18-21C - just right for most people?

Local MSP Sarah Boyack put on an Energy Advice event last week in a community centre in Dalry, in partnership with the 'green support service company' Eaga. The event was aimed at encouraging people to think about how much energy they were consuming, and letting them know about assistance they could get if their bills were too high and if they wanted to reduce their consumption. So there were stalls for the Home Heat Helpline, the Citizens Advice Bureau, Age Concern, the Energy Saving Trust plus a number of others including Eaga themselves. Picked up this handy little room temperature monitor which the EST give away. Compare it to the one that we found somewhere in this house, which like the first layer of insulation in the roof, must date from the late 1970's. It was issued by the Scottish Energy Efficiency Office. The messages haven't changed much, just the way they are delivered.

What is the temperature in here?

Bought an additional MIN MAX thermometer to keep inside the house to measure the temperature in different parts of the house, see what effect different boiler settings might have at different times of day in different parts of the house, and see if I could measure any good effects of all this work. Began a daily log of outside MIN MAX and inside MIN MAX, moving the inside one around to different parts of the house.