What is your heating set to?

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RegularWhiteShark@reddit

Ours turns off at 18c.

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Rorydinho@reddit

15 set back - which it very rarely reaches. 21 target - 1 hour in the morning around the time I wake up. 1 hour in the evening around when I get home from work. 1 hour in the late evening to top up the heat until I go to bed.

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thelastthesaurus@reddit

16.5C, but I'm heating a flat in a Victorian stone building with massive single-glazed sash windows and electric radiators, so it's a bit of a pointless and expensive exercise. The temperature is "comfortable jumper temperature" for me.

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daniluvsuall@reddit

21.5c all the time!

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Da5ren@reddit

Honestly that .5 makes all the difference

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daniluvsuall@reddit

Yep exactly that. I am quite temperature sensitive, so I'll generally fiddle with it in .5 steps over a couple days.

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SpamLandy@reddit

I see we have a millionaire in our midsts

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GenuinelySaggy@reddit

Difference between 18° and 22° for me is about £3 a week. £97 or £110. I may as well pay the £3 and actually be cosy.

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meltedlenondrop@reddit

I have mine at 18 during day and 17 at night. 18 during day is a little cold though so I have now got it at 18.5 during day. 19 was perfect but dried out my skin.

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whoatemycatfish@reddit

Mine is at 18c. Doesn’t come on automatically though, only when I’m chilly

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TimeForGrass@reddit

20, but that goes up to 23 when my gf is staying over. I do not like it, I sleep with windows open and really like a nice cold fresh breeze. I live out in the country and it's just lovely.

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Cheese_Dinosaur@reddit

Our thermostat is in the coldest part of the house and it literally does not control the temperature at all because of this. The heating system is pretty old, too. So we get to choose between 1 and 6 on the knob in the drop down bit. We keep it on 1 all winter as we find it’s cheaper to do that than have it go on and off. If we need more hot water we will be daring and put it on 2 for an hour… 🫣

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Ashamed-Assumption12@reddit

We are open plan downstairs so it tends to get colder. Thermostat usually set to 18. Don't change it at night but the valves on the bedroom radiators are turned down to numbers 1 or 2.

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tsdesigns@reddit

18 most of the time. I whack it up to 20/21 or so if octopus have free energy sessions or agile is paying us to use electricity. Generally 18 is fine for most of the house, even with a baby/small child. Then use the wood burner to heat the living room if we need a boost in colder weather. I don't understand those who keep their house at 21 degrees or more all the time, I find that roasting.

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Mrs_B-@reddit

It goes on and off depending on where we all are in the house. Upstairs is colder than down. When it's on during the day it's 20. We turn it off completely at 10pm. Goes on when the first one gets up. No little kids in our house and it's an old but well insulated house, which I think is relevant.

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CreativeAdeptness477@reddit

My heating's set to off unless it's really really REALLY cold, then it's set to on. For about a half hour to take the edge off. Then it goes back to off for a while. Ain't made of money.

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trotter2000@reddit

Changing the water temperature can help greatly too. Most are set to maximum which isn't efficient. You need the returning temperature to be lowish to make use of the condensing mode. https://www.vaillant.co.uk/advice/understanding-heating-technology/boilers/what-temperature-should-my-combi-boiler-be-set-at/

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Rootvegforrootbeer@reddit

24°C however it’s broken so it’s actually at 18°C I leave it at that level all day and all night as for me it’s cheaper to keep my house warm 24/7 than it is to heat it, cool it, heat it

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Creative_Bank3852@reddit

We have a 6 month old and I'm disabled, so it's on all the time. I think it's set to 21°C in the daytime and 16 or 17 overnight.

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Pure-Government3612@reddit (OP)

This is what I was thinking of going for

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GenuinelySaggy@reddit

If you’re worrying about costs like me you can take meter readings and do some maths. My findings were that turning it up 3° made hardly any difference to the overall bill. Like £3 a week. But obviously do your own maths because every home is different.

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Ok_Advantage_8153@reddit

I think if you have a decently energy efficient house it won't make much difference. My old place was a rental that wasn't energy efficient and if I turned the thermostat up by 3 degrees there I would have used all the worlds fossil fuels. I agree with you though, I'd rather cough up the extra £ and be comfortable rather than pay a bit less to be less miserable. Im conscious im fortunate though.

