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It's 15 degrees in mine - it feels a bit parky, even sitting here in a furry-lined fleece jacket, but I'll have to turn the heating off very very soon - on my pay I can't afford it.
same here (baltic) .... i thought "Global warming" was gonna keep me toasty this year but sadly not :O(
a "lounge"?
I dont have one of those....
I think you mean the Drawing Room. 😉
heating is set to 18deg in the evening and 16deg during the day. But with the wood burner on it's currently 19deg in here so says my weather station monitor.
i'm wearing one of these*
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17-ish ...
21 in mine. Feels like the suns out.
Not the warmest but with one of the walls being mostly glass what can I expect. I could always light a fire though.
I've got the heater on so it's not too bad. I'm skint as well, so you've reminded me to turn it off and get some layers on!
Its 15 here too -heating just click off but tbh im comfortable - work has our office up at 20 .....just makes me sleepy !
Been impressed with the efficiency of our house too - 2 bed detatched cottage on top of a hill - used 300 litres as of yesterday since august 1st and thats for heating and hot water.
First thing i do to any house i buy will be insulate it propperly ( its a 1900 school hall turned into a cottage recently i rent)
A colleague complained to me that he spent 300 quid on oil in december alone for not much bigger house but where the previous owner bought cheap and did the mimimum to make it look excellent. No insulation improvements ! Its draughty as hell in his house !
Less than 12 in my lounge but under the duvet I am hiding under it's got to be 20+
About 10C
all my house is cold my rooms have high ceilings... victorian terraced house..... takes alot to warm up..... front room is warm but my dining room is an ice box even with the heating on..... its a back room that doesnt get sun in at all so always cold...pretty chilly wen on the pc...my hands are almost blue ! lol i got 'dead mans hand's :wink:...
today I had a free thermal survey of the barn. They came round with a thermal imaging video camera and we had a look at where there were signs of air leaks and cold bridging.
Very informative. Im pretty happy with how insulated the conversion has been. Air leaks are generally where plaster and wood have separated through drying over the 15 months since we finished the build. All the cracks can now be filled with caulk - since Ive not actually done snagging yet, its a perfect time to do it.
The effect of cold bridging was noticeable - wall temp drops from 16deg to 14-15deg where the fabric unavoidably contacts the outer wall bypassing the cavity insulation. Shows up quite clearly on the thermal image.
my highly accurate thermometer says it's 12dC.
yes, the heating is on*.
i hate old houses.
🙁
(*radiators hot to touch, i can feel the warm breeze rising off them)
Box on the wall says 16 degrees at the moment, although it feels warmer than that. Having said that, it is on the coldest wall furthest from the radiator.
Have my heating set to 18 degrees, comes on at 6am til 7am, then 16:30pm til 20:30pm and thats enough for me.
A new boiler and uPVC double glazing and doors two yrs ago made one hell of a difference!
whatever the temp is outside (-10 degrees in winter) as i don't have the heating on downstairs (too expensive* 😯 i stay up in my room anyway though. *thanks to british gas/i see they haven't reduced their gas prices oh no 😡
4.8 deg outside
19.8 inside, and I've not had the heating on since yesterday evening.
I'm sat here in a t-shirt, and if it gets any warmer I might have to open a window.
Oooft just went out and had a gander in tank ...... Lets just say watchmans been lying
Just ordered 500 quid of oil 🙁
We only use it between 5am -6 5pm till 6 and 8 - 9
I don't have a thermometer but my guess is its about 10 Deg. got the fire roaring but the room is huge and currently uninsulated.
where are you cranberry?
Its currently -3.6deg outside Stoner Towers.
Hollandshire.
It is slated to get down to -2 deg this evening, but no sign of it happening so far.
Tell a lie - the BBC say that it is -2 [u]right now[/u]. It's OK though - they've said that there is no chance of a hurricane this evening.
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trailrat - a litre of oil is about 10KWh of energy.
My household (2 young kids shallow bathing 5 nights a week, a shower each for Mrs S and I about the same number) requires around 50KWh. That's about 10Kg of pellets for me.
Heating requires between another 50KWh and 200KWh depending on how cold outside. At 100KWh per day, that works out at about 340Wh per square metre for my house. or 0.03 litres of oil per metre per day.
cranberry - ditch the BBC..
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http://www.yr.no/place/Netherlands/South_Holland/The_Hague~2747373/hour_by_hour_detailed.html
yr.no FTW
Was <10c when i got home and heating had been on for almost an hour.
17 now and -2 outside.
It was -5 outside at about 6pm, I've just looked and it is 19.6 in the sitting room with the woodburner ticking over
21.5C in our Lounge.
Can't stand it cold.
We have lots of insulation and a top of the range condensing boiler.
18c in mine, until I open the front door then whoooooosh...
-10 in 1.2 seconds 😕
About 16c when i'm in, when Mrs gixer comes in she puts it up to 22c. Later on she snuggles under the Shetland wool blanket which she cocoons herself in, she then slides into a Vango Viper 1000 down sleeping bag. I'm usually in trackies and a t-shirt.
Ok, it didn't help that i'd left the bathroom window open after having a shower - and left the bathroom door and front room doors open!
All the heat was going right up the stairs into the night - oops!
I aim for 19 degrees. Comfy in a t-shirt if moving about.
Stoner - ta muchly for that, it is a much more detailed forcast- will keep an eye on it and see if it is more accurate than the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_lore#Seagull_forecasts ]Chief Seagull Watcher[/url] at the BBC.
18.3°C in the living room, 3°C outside. I lit the woodburner at 5ish which has made the kitchen toasty, the living room pleasant. The bedrooms are "a bit parky" on the Gresley scale.
We don't even have our heating on at all.
Though I should turn the gloatometer down a tad.
Lots of glass so it stores the heat when it's sunny.
Hoody, shorts and flip flops. and pants of course.
20C. Well insulated, modern boiler.
GF would have it at 23C if she had the choice - as it is she cowers under a blanket whilst I wander round in shorts.
16 degrees or there abouts. Would've been a bit warmer if the mrs hadn't opened the lounge door this morning and left it wide open. OUr utlity room is freezing and that has an affect on the whole house. I'm quite glad that at the moment my boiler is back working again as it's been persishing but an extra jumper & a blanket and all is good here.
My lounge earlier*
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*some parts of this statement may not be quite true...
I've put more layers on and now I'm too hot!
No idea. Chilly toes though, might go and get a blanket.
Time to fill the hot water bottle and get under the duvet I think.
I get thermally cycled. 24C in the office, get home it's 16. Which I prefer, but I have got a hat on & Mrs FJ is closely cuddling the dogs...
18.8 and rising.
Log burner and underfloor heating on, very warm and I feel sleepy
About 15C just lounging about in jeans and a thin merino jumper. The wife would be going mental about how cold it is if she was here 😀
21c here, I like to lounge in shorts and a T-shirt.
It always amazes me that houses in the uk are so cold and badly insulated, its not like it was ever warm in the winter!?
I am now going upstairs to turn on the central heating 🙂