As the core part of my thermal comfort study, I am currently polling 86 participants from 65 different UK households every day for 30 days at different times of day with a quick survey of how warm they feel at that moment, the room temperature, and a list of factors which might be affecting their felt warmth, e.g physical or mental activity, what room heating is on and how many layers of clothing they are wearing. The households include Heat pumps, Infrared heating and conventional gas or oil boilers.

The daily data are pouring in and look fascinating. I’m really enjoying the anecdotal comments people sometimes add. This part of the study finishes at the end Of February and then the monster data analysis begins…..