How cold is your house?
Discussion
This time of year it'll peak at about 17C. In the depths of winter I'll struggle to get the temperature to even that. When I get up in the morning the thermostat says 12C.
Old house, single glazing, high ceilings and a lot of complicated pipework to deal with. Thank god for the wood burner! 38kW boiler can only do so much.
Dr Rick
Old house, single glazing, high ceilings and a lot of complicated pipework to deal with. Thank god for the wood burner! 38kW boiler can only do so much.
Dr Rick
Mobile Chicane said:
Mine is 12 C. (Same temperature as outside.)
I do have central heating but I don't use it purely because I don't like it. Most houses are far too hot for me.
How cold is yours, and why?
12 degrees, jesus fecking christ... I'd check your womb isn't in the process of falling out I do have central heating but I don't use it purely because I don't like it. Most houses are far too hot for me.
How cold is yours, and why?
HRG said:
Mobile Chicane said:
Mine is 12 C. (Same temperature as outside.)
I do have central heating but I don't use it purely because I don't like it. Most houses are far too hot for me.
How cold is yours, and why?
12 degrees, jesus fecking christ... I'd check your womb isn't in the process of falling out I do have central heating but I don't use it purely because I don't like it. Most houses are far too hot for me.
How cold is yours, and why?
I have the thermostat for the Central Heating set to 17C. (Grew up in a house without CH).
We use a gas fire in the lounge to raise the temp in there to about 20 - 21C for sitting.
We only run the CH from 5:30am until 8:00am and then 6:00pm until until 9:00pm. At the weekend we might press the "+1 hour" button mid-morning and mid-afternoon but otherwise the house is well insulated enough to retain its temperature fairly well anyway...
...Unless it's bitterly cold out. Then we have to change it to run all day if we are in. That's not usual in the South, though.
We use a gas fire in the lounge to raise the temp in there to about 20 - 21C for sitting.
We only run the CH from 5:30am until 8:00am and then 6:00pm until until 9:00pm. At the weekend we might press the "+1 hour" button mid-morning and mid-afternoon but otherwise the house is well insulated enough to retain its temperature fairly well anyway...
...Unless it's bitterly cold out. Then we have to change it to run all day if we are in. That's not usual in the South, though.
I'm a 'hot' person. I can walk around in a T-shirt in the middle of winter - and do.
There's also the consideration that the gas central heating costs £100 a month to run and is so inefficient that it never heats an old stone barn above 15 C anyway, so why not forget about it and put another jumper on?
There's also the consideration that the gas central heating costs £100 a month to run and is so inefficient that it never heats an old stone barn above 15 C anyway, so why not forget about it and put another jumper on?
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