What temperature is it inside/outside your home?

noonesperfect

kittie wrote: »

hark the violin of times past:) : as children, we grew up in a cold, draughty terraced house with one coal fire. We went to bed dressed up and woke up to ice on the INSIDE of the windows. We wore woollen clothes and were never still, in front of the pc or tv because we didn`t have any then. We ate appropriately ie hot thick soups etc

Anyone of my age can remember standing with their back to the fire and not wanting to move away

I have grown up very very healthy. No illnesses and no allergies

and it is 18 inside and 10 out now. I am not cold because I have been busy making thick soup

Ah! someone who comes from my "era". We had a tv but there was so little on for children and there wasn't programmes all day anyway in the 60's and only 2-3 channels! I thought nothing of wrapping up and playing out.
The wrong side of 45 I may be, but you rarely here me complain of illnesses or cold either.
I couldn't agree with you more Kittie :T

susank

We also had no TV until I was 10 and had ice on the inside of the windows - we now have a multifuel boiler which does the entire house heating and hot water as we get free logs all year and never have to put on the immersion heater for water. We have the house warm as we can and usually 21 - 24 and outside can be about 1 degree in the mornings just now like this morning. Our bedroom has the heater switched off and we open the window summer and winter at night and close in the morning unless its very very windy and it can be about 3 or 4 degrees in there in the mornings but I dont feel it - the bed is warm enough - in fact too warm - I have a New Zealand wool duvet - wonderful thing.

Primrose

We normally set our thermostat between 19 and 20 unless there's a really thick frost outside. Our house loses heat quite slowly as it's double glazed, cavity wall insulated and has good roof insulation. Our gas bills are much lower than our neighbour's who lives in an identical house, which is not so well insulated. And we always put on an extra sweater or thick fleece if it gets a bit chilly before we turn the heating up. And yes, I can remember as a child almost wetting myself before I could pluck up courage to leave the fireside and climb the stairs to use a freezing cold lavatory. And all that ice on the inside windows too !

Becles

Our house is around 18-20°C. The heating is on from around 7am till 11pm, but it is on a thermostat so it just clicks itself on and off as and when it is needed.

I have Raynauds and I really suffer from the cold, so I try to keep a constant temperature inside.

Kaz2904

I try to keep mine set to 18 but as soon as I am out of the room DH turns it up to 21+ and has it on constant.
I remember it being so cold that you couldn't put your bum on the loo seat, so you used to put hands on seat and perch on them.
It was so cold in my downstairs loo the other day that it steamed when I had a wee! (My sister said it was TMI when I told her)

Lily-Lu

kittie wrote: »

hark the violin of times past:) : as children, we grew up in a cold, draughty terraced house with one coal fire. We went to bed dressed up and woke up to ice on the INSIDE of the windows. We wore woollen clothes and were never still, in front of the pc or tv because we didn`t have any then. We ate appropriately ie hot thick soups etc

Anyone of my age can remember standing with their back to the fire and not wanting to move away

One of my earliest memories is seeing my mum standing with her back to the fire with her skirt lifted up warming her bum:rotfl:

Sunday night was bath night, and I remember clearly how we'd get out of the bath very quickly and run down the stairs to dry ourselves in front of the fire. Yes, ice on the inside of the bedroom window too.
Oh, and the liberty bodice that we had to wear right through winter....And Camphorated oil rubbed on our chests if we had a cough.

Ahhh those were the days:rotfl:

noonesperfect

Kaz2904 wrote: »

I try to keep mine set to 18 but as soon as I am out of the room DH turns it up to 21+ and has it on constant.
I remember it being so cold that you couldn't put your bum on the loo seat, so you used to put hands on seat and perch on them.
It was so cold in my downstairs loo the other day that it steamed when I had a wee! (My sister said it was TMI when I told her)

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Sorry! it made me laugh! That must be why my Gran had a paraffin heater in her loo. I only have to smell paraffin now, it takes me straight back to the good ol '60's.

Jacks_xxx

:wave: We haven't got any central heating - just a gas fire in the living room, which I may have to put on in a minute as my youngest has just come in and kept her coat on, complaining that it's no warmer in here than outside!

I don't put the fire on unless it's still cold even with 3 layers and a fleece on indoors - but we STILL have massive bills! :rolleyes:

I find it unbearable at MILs cos she likes her heating set to a "Tropical" 25 degrees. (I'm just not used to it you see. ) but Hubby thinks I'm a "cold morsel" as my hands and feet are always icy cold.
Isn't it funny how we're all so different? :eek:

Love Jacks xxx

noonesperfect

I used to be like that whenever we went to visit my ex MIL, they would complain that this house was cold! Ex mother in law & father in law live in Spain now.....

What makes me laugh is that they come back to Blighty for 3 months in the summer cos it's too hot!!!!!

Quasar

Very mild here today - since Christmas day in fact. I have no heating on today, just a fleece jumper on and warm socks.

I would love a cold spell with snow, but since I joined MSE and in particular Old Style I've become very particular about where my money goes - and into thin air in the form of heating .... well, not if I can help it.