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capnpan@reddit

We have everywhere on 18 - on all the time - but we have UFH so it is a more constant heat. Except the main bathroom, which is on 20°c. We can't make it go 15-18-20 at different times of day/night. The actual water in the heating pipes is only 40° or so, so it doesn't cost as much as heating up water to 65°+.

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CariRyfedd@reddit

15 C constantly, might increase it to 16 soon, but usually I only occasionally increase it to about 18, any higher and once I start moving around I become to hot. No kids tho so if any family is around it would probably be about 20 for their comfort

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

22c pretty much perm due to heat pump and underfloor heating. No point adjusting it as adjustments take days.

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Successful-Grand-549@reddit

Underfloor heating just makes sense; heat rises, warm feeties 😍 my place has high ceilings too so takes forever to warm up. Very much would like underfloor heating

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Alas_boris@reddit

Same. Insulated slab, double the minimum amount of wall insulation, crazy amounts of loft insulation, triple glazing, airtight house, underfloor heating, heat pump and MVHR to control ventilation/moisture. Those people from Insulate Britain sitting down on the roads a few years ago were making a very good point. Very fortunate to have been in a position to make these improvements to the building, but the cost of heating now is so low, the payback for the additional cost of doing the bare minimum whilst refurbishing the house is only about 10 years. So that is 10 years of living in a warm and comfortable house, that costs significantly less to heat than before each month, and then from 2033 onwards we will in effect be making/saving £1200 a year (based on today's energy rates). The maths are not precise, but the comfort is tangible.

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

I’m in a new build so I’ve got all the insulation no matter if I want it or not. Managed to get my living room to 32c in the summer with the heating turned off. Had to leave doors open for an hour or two in the evening to help it cool down.

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nevynxxx@reddit

Insulation doesn’t know about direction of travel of energy. How did you build up all that heat in the house? In theory opening windows over night then closing them during the day should result in a nice cool house in summer.

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

My living room gets sunlight from sunset to sundown. Massive windows too. When I first moved in I didn’t have blinds as the builders forgot to order them. So it was like a greenhouse.

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Alas_boris@reddit

Get a solar control film applied to your large windows in the short term, and look to find a way to prevent direct sunlight hitting the external face of the glass in the longer term, use plants, screening or canopies/brise soleil. The sooner you do this, the sooner you never have to think about it again and endure the overheating.

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

Like you prior to kids we didn’t even put the heating on, lived in a new build so it wasn’t awful, just sat under a duvet in winter in the living room. I now live in a 100 year old house with my two kids at it’s set to 18 or 19, it’s 19 at the moment, heating comes on a fair amount. I got a smart meter this year snd it’s somewhat depressing to see how much energy we use. But I also had very bad damp when I first moved in so not heating the house isn’t much of an option either, the front bay window wall was bad enough that I thought it was leaking, water literally was running down the wall.

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No-Reason-8205@reddit

Try opening the windows for half an hour and use a dehumidifier. Old houses with solid walls work in different way to modern houses. They need the walls to be able to breathe and good ventilation. Cold, dry air holds less moisture than warm air so letting the air in all rooms will make it easier to heat up than the damp, warm air. Look at what they do in cold countries.

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

Yeh I air the house out, mostly the bathroom and living room are the problem but I’m almost 4 years in and it’s a lot better now than it used to be, but of it was realising I need to keep the house at a steady temperature rather than just putting heating on when I’m cold.

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According_Union@reddit

We've settled on 17.5 and overnight 16 (we have a young baby to keep cosy). It took a few weeks of toing and froing to remember what temperature suited our house best.

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Affectionate-Rule-98@reddit

21. We have a toddler and a baby though so need to keep it on the warmer side

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wtf-meight@reddit

My gf runs a lot colder than me so we have it on 20 during the day at the moment, will probably go up to 22 once the temps drop. I don't mind, just means I can get away with a t shirt in the house and I have never understood the man mentality of padlocking the heating and insisting it stays off till temps hit -20.

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ChickenTikkaMasalla_@reddit

I’m not sure you understand how heating works

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kifflington@reddit

Why are you increasing the thermostat temperature when the outside temperature drops?

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regencylove@reddit

20°

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copypastespecialist@reddit

Usually set to 22c year round in most the house, bedrooms to 18 overnight 21c day

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copypastespecialist@reddit

Nothing! We’re having a heat pump installed this week so it’s all off for now

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Imadeutscher@reddit

19

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Immediate_Banana_216@reddit

I run warm and live with a Malamute and a Husky so it's off most of the day i'm at work and then set to come on for a couple of hours in an evening and first thing in the morning, aorund 4am. Temperature is set to 17C and it only comes in for 4 months from November to February.

