20°c constant seems unhealthily high? But then I live in an old cottage with a log burner.....
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20°c constant seems unhealthily high? But then I live in an old cottage with a log burner.....
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Have you considered putting some clothes on?Medicine Man wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:29 pmIt's actually warmer outside than it is in my house and while the scotsman in me says "think of the savings!", ultimately I think hypothermia will claim him before the nights out.
Last time I left the heating off for a week the house got down to 18 degrees - that was in the the tail end of September.Wrathbone wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:59 pmLeaving the heating on for three days with nobody there would be bonkers.arqueturus wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:08 amI vote with Stormbringer on this one - I prefer warm to cold. Letting your house get down to 4.5c is bonkers.
Back in that Bath flat, which similarly had single-glazed, draughty old window panes, we bought a plastic sheeting that you warm the edges of with a hairdryer to the frame, helped a bit in keeping the draughts out.The Jackal wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:08 amGot storage heaters in my flat. Initially I didn't know how to work them, but then it turned out all the controls are meaningless and mine only work as a kind of very-long-run-up radiator that makes my rooms smell of burnt hair. I'd rather sack them off and stick a jumper on, although then it turned out my windows had zero insulating ability and, with one letting cold air roll right over my bed in the night during the last cold spell, I'd wake up in the night either with crippling stomach cramps from the cold or from overheating due to coccooning myself too much in my duvet. Currently I have my bed dragged as far away from the wall/window as I can have it without having to climb over it to traverse the room.
I really miss a closed window meaning a secure inner room temp.