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Where to keep heating thermostat?

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Teacheranne Sat 17-Dec-22 13:10:38

I now know why the advice is not to leave it in the hall if that is the coldest room. My heating comes on at 7am and going off at 10am, set at 19°, and recently I noticed that it was running at full all the time, never getting up to 19° but put it down to the cold weather.

Yesterday my sister arrived for Christmas and took her suitcase up to the dormer bedroom and discovered that the velum window was slightly open and it was blowing a freezing gale down the stairs into the hall! I have restricted mobility and rarely go up there so I think my son opened the window when he visited at the end of November!

I dread to think what my heating bill will be! I now plan to move the thermostat around the house with me so that hopefully once my room is warm enough, the heating will switch off in the rest of the house.

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Witzend Mon 19-Dec-22 08:26:56

We keep ours (a Honeywell portable) on a big chest of drawers in the sitting room - chest is about 3.5 feet tall.
We operate the heating manually via the thermostat - on and off as and when we want or feel the need.

Away for the weekend so adjusted the desired temp to less than usual, but enough so the house wouldn’t feel like an ice box on our return last night.

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