What temperature do you have your house?

[Vortex2]

What temperature do you have your house?

What rooms are heated, when?

[clv101]

Right now, 11pm, -3.6C outside, 19.9C inside downstairs. Fire's been off for several hours.

[BritDownUnder]

Whatever the house wants as it is currently 26.6C outside and 24.3C inside.

[mr brightside]

The room with the stove in it gets to about 18-20, the rest varies from 15-12. The bedrooms are 12 due to being in a cheap 80s extension, the further away from the lounge you get the colder it gets.

[UndercoverElephant]

the further away from the lounge you get the colder it gets.

That is basically our current arrangement also, though this is our first winter and we may well upgrade the house later. Fortunately we have plenty of free wood. Ash tree came down the day before we viewed this property, and we insisted the wood remained on site when we made the offer.

[RevdTess]

The hall by the front door is the coldest place in the house and this is also where the radiator thermostat is. This is currently set to 16.5C but the temperature in the hall never reaches this at the moment.

The warmest places in the house are the lounge when the woodstove is lit (often reaching 21C) and my study which is the smallest room in the centre of the house and chugs along at 20C with its radiator. Everything else is around 17C.

[PS_RalphW]

We moved into our 1999 house 3 weeks ago. I have done a thermal imaging scan of it, which identified a large missing area of roof insulation which I have patched, and very draughty doors which I haven’t. The gas central heating is on about 8 hours a day, set at 20c. It just about reaches that temp before it shuts down, and the house cools to about 12c downstairs overnight. Lots of large dg windows and patio doors which have detectable cold draughts, we are still fitting curtain rails and thermal curtains. The aluminium frames of the patio doors registered 8c inside, room temperature 18c, and 7c outside, air temperature zero at the time. Was minus 11 when I walked the dog this morning. I do not know what the flow temperature of the ch is set to, it is about 60% of the way from min to max on the unlabelled dial.

[Vortex2]

We currently set our heat pump to have targets:

* 18.5C breakfast and evenings.

* 17.5C during the day

* 16C at night.

We used to have it set for zero heating at night and during the day .. but that was too unpleasant, especially as we spend a lot of time indoors immobile on PCs etc at the moment. Also, letting the house get too cold really delays getting warm again.
FWIW the lowest I've ever seen is maybe 14C.

As the heat pump is a tad under-specced, we have just started using a butane gas fire for an hour or so in the evenings.
We rapidly get to a cosy 20C .. a temperature which the heat pump really struggles to reach.

[automaticearth2]

I live in a 1930s 2 bed bungalow with ok loft insulation, solid walls and a well-made but unheated conservatory. It has gas CH and a 5kw multifuel stove.

I've got one of those Hive thermostats that control the heating and lighting that sits on a stand so can move from room to room.

With the stove lit (burning heat logs) and it being -6c outside the temperatures were as follows:

Kitchen 16c
Front room 21c
Rear bedroom 18c
Front bedroom 19c

I'm surprised at how much heat that stove can kick out

[Catweazle]

I don't have a thermometer, but the recent -8c weather here has made me change from burning wood to anthracite in the living room stove. We still only use the lpg central heating for an hour in the morning. Our old stone house has external insulation, the walls are white with frost except where the plastic and steel pins are fixing the polystyrene insulation to the walls. These can be seen as small warm spots where the frost has melted, and in some places the joins between insulation boards can be seen too, I assume they're not as tight together as they should be.

[Potemkin Villager]

According to my collection of temperature strip cards dotted about the place.

Unheated parts of house 9-10 , living room currently with fire only 18, bedroom above living room 12 about 2 outside currently.

[kenneal - lagger]

From this morning with an outside temperature of -5C we had a kitchen temperature of 10C the hall and my office were 12 and 12.5C and the living room was 14C. With the living room fire burning logs for a couple of hours that is now up to 16C and feels conformable from the radiation but we will get it up to 18+ later on. We've got the children and grandchildren coming over for dinner later so the kitchen cooker fire is going and the pump for the underfloor heating will come on in about 5 minutes which will slowly build the temperature up to about 18 all over the ground floor with maybe 20C in the living room with the log burner going in there as well.

