What temperature do you keep your house at during winter?
26°C for me. I live with my son & he enjoys wearing as little as possible at home. Cold also makes him feel depressed. I’m alright with both hot and cold.
Bro, what the hell... some people are recreating the Caribbean in their houses while some others try to contribute the least amount possible to climate change. This is why we can't have nice things.
Maybe OP isn't properly informed of the energy usage and climate impact of his lifestyle. Some countries do very little to teach this unfortunately.
In France, a few years ago, there was a very large campaign for this exact topic to prevent energy usage spikes that could have brought the grid down. It also served as a way to teach people that 19 is just fine in the winter.
Well at least this rebuke will have a chilling effect.
Jesus Christ 26 would be hot even in the summer
Right? That's what I'd set my AC to. It's a balmy 18 in my place now and -4 outside. Problem the lack of daylight leasing to the depression. Pop some vitamin d and put a sweater on. Cozy warm clothes are the best clothes.
18c or 64F?
I was thinking the exact same. I feel wasteful in the summer for keeping it at 23 (73 F). I don't think I could survive 26 in the winter. Maybe if I had never left Florida, but I doubt it.
Damn 26 is toasty. I get hot if it's 21 in my home. I warm rooms individually but mostly it's 19 or 20 degrees. I don't like to go outside and have too much of a difference.
19.5 on the thermostat, which I'm not sure is accurate. In my opinion comfortable indoor clothes include a sweater or a hoodie, so 26C isn't just wasteful, it's very uncomfortable.
Hi there thermostat buddy. 19.5 here too.
26°C would likely give me a headache.
I try to keep the house at around 20°C, and if I'm chilly put a jumper on.
A brisk 18 kelvin.
I like, let's do it in K all the time, just to annoy those folks who insist on C or F.
294K
I‘m more of a 525°R kind of guy
Gotta keep those superconductors running.
During the day usually at 66°F (19°C), maybe bump it up to 68°F (20°C) if we’re feeling unusually chilly still. At night we usually drop it down to 62/63°F (around 17°C).
Holy fuck. Are you all just hanging out in your house wearing your winter coats all day or something? I can’t imagine how uncomfortable that must be
I mean a hoodie and sweat pants and I'm good in those temperatures. I find it easier to warm up than to cool off.
I also heat to like 18-20°C. Just wearing a hoodie is more than enough, most of the time. And for extra warmth while couching maybe a blanket. 26°C would be uncomfortably warm to me, even in just a tshirt. That’s summer temperatures. Above 20°-ish are tshirt temps.
In winter it's a very normal thing to be a little cold. If every household on the planet aimed for 26 while it's 0 outside, the energy needed would to heat up would be gigantic.
As someone else said, you just need some warm clothes and socks and you're fine at 19 degrees.
Edit : not a parent, so I don't know if it'd fine for children
I have a big old robe, flannel pajama pants, and slippers I wear around the house in the winter.
15C while I'm away, 17C while I'm in. Gas is expensive and my home isn't that well insulated. I just put on a warm vest and it's fine by me.
18°, I sometimes push it to 19 if I'm feeling flush.
My parents are in their 80s and rarely go over 15° on their thermostat (unless I'm there complaining!)
My dad's parents only had one heated room in the house, but that one room was heated like an oven to a really uncomfortable temperature 😆
I'm like your grandparents today. Grew up in DDR, had one heated room: the kitchen. It was also our living room, and on the coldest nights our bedroom. Not heated like an oven though.
It makes me physically uncomfortable to be in a >18C room in the winter, even today. I know it's just a psychological thing, probably.
Exact opposite from my grandparents. They keep it at least 27 in the winter. It makes it very unappealing to visit, and I have to take frequent breaks outside in the snow.
I assumed that was all old people, since my spouse's grandparents are the same. Now I'm hoping they're the exception and most older people aren't living like lizards in terrariums.
58F/14.5C overnight or when I'm not at home, 67F/19.5C during the day.
Currently working from home, barefoot and in a T-shirt and the thermostat turned down a bit to 65F. I'm feeling quite warm today.