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dartiss@reddit

A lot of this will be down to where you have your thermostat (if you have a single one) as to, keep the other rooms warm enough, you may have it colder or hotter than if it was elsewhere in the house. Anyway, I have mine set to 18°C first thing (for when we're getting up and getting ready), going up another half a degree later. During the night it's 15 and, during a week day, when nobody is at home, it drops to 17.

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Perite@reddit

I’m glad to see a sensible answer near the top for once. My thermostat is set to 16C. Because my hallway is cold as balls and only has a tiny radiator. Doesn’t mean the rest of the house is that temperature though.

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Kind-Blackberry-6221@reddit

We have a 4yo and 10 month old, and this is pretty much the same for us. 18.5°c in the mornings and evenings, 17 or 18 during the day depending on if we're in or out, 15 overnight.

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BaldPleaser@reddit

Over the years I’ve had a number of boiler’s installed when moving by qualified old school type independent installers. All of them used to say for average sized 4 bedder 18 is the temp they should be set at when occupied and anywhere between 12 - 18 for when it’s unoccupied or during the night. I actually tried this one time and found that the house was notably warm/cozy and that my monthly bill reduced between £10-20 over the months of October to February. Keeping the heating on at specific temperatures throughout the day reduces the inefficiency of the boiler having to warm up the entire house from point 0. That’s my personal take and experience on it.

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Fattydog@reddit

Agreed. Ours is right by the front door and it’s quite cold there. If we whack it up to 20 the whole house is boiling.

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HotPinkLollyWimple@reddit

Pretty much the same. Mine’s in the hall and it’s permanently on at about 16-17 - it’s old so it’s not very exact. Now it’s only me at home, I only have it on for an hour in the morning and then I use a little oil filled radiator in the room that I spend most time in. Half of the radiators in the house are completely off.

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Cold_Raspberry520@reddit

20 , we don't have it on at night , just thick sleep suits, plus sleep sack. , keep a space heater in babies room doesn't drop below 17 there. My husband can't sleep with heat he wakes up drenched in sweat. Pre pregnancy I used a heated mat, my oldest two still do. I can't handle below 19 during day unless I'm on constant move .

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SCWeak@reddit

My thermostat doesn’t work. It’s either on or off. So on when it gets cold, off once it’s warm. Off at night.

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SemtaCert@reddit

A thermostat is less than £20 so why not just buy a new one that so it works?

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Necessary_Umpire_139@reddit

The broken one works fine, just the wrong way round.

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SemtaCert@reddit

If it comes on above the set temperature and turns off below the set temperature then it must be wired wrong. So why not fix it?

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gmailreddit11219@reddit

I’m yet to turn it on at all this year, lots of layers and heated blankets are doing the job so far

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gpowerf@reddit

22 degrees centigrade.

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iwantmorewhippets@reddit

My thermostat is at the bottom of the stairs, so is pretty much accurate as to the temperature of the house in general (stairs are in the living room, it's a small house). So at night it is set to between 18.5 and 19 depending on the time of day (19 when we are likely to be getting changed). The dogs sleep downstairs and have very little fur (whippets), so we don't want it too cold for them. The lurcher wakes us up just to tuck her in, she is very needy. Any warmer than that at night and I can't sleep because it's too hot.

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SongsAboutGhosts@reddit

We have young kids and two guinea pigs. The pigs' room is colder than the bedrooms so the thermostat is there and set to 16°, which keeps everyone at or above the minimum recommended. Then we just make sure everyone is dressed appropriately for that temperature, and do a short boost if needed (bathing the kids, etc).

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Srapture@reddit

21°C during the day, 19°C at night. I've never really understood people talking about "putting the heating on". The thermostat is set to a temperature I find comfortable. If it's summer so it's hotter than that anyway, the heating won't come on. There's no manual intervention required.

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Hyperion2023@reddit

Off overnight. During the day, I’ll put it down to 17, partner will put it back up to 19 or even 20, I’ll tweak it back down again, or turn it off

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nathderbyshire@reddit

I pray this love never finds me

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TheToolman04@reddit

17 or 19 when nobody is home and 23 for when it's really cold. Not changed since we moved in 6 years ago and works a treat. Cost a LOT more to heat it up from cold than it does mildly warm.

