Is 17.5 C cold? 🌡️🥶

I’m freezing too😂

I think it’s fine overnight, once you are in bed you’re warm.

it’s set to this 24/7.

Also I have been in bed for 1.5 hours with baby and am yet to warm up lol

That’s wayyyy too cold, our house is normally around 22/23 and I’m cold then😂😂

Depends how old your baby is I think in the uk they say 19 is ideal for a newborn when you’re at home so maybe use the kids as an excuse 😂 personally 17.5 is too cold for me. who pays for the heating? Either way he shouldn’t be monopolising the heating thats just rude 🙄 I pay for the heating in my household but still if my hubby is cold I wouldn’t “not let” him change it. Yes I would suggest he put a jumper on first but would still let him have control of the heat. It’s a shared living space. Also maybe u can try a hot water bottle for bed time? Xx

Mine is normally 19 through day 17-18 at night

18 degrees is an optimal temp for the bedroom to sleep in, if you’re finding it too cold, maybe increase your duvet tog rating to a higher one. We have summer duvet and a winter one for this very reason.

The downstairs part of my house I keep at 20/21.

Recommendation in the UK is 18 degrees for babies I believe.

My baby is 1 and she sleeps in with me so it’s a little different, she is always toasty warm.

The bed sharing also means I can’t use a hot water bottle in case it touches her. Pre baby I used a hot
Water bottle almost all year round 😂

All our bills are shared/paid through our joint account so we don’t really view it as who pays what, we contribute a relative % of what we earn. As he earns almost 3 x what I do he kicks in 75% if that makes sense.

It’s not so much that I’m banned from changing it, I just know it would be a slog of a discussion 🙄🙄🙄

You’ll all be pleased to know that he’s just treated me to a half hour 18.5 boost lol

In the daytime, you’d ideally want your home to be in the low 20s surely? If you want to be comfortable-ish. Even short boosts of heat when it’s just a bit on the chillier side….?
You should get a heated over blanket and plug it in and stay warm that way 👍🏻

I generally keep the temp around 65-68 (18.3-20) in the winter. I don't think it's freezing but definitely a bit chillier than I'd keep it.

Does he get too hot if its any hotter or he just wants to keep it that cold?

Still if your baby is cold then he kinda has to put the temperature up so use the baby as an excuse 😂

We share bed with baby as well so I understand what you mean about the hot water bottle. But it’s probably a discussion worth having seeing as we’re not fully into winter yet and you’re feeling like this so don’t want to let it get till your frozen 🥶

it’s a money thing, I’m not sure if you guys are experiencing the same or not but our energy prices are through the roof these days

ha, maybe I should tell she’s cold!

The bed sharing makes it so much harder to stay warm, last year I was freshly postpartum so I was definitely running much hotter than I am now.

My extremities get so cold 😢

Yeah, our energy prices have gone up a lot in the last few years. So it's definitely understandable to keep it colder so it's not as expensive

You need to dress very warm for bed at that temp 🤣
Our flat is also super cold (usually 16-18°C) at night and I use two blankets and wear long sleeves and long pants and socks to bed!

My baby also wears long sleeves and a 2.5tog

EDIT: if it is too cold, we use a plug in radiator to keep the room a bit warmer. It saves money on energy!

my baby is the same! She likes the cold!

I've not put the heating on yet but when I do I set it to 20 but only for a few hours in the evenings

energy prices in the UK are a lot higher than in the US, so this post makes sense trying to save money 😅

For example, my parents own a 3 story, 5 bedroom house in NC with many giant appliances, centralized Air and heating, etc and we had a small, one bedroom flat with small energy-saving appliances….our energy bills were almost the same. 😭

I keep ours at 20.5-21! That’s freezing 🥶

Our home stays somewhere between 68F and 72F. Anything outside of that is uncomfortable for us

Ours only comes on if it drops below 16 degrees. It isn’t too cold for a baby at all, you just need to dress them appropriately at night. It’s better for babies to be colder than to overheat.
Also heard it’s cheaper to run it at a constant lower temp than it is to do short bursts of high heat so that’s probably his thinking

I think the issue here is he refuses to let you change it - are you his wife or his child

For me that would be fine BUT if it isn’t for you then that’s ok - we actually don’t have the heating on overnight as it makes me so so poorly

With regards to baby you don’t want a baby too hot - there’s a saying something like cold babies cry hot babies die.. I’m a firm believer in layers before heating haha

It's meant to be 18 degrees so it's only half a degree off. I'd let it go.

Are you having trouble bed sharing? You are allowed a blanket but not baby. Basically if it's over your legs, then wrapped so it's basically against your back and over your shoulder. Other than that, dress really warm.

that saying literally haunts me, it’s so sad ☹️ I always think of that and err on the side of caution and make sure he’s not too hot!

We keep our house at 23 lol

girl what kind of tropical sauna… how do you LIVE 😆
23 in summer, I understand!

We heat to 64/17.7C in winter, and cool down to 77/25 in summer. Comfortable and energy efficient

Shouldn't go lower than 18c because mold can start

I would die! Our house is set at 22/23C

that’s crazy lmao we keep ours at 22 degrees

I understand budgeting but he sounds abusive. Wdym he’s not letting you change the temp 😐

Our house is 18 during the day and 15/16 at night. We couldn’t afford to have it on more, so lots of blankets, jumpers and hot water bottles!

It’s a good temp for overnight probably.

But 24/7, it’s too cold for most.

I think it’s fine overnight, ours is set to 16.5 overnight. During the day in theory it’s fin, we set it to 20 for an hour 7am-8am to boost then it sits at 17/18 during the day then back at 20 at 4pm until 7pm. I think the issue is that he is so rigid with it. If I’m in the house and I get cold I am turning that heating up! We pay £65 a month for gas and we’re sitting in credit just now

it gets really cold outside this time of year, over night mostly, so we keep it to 22/23 and in the summer it’s not on we don’t have AC. That doesn’t come standard here.

Also depends on humidity.

If you live in a humid place, and have your heating set to 17ish, it’s going to feel just cold.

If you live in a dry, low humidity place, I’d hazard a guess that it wouldn’t feel so bad.

So I’d have a dehumidifier plus heating on in an ideal world 😅

for me:
outside, yes
Inside, no 😂

I think ours is set at 15 c lol then the heating goes on during the night and during the day it's 19c

I don’t know how people can sleep in that temperature… my house is on 25 C degrees, honestly 😩

yeah, I know people in UK prefer cold temperatures, but in the country I come from we like the house to be hot😅