26C would feel like a sauna to me right now.
26!? Do you live in hell? I start sweating at 19 and at 22 I'm stripping off to my underwear
60-68F. It took a week for me to notice my heater was put once, though, so I could go lower. Just don't want to have to worry about pipes freezing.
16C to 20C for euronerds.
For me the same. At my place of work it's 22C (72F) and it makes me uncomfortable.
19-20°C. Any warmer and I'm melting
I don't really have a choice as heat is provided by my building, and they just keep it on at all times. So in winter it's pretty much always around 26/27C except when it gets really cold outside and it "drops" a bit. I do like the heat but it's a bit too much. Sometimes I have to open a window. 24C would suffice.
They even keep the heat on in summer so it can rise up to 35C during sunny days, but I have a portable AC to fight the building's system and bring it back down to a "cool" 24/25C.
That's a crime against the environment.
It's good to see Helll is finally renting apartments to the general public, with this housing market.
26-27°C is already at the edge of becoming unbearably warm in summer. But 35? Where I live that’s a "hottest week of the year" kind of temperature. I‘d cook to death in my own sweat.
Ew. I couldn't imagine not being able to control my own thermostat.
26C would make me wake up so hot I'd be vomiting I think
We're usually at 67F at night, 68 to 70F during the day, but I'm baking so the extra 2 degrees from 68 to 70 is usually from the oven.
17 C. I find it comfortable even when lightly dressed. My wife dresses more warmly.
17 C here as well. I used to find it comfortable but as I get older, I'm needing more and more clothes or blankets. I blame my thinning hair.
21 C, bedrooms at 19 C
22 or 23°c and 19 for the bedrooms too
69F
This isn't asl...
Same. Mostly because I'm a child.
That's very warm! Don't think I could deal with those kind of temperatures, not to mention I'd probably go bankrupt trying to keep my 1920s house at 26°C. Right now, my main living areas where I spent a lot of time (work room, living room, dining room) are at 19.7°C, other lesser used rooms are at 16.5°C.
Yeah, 26 is on the hot side of warm indoors for me too. It’s underwear only temperature. But for son it’s super comfortable. Even at this temperature he sleeps with a blanket. Maybe it’s cause he’s very skinny…
Warm clothes and an electric blanket at night to go to sleep. I keep my body warm not the house.
All rooms have their own thermostat. 19-21°C.
I'd go colder at night, but we have a newborn who doesn't do blankets yet. Need to keep it kind of even for her sleeping bags.
74F (23C) I grew up in Florida, which is a very warm state. Now I live a good bit farther north, but my body never adjusted to the cold weather. Nice in the summer, as I don't need the A/C, but the bills in the winter are rough.
A comfortable 16c. 18 if I really want it to get hot.
16°C during the day, ~20ish in the evenings. Still running an oldfashioned boiler setup. Would love to eventually move to a heatpump. Diesel ain't cheap.
65 F or 18.5 C. A little colder at night. It varies as my wife sleeps hot so it depends how warms she is feeling that evening.
I would like to keep it at 21°C, but since I live in one of the top floors of a multi-story building, along with some apparently reptilian downstair neighbours, I can't get below 26°C...
Edit: typos
Winter in Madrid, 2019-20, 7th floor, forced heat radiators: me with the windows open and in shorts. Did not enjoy.
I used to have downstairs neighbours like that and I loved it, free underfloor heating, I just opened the windows when I felt it got too warm. Saved me a good bit of money because I basically didn't have to heat at all.
Yeah, unfortunately in my case we have a central heating system, and the bill is just split based on flat size.
70°F
i am in a mild climate, so it doesnt have to work too hard.
I’m in the Chicago area and this is what we keep ours at.
26°C people represent!
Might be smart to check your son's iodine, T4-hormone, and maybe T3 levels, as iodine affects the thyroid (body's thermostat valve) and T4 is produced by it to be partly converted into T3 elsewhere. T4 and T3 activate heating. If not low, try some tyrosine or iodine anyway.
