[Closed] What is your central heating thermostat set at?

Don't have one, our central heating broke last year and had no need for it.

Don't have the temp but the dial is on minimum.

19 and its located in the drafty hallway which means its on a lot.

19.

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Sorry. 😳

off. it's sunny here.

10, I'm a skinflint

22

I keep mine between 15 and 18 depending.

Last year i kept the heating on the whole of Dec and Jan but adjusted the temp with thermostat.

Ended up being cheaper than just letting the heating come on twice a day.

So your 'stat is set at that temp what actual temp is it maintaining.

My 'stat is set at 15 deg .. means [b]actual [/b]average house temp (i.e. it clicks on/off) between 18/19 deg

If you don't already, I really encourage you to experiment with real thermometers, you may actually be able to turn your stat down .. try maintaining 20 in living areas and 18 in cooking/sleeping areas. Less if your well'ard

Off for I own jumpers.
If it gets sub zero outside later on in the year I may switch it on and maintain 10 inside [ if I am in the house]

20 for 1/2 hour in the morning. We're south facing with lots of glass frontage. That and five teenagers keep the place warm.

Think ours is set to 11, don't you love being a student?
last winter there were many debates saying it'd be better to set it at 15/16 or something than have heating on for an hour at 20, especially when I was frequently waking up to ice on the inside of my window - one morning not just a little bit - the window was covered in a sheet of ice. I expect this year we'll have it on even less seen as the bills have been so much 🙁 *buys more jumpers*

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After talking to various people, seems this winter I'm gonna keep the heating on all the time at about 18/19 then when we go to bed at 16' apparently my mate said he used less gas doing as there was less heating to do from cold, as from cold the boiler is working overtime for an hour or 2

Feefoo, the manliness of you post has given me a semi.
Tell me you look as good as Brad Pitt too!

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As you would be in shorts he would probably sneak a peak

I'd love to turn mine down, I don't like the bills (does anybody), but while I can still afford to, will be comfortable thanks.

I don't feel chilly in the living room watching telly of an evening until it drops to 16 deg actual temp (assuming long sleeve base layer, standard Cotton T and winter weight cotton hoody/merino jumper), but unfortunately my Missus starts complaining at 19 deg wearing similar but with the addition of a quilted blanket, so although not exactly wondering around in T's, we have a 'happy medium' of maintaining 18 deg.

Any of those out there set at 10deg do so for reasons other than poverty? i.e. you have supplemental heating, you don't mind wearing 5 layers. Surely most people would feel more than chilly wearing 3 layers when they're tired, sitting in front of telly and its 10pm and only 10-11 deg internally at night? what are your top tips?

I don't have the heating on unless my hands get cold. My house is really well insulated and I wear clothes.

By coincidence I'm indecently short shorts at the moment (painting the ceiling which always make me hot). I don't have central heating but if I did it would be set to ultra cool.

We havnt turned the heating on for winter yet . Just the odd chilly windy night - rattly drafty case and sash windows

When it comes to winter time ill stick it on at at 16 in the morning for getting up as we have a wood burner for the nights.

Feefoo, the manliness of you post has given me a semi.
Tell me you look as good as Brad Pitt too!

Better believe it! The heat shimmer in the living room helps disguise any imperfections.
Permanent soft-focus.

Any of those out there set at 10deg ... what are your top tips?

Mentalist.

16 If i'm cold I stick on a jumper.

It broke and I haven't got around to fixing it. I wear more clothes and, as above, try to embrace the seasons. I prefer to experience seasons rather than homogenise my life. I do use heating to prevent outright discomfort, to whit, a bit of arthritis and crash damage which hurts when it's cold. It's also kind of for environmental reasons, even though I know it's pointless in view of what eg the Chinese and Indians are doing.

I work in sleep medicine and generally we recommend a bedroom temperature of 18 degrees celcius. During REM sleep you lose muscle tone and temperatures too high or too low will cause arousals leading to a disturbed night.

Shared house and I'm the low temperature one unfortunately, bloody horrible when it's hot and stuffy inside!

My bedroom window is open all year round when I'm in the room, love the fresh air. Duvet (same one as summer I know some people change theirs) and add a blanket when it gets cold - just head poking out though. Have my showers colder than everyone else too. *shrugs*

Went though a period of washing in cold (sharp intake of breath cold) water a few years ago. My skin was awesome.

