What temperature is it inside/outside your home?

Pandora123_2

I'm wondering at what temp people keep their homes, and what they do to keep it there.

At the moment, it's 16.9C inside and 11.9C outside. The heating isn't turned on. We've been leaving the heating off for the most part as long as it's at least 16C indoors. Read somewhere that most people will acclimatise to 16C and it will not feel cold. I've found that's true for me (though DH may disagree, but usually only when he's wearing a t-shirt and not a fleece!)

When the neighbours are home it can get quite pleasant in our house even when the heating is off, as a lot of heat seems to "leak" through the walls into our house (we're in a semi-detached). And if I'm cooking, it gets even warmer in the lounge. We keep the lounge/kitchen closed off from the rest of the house, which really helps as well. Yesterday evening it was 21C inside and around 8C outside and the heating was not on at all yesterday... but then we'd been cooking for quite a bit and the neighbours were home!

We've had the heat on a few evenings, when it was close to freezing outside, but have been pleasantly surprised at how infrequently we've had to turn it on. Last year we had it on timer in the winter, so it was on regularly every single day. Our gas/electric bills have gone from £130/month to around £50. We think we can better this if we insulate our outside walls.

What about everyone else?

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Pink.

Hi Pandora,

These older threads might interest you:

C/Heating in winter and what temperature?

Central Heating

how many of you have put the heating on

Central heating

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ceridwen

Its got to be 22-24 Celsius - as I'm in a miserable little huddle virtually unable to move otherwise. I know that I have seen environmental websites urging 55F (13C if my translation is correct)!!!!!!:eek: - but I just couldnt do that for the life of me. I spent a lot of my childhood cold - hence I refuse pointblank to ever be cold if I can help it as an adult.

The absolute lowest I can tolerate is 20C - and then I'm not that happy about having to be bundled up in lots of extra layers of clothing to be able to do that and find that that extra clothing restricts me somewhat (if not quite into a miserable immobile little bundle).

I feel that I do quite a bit for the environment in being vegetarian/childless/non car-owner/everything possible is organic and I'm working my way into recycling/making own cleaning materials and cosmetics - so I give myself 5 out of 10 on a "good green" score - but I wont be cold and miserable

edited: ooooohhh.... I wish I didnt feel the cold - thinking of the money I could save on fuelbills!

mary43

Our thermostat is set at 21 at the minute. Ours is an old terraced house with extensions added at the back so there's a lot of area to warm up.I stick a cardi on and last year OH bought me a blanket to put over my knees when I was watching tele (I'd been having a moan about being cold.........lol).
The kitchen warms up when the oven's on and its lovely and 'toasty'. We serve up dinner and leave the oven door open for a bit to let the heat waft out.

salster

I usually have the thermostat set between 18 - 20 C, but I only boost it on during the day if I get really cold.

Badger_Lady

My thermostat is set to 15 degrees most of the time, and almost never has to come on. It's nice to know that, if it did suddenly get cold, my heating would kick in automatically!

The temperature in the house is usually about 19 degrees (currently 11 outside), and I just switch the gas fire on when I'm sat down in the evening.

iceicebaby

My thermostat is set to 16, so heating has not come on the last few days as its been quite mild. The really cold snap we had a couple weeks ago meant that the heating was on more often. Even tho its set to 16, its also on timer too so will only come on if its less than 16 at ceratin times of the day.

MissEyre

The timer on my boiler is broken, so I have to do the 'Ice Walk' about half four each morning-leg it down the stairs shivering to switch the heating and water on so the house is bearable by the time I have to get up at six...call me tight, but I REFUSE to pay to heat my house while I'm sleeping-that's what blankets and hot water bottles are for!

Penny-Pincher!!

Ours is set to 21c, any lower and I cant move.

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lilac_lady

My heating is a manual system now so I switch it on and off as I feel I need to. My kitchen has no heating and the other day it was 8 degrees. I have a small electric heater for the kitchen so I switch that on it gets so cold. My usual heating temperature is 18 - 22 degrees depending on the weather outside.

Protogenia

At the moment I have the heating set on 15 degrees and it will go upto 17 degrees at 5pm. I make sure we are all suggled up with slippers and jumpers rather than whopping the heat up so darling son can lounge around in Tshirt and shorts as he would like to.