What's is yours set at?

Our thermostat is on the upstairs landing (which I think is a silly place to put it) but it generally gets set around 21 deg. at this time of year. However since mom developed Alzheimers over the summer, her hands always feel icy which I guess is due to her illness. I turn the thermostat down to 17 deg. when we go to bed so, at the moment, it seems to click on around 3am., although if I get up for the loo around 5, I then turn it up a little more. Me, on the other hand, since going post menopausal seem to carry my own personal radiator around with me so I regularly get a dab on.

DH feels the cold now (due to medication needed following minor heart attack a couple of years ago) and we put the heating on all day yesterday as he was complaining! Usually thermostat is set at about 22

Our thermostat is set at 17°, it's in the utility room, the coldest room in the house. Our heating doesn't turn off and on via a timer because it's run by a solid fuel boiler (no gas in this village), so it only starts up when we refill the boiler each morning. All the radiators have thermostats but none of them get very warm and are touchable. The solid fuel boiler is in our lounge which is a huge openplan area adjoining the diner and kitchen roughly 40 x 25 feet overall with just two radiators. It's always cosy. As heat rises the bedrooms are always warm too even with the rads at the lowest setting. We only use the boiler between March/April - October/November. The rest of the year we use the immersion heater for hot water. Our electric account builds up credit through the winter which goes towards our use through the warmer months. It works for us, we had gas central heating in our previous house and horrendous bills, solid fuel works a lot cheaper for us.

We have an air source heat pump so underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs. Each downstairs room has it’s own hand held thermostat which are all usually kept at 20. Upstairs has one thermostat usually kept at 20 although we use the individual controls on each radiator as still can’t figure out how to use the upstairs central control correctly yet?. Haven’t had to use the log burner as it loads warm already. Much lower settings in the warmer weather.

Set at 18.But I nudge it up to 20 /21 most mornings when I come im from walking the dogs in this icy weather.Our lounge in particular warms up quickly and stays snug.If I'm cold I pop on a thicker jumper or a gilet.
Heating off at night unless we have grandchildren staying.We like the bedrooms cooler and preheat the beds with electric blankets.

18C - which equates to about 20C in the lounge - I'm peri menopausal so the husband has to wear jumpers lol!

I wear lots of layers. Old hot air heating system in rented house but still chilly even when thermostat turned up to 21.

I have a poorly husband who doesn’t move much and feels the cold so mine is set at 22. Rads off and windows open in bedrooms during the day though.

Ours on on all the time. It will come on at night if it falls below 14.5°
During the day / evening at just under 20° .

lemsip

19. I live alone and wear cardis/jumpers . electric blanket to warm bed before getting in!
I'm in a flat so kept warm by neighbours. lol

I’m with you lemsip

I sometimes wonder if I could phone the guy downstairs and ask him to
“turn his heating up” ?

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!!!!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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 ??

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.