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Household Temperatures - What's Yours Set To?
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My thermostat/boiler on/off control is set to 20C all the time.
I no longer use the auto like I did the first year it was installed, and I manually turn it on when the house is cold, which has been 5 x 20 minute bursts in the last week or so.
I could have it set to 25C and it only ever reaches 19C according to the display switch. But my old terraced house has high ceilings, drafty kitchen and a chill coming from under floor boards in the living room/diner.
If anything I/we acclimatize and don't feel the cold as much time the real cold kicks in. Only issue is going round other people's houses with heating on full blast, I end up a sleeping dribbling mess within an hour.0 -
The Nest sorts it all out for me, but if I ever see the temperature on there above 20 I knock it back down.
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Set at 15. If it's 15 in the north facing cold hallway where the thermostat is, it's 18-20 in the rest of the house0
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18.5C except overnight when it's 15CRemember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0
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17 degrees when I'm up. Boiler switched off when I'm in bed.
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I generally turn the heating on manually rather than relying solely on a thermostat, because the temperature I'll be comfortable at varies, mostly with activity levels. When I do turn the heating on I have the thermostat in my lounge set to 18°C which means it switches off at 18.5 °C.
When I got home from work today my lounge was at 14°C but a combination of me being warm from cycling home and the room heating up pretty quickly once the heating is on means I wasn't in any way uncomfortable as a result.
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15C from 10pm to 6.30am18.5C from 6.30 to 8am (always kicks in from Autumn onward and beats having a cold bathroom when having a morning shower)16.5C from 8am to 6pm17.5C from 6 to 10pmI've also invested in an under desk infra red heater this year as the computer room is a poorly insulated loft conversion and I struggled with it last winter.1
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Used to be 19c when at home. But trying 18c this winter. Switch off heating at about 10pm. And switch it on once I get up.0
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anotheruser said:What do you set your thermostat to?0
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2 OAPs in their mid 70's in all day mostly.
Thermostat set at 21 deg C from 07:45 until 23:30 and 16 deg C from then just because it has to be set at something during the night.
Temperature hardly drops below 18 deg C during the night so the heating stays off until 07:45
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