Is heating the home to 18oC the new 20oC?

matelodave

Magnitio said:

Over the past two years I've been reducing the thermostat temperature from a typical 19 down to 17.5 during the day and 18 in the evening. My OH has gradually become used to it, though it will sometimes go up to 19 for an hour. We both grew up in houses that were much colder. Gas usage has dropped by over 20% as a result.

Yes, I've tried that and it doesn't work. She goes round tweaking the thermostats even when I've contrived to make them untweakable and she's got herself a digital thermometer so she can prove to me when it's colder than she thinks it should be.

She's even the one who pays the leccy bill. I do my best but she's always been able to outsmart me 

Northern_Wanderer

MovingForwards said:

Perhaps there should be a new version of wife swap, where they do a week in a different property and have to adapt to lower temperatures.

Thanks for making me laugh. I think a husband swap would be good, to see which one can keep the lady the hottest, then no need to argue about the gas bill.

Mstty

Swipe said:

All storage heaters are off now. Just ran a 2KW fan heater for 20mins on cheap rate to warm the kitchen up. Now a toasty 22C that should keep it above 18C until the sun comes out.

Yep if the sun isn't going to come out we will do the same in the kitchen, that sounds like a great idea. But so far we have been lucky and the sun has been giving us free heat in the house.

Mstty

MovingForwards said:

@Mstty I have four seasons up here, sometimes all in a day. In winter I can be outside in a summer outfit or standing in snow. I get a tan each year just because of pottering about. 

Inside I've a fleece blanket from pr1mark to slip over my lower half if I get a bit cold.

Didn't have DG / GCH before I moved up here and only had working GCH in this property and my last one, therefore it's 'normal' for me to wrap up.

I think that's half the problem lots have been bought up with lovely warm central heating across the whole house with GCH. Whilst energy was cheap it wasn't a problem.

I was bought up largely in an old 1890's hospital being converted into an old people's home and that was wet, cold and drafty for many years. Only when that was up and running did we experience GCH in a reasonably efficient house. Ah bliss.

I don't think the financial shock has hit the majority yet, wait til October.