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ohnobobbins@reddit

It’s just set at 20. Our heating is included in the service charge as we’re in a flat, so it could be on 25 if we wanted it, but 20 seems about right. I bump it up to 21 if anyone is uncomfortable or if we have a lot of washing drying. We also have a dehumidifier 24/7. My mother in law’s house is 24-25 on sunny days, and I find it so uncomfortable!

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magicmush_man@reddit

22 downstairs, 21 upstairs, 365 days year.

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Foddley@reddit

I'll wear more layers right up until 15c. Then it goes on until 18c.

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cloudylemo@reddit

Thermostat set at 15.5. Peak times (morning and after dinner), bedrooms set at 19.5, living rooms/study set to 21.5. I find we manage it better on all the time and managed through thermostats.

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avalanchefan95@reddit

18-19, 16 overnight

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Woozlie@reddit

17 day, 18 from 5-8, 17 overnight. It keeps things pretty stable as we have 3 floors, ground is always coldest (where we have the thermostat), middle is nice and stable at around 18/19 all the time and top floor sit at about 16/17.

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

16.5° at night, up to 18° in the day, though no children here. I also try to avoid increasing it in the day, especially when working from home when I can just put on a dressing gown and blankets.

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Rubostars@reddit

Mine is set to 21°, I also have a newborn so the heating runs 3 times for 45 mins during cold nights. During the day it's turned off. I live in Surrey

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CurvePuzzleheaded361@reddit

We have smart controls for heating so all rooms have their own schedule but downstairs usually 21 in the day while i am home and upstairs 16 while not in use. I hate being cold.

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Ok-Cash-4257@reddit

21oc in the daytime and turn it off overnight.

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Nuo_Vibro@reddit

15 degrees. Not a centrigrade more

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Academic_Bowl_4643@reddit

Samesies, I have a nine month old. My house is chilly so my thermostat is constantly set at 20 at the moment. I've ordered the baby a thicker sleep sack and will probably drop to 18 at night when we have that.

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dragonb2992@reddit

Currently off. I live in a flat so I get heat from the flats below.

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itzgreycatx@reddit

19 for me, any warmer and I find it too much but much colder and I struggle to concentrate when I’m working.

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imokaytho@reddit

We probably only turn the heating on for an hour a day. It gives me dry eyes and makes my eczema worse. I just cuddle a hot water bottle at night and I'm toasty.

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ScumBucket33@reddit

I have it set to 22 °C from about 05:00-22:00 and then about 16 °C during the night.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

22c from 6am-10pm, 20c 10pm-6am

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OddlyDown@reddit

The best investment most people can make if they have radiators is TRVs so you can set each room to whatever works best there. They are pretty cheap. My house does have a ‘main’ thermostat but it’s set to the highest temperature of any of the rooms. Each room then has a smart TRV with a schedule.

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Sam-Lowry27B-6@reddit

Mine is set to maybe January.

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MaidInWales@reddit

Once it's on all the time, 21 during the day, 17 at night. Up until yesterday it was on for a couple of hours in the morning and in the evenings to take the chill off but the chill came back too quickly yesterday and I'm recovering from the flu so it stayed on all day.

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ldn-ldn@reddit

None of my rooms dropped below 21° so far, so the heating is off. But when it will, I'll set night time to 21° and day time to 22.5°.

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dobber72@reddit

17°, any warmer than that and I start getting overdraft messages from my bank.

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fleetwood_mag@reddit

Same.

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helmickey@reddit

Almost always 18, put it up to 20-21 for a bit when I feel a bit chilly

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TheHootOwlofDeath@reddit

19 in the day, 18 at night. My heating stays on throughout the day because I have pets that need to stay warm. A hamster in torpor is not fun!

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SpamLandy@reddit

I sometimes turn mine up when the cat looks cold

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LonelySmiling@reddit

19 day, 17 night. Dehumidifiers get put to work too

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uk451@reddit

A baby is a really nice time to invest in smart TRVs (we like Drayton wiser), as you can have your/their bedroom heated at night without fully heating the rest of the house.

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cross_stitcher87@reddit

18 in the morning when we’re getting up (it kicks in around 6:30 to warm up the house to that point), and 19 in the evening. We have a 3.5 year old, who’s in nursery full time Mon-fri, and we work from home generally, though we have an office at the bottom of the garden which we heat during the day to 21. The main house heats up from 4:30 so it’s warm by the time we’ve finished work and picked the pre-schooler up. We do have a wood burner which we light most evenings at this time of year, which gets the house up into the 20s, so that helps!

