have a combi boiler.

Pineapple I had no idea carbon monoxide would be coming off a pan of ashes either!

No themometers in my house, just an app on my android phone.

Dunroamin

CupOfChai wrote: »

No idea, I've not measured it. Have you all got thermometers then?

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I brought ours in from outside.