What Is Your Thermostat On?!

[Scarlett]

It's 2 degrees outside here. What is the temperature where you are and what is your thermostat on? Mine is on 22- is that high?

[lilacben]

We have ours on 20 at the most. Turn it down to 15 when we go to bed.. Our daughter feels the cold and has hers on 22 as well.

[Jackdaw33]

Mine's on the wall. Not high, just about 4 feet from the ground.

[EcclesCake]

21 I think, it goes off at night and just comes on for a couple of hours in the morning a a few more of an evening.

[Islay]

21

[jourdain2]

Haven't a clue - never come to terms with how new heating system works. It's off at the mo.. Thermostat is out in the (freezing) conservatory but doesn't seem to talk to boiler. Hazy guess is that it is about 18 in here at the mo.. Heating comes on for a few hours about 6.30 am and pm. OK so far.

[Baldric]

18° usually, we're well insulated.

[chrissa1]

Mine's on at 23. I'm in, Northumberland. Brrrr.

[jamesnan]

Mine comes on for an hour in the morning, same at lunchtime and again in the evening, for an hour - the temperature is set at 24 deg. I am a cold person but this seems to be adequate. I also wear lots of fleece clothing.

[mumstheword1]

20 here. Mine comes on at 6am 1.5 hours then 5pm for 3 hours. I don't like it too warm when going to bed with my tropical moments going on.

[KARL]

What you set the thermostat to will depend on how cold you are prepared to accept your accommodation to be - there is no such thing as too high or low because if you feel cold you need more heat and adjust upward to suit. If your heating is timed to come on only for a few hours at a time then it is possible that at times the temperature will never reach the thermostat's setting and therefore at that point the thermostat becomes completely irrelevant. The combination of the type/standard of accommodation/construction and the design of the heating system will decide how rapidly the heating has the desired effect and how well the heat is retained. There should be no relationship between the thermostat setting and the outside temperature - the whole point of having a heating system is to achieve and maintain an indoor temperature irrespective of the weather outside. The design of the system (assuming this is in the UK) should be able to cope with keeping, say, 23 degrees when it is, say, minus 5 degrees outside. In other European countries the systems need to be able to counteract temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees at times, even more.

[-SharonA-]

My thermostat is numbered 1-6. 6 being the highest. We start with it on 5, then turn it down to 2/3. Mine is on from 5pm and just turned it off. In the morning same settings for 2 hours.

[237SJ]

It`s minus 2 here. I haven`t looked at the thermostat because we don`t tend to feel the cold.

[EDDIE51]

18 deg .

[hc4361]

18 for me, too, and no heating at all in the bedroom

[TheChair]

Mine's on 26

[murraymints]

20 then turn down to 18 once place is heated up..off altogether if sun shining through large glass doors as it gets too too hot !

[Smowball]

20 max and we have frost here this morning. When house feels warm enough I turn it down till it 'clicks'. Never have bedroom radiator on, or spare room.

[Togo]

18C and on at the moment until I go out for a walk. It was -2C here at 7AM this morning or 29F in old money. Electric blanket has been deployed for the first time in 3 years. Still better than wind and rain. It is a beautiful bright day up here in N. Wales.

[murraymints]

sunny here now..CH off..toasty toasty hot !

[woofgang]

its a bit of an irrelevant question.....I don’t exactly mean irrelevant but its the nearest I can get....even assuming that all our thermostats are either totally accurate or synchronised, all it tells you is what the temperature is in the vicinity of the thermostat....The actual feeling of heat in your house will depend on loads of variables.