AIBU

We have the heating on all day at the moment. I have started wearing a tee shirt under my sweater, but that's the only layering I will do. I hate being overdressed indoors. Our heat is off at night because I can't sleep in a warm room.

All we can do is control our own behaviour.

Take chill pill and stop trying to control your husband.

I've had heating on 24hours set at 15 I thought this might have cost me more but had my latest email update and I'm in a little credit .I live in an old bungalow and in previous years when I had the timer going on and off was often cold however this winter have rarely felt the cold and when I do I wear a fleece .

My DH is the same. Heating on all the time and trying to keep the lounge at 21 degrees. He wears thermal undies, jeans, shirt and jumper and sometimes has a blanket too. I am sitting in jogging bottoms and tshirt and am too hot. Mind you he does have bronchitis at the moment and needs to keep warm. I think our electric bill will be up. We don’t have gas here.

Our heating is on 24/7 and set at 22, this week we have had a fan heater in use just to boost the room temperature before we sit in front of the TV.
I could not live with a partner that thought it was okay to turn down the heat and just put extra layers on, a home should be comfortable not an endurance test.

Any sort of benefit!

aahh, bit of compromise wouldn't go amiss! That said our house is like a thermonuclear plant as my OH has rheumatoid arthritis so has to have a warm environment. I have sjogrens syndrome and I'm more comfortable in a cool environment, preferably cool and misty or my corneas can crack! He sits infront of the fire, I sit next to the window!!

I don't think you're being unreasonable Travelsifar, I'd be furious and insist he puts on at least another thermal layer.
I understand your worry about the bills. I wonder if you're elible for the warm home scheme where £140 is paid to your energy supplier to help with costs, also the cold weather payment of £25 for each week the temperature drops below freezing. I think you only get these if either of you is on sort of benefit but worth investigating.

Compromise .....can be the only answer. When he’s otherwise occupied, maybe turn the thermostat down a bit! We have a bit of that in our house-and you can see from the replies how different we all are! Perhaps when the bill comes in, he might think a little differently as well, next year!

Oh and the heating goes off at 10pm so it's not on all that long. Our house is 500 years old with metre-thick walls and does hold the heat quite well

Sorry but I'm with your husband. I hate wearing outdoor clothes inside & prefer something light. DH wears a bit more than me though. Even in this weather, we don't tend to put the heating on before mid afternoon as we have a log burner in our kitchen where we spend a large part of the day.

The heated throws are amazingly warm and cheap to run, I find my useful to treat my Fibro and Arthritis and have loaned it to a friend who can't afford to heat his rather cold home over the winter.

I had heating put in this year, electric air con. it has been wonderful and affordable, much though I love my wood burner it is hard work.

I think we are well off now we all have fleeces to wear, so cosy and easy wash etc.

Maybe you could treat your husband to something he can feel comfortable in.

Jalimall, you’re right, kitchen is so toasty, however we have to keep the door closed because the sound of the crockery rattling in the cupboards keeps us awake!
As for thermostatic rad valves callgirl, whack those babies up to the highest number, just try one if you are unsure.
Keep warm everyone

travelsafar on the one hand I think you have good reason to be annoyed since you have a limited budget but since your DH is on ESA perhaps he has a medical condition that makes him need the heat. Have you sat down together and worked out a budget to cover your bills and have you explained your concerns?
It is very cold just now isn't it! I can't fathom how he can wear so little and be warm enough even with the heating on. Personally I have several layers on including a set of silk thermals. We are currently not having the heating on at night but I don't like it. My DH keeps a very close eye on the finances and the meter readings but if necessary he has the heating on as much as it takes as well as the log burner. We have also had an electric radiator and a fan heater on at times this last week. We are not moving around much so get cold fairly easily so I have also made up hot water bottles anď had a throw over us and plenty of hot drinks. Going back to our childhood in many ways although no central heating then of course.

We`ve never had central heating until a few months ago, still trying to understand it. At the moment it`s not quite warm enough, and my daughters tell me to turn up the thermostats on the radiators, but I`m reluctant to touch them in case I do something wrong! So we have the gas fire on as well for most of the day, the C/H goes off at 2am and back on again at 8am.

ps the kitchen was nice and warm though

We had one like that once, took up half the kitchen!

Well, I'm not a plumber. Our cold water tank had blue insulation around it but I must admit I never inspected the underneath bit.

Jalimall houses don’t have insulation underneath the cold water tank, if it does then it will freeze.
We don’t have a combi boiler, just an old oil fired boiler that sounds like a train.

We're a heating on 24/7 house it's on 18/19 in the day but 15 at night, just enough to take off the chill but not warm enough to keep me awake.

I don't think that we have a cold water tank any more.

If you have a combi boiler you will probably not have a cold water tank in the attic.
New system boilers do not usually require a cold water tank in the attic either.

If your boiler is older then you may still have one and it should be lagged. Any house that is properly insulated should not be warm in the attic anyway; if it is then it is losing heat through lack of insulation in the attic.

I can now understand your worry travelsafar. It sounds as if you need to budget carefully. I’m so sorry, no easy answer. If you’ve had a calm and straightforward conversation about this and your level of worry then to answer your original question no, I don’t think you are being unreasonable to be annoyed but please don't let this take your life over.

Hate to admit it, but DH has our heating on at 23 during the day all day and 20 at night! He does wear long sleeve shirts, thermal lined trousers and a pullover too, just feels the cold. Mind I am very pleased that he insisted on buying more coal a couple of weeks ago. So now we have a lovely glowing fire too! To be fair, he does pay the heating bills. ?

Having just watched the News and seeing fireman going into a home where the cold water tank had frozen overnight and then burst flooding the house, I think you should at least leave some heating on at night at the moment, even if it’s only on 16/17 degrees

The reason i worry about the cost is that we are living off my savings, state pension and a little bit of a works pension.OH hasnt worked for many years and claims ESA as not retirement age yet so we are on a fixed income as such unless i can pick up a few hours each week as a carer.

Teetime, we are the same here, heating on day and night at the moment, 23/24 degrees, me with jeans, sweater, socks and slippers, DH trousers, short sleeved T shirt.
He refuses to be Trussed up, as he calls it.
Thank goodness he still works and we are able to pay for it, it must be costing us a fortune.... but it is nice to be toasty warm in a drafty house.