No need for heating in the Sunny South East Yet. 19 degrees tomorrow - again.

Ours is set to 22 (I set it to 18-19 but Mrs Ming puts it back up again). Oh and I've been told our wood burner apparently requires testing tonight so the house will be at 30C pretty soon.

too high or too low will cause arousals leading to a disturbed night.

Giggidy!

Set on North Queensland 🙂

we have a Danfoss programmable one so it's 15 when we'e out or at night.

18 at other times and a boost at morning of 20 to warm the house up ready for another day of fun and banter.

14 - 16 during daylight occupancy i let the mrs sneak it up to 18 when were watching the telly off at night

16 and the heating on a timer for 3 hours a day. It's turned down to low if I'm not going to be in. I don't tend to feel the cold but if I do I'll just add a layer (or have a whisky)

Mines not on yet but the thermostat is set on 13. Much more than that and the house is too hot imo. I prefer to wear sweatshirts and jumpers than turn the heating up; partially 'cos I'm tight, but also because I grew up in a house without central heating, and I just got used to doing this in winter.

Ours is still off. Next doors however must be up high 🙂

Your all wusses, mine is set at 6 and I am sat here in shorts sweating from the heat of the wood burner!

Mines off, all windows and doors open and at night when i have to lock the doors I always keep the freezer door open to cool things down further, I ride fully rigid and singlespeed, in fact my bike only has one crank arm to make things harder

18 by day - from October onwards
Off by night
Oh and I use a 3.5 Tog duvet and sleep in nothing but Dorma

To be honest, I find it annoying that I can't buy a dual thermostat for the central heating to set different thresholds during the day. Our underfloor heating has this (although it's off most of the time!)

I just keep mine on lowest setting
and the boiler is on constant 24/7

26C, but then we're talking air conditioning here...

"partially 'cos I'm tight, but also because I grew up in a house without central heating, and I just got used to doing this in winter."

Snap i grew up with a coal fire

How ever my girlfriend insists on just sticking the heating on instead of using the fire or wearing warm clothes

I aim for 19. It's a compromise as I am comfy sitting around in a t shirt, while she also needs to wear a jumper to not feel cold.

And I thought women were supposed to have more body fat?

we've got underfloor heating (which is nice). it's currently on "3" (prob 17°C), but i need to keep an eye on it as the GF keeps putting it on "6" (max setting) when i'm out.

we only have it on in the lounge and keep the door closed. it is a new build with quality german windows so draughts aren't a problem.

as with many others, i can sit in a t-shirt and feel warm whereas the GF will sit there wearing five layers, a pair of wooly slippers and a blanket.

We are hard as nails at Moonter Towers. The central heating broke down about twenty years ago. It cost a fortune to run and was hopelessly inefficient. We have an AGA and a couple of big wood burning stoves. If it gets cold, we put on an extra jumper. Have you ever seen a sheep shiver?

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it snowed here in munich on wednesday... didn't settle.

massive frost at 7 this morning.... brrr....

and i was wearing shorts on the bike.

Our's stays the same all year, it's profiled to 18 early evening, 19 from 9pm, then 10 starting at 11:30pm until 5pm. Never changes because during the summer the average temp in the house doesn't drop far enough to trigger it. Any hotter than 19 and it's too hot, except during mid winter when there's enough of a delta-T from floor to ceiling to nudge it up to 20.

I'm in Corfu at the minute so don't really need heating, although back home the stat will be set to 16 with the normal 4-5 hours a day of hopefully stopping everything turning to ice. I'm back at work on Wednesday so I have no doubt the GF will crank it up to 1 million for a fortnight unti I get back. I reckon what we really need are two daughter threads - how "accurate is your thermostat" and "what heating tactics for a cost effective winter"

Have you ever seen a sheep shiver?

Yes but thats a different story and nothing to do with it being cold 😕

My thermostat isn't connected to a central heating system but still works and reads 1.5°C too hot. I'll bin it when the batteries go flat.

Madame is far more sensitive than any thermostat and takes into account the combination of temperature and humidity. Low humidity and 19°C at present so she hasn't uttered "Can you light the stove please?"