I have some gut illness with malabsorption, so the above over-the-counter tricks don't help much. I'm also skinny and can't gain weight. If suspecting bad gut, test for food intolerances by mediator release test or immunoglobulin G (expect false positives and negatives), or try an elimination diet (like rice and meat only for a month).
73° F
The same here but my heat pump sucks all of the moisture out of the air, so the number on the dial does not equal the comfort of the house.
I bought a humidification system and will install it soon and hopefully I'll be able to drop the number once there's a little bit more moisture to convey the heat to my body in the air.
14C when away, 18C when home
I don't yet. I just wear thick clothes.
72-74F (~22-23C)
My house is very drafty so it gets cold in it.
I wish I could tell you but our 1960s thermostat not only has wild up to 5°c temperature swings but does it's own thing once we go to bed And just sweats us out at 27-28 (even though I set it around 20) until I turn it down to 18 at which point it goes down to 15 or below. I'd prefer 18-20 while I sleep. But apparently that's not an option in our house.
And SET at 26c? I'm sorry, but you're the responsible adult in that relationship. He can put on a t-shirt and pants.
60 degrees Fahrenheit. The lowest I can go as part of my lease so the pipes don't freeze. I supplement with a portable heater and a heated blanket. Trying to keep the bill low. 👍🏾
We leave it off. It's 61 in here right now and I like to bundle up. I hate any amount of heat. I like to be chilly.
Between 69 and 73 F
Or
20.5 to 22.77 c
Usually at 71 during the day and 68 at night
Currently around 0 outside, we're running with the heat off at the moment, because it's not strictly speaking necessary yet. In practice it lands at around 20 C inside right now, and the lower bound I accept is 18, after which I turn on heating. Let's see whether it becomes necessary this winter.
Idk, I rarely turn the radiator on at all. Even if it means sleeping with multiple blankets, it's much more cozy.
Even if it means sleeping with multiple blankets, it’s much more cozy.
There is something to be said for having a giant pile of blankets on top of you. Growing up I would round up spare blankets and crack the window open in the winter until a balance was achieved between however many blankets I scrounged and the room temperature.
Also means you can dynamically trade blankets for a hoodie, then move a blanket more down, because you're wearing a cute skirt (mainly during the day, when you're just a bit tired or want to binge watch something), and remove a blanket because you're cuddling sharks.
24°C. I like being warm.
69
25°, but I have direct ventilation that causes drafts, and I have district heating so heating is cheap.
Whatever it is outside. I like the cold and I also can't stand the smell heaters make.
I would feel so uncomfortable at 26C inside. 21 at most for me.
Not sure, but water temps on my PCs loop says 18c
Set your thermostat cooler in winter and warmer in summer, that way you are nicely adapted and outside seems friendly.
17.5C typically, but we have blankets to hide under. I lit the fire tonight though so it's toasty. Drying the air with either the fire or a dehumidifier makes a huge difference.
Depends on the weather outside and the insulation in my apartment, since I don't turn the heater on.
Probably around 10-15 C
The heating thermostat is now set at 16°C (61°F) year round. It doesn't come on if the ambient temperature is higher. No AC. I would set it lower due to the expense but my feet are like ice most days as it is. For nights it's set to 14°C (57°F).
16 is actually the minimum allowed in workplaces here. I'm fairly sure it used to be 17, but I guess financial pressures might have caused employers to demand it be lowered.
As to where I'd prefer it to be, around 19°C (~66°F) would be nice.
I have 19°C for daytime, 17°C at night and I admit it's quite comfortable overall. But me and my partner's feet still feel cold though, so it might be partly due to the actual temperature, partly due to a psychological bias that makes them feel really cold since they are way colder than the rest of the body.
The usual temperature around me (center of France), at work and as default on devices, is 20-21. I never thought about what it was in other climates, I guess you are in a colder region than me, or that energy is too expensive. Maybe I'll lower a bit more my actual temperature target
Combination of factors: The UK, so climate is colder. The UK again, so energy prices are ridiculous even when a homeowner can support themselves. I'm no longer able to support myself and am reliant on government assistance. Result: Cold.