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clowninforlife@reddit

We don’t have a thermostat but downstairs radiator is set to 23 during the day and 21 when out the house / at night as it’s an open space and practically impossible to heat. In the bedroom it’s 22 or 23 when home and 21 when out the house. Tried turning everything on when we’re not home and because both upstairs and downstairs are really high ceilings it’s not efficient to keep turning them on and off. I also have a cat so I just justify it and say *she’s cold*

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J8MXY@reddit

Mine is set at 18 now permanently. Comes on maybe every few hours for about 20 mins atm.

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melanie110@reddit

21. Will always be 21. I refuse to feel cold or be cold. That works for us!!

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pdp76@reddit

Old house and there is temperature variations because of this. So my thermostat is wireless and on a stand. When I bring it upstairs for bedtime I’ll set it to 18°. Downstairs I’ll have it set for 19°/20°. Upstairs is always cooler than downstairs in the winter, so leaving the thermostat downstairs overnight the upper levels will be a good couple of degrees cooler. I’ll only really bother to move it on the colder nights, or if I’m getting the multi fuel burner going with coal then the thermostat will stay upstairs.

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RhubarbTrifle@reddit

17 overnight 18.5 6am-8am 17 during the day while we work from home 18.5 4pm when kids are home 17 at 7pm once kids are snuggled up in bed At the weekend if we're all in sat about we might pop it on earlier in the afternoon. I feel this is both energy and cost efficient while not letting my kids or pets live in a cold house.

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bibonacci2@reddit

Normally, 21.5 day and 18 at night. My missus likes it a bit warmer than me. This week we are +2.5 on that as the in-laws (80s) are visiting. Have the radiator in my bedroom off to compensate but I expect to be popping out on a regular for a blast of cool.

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hannahbeliever@reddit

14C as the thermostat is in the hallway where it's coldest. It rarely comes on by itself though so I'll manually put it on when I'm cold

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gouplesblog@reddit

During the day we have them set to: Zone 1 - downstairs and hallways - 20c Zone 2 - bedrooms and bathrooms - 19c The minimum temperature at night is 18c, but I'm still getting chilly so I'm layering up.

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flaninacupboard2@reddit

23 upstairs in the morning and 21 downstairs. Rest of the day 19 upstairs and 20 downstairs. 19 upstairs and 18 downstairs overnight.

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JocastaH-B@reddit

21 in the day, off at night but if it gets very cold at night I'll set it to 13

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Smeeble09@reddit

19 for when we get up for work, but if it's a weekend it's 20. Have it going to 20 for around lunch time each day (WFH). Evening it's normally 20-21 until 10pm. Overnight if it drops below 15 it kicks in to take the edge off, but that's it.

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Infamous-Ordinary-39@reddit

18 for a couple of hours in a morning plus lunch plus evening(off by 9pm) or if we are poorly and 14 overnight. My husband and I are 'hot' people and these timings and temps are actually increased as we had our son 5 years ago.

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Do_not_use_after@reddit

13.5 all year. However, that's in the hallway, and rooms have radiator thermostats that keep them slightly warmer.

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Crayons42@reddit

20c daytime and 16c overnight

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Alternative_Land8156@reddit

21 during the day (well, when I’m in) and 16 at night

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Boring_Bastard_72@reddit

Mine's set to 13c. I've had it in a couple times to check it works (it didn't but is now fixed).

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cryingtoelliotsmith@reddit

my heating doesn't work so I just use an electric space heater in the babies room. I try to keep it between 19-24°

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TheShakyHandsMan@reddit

Coming upto to the first winter in my house. Think I’m going to move the thermostat out of the hallway based on other replies. Has anyone got a Hive? Worth the money?

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thescx@reddit

For the past week the temp has been set at 22°C and is on all day and night.

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DangerousDisplay7664@reddit

It’s set to come on if the temperature in the hallway (where the thermostat is) falls below 18°c BUT ONLY between 6am-8am, 4pm-5pm & 8pm-9pm

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Gooseuk360@reddit

21c all the time.

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hoopheid@reddit

21 during the day, 16.5 during the night.

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tomgrouch@reddit

15 degrees, because it's in the coldest part of the house. If that hallway is at 15, everywhere else is about 18-20

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terahurts@reddit

2 Bed bungalow. 21C during the day and 18C overnight. Off from the end of March until it starts getting below about 15C outside. Occasionally bump it to 22C if it's cold, raining and/or windy as one side of the house faces open fields and the weather just seems to suck heat out of the rooms on that side. 21C on the thermostat gives us an average room temperature of 20C in the living room. 21.5C is my comfort 'sweet spot' but my wife prefers it cooler and I'll be fucked if I'm handing British Gas any more money than I absolutely have to, so I wear hoodies and thick socks in the winter.

