What's is yours set at?

Just had to google the word nesh
Never come across it in my corner of Essex !

Our thermostat is at the bottom of the stairs and it set at 18.

We also have rad stats in all the rooms which are set on 3 (on a scale of 1 - 5)

We changed the hall stat over Christmas but it felt too hot in the house (and those are words I never thought I would type...) but it is now back at 18.

OH feels the heat, but even he said he was cold last night...

Heating goes off at about 10 and set to come on at 6...

I am cold today, though.

I start mine off at 19 and when I get too warm I put it down to about 17. I find it difficult to cool off - my personal thermostat finds too much heat difficult to cope with.
I live in a small new-build house which is very well insulated and it retains the heat - a bit exasperating in the heat of summer.

I’ve been wearing woolly pullovers and set the temp to about 18 in the morning. Then turn it up later if it’s a bit chilly. But set it at 12 when I go to bed. Sue Donim, I’ve been trying to make sure my hens don’t get mites and you bring yours indoors? Lol!!!

I haven’t put mine on. I have a heated throw for sofa time and an electric blanket for bedtime. The rest of the time I’m doing something so keep warm that way. Much cheaper than running heating and I actually prefer it.

Both DH and myself felt the cold and dreaded the winter months so there were never issues of 'Do we really need the heating on/or whohasturned up the thermostat.

Mine never goes off always set at 21 unless we turn it up in the evenings. The conservatory is set at 25 at it is all windows and gets very cold without heating. Lovely room to sit in all year round with the right heating. I also hate being cold and have an under-active thyroid so very bad blood circulation.

We have underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs all run from an air source heat pump. Thermostats in all rooms downstairs set at 15 overnight, 18 during the day and 21 in the evening. Upstairs set at 15.
The house walls are two feet thick solid stone and act like a giant storage heater so we are snug in winter and cool in summer.
We do have a small log burner in the sitting room which we only light for aesthetic purposes or late spring and early autumn evenings when heating not on.

beverly10

PollyDolly
Who in your household pays the heating bill?

WE do! But I like value for my money! My parents were of the mind, "if you're cold put on a jumper/cardigan before shovelling coal on the fire" ! I was merely curious about what other GNetters do, that's all!

I live in a small bungalow in East Anglia. All electric. I have storage heaters. Economy 10. Have had no trouble since they were installed thirty three years ago. Because of mobility problems, anaemia and poor circulation and age , 97, and housebound, they are set at maximum. I don’t care what I spend on heating. And food.

Individual radiator thermostats. Stepdaughter has her room very cool. I'd be happy around 21 degs. DH really feels the cold due to illness/medication, so main bedroom about 24 and en-suite kept at about 28 so he can go in there for a hot bath in comfort most mornings which helps to ease his arthritis. He also pops into bed with blanket on at random times when he's cold.

In a new bungalow with underfloor heating. We were advised to set living areas at 22, and bedrooms at 18, and leave it on 24/7, which I do. The bedrooms never drop down to 18, so heating never kicks in. The large open plan living area only drops to 21 in the winter, occasionally, whereupon the heating quickly brings it back up. I can raise the temp any time if need be. The thermostats are very sensitive, so I assume they are accurate, but what puzzles me is that 22deg in the hall and small sitting room definitely feels warmer than 22 in the large room. I assume it's because of all the glass, though shouldn't 22 feel the same wherever? That the floors (concrete) will always be warm us a misconception, as the floor only heats when the heating has had to come on, and that's not often.

I prefer to have it ticking over all day that turning it up in the evening so about 18 during the day. I do sometimes turn it up a bit more in the evening but as it has been on most of the day the house is warm anyway.

I'm arthritic and like to be warm. I meant to retire to Southern Spain but came back after the 2008 crash and because I was missing my newish grandchild. It's 25 here 24/7 on the main thermostat in the living room but I'm not sure how accurate that is. There are thermostats on room radiators and the other person here has their bedroom radiator off most of the time. Mine is on 5 and I have a small fan heater too in my bedroom that cuts out at a set temperature.

It might because I grew up in a flat with CH provided by the building as part of the rent and on from October to April, so warm all that time, that I am used to being warm.

Neither DH nor I can bear the cold due to rheumatism and other complaints. So 42 degrees celsius and we use the wood-burner as well in this weather.

I would rather save on light and food than on heat.

I've my thermostat at 20 degrees, the radiators have their own, but all on full. I take my heating control to my bedroom so when I waken I turn heating on and stay in bed for 10 mins until house warms up a bit. It stays on an hour, an hour in afternoon if chilly and an hour in the evening as I love a bath before I get into my cosy pjs. After that my own thermostat kicks in with my night sweats lol

Sorry grandtante but are you sure? That's over 100°Fahrenheit!! It must be extremely toasty, I'd be in my swimsuit all the time flaked out on the sofa! Ours is set at 22, we usually only have it in from about 4 pm til 8.30 as we have a logburner going all day in the kitchen. As we've got things to do in the rest of the house and its -4° today, it's been on since 9 & will probably stay on til 8.30.

We have ours on 16 or 17 all day, but do have a cosy gas fire in the lounge, so one room is really warm and the rest bearable. Remember waking up to ice on the inside of windows as a child, as I’m sure many GN’s did, running downstairs to get dressed in front of the only fire in the house ??

My thermostat is broken/disconnected from the boiler. I just press the override button whenever I feel cold which turns it on for an hour at a time. At the moment I'm pressing it a few times a day, but I don't like being too warm and it gives me a chance to wear my warm jumpers. When my heating worked properly I lived in summer clothes all year round! I really need to get it fixed - it's on my extremely long 'to do' list!

24 degrees or I am freezing.. I feel it even when it drops to 23.5

OMG mine is set at 22 day and night and when it’s especially cold 23 during the day! We also have the fire on in the sitting room in the evening. I’m a very cold morsel!

Heating cuts in about 7.30 at 21 degrees in bedrooms, but all have radiator thermostats so when spares are unused we turn them down to 1 and leave doors open. Cuts out about 10;30 and the house stays nice and warm for a while as we spent a great deal of money on insulating it when we did a major refurb on moving in. I find that it stays at around 17.5 during the day and that is fine while we are pottering around, cooking and doing the occasional bit of housework, but we generally turn it up to 21.5 again when we sit down late afternoon. Never have it on overnight, prefer a cool ventilated bedroom with a warm bed ( hot water bottle). I would hate to spend my day bundled up in a fleece in the house, but usually wear an extra layer at this time of year. I too have read about minimum temperatures recommended for people at home all day, especially if immobile for some of the time; I believe it can lead to blood thickening and thus strokes? There was an interesting experiment years ago by one of the London boroughs, concerned that older tenants were cold in their flats, they gave them budgies in a cage and told them they had to be kept warm, and interestingly people who wouldn't spend money on keeping themselves warm would do so to keep the budgie comfortable!

Our thermostat is set at 22, the heating is programmed to come on at 6am, off at 9am, comes on again at 4pm and off at 7pm. That seems to work for us, if the DGC are with us for childcare we put it on for an hour or so about 1 or 2pm if it feels cold like these days!

Our main thermostat is set at 20 degrees. Goes on at 6:30am and off at 8:00pm. On again at 4:30pm and off at 9:30pm. However, during this cold spell the heating has been on all day as we are confined to our home. We have regulators on each radiator so we are able to adjust the amount of heat on an individual room basis as and when. This seems to be working for us as is.

Nesh - haha! I am too and get told off for the heating creeping up. As I am home alone today it is on 21 but will knock it down later to 19!!!!