I don't know what the bedroom temperatures are or will be but they are comfortable once you get the bed warmed up!

The living room will take a bit longer to warm up because we won't get any heat pulse coming through the south facing wall because there was no sun on it today. A days sunshine makes quite a difference.

[Vortex2]

Wow - some low temps there!

When I was in my first job, I had a room in an essentially unheated house.

I could walk around in bare feet, with jeans and T-shirt on.

Friends would come over wearing gloves, coats and scarves.

When young, I believe you can adapt to cold .. but over the age of around 40 your internal heating control systems begin to pack up.

Nowadays, I can't tolerate much below 15C indoors.

[kenneal - lagger]

Living room temperature with the sun out - 17C. South wall inside surface temperature after a day in the sun - 15C. North wall inside surface temperature - 11C. The sun has gone in now and the living room temperature has dropped to 16.5C so I'm going to light the woodburning stove.

[anotherexlurker]

I can usually tolerate chilly temps , and living in a rented mobile home , its normal for most of the rooms to go below 10C during the winter and 5C at night, wearing layers and adjusting to the temp/work being done is the key.

The heating is an electric boiler (only 9kW) that is normally switched off , but not wanting to risk any pipes freezing I tested it out again (had to free up the pins in a couple of TRV's as they were stuck down in the off position) , first few nights I had it set at 5C frost protection and it was coming on for a few hours, which means the kitchen was 4C. I did further tests and even after being on for 6.5 hours it had failed to get all the rooms up from 8C to 15C and that cost £20 per evening, but it was surprising how nicer it was to be able to walk round with every room at least 14C (temps at 3-4 foot high, the temp at 1-2 foot is a few C lower and the floor is even colder still).

I normally use a 750W electric heater in my "office" first thing and set one of the computers to do some encoding jobs (at least the electricity used does something useful other than just heat) , aim to keep the office at >15C .

I use one of the portable butane (15kg) heaters in the lounge in the evenings (on very cold evenings the 1.4kW setting can not maintain the temperature) and have the temp between 15-20C depending on how I feel. A hot water bottle for my back and a heated wheat bag for my neck work well.

I use another butane heater in the Kitchen/dining room , but only normally use that whilst eating at the table, one 15kg cylinder will last a year in there.

For my bedroom I use an electric blanket to pre-heat the bed, but switch it off when sleeping, and an electric heater if needed to pre-heat the room, during the cold snap I actually wore PJ's and socks at night , but back to just boxers now as it is a barmy 13-14C in there now.

My biggest problem with cold this year has been arthritis in my hands and feet , normally just wearing one pair of socks + pair of slipper socks + slippers has been sufficient for the feet in the winter , but was not cutting the mustard during the cold snap, the solution has been less layers on the feet and either a heating pad under my desk (expensive temp controlled one that was for my cat, (the cat died a few months ago so its mine now)), or a pair of usb heated insoles both solutions worked very well. The hands are harder to solve , been experimenting with different types of gloves and usb heated fingerless gloves, some jobs are difficult with gloves on, tight fitting disposable gloves help but are hard to get on due to swollen fingers and make your hands sweat, surprisingly poundland touchscreen gloves do actually work for touchscreens , but I find them an annoyance when typing.

The bathroom is heated by a 120W towel rail , and now a desiccant dehumidifier before and after showering.The dehumidifier is being swapped around rooms to keep the humidity low, this was only practical post cat when I can decide what doors are open or shut and when.

Another great success has been a usb heated gilet , with separate controls for the back and front, wearing it over a T-shirt and shirt and under a fleece meant the core body was warm even without any heating on.

Now that we are back at reasonable temperatures the boiler will be left at 5C protection, but I have decided to continue to treat myself to running hot water, rather than just on shower days. The boiler will only be used for heating if/when we get another cold snap.

I can survive at any temp the UK can throw at me (including Scotland) without any heating, but prefer to at least warm myself through for a few hours per day.