How warm is your lounge?

applepad

I ask this as its 3.30pm and my lounge is 17' and I have a hot cuppa and a fleece blanket to keep me warm.
I try not to put my central heating on until 7pm, will be spending some time in the kitchen later making tea, so it will be warmer in there.
Heard something this am on tv that it's going to be a wet,windy and very cold winter!
I have Lupus and Raynards so the cold weather does not like me.

My question is how warm is your lounge during the day?

I did read something the other day about turning your boiler right down and keeping it on all day, rather than for a few hours at night. B

good_advice

Just looked especially for you. It is 17.7C.

Our CH comes on for awhile early morning and again 5,30 - 8.30pm.
It has rained all day here in Hampshire.
I feel ok but if I was very cold I would get out my fingerless gloves and my hot water bottle. Override the CH.

Evil_Olive

My whole flat has been hovering around 17/18/19 degrees the last few days (I have a portable CH thermostat)
Haven't turned the CH on properly yet as I only set it at 18 degrees anyway. Have just had it on timer for an hour in the very early mornings when poor ol' husband gets up for work as it's been more like 14/15 degrees at 5am and I feel sorry for him

jk0

21.5 degrees thanks to storage heaters. I put them in ten years ago in addition to the central heating, as this house was always perishing until 10am even with the heating on.

They are now a lot pricier to run, however I still use them as they reduce wear & tear on the boiler.

abankerbutnotafatcat

18 or 19c at the moment and I'm sat with a woolly hat and gloves on brrrhhh. I try not to put the heating on whilst I'm alone in the house so instead go for brisk walks and drink hot drinks.
People feel the cold differently and I'm just a cold person!
BTW I'm interested to read it's been raining all day in Hampshire (which part?) It's been a beautiful sunny day in East Surrey.

jackyann

Thermostat set at 18 degrees, but we have a mechanical heat recovery pump and the actual temp is 20 degrees, so heating won't come on.

The question about keeping a low heat permanently or putting heating on as needed is a perennial. I have heated all kinds of homes in my time from old houses & flats with no central heating to my current blissful modern, EPC "A" house.
These are my observations:

Who are you heating for and at what times?
I have had to heat for a fit young couple out at work all day / working shifts and at home full time; frail / ill / elderly; children from birth up etc.

Where do you need to heat?

What type of heating / fuel?

If central heating, individual or one thermostat, and where?

The layout of your house / air currents / natural pathways of hot air rising etc.

And the biggest of all: what is your house made of, what insulation do you have & can you improve it?

Ideal:

Excellent insulation, individual thermostats. You can leave the heating on permanently, or set the timer, depending on who is in and when.
Worth remembering that it can be better to set the timer so the house is warm when you get in or get up, then switch off, if well insulated you will remain warm for some hours.

Many years ago, when 2 of us were working irregular shifts, in a house of single brick construction + one open fire; we found it was best to make up the fire twice a day with slow burning coke.

Once, with a new baby and a frail relative, in a modern house with OK insulation and heating system down; I put a calor gas heater in the hall, to make the most of air currents, and we kept very warm.

It is trial and error for you, your family and your dwelling.

PlymouthMaid

It is around 17 today as I have just come home and that was the temperature before I turned the heating on for a couple of hours. On my day off and the weekend I have to sit under my heated throw if not actually galloping around doing housework as I feel really chilly when it under 19C and can't put heating on for more than 2-3 hours a day.

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yesterday I set up new de longhi heaters with timers and thermostats, lounge is set on 20 and the actual lounge temperature is 21, hall is set on 18 and I have ordered another one for upstairs, which will also be set on 18. The house is ultra well insulated though as it is an eco house, so will not cost a lot. Ch is run from a pellet stove, which needs refilling after buying, moving the bags and storing, so I am pretty well thinking ahead now as I won`t want to be shifting a tonne in a few years. The hall is the centre of the house so it will keep the structure warm

The stove glow has been replaced by a nice candle in a special lantern on top of the stove and it looks really good and very cosy

21 and 18 are the recommended temperatures

good_advice

i truly think how hot you have your home is the heat you have got use to.
Someone i know has there home at 24C day and night. Open a window gets them reaching for a blanket.

I find the heating is very drying on the skin.

carlislelass

I find anything over 20 uncomfortable, DIL has their`s like a sauna!!!!

jk0

Most of my tenants have theirs at 30 degrees year round, and then have the cheek to complain about their bills.