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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.
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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 🙂
Blanket fetched
feet toasty.
all I need now is some crap on the telly LOL
Oldgit is pushing very close to not-going-to-get-any-oldergit! 😛
Emsz - heating ticking over, duvet on top with cat No1 warming my legs and a box of choccy biscuits 8)
Lady G, it may be cold in your lounge, but your heart is still warm. 😀
19.2. Wood now burnt out.
We're nearly a month after the solstice now, Stoner. The water coming out of the solar tank is at over 20°C again on sunny days. Is it worth trying to feed your thermal store from the solar array yet?
Sweating like a scouser in currys here.. just got out the bath after a hard sesh at the gym.. missus has the place at about 30c and is sat with her feet on a hot water bottle. She's adamant that the house is cold !!![img] 
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What are you using to store the heat oldgit? And what glass do you have that doesn't cuase problems after sundown?
Is it worth trying to feed your thermal store from the solar array yet?
It's been pretty sunny here, sunny enough to put a smile on my face, be interesting to see the figures that the solar pv are pulling. Interesting to see how they are performing overall...
19c approx here, central heating boiler on 1, did put one bar of the electric fire on earlier for bit of a boost after being out all day
Not bad for an end of terrace 120 year old cottage, must be all the ivy covering the end wall
'as it is she cowers under a blanket whilst I wander round in shorts'. 😯
20.4 in here ! (currently 1 outside)
I'm surprised how 'cool' some people have it... I have been standing outside to replicate other people's conditions ! 🙂 don't like it !
My solar panels are venting steam at the moment. Got an airlock and havent got round to re-filling. Ive ordered sme new auto bleed vents to fit on the manual bleed tails to stop steam vapour causing locks again. Hopefully theyll arrive in the post tomorrow and Ill fit them tomorrow evening when the array is cold again.
I can't post the PV figures till the inverter boots up when the panels start producing in the morning. December was the worst month as you'd expect and cloudy, 101kWh. We consumed 120kWh at home and no doubt more than that on holiday.
Normally 20.5 degrees, but had the wood burner on tonight with the door shut and got up to 28!
What's surprised me is that in the last week or so there was a thread about gas & elec bills. So how much are folk paying too, we pay £80 combined per month. If your rooms are as cold as some of you are saying, I hope you don't pay more than £20!
*is happy not to be living in an old house or caravan anymore*
Between 160 and 200kWh of electricity consumed a month so up to £20 (ingnoring the fact we're energy psositive for over nine months of the year thanks to PV). No gas and nearly 1m3 of soft wood so far this Winter.
My house is normally just right for me, but leaving the window open didn't help tonight!
House used to be horribly cold but the boiler replacement and new draught-free windows are a godsend.
*is happy not to be living in an old house or caravan anymore*
I know what you mean - I lived in a camper van for two years - I needed two duvets and two hot water bottles in the winter.
18 deg in the hall, 19 in the lounge and probably the same in the bathroom.
Our bedroom is probably 10 at the moment as we almost never have the heat on in there (winter 2010 excepted) we will have the window open unless its below -5 and we are also still only using a 4.5tog duvet!
If it rises to 21 in the house through heating I get very uncomfortable, natural heat I'm ok with but heating Uuggg
Stoner the thermal image survey who did that and what sort of cost? Would consider for ours to see where our 1870s house leaks heat from (all over I expect).
18deg but only cos heating on all day. Do wish the stove hadn't died :o(
20.5 in the lounge as that's what the digital room stat is set to ,and confirmed by the on board thermometer.
21 yr old 3 bed det house,boiler is same age and haas cavity insulation decent dble glazing and loft insulation.
Definetly down to 0 or below outside at the moment.
bri-72, the survey was done for free through a grant funded programme run by Malvern Hills council. The grant makes it free because it's an AONB.
I cant find any google hits for the organisations implying it's not a national program Im afraid.
A flyer Im looking at here suggests that the service is worth "hundreds of pounds"...
if you google for "free thermal imaging survey" it appears that there are a number of subsidised areas around the UK, you might be lucky.
My wife seems happy to have our sitting room (lounge?!) at around 16 degrees, this might be because I told her if we had the house too warm mice would move in.
How are we fairing at the moment oldgit? Still in [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/how-cold-is-your-lounge#post-3385869 ]flip flops[/url]?
I'm also genuinely interested in knowing how you're storing the heat.
I've just turned the Aircon up in my room as it's too hot, but then I am in Nairobi and managed a slight sunburn whilst having lunch by the hotel swimming pool....
Not sure but I am just sat around in a shorts and tee-shirt so can't be too cold.
About 25C as the wood burner is running, we've retired to the conservatory as it's a bit cooler!
It was 23 with the wood burner going at 8, outside already minus ten by then. Taking into account that I have some ill fitting scrap wood instead of windows and the woodburner should be dead by now I guess below zero in the morning my guess for outside is just shy of -20 we had -16 this morning when I was digging out the car to go and get some bread.
about a steady 19C.. We've got a very efficient air source heat pump system though so it costs us buttons..
I'm with Dave on the snow suit.
Mine is at about 2C. It is also mostly glass.
Ours is usually about 26C by the time Mrs Gti has got the stove roaring and opened the TRV to "full hot".
I'm usually sweating and sneakily opening the door for some cooler air.
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Depends if you ask me, the SO or my mum...
Me it's the good temperature. The SO, it's coldish. Mum, it's freezing.
There are some quite impressive figures there, I imagine the I'm around 15/16ºC without having the heating on. Neither tropical, as some appear to want, nor freezing. But more importantly I'm not burning tons of fuel as some would appear to be doing, so it's FREEEEEEEEEEEEE! Must be costing some of you an absolute fortune. 😀
I like it about 19 this time of year (or at least an indicated 19), though it will be about 14 when I get in from work. Though in spring/autumn 19 feels far too hot. Haven't quite worked that one out.
Cost isn't an issue, I just lob another wad of Zimbabwean dollars in the Rayburn.