Without central heating on how cold is your home?

mattyg said:
I like a warm house, So wouldn't even entertain trying to see how cold it could go. Plus its a fairly large house and would take a while to warm the bugger back up. Detached,Built 1906 Some large rooms circa 5000Sqft
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You live in Windsor Castle? 1 room is 5000 square foot?

This house is 5001 sq ft. Remember this is volume for 2 floors. So if you hgave a single room that is 5000 sq ft, the floor space is massively increased due to being a single floored room. I think you have that wrong.

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Ace Modder said:
You live in Windsor Castle? 1 room is 5000 square foot?

This house is 5001 sq ft. Remember this is volume for 2 floors. So if you hgave a single room that is 5000 sq ft, the floor space is massively increased due to being a single floored room. I think you have that wrong.

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Hey Ace, No mate. Maybe I'll edit my post. 5000Sqft in total.

Punctuation Matt, Punctuation!
 
I'm staying at my mum's for Christ mas and the place is like a furnace. I'm having to spend most of my time in a bedroom with the radiator off and the windows open because the heat is so unbearable. I went downstairs for 20 minutes earlier and forgot to shut the bedroom door. All the sodding heat came in. :/
 
Skunkworks said:
I'm staying at my mum's for Christ mas and the place is like a furnace. I'm having to spend most of my time in a bedroom with the radiator off and the windows open because the heat is so unbearable. I went downstairs for 20 minutes earlier and forgot to shut the bedroom door. All the sodding heat came in. :/
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I just don't get that... The heating bill must be eye watering.

My rule of thumb.. If you are comfortable in the house with just shorts and a t-shirt for example, your heating is too high.. Wear some trousers and a jumper, or tracky bottoms and a hoodie or something, and knock the thermostat down a few notches.
 
10 in hallway

but most annoying thing is breath on the bathroom mirror, & in cooler/ventilated kitchen spreading butter(often use uwave), some of the olive oil seems to have crystallized too.
 
mattyfez said:
I just don't get that... The heating bill must be eye watering.

My rule of thumb.. If you are comfortable in the house with just shorts and a t-shirt for example, your heating is too high.. Wear some trousers and a jumper, or tracky bottoms and a hoodie or something, and knock the thermostat down a few notches.
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Why? You could just be warm instead.

Our electricity bill far, far exceeds our gas bill.
 
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mattyfez said:
I just don't get that... The heating bill must be eye watering.

My rule of thumb.. If you are comfortable in the house with just shorts and a t-shirt for example, your heating is too high.. Wear some trousers and a jumper, or tracky bottoms and a hoodie or something, and knock the thermostat down a few notches.
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I don't like being cold. I WFH a lot. But I broadly agree about wearing a jumper or hoodie.

Ours is 2000 era poorly made, gas heats up fast since we had it flushed. But loses heat quickly Poorly insulated, poor quality double glazing. But it has a good aspect so lots of sunlight and heat. It's generally a warm house for all that.

We have another house from the 80s and a sibling lives there. No drafts but it's a big house with 80s insulation. Poor aspect little sunlight. Now that house gets cold. Colder inside than out With no heating. Like artic cold. Currently the heating is broken and it genuinely feels like a fridge. Bone chilling cold.
 
Very cold! I don't think it'd take that long for the house to drop down close to the ambient temp outside, at least in the original part of the house. The new extension area stays noticeably warmer.
 
New build. We usually heat to around 21c but in the morning it's ~17c and that's with the heating being off from about 2130-2200

mattyfez said:
My rule of thumb.. If you are comfortable in the house with just shorts and a t-shirt for example, your heating is too high.. Wear some trousers and a jumper, or tracky bottoms and a hoodie or something, and knock the thermostat down a few notches.
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Opposite for me. If you can't be comfortable in shorts and t-shirt the house is too cold. I'm at home. That's where I am supposed to be most comfortable and layering up at home sounds like it defeats the point of home comforts.
 
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This time of year; Kitchen (extension with flat roof) around ~11c in the mornings, rest of house hovers around ~17c.

I only generally heat 2 rooms in the house, lounge and office. Office to ~22c and lounge hovers between 17 - 20c (kitchen adjoins the lounge but I have a thermal curtain between the areas).

Thermal curtains work surprisingly well!
 
It holds about 16.5 over night but if I didn't turn the heating on and get it back to 19c in about half and hour, then it would eventually go down and down. I would assume until it became as cold as outside.
 
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15.5°C according to the thermostat this morning - 1970's flat roofed, prefabbed council box, allegedly with cavity wall insulation, but last year's renovations proved otherwise.

The parts of the house that are actually made of brick (end of terrace wall & newer gf bedroom/wetroom extension) stay pretty cozy, though...
 
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