Without central heating on how cold is your home?

From my Wiser app.

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Heating goes off at midnight from 21 setpoint, comes back on again at 630am, then off again until 530pm. House falls from 21 to 17 in that time.
 
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Detached, late 60's build. Lots of glass on the back.
Took about 2 days to drop to 15c couple weekends ago when we were away. Away mode is set to 15c to avoid it taking forever to warm back up, keeps boiler ticking over.
 
Turned on central heating once this year.

There's heat from the kitchen, heat from the computers, house is a bit over a decade old, warm end of the UK and it's currently midday.

16 degrees
 
We're in a pretty well insulated new-ish build, and it takes several days of no heating in December to drop down to 14.

When we are at home, I don't really use the thermostat, just set the heating to come on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon.
 
I've got smart TRVs and temp sensors all over the place..


We have one room we keep switched off and door closed, this generally gets down to 16C over night, but extra cold nights like last night and it hit 13.6C.


My insulated shed dropped to 10C last night, my loft 6.7C..
 
nutsnut said:
With current temperatures, my house sits at around 16c with no heating on.

Not a new build, 1925.
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Before a refurb my house had no working heating, my house would get down to 9c inside
I used to have to sleep fully clothes and hot water bottles everywhere. It was an awful time
 
Depends on how many people are present as human bodies emit heat as well as what appliances you have on TV, PC, all emit heat. If I'm out for the day and everythings switched off bar always on appliance like fridge etc then the temperature is noticeably colder and takes a good deal longer to warm up to comfortable temperature.
 
In a new build and it takes several cold days or an exceptionally cold night to get down to 13C.

This year has been quite different to this time last year if I recall... the mild weather so far this winter has meant even less frequent central heating use.
 
hornetstinger said:
akshully since the human body radiates 80-100W of heat, that may be enough to heat up a room warmer than the outside. Factor in a large family in a small house, a couple of big dogs...

Probably why in medieval times they brought in sheep, goats into the home
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er. the heatloss of most even modern homes is from 2 - 6kw/hr. so that is between 20 and 60 people...now, i might be up-norf and cheap, but i also dont like people, so that idea for free heating "is a no from me".
 
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stuman said:
er. the heatloss of most even modern homes is from 2 - 6kw/hr. so that is between 20 and 60 people...no i might be up-norf and cheap, but i also dont like people so that idea for free heating is a no from me.
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Simple have a big pile of manure in your home :D

"
Manure, when properly composted in a large enough pile, can generate significant heat, with internal temperatures typically reaching
110°F to 160°F (43°C to 71°C). This heat is a byproduct of microbial decomposition and is hot enough to kill most pathogens and weed seed"
 
hornetstinger said:
#Simple have a big pile of manure in your home :D

"
Manure, when properly composted in a large enough pile, can generate significant heat, with internal temperatures typically reaching
110°F to 160°F (43°C to 71°C). This heat is a byproduct of microbial decomposition and is hot enough to kill most pathogens and weed seed"
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there was a youtube video of a farmer doing exactly that. Not sure it went very far, but it was a good concept.
 
My flat is freezing cold, I suspect much lower than 16c most of the time. Need to buy a proper thermometer.

I am due to have some new insulation put in the loft tomorrow though as a lot of heat is lost through the roof.
 
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