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busymum 
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:49pm |
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Ok so I've been looking at our house temperature at nights and it seems to drop to about 14C here in the bedrooms. Our heaters are a fan heater (no thermostat) and an LPG so we have never had heaters on at night. We all have at least a woolen blanket and a duvet on our beds, with winter jammies and winter pjs (of course).
It seems that the arguments out there say that inside temperatures should be 18C or higher. But is that really for nights as well? I don't consider us a sickly household (we're having our first cold of the year now, so that can't be bad!) and I do like the temperature drop-off at nights. Maybe we just got used to growing up in our farming/low income families?
What do you think?
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SMoody
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:53pm |
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In SA I grew up on a farm where temps drop dramatically at night. We just had thermal pj's on and had warm blankets and when bigger an electric blanket. We hardly got sick ect and played outside when cold. Trust me a lot colder than what I have experienced here.
I feel again if temp is too high that it will be a problem. This year is the first year I am having a terrible cold that McKayla got as well but I think that might be due to her weaning herself and only having one feed still in the mornings. Will settle hopefully soon.
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:54pm |
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And we werent low income but not overly rich or anything.
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:55pm |
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I think sometimes we can be a bit anal these days about heat in rooms or heat in general.......I was at Doctors the other day and she was saying that a lot of people use too much heat which can cause many skin problems as well as cause the immune system to have tooo many big variations in heat which causes colds etc.....
I remember as a kid being all rugged up and had loads of blankets and just snuggled up in bed.......No heaters in our rooms!
Of course Mum & Dad had fire going in lounge but rooms were generally cold......and were older houses too when really little.
Blake has an oil heater on the lowest seating and it takes the chill of the air...its mainly as his room is Freezing..Paige doesnt have anything in hers and we have decided to not use electric blanket but added another duvet this year and our room is cold but once all snuggled up..nice and warmm..however it sucks getting up!!!!!
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 8:57pm |
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I keep the gremlins room at 18 degrees coz they are too little to know to put on more blankets/clothes if they feel cold in the night. The rest of us just have to tough it out. I think it prob gets to around 13-14 degrees in here overnight most nights (except the really, really chilly ones) and no one complains about being cold.
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 9:01pm |
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Our electric blanket packed a sad, so went and got a hot water bottle, best $5 spent. I only fill it from the hot water tap (not boiling) and pop it in the bed, when I go to sleep it sits by my feet stays warm all night, safe too.
DH put expol under our bedroom last week and it has made a huge difference, its been pretty cold this week and we've been warm in bed. Its expensive so we're buying a bundle as we go and hope to eventually cover the living room, and other bedrooms as well.
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:13pm |
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We don't heat our bedrooms unless it gets really, really cold, then we use an oil heater in the hallway to take the chill off.
I've never been a fan of electric blankets and the kids have never had them as when they were little I worried they might wet the bed. I used to give them hotties but they've grown out of that now and only sleep in t-shirts and boxers. I I love, love, love my hottie! We've all got duvets and woollen blankets and no-one complains of being cold.
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Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:12pm |
i got one of those temperature things from the happy homes site and it says that 18 degs is too cold and that 22 is just right.  i spent the night that i got it moving it round the house checking out the temps of the rooms and none of them got to 22 - escept the lounge where the heater is, but i was still cold!
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 5:59am |
 Bizzy wrote:
i got one of those temperature things from the happy homes site and it says that 18 degs is too cold and that 22 is just right. i spent the night that i got it moving it round the house checking out the temps of the rooms and none of them got to 22 - escept the lounge where the heater is, but i was still cold! |
Yup we found the same thing!
If we put the fire on the lounge is likely to get to 18-20 but the bedrooms certainly don't!!!! We have flannette sheets, pjs, blankets etc instead and miss sleeps in a think sleep sack to make sure she doesn't kick her covers off. We've had no more than the usual winter cold.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 7:36am |
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Daniels bedroom is usually about 14-16 degrees. Occassionally it's been a little bit lower than that on a very cold night. Our bedroom we don't heat and It's around the 12 degree mark.. on a freezing morning it drops to 10ish. The living room during the day is usually anywhere between 15-18 degrees.
