What temperature do you keep your house?

EssexExile

The numbers don't mean much. If I put my thermostat one side of the room I'm comfy with it set to 19°, move it to the other side & it needs to be at 21°. Meanwhile the thermometer in the kitchen says it's 25° but it feels the same to me. Upstairs is cooler.

hc25036

19C when we are home, 9C overnight and when we are out.

Gloomendoom

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

We keep 21degrees all the time on thermostat there is a baby in the house. I was thinking to decrease the temperature for the night but my partner says is cold.

21 is a bit warm for a baby.

elsien

Plus other factors which affect the decision such as a hypothermic dog being a pain in the !!!! because he's cold.

Silvertabby

About 19c - until I have a hot flush and threaten to throw open all the windows.

no1catman

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

We keep 21degrees all the time on thermostat there is a baby in the house. I was thinking to decrease the temperature for the night but my partner says is cold.

What you have it at 21c degrees day & night!? Even when you're tucked up in bed! I hate to see your utility bills.
I think my default temperature at night is something like 12.5 or 14.5 degrees, but when I check the temperature in the mornings it's more like 17.00, or if it's very cold outside maybe 15.5.
When, we were having double glazing done several weeks ago with windows out it went down to 11 degrees!

rach_k

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

We keep 21degrees all the time on thermostat there is a baby in the house. I was thinking to decrease the temperature for the night but my partner says is cold.

I would have thought 21 degrees is a bit on the warm side for a baby sleeping in a sleepsuit and vest plus blanket but probably about right if only in a vest. There's no minimum temp you need to keep the house for a baby as long as they're dressed right, but remember that too warm is more dangerous than too cool.

A good general rule of thumb is to put one more layer on the baby than you're wearing yourself e.g. if you're in leggings and a t-shirt, put them in a vest and sleepsuit. If you're in a t-shirt, jumper and trousers, put them in a vest, t-shirt, jumper and warm trousers, or the same as you plus a blanket.

We have the house at 21 degrees during the day (19-20 degrees if I'm doing housework!) and 18.5 degrees overnight. My kids are in school now but we did the same when they were babies.

moneyistooshorttomention

I keep my house at 21C during day/evening. At night the thermostat is set to switch back on again at a rather lower temperature (never applies).

I find that the house temperature has usually sunk to around 18.5C overnight if I'm awake to notice the temperature at "turn on time" each morning.

If there's a health reason to have the house at a specific temperature - then it's probably as well to have a thermometer or two around the house to check. On the other hand Age Concern has giveaway cardboard temperature things that are a rough sort of thermostat. The gauge on it gives the rough temperature. I've just realised how quick-acting that gauge is too - as I've just put one I have in front of the computer and it promptly went up from 21C to 24C.

I would imagine all of Age Concern/Age UK does these cardboard gauge things? Mine is from the ageCymru part of the organisation - so I guess the rest of it does so too?

It's graded as:
9C - Risk of hypothermia. Turn the heating up
12C - Too cold. increased risk of heart attack and stroke
15C - Chilly - risk of respiratory illness
18C - 21C - comfortable house temperature
24C - 27C - too hot. Reduce the temperature.

shortcrust

I love talking about heating! Don't know why.:o

The highest I put my heating up to is 18c. I'm quite comfortable at that with a jumper. I'll sometimes keep it at 16c if I'm around during the day but in and out. Otherwise when I'm out of the house or asleep it's off completely.

I've also got a wood burner which I use occasionally when I want things to be toasty warm in the living room.

When I was a kid if my parents let the heating drop below 20c I used to strop around the house saying things like 'why should I put more clothes on?!' and 'this is like living in eastern europe!'. God what a brat.

Frogletina

I keep mine at 23c - any lower than that and I feel chilly.

Just recently I had difficulty getting the heating over 20c and I had to drop the thermostats in the other rooms in my house to below 20c to get the main room to 23c.

frogletina