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keeponyrmeanside@reddit

Can you move your thermostat to the babies room? We have a smart one and set to 19 degrees but it’s in the babies room, and then the radiator is turned off in our room. So it keeps their room at 19 but the rest of the house a bit cooler. I just find sleeping with the heating on unbearable!

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TheMasalaKnight@reddit

21C in the morning and evening and 19C in the day set all year round.

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Future-Pomelo4222@reddit

Overnight off, 7am-9.30pm 18.5degrees.

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Alert_Ad_5750@reddit

21 seems the sweet spot for us. We have two young toddlers so taking the chill out the air is essential.

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illbepedro@reddit

Also have a 9 month old. Set to 16 during the day, but we use the underfloor in the living room, then 19.5 overnight (thermostat is in baby's room).

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Legitimate_War_397@reddit

21, have it on timer. 4pm to 6pm then 3am to 7am. Enough to keep me warm when I get home from work to when I get ready for work. Only to 6pm because then the wood burned on by then and my house becomes an inferno.

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Heathy_Heatherson@reddit

19c

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OriginalQuackers@reddit

21

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UniquePotato@reddit

17c We have a 3 storey house the thermostat on the ground floor. Its always cool down there

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

16c in the hallway, but only running it for 1 to 2 hours a day anyway. Main rooms hold warmth pretty well and heat up faster than the hallway

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Raqonteur@reddit

19. A couple of hours in the morning, lunch and after tea on the timer. Only turned it on this month, after we got back from bi-yearly sunshine holiday.

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PsychologicalDrone@reddit

My heating is still off, my bedroom is still roasting

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lavayuki@reddit

I set it to 17 when not at home, 18.5 when at home, and then back to 17 before bed.

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Firstpoet@reddit

Pretty much 18⁰ then a manual boost in the evening for an hour. Last night had a noticeable sudden drop at around 6pm. House is pretty well insulated so switching on for an hour does the trick. Also have a kick space fan heater in kitchen. Rarely use it but 10 mins of that on a chilly morning is very effective. Then central heating barely on in day. North South facing house. Any sun? Open South facing blinds. Free heating. Solar glass on this side.

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Ok-Progress1582@reddit

18 degrees for an hour in the morning, then 18 degrees from 5-9pm. I’m out during the day, and it’s a new build so holds heat pretty well.

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Human_Environment_92@reddit

I used to be very stingy with it but now one of my cats is elderly and I’m worried about her being cold so I’m burning the heating like gas costs nothing 😂

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Embarrassed_Park2212@reddit

18c daytime and off at night. Can't sleep if it's too hot, I'd prefer being cold. I also have a self heating blanket if it's too cold.

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Many-Giraffe-2341@reddit

18 all day, boosting to 20 at 6.30am and 7pm

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fussyfella@reddit

21 is what I have heating set to. At my place in Spain which needs cooling for far longer than it needs heating I have the temp set to 24 for the aircon.

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CentralSaltServices@reddit

18. Year round

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

20 degrees but I only put it on after 5pm and on the weekend, not all day long (I wfh). Instead I use a heated jacket thing, foot warmer and at times (like when I read on the couch because I turn the heating off by then as the heat doesn't warm up the whole room, just the corner where the radiator - and desk - is) I use a heated blanket. I also have heated under the sheet for my bed at night.

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Cultural_Tank_6947@reddit

Have a couple of different areas in our house, the downstairs which is underfloor heated is at 18C all day, and drops to 16C at night. The rooms with the radiators are at 20C all day and drop to 18C at night. We've got a heat pump, so we'd ruin our cost efficiency if we made the swings any wilder than that.

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petrolstationpicnic@reddit

At the moment its set to 20, which is like pissing in the wind considering I live in a 100 year-old house which is open plan with tiled floors My wife really feels the cold and we have a toddler aswell, if it were up to me it beyond 16 and we’d all have jumpers on

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Pelican_Town_488@reddit

Set to come on automatically if it reaches below 17.5°. I normally give it a little 1hr boost in the evening too.

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Equivalent_Age8406@reddit

My heating hasn't come on at all yet.

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jrbp@reddit

18 at night, 20 in the day

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