How warm is your house?

[emma.walker]

There is a bit of debate at home about how warm the house needs to be. What temperature does everyone else aim at? I had ours on at 19 and told everyone else to put on more clothes if they were cold.

They all just laughed and complained. Am I being unreasonable? I have to admit that I am a bit worried about paying for it all.

My daughter (who had a LD) is full of cold and wants it hotter but I feel we are making her cold worse. She also struggles to regulate her own temperature and isn’t good at letting me know if she is too hot.

[amy.c]

I get too hot in my home put it at cold first then slowly build up you are paying for your heat and electric to have it, i also pay every month so i can keep it organised

[vectis]

It depends how active everyone is. I turn mine up to 22 degrees when I first get up, then after my coffee and toast, turn it down to around 19.5. I have a new Combi boiler, instant heat, much better than our old one.

[Maggie-home]

We have a gas fire which I love but I have to admit I tend to fall asleep in front of it.

Otherwise the heating is on at 19 but I put it on a bit higher when it is time to get up or go to bed.

[Melly1]

We have it on 18c/ 19c if we are home during the day and 19c/ 20c in the evening. Off at night. S easily over heats. I put on an extra layer if I’m cold or put a throw over my legs when sitting down.

[vectis]

My sons (42, an engineer; 40, with SLD) and I often disagree about the temperature the central heating should be set at, I want it higher than them, but they will both happily sit in front of the wood burning stove so hot that I can’t bear it and leave the room!
This is a no win situation I’m afraid. I’d suggest making sure your daughter is wearing pure cotton clothes (I can’t bear the way synthetics make me feel) and also make sure that if she is feeling cold, she has a light throw in a pretty design that she really likes, which she can pull over herself if she is feeling cold.

[emma.walker]

Thank you all for your posts. I have finally managed to switch our heating off - thank goodness for a heatwave.

I really like the idea of a nice throw for my daughter. She’d really like the idea of that - particularly snuggling up under it to watch tv.