What temperature do you keep your house?

TamsinC

Normally around 17 - 18 in the day time and down to 12 -14 at night (though it goes off completely for most of the night). And still often too hot for me. But, strangely, I have to accommodate everyone else in the house. I'd like it less at night but I am outvoted.

Wassa123

18 if we're in.

Saying that we have a townhouse and the thermostat is on the ground floor which is the coldest. It's warmer upstairs, and the office which is on the top floor is roasting with the computers.

WorldTraveller_2

Normally around 18 downstairs (upstairs keeps much warmer and at the same time would be around 20 or 21). I do feel the cold so all winter I will be wearing a jumper with a thick cardigan over the top. Even in the summer I'm wearing a cardigan unless the temperature gets to the high 20's or above, which is my idea of heaven. Nobody else in the house seems cold when it's 18 so we keep it at that and I just wrap up.

glasgowdan

17.5-18 all the time in our house. My wife is always cold and gives me no end of moaning for it. The kids are fine.

moneyistooshorttomention

glasgowdan wrote: »

17.5-18 all the time in our house. My wife is always cold and gives me no end of moaning for it. The kids are fine.

Fingers crossed (for your sake) that she has a little snug type room where she can go and have it at the standard 21C then - to have a break from being cold sometimes.

I don't think I could handle being permanently cold - and correspondingly too cold to move around and do whatever-I'd-decided-to in the house. At that temperature - then if I didn't have a snug I could retreat to at intervals - I could see me sitting there muffled up in one of those thermal cloth thingies and something "heated" to put my feet in, barely budging to do anything much (too cold and dispirited) and gawdaloneknows what state my figure would be in from the lack of exercise during colder weather.

comeandgo

glasgowdan wrote: »

17.5-18 all the time in our house. My wife is always cold and gives me no end of moaning for it. The kids are fine.

My idea of hell is to cold in my own house. Your poor wife, compromise a bit please.

onomatopoeia99

I have the thermostat in the lounge on the table next to where I sit while watching TV, rather than in the hallway. It's set to 19C evenings and weekends, which is comfortable sitting on the sofa temperature, 15C overnight and weekday daytimes when I'm at work.

If I'm doing DIY in the house I might turn it down slightly.

goodwithsaving

The house sits at 12 degrees normally without heating, then 15-18 degrees when it has warmed up......I'd prefer 15-18 degrees all of the time but it's just a cold house. I don't leave the heating on all day, I turn the thermo down to switch off the heating but leave it at 11 so if it gets really cold, the pipes won't freeze as the heating will automatically come on.
It's only me in a 3 bed house and I heat every room to ensure there's no development of damp etc. but I find it really wasteful to have it blasting out all the time. I prefer to grab a blanket.
When it was snowing and I was in all day, I reluctantly kept it on for 72 hours, even then the house only got up to 19.5 degrees!
Since I moved I've definitely adjusted. I no longer feel the cold quite so much, unless I'm outside and there's wind which makes it really cold.

pollypenny

The house is well-insulated, so heating is timed. 21 degrees from 8-10.30 am, 1-1.30 and then 5-9 pm.

If there!!!8217;s any sun on a winter afternoon it will hit and warm the living room.

It do well-insulated that it is actually cold in the summer as the high sun does not get through the loft insulation. Thankfully, the conservatory is hit and gives a thermal input to the back of the house.

I cannot understand anyone keeping the heating on all night, unless it!!!8217;s was below freezing.

glasgowdan

comeandgo wrote: »

My idea of hell is to cold in my own house. Your poor wife, compromise a bit please.

She's welcome to compromise and put on a warm jumper... but she insists that she should be able to walk about in a thin blouse and leggings and be warm! She is also one incredibly careful person with money and doesn't like to spend so I suspect she will change her tune when the updated bills get calculated...