House Temperature

[Belle427]

Most of the stats I’ve had or programmed suggest 21 is a comfortable living temperature with it dropping to 16 overnight.
With it set at 16 overnight in the few houses I’ve owned it rarely cuts in, I suppose it depends on its location and how well the house holds the heat.

 

[Bod ...]

I know what cold is; I swim in fugging lakes!

Is that thick stuff?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Heat pump dryer? Tell me more please

It's a tumble dryer. It looks just like they did in the old days (a white box with a door) but is utterly different inside.

Basically it tumbles the clothes while blowing air through, just as an old one did. But this air then gets dehumidied, then warmed, then blown through the washing again, recirculating until the washing is dry. All without getting very hot, so it doesn't ruin all your clothes by cooking them as the old ones did. It costs vastly less to run and is better in every way. Perhaps the only downsides are that they take a little longer and are noisier due to the heat pump (it sounds like an air conditioner, that jangly diesel engine sort of noise).

It uses warm, very dry air rather than just heat as the old ones did, which basically boiled the water out of the clothes. Old ones used lots of energy by actively blowing heat out - either through a duct into the outside or out of a vent into the room in the case of a condenser type. With a heat pump dryer almost all of the heat stays inside the dryer, only the condensed water vapour leaves the system.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Most of the stats I’ve had or programmed suggest 21 is a comfortable living temperature with it dropping to 16 overnight.
With it set at 16 overnight in the few houses I’ve owned it rarely cuts in, I suppose it depends on its location and how well the house holds the heat.

I don't think I've ever had heating on at night at all, ever. I didn't know people even did this.

The timer on our old house didn't actually have a concept of "Off", it had a setpoint at all times. I think it was set to 7 degrees at night or while at work, so was actually off.

Our house will get down to 12 or so in the morning. But it's fine, I'm under a quilt.

 

[Notch7]

the one positive of high energy prices is my wife has finally stopped turning up the thermostat up in the mistaken belief it will make the house heat faster.

before this winter I dont think I ever wore a jumper indoors, ever.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

the one positive of high energy prices is my wife has finally stopped turning up the thermostat up in the mistaken belief it will make the house heat faster.

That was always a myth in the past. I remember an episode of Peep Show where they turned it really high, saying that the boiler would panic and work extra hard.

But, with some modern thermostats it may actually be true. Some control systems back off the power as they approach the setpoint, to avoid overshooting it. The system I'm looking at installing does this. So if your aim is to reach 20 then you may actually get there quicker if you set 25. Good only if you're not worried about getting too hot or the heating costs. Only with an electronic control loop though, not with the old-fashioned on/off thermostats that always overshoot.

 

[Mottie]

Can vary depending on where the stat is fitted. Two different readings from same room where the stat was up to temperature at 21.5°

Floor and ceiling.

 

[Londoner2]

thermo is in the lounge, overnight it drops to 19c, at 19c or below is too cold for us.

 

[Mottie]

thermo is in the lounge, overnight it drops to 19c, at 19c or below is too cold for us.

Same here.

 

[crystal ball]

thermo is in the lounge, overnight it drops to 19c, at 19c or below is too cold for us.

Southern softies, ours is at 18.5c

 

[Dork Lard]

I never thought that a forum thread on T'inter'netty's could so closely resemble Monty Pythons 4 Yorkshiremen sketch.

 

[ericmark]

I have 16 thermostats in my house. Two on the walls, rest on end of radiators, 10 being programmable. But the main wall thermostat is frankly useless.

It is in the hall, which cools too slow. And unless the main thermostat turns on, rest do nothing, so only way is to raised temperature 0.5ºC every 2 hours, so other thermostats do their job.

 

[foxhole]

Hi,

I've recently become interested in "house temperature" from a conversation at work, plus I have smart heating conrols (all but one radiator also use a Smart TRV) which consistently tells me my house is cold and humid.

Doing some research, most articles agree on 18-21/22degrees (especially overnight during sleep). This is simply far too warm for us. I woke up this morning at 13.4degrees and was slightly uncomfortable on the warm side, always sleep in just boxers 365 days (so I have the window quarter open which dropped the room temperature to 12.5degrees as of right now). If I had my heating set to come on below 18degrees it would be on all night for one thing, and be even more uncomfortable. It'd also continually be battling with smart heating "open window feature"

As far as schedule goes, this is what I have mine set to;

00:00-08:00 = 10.0
08:00-22:00 = 14.0
22:00-00:00 = 10.0

One exception is bathroom, which has 2 extra blocks, and only really to warm up towels;

07:30-08:30 = 22.0
16:30-17:30 = 22.0

And we just boost it when we do feel a chill.

So interested to see what others are doing.

Whatever temp you feel comfortable with is the correct temp .Personally have never heated the home overnight .( nor did my parents).

 

[Dork Lard]

I have 16 thermostats in my house. Two on the walls, rest on end of radiators, 10 being programmable. But the main wall thermostat is frankly useless.

It is in the hall, which cools too slow. And unless the main thermostat turns on, rest do nothing, so only way is to raised temperature 0.5ºC every 2 hours, so other thermostats do their job.

Really? That's great that is & probably the way to do it properly.

I myself simply set fire to my house & retire to the garden with my family to bask in the warm glow of a big house on fire.

 

[Dork Lard]

Can you define room temperature as the temperature at which butter will readily spread on bread???