what temperature do you keep your rooms?

dirtychinchilla said:
16C is the minimum recommended temperature for any room, unoccupied or otherwise.
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I can understand this for occupied rooms for health reasons. But for unoccupied it seems excessive. You're not going to immediately get damp issues and mould growing at 15 degrees as opposed to 16!
 
Macky said:
I can understand this for occupied rooms for health reasons. But for unoccupied it seems excessive. You're not going to immediately get damp issues and mould growing at 15 degrees as opposed to 16!
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Your use of the word immediate is a pretty big pointer as to why 16 is recommended to maintain, not ZOMG NEVER HIT 15 hehe
 
In November i refrained from heating much at all, but being an old house it soon was obvious that that was never going to bode well. Now i have 40mins in the morning of heating and up to 4hrs in the evening which can vary to as little as 1hr. I've been blasting the log burner for drying clothing and controlling the moisture from that. The thermostat stays on 12/13c and i just heat at manual settings as the house without the log burner on will struggle to hit 17c in some rooms still. More insulation to be done though, plus new front door.
 
During the day I've set ours at 17. That's the lowest I'll go before it feels like I'm making the rest of the family suffer unduly. Bit of a change from the 23 I set last winter.

I found very little actual difference in use turning it off during the day and back on again in the evening. And our energy use is within budget - so no point going any less.
 
200sols said:
How anyone can live with rooms heated to 24c is beyond me.
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And me, I moan in the summer when it's 24C at night and I'm trying to get to sleep.

Our house typically sits between 14-16. It'll probably take a good 24h without the heating off for it to dip below 14.
 
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An hour morning and evening, an extra hour the last few colder days. Gets it up to 16C-18C. Downstairs is 10-12C, but I just cook, eat and then go upstairs anyway. Dehumidifier keeps the humidity around 50%, so no damp or condensation.
 
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dirtychinchilla said:
It's more to do with the building materials, and then also reheating time.
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We have no issue reheating our house, we let temps drop down overnight to around 12-14 degrees (down to 11 the last few nights!), we can have the heating on then for 1.5hours tops and the whole house is back over 17 comfortably.

We used 1040kwh gas in december and are likely to use similar if not a little less in January. We are a 3 bed semi with myself WFH and my wife and sister in law childminding from the property as well.

Humidity levels are close to the upper end of whats considered acceptable but still 65% or below.

Anyone running at 18-21 all day long is just burning money for no need. We used to have the house mostly at 20 degrees in previous years and this year we are now comfortable at much less than this. Hot water bottles and heated blankets have made for much cosier evenings as well, silver linings and all!
 
Syla5 said:
Anyone running at 18-21 all day long is just burning money for no need.
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You say that, but it entirely depends on the house. Ours is at 20c all day and 18c overnight and we used exactly the same amount of gas as you in December. Plus, try telling that to my partner who would complain she's dying at anything less than 19.
 
Syla5 said:
We have no issue reheating our house, we let temps drop down overnight to around 12-14 degrees (down to 11 the last few nights!), we can have the heating on then for 1.5hours tops and the whole house is back over 17 comfortably.

We used 1040kwh gas in december and are likely to use similar if not a little less in January. We are a 3 bed semi with myself WFH and my wife and sister in law childminding from the property as well.

Humidity levels are close to the upper end of whats considered acceptable but still 65% or below.

Anyone running at 18-21 all day long is just burning money for no need. We used to have the house mostly at 20 degrees in previous years and this year we are now comfortable at much less than this. Hot water bottles and heated blankets have made for much cosier evenings as well, silver linings and all!
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Crikey. I used 2433.57kwh in December and it barely got above 17 more than once!
 
Skilid said:
You say that, but it entirely depends on the house. Ours is at 20c all day and 18c overnight and we used exactly the same amount of gas as you in December. Plus, try telling that to my partner who would complain she's dying at anything less than 19.
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Yeah i would happily run the house warmer if it was more efficient to do so but its an old 1950's build and not very well insulated so we live with what we have. However you do get used to the colder temps, on average this year we are 4-5 degrees cooler and the only real appreciable difference is wearing jumpers and slippers.
 
squerble said:
Yes you would? It's literally the unit your energy company charges on.
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Yeah at different rates. A pound is a pound but a kWh of leccy doesn't dump the same amount of heat into the home as a kWh of gas. And even if they did it would cost you a different amount.

Surely the only sensible comparison between gas/electric/mixed is how much it's costing?
 
LuckyBenski said:
Yeah at different rates. A pound is a pound but a kWh of leccy doesn't dump the same amount of heat into the home as a kWh of gas. And even if they did it would cost you a different amount.

Surely the only sensible comparison between gas/electric/mixed is how much it's costing?
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People pay different rates, even on the price cap, which is exactly why you should be comparing kWh usage. It's the only direct comparison.

Someone could say they're paying £100/month but on some amazing legacy rate using 3x more gas than you paying £120/month on the current price cap. You must compare direct energy consumption. Also they're not too different in terms of output - most gas condensing boilers will be 90+% efficient, and electric is 100% efficient. It's really not a big difference.
 
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