Heating

I was going to say that Flickety but didn't quite know how to explain it. Sometimes I'll look at the temperature, thinking that it's really cold only to find that it's 18 degrees. Other times, same temperature and yet I'm not cold. And it doesn't seem to depend on whether I've, say, had a hot bath or been for a walk etc. The temperature can be the same and yet the air around me has a chill in it .

Radiant heat coming in from the sun (not that there's been much) can make a big difference to the temperature during the day. x

Radiant sunshine for the last few days has been wonderful- I could open all the windows and give the place a good airing- and the rooms quickly warmed up with the sunlight afterwards.

Hurrah.

I feel exactly the same as Tegan.

Also, the bedroom can feel warm when I go in it.
But after I have lay down for 5 minutes, it suddenly doesnt feel warm enough, and I have to up the radiator in the room, so that it is warm enough for me to actually sleep in.
Any ideas why that is crun?

21.5 at the moment and down to 15 when we go to bed.
This is a draughty old place though.

Our heating hovers between 18 and 21 (by the time we settle down to watch telly after supper). It is on all the time in winter and automatically switches off when it reaches a certain temperature and comes back on when it drops below a certain temperature.

The best thing we did a few years ago when we were on holiday in Devon was stop at a farm that had a sign up saying "Sheepskins for Sale" - I bought a sheepskin for every seat and husband was not keen at first (till he spotted a "rare breed" one) and now he's a total convert for the warmth and comfort. So we have sheepskins on our sofas to curl up on - cosy and warm, no throws required. I put them away in summer.

"Any ideas why that is crun?"

Isn't it because your metabolic rate drops whilst you're asleep? I keep my bedroom cool, otherwise I have to get up and put on more bedclothes in the small hours after the heating has been off long enough for the room to cool.

I wonder whether those who feel colder as the day wears on are eating enough, feeling cold often tells me when I'm getting hungry before my sense of hunger does.

Have any of you who have woodburners or multifuel stoves tried those fan things? Several people in the village have got them and say it really does cut down the number of times the oil central heating kicks in.

We haven't, but if we open the sitting room door ( we frequently do because the heat is too much!) the thermostat in the hall goes off. The heat then wafts round the house. x

I agree with crun, and I feel colder if I'm tired too.

I have a fan thing! It's brilliant, it makes the stove act a bit like a fan heater. I did a test first, we had taken all our downstairs doors minus two off when we moved here, but the kitchen was quite cold as we took out the huge radiator so as not to heat up the cupboards above it. It was always 3 or 4 degrees lower than the sitting room and I spend a lot of time in there. Now it's maybe 1 degree lower. They aren't cheap though, as you have probably realised. I bought mine on Amazon. I have to remember to blow the dust off it though - and you need a flat top to stand it on top of the stove, as it works by the heat going up through its base.

Metabolic rate. I will have a read up about that.

I am a small person.
I could try eating more, later in the evening. That might help? It is worth a try. Or having a late evening warm drink, which I dont have.
Thanks.

I've just had a shufty on Livestrong and Wiki Soon, metabolism does slow down during the night, but whether that's why anyone feels colder after getting into bed is another matter.

Have you tried an all-night electric blanket?

I have got an all-night electic blanket and haved used it in the past. I cant quite remember why I stopped using it.
It might have been because even when my side was on low, my husband got hotter than he liked.
But thank you for reminding me. I think I should get it down again from the loft.

my husband got hotter than he liked

Have you been at 50 Shades??

I sleep with the window open whatever the weather. I get quite warm at night and regulate body temperature by sticking my legs out of the duvet and pulling them back in when I am better temperature ! I'd bake if I had a heated blanket!

I have just worked out partly what may have been happening to me for the last few years.
Partly through having a good think about things having reading the links from crun.

I have been getting hotflushes for 5 years [I am going through a bad patch of them lately]. And my feeling cold in bed has been going on for a few years [bad lately]
I think the two of them are connected!
I am getting both overheated, and too cold. My internal thermostat may be working wrongly both ways.
[Just thought I would share this in case it helps anyone else].