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Household Temperatures - What's Yours Set To?
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Ours was 15c all day and evening yesterday as we were either outside, or out and about. It was a little too cool for just sitting down, but for the odd hour after you'd been exercising or showering, it was fine, and at work today so it's still set to 15c. Will up it to 18c tonight at about 6pm as not going out.
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17 during the day, 13 overnight (but it never actually gets cold enough to kick in). We will sometimes boost it to a whopping 18 degrees for an hour if we're feeling frivolous.0
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21.5c from 5am to 9am and 4pm to 10pm. 5c outside of those times.
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18 when it turned on, almost never, unless daughter comes calling in the winter months then she whacks it up to 22 but I turn it down again and she turns it up again, it's a bit of a running battle when she's down.Someone please tell me what money is1
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shinytop said:I'm aiming for 20-21C in most of the house, bedrooms a bit less. As an ASHP user, I'm trying to control room temperature using radiator flow temperature rather than thermostats. Not very successfully at the moment as the house is 23-24C.
It took me the whole of our first winter (2010 was extremely cold) to tweak the flow temp v weather compensation, room stats etc (we have a programmable stat for each room). I determined that to get it comfortable we needed to uplift the morning flow by a couple of degrees between 7-9 and evening flow by couple between 17:00 and 21:00 to compensate for the loss of solar gain when the front of the house is in the shade or when the sun goes down.
We also never let the house go below around 17 degrees as the combination of low flow temps (average around 35 degrees) and underfloor heating makes the system quite sluggish . However as we are at home all day it suits our lifestyle to have it generally idling all day. The flow temp is weather compensated between 30-42 degrees against outside temps of +18 down to -5) and most of the time sits at around 35 degrees. There are the odd occasions when I'll uplift the flow temp by a degree or two if the outside temp plummets rapidly when the sun goes down and the house can struggle to respond, but not very oftenNever under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers0 -
It on from 6am to 9pm at temperature of 20.5 though if we are going out I try to remember to reduce it to 19.5 until we return.0
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I set a 2-3 hour boost to 18 degrees in the living room when I'm at home during the day. After that if the temp drops off and the cold starts to bother me (depends if I'm sat at my computer or moving round doing chores/DIY) I'll boost it for another few hours.
I rarely turn the bedroom radiators on. I don't like it more than 15/16 degrees overnight. 10 degree frost setting.0 -
About 19-20C since I can't bear it to be any hotter. I really need to make sure it doesn't get too cold overnight but I keep forgetting to set the timer again for night time.0
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Still trying to find best for location new HIVE thermostat.
Home all day, I'm not an early riser & husband doesn't feel the cold.
Set to 20.5C 8.30 - 10.30 and 16.00 - 21.30. If its really cold & damp, it goes on for another hour in between.
Rest of the time, its Frost setting 7C but so far (since moving in early Feb), temp doesn't drop below about 15 overnight.1
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