We just get the ocassional cold. If I live in a house that's much warmer than that I end up getting sick a lot.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 7:48am |
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We have a heat pump and it sits on 20 degrees all night. Our house less than 10 years old and its made of polystryene (sp) so its actually not that cold. We also have blinds on all the windows and heavy curtains in the lounge.
Our bedroom tho, is at the southern end of the house and yep, it gets cold in a southerly but we just flick an oil heater on low and that takes the chill off the room.
I grew up in Newlands, which is up in the clouds in Wellington. Mum and Dad didn't have a lot of money and the lounge was warm but the rest of the house was always cold. I suffered really badly from asthma and colds as a kid. Therefore, I do tend to keep our house really warm and Charlotte hasn't had a cold this winter yet.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 11:46am |
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Bizzy wrote:
i got one of those temperature things from the happy homes site and it says that 18 degs is too cold and that 22 is just right. i spent the night that i got it moving it round the house checking out the temps of the rooms and none of them got to 22 - escept the lounge where the heater is, but i was still cold!
I got one of these aswell - mine harldy moves of 18 - went to like 20 - 22 one Sunday arvo when sun was streaming in on it
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 11:57am |
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We have a heat pump in the lounge/dining and its set between 20-22 when we go to bed it gets turned down to 17. We dont use any heaters in the rooms and they can get really cold, we do have an electric balnket which gets turned on every night in winter.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 12:05pm |
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We are kinda lucky, we live in a small 2 bedroom brand new apartment / unit (it is horribly small) and it is ever so warm. Well insulated and small in size, without a heated it is about 18.2 degrees at night.
I have told DF that I will stay here to the end of winter, and then I am looking to move as the place is too small for us really.
But for now, it's warm and cosy.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 12:37pm |
Our house is pretty cold, Its often 14 during the day, hate to think what it gets to at night. We just wrap up with loads of blankets.
We have a pretty small house so doesnt take to long to heat up and holds it pretty well. But when It gets cold it is really freezing, I often refer to my house as a fridge box cos thats just what its like (but probably smaller  )
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 4:08pm |
I have my fire going all the time so it is nice and warm in the lounge and the heat comes down to my room and Andrew's room. But it never goes into Josh's room which is right next to the lounge  .
We also have poly under the floors and that does make a big difference.
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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 4:48pm |
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Yup our place is freezing, it's usually warmer outside than it is inside!!. We've got a happy home heat monitor and if no heaters are on.....like when I get home from tech it's always below 16. Our place in uninsulated and has wooden floors, We always have a heater on when we're home with Kahtrell and i usually have the heater on in his room overnight. Sometimes it's so cold we have to heave the mattress into the lounge and sleep in there all together, or we'll have Kahtrell in our bed at night. Today we had some people over who retrofit older homes so hopefully we get the go ahead. I'm glad I brought up the subject with the LL instead of freezing my butt off!!!
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Posted: 28 June 2008 at 12:11am |
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Our house isn't usually cold, but its not that warm either. The only room that would be above 18degrees usually would be the lounge where the fire is. I don't get why you need a really warm house, I mean I live comfortably with the heat we have, but it is winter afterall and you shouldn't be walking around the house in a singlet!
We are in Chch and we have a logburner on during the day and unti about 11.30. That heats most of the house (other than areas closed off). Jack has a convector heater in his room set to go on between 2 and 5am just to take the early morning chill off. And we just use our electric blankies.
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Posted: 28 June 2008 at 5:18pm |
Just had a discussion about heating kids' rooms with my parents today. They said they had heaters with thermostats in each of our bedrooms keeping them at about 10 degrees over night in Christchurch, even with me and my brother having asthma. I guess they just made sure we had a decent number of blankets and some cozy pjs with a hot water bottle in the winter. So I tend to think 18degrees+ might me hotter than you actually need, except maybe for newborns or babies who kick off blankets. Though my brother always used to kick off blankets when he was little and even as he got older he'd toss and turn losing blankets, so just wore more layers of clothes to bed (he still wears a woolly jersey over flannelette pjs with socks to bed even in summer as an adult )
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Posted: 28 June 2008 at 5:29pm |
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Our bedroom is the coldest in the house, it is so hard to heat, I wish we could use the fireplace but its unsafe apparently.
I will have to put the oil fin heater on now, but then the extra money ill be saving for bub will be gone in power bills.
I know they say to have 18 degrees, but a lot of people cant afford to put these expensive DVS systems in their house.
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