Living with someone who's always cold

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Just a rant really.

I'm fed up with living with someone who's always cold. He's fed up with living with someone who's always hot. But the radiators are on more than they're not, and they get as hot as the surface of the sun. We've often had arguments over the heating being on. I don't mind it on for an hour or so, but it's easier to keep yourself warm than to keep yourself cool. I have to have the fan blowing constantly because I'm too hot all the time. I do miss having a cold bedroom though. I've tried turning the radiator off in the bedroom but it still comes on. Ugh, it's frustrating.

God knows what the gas bill is going to be. Last year we couldn't afford to put the heating on, and I think I became desensitized to the cold. He obviously didn't. I do hate a hot room.

If he's the one paying the bill it's in his interest to wear a few layers and turn the heating down. Maybe the thermostat in the bedroom needs fixing? You should be able to turn it off.

We both pay the bills, but if I had my way I'd only use the heating for an hour every couple of days to warm up drying laundry and to stop mould (as mould spreads more in cold, damp rooms). I would not use it for warmth, as I can easily get warm by wrapping up. I have a dressing-gown that's thick and fluffy, and no matter how cold it is in a room, wearing it soon makes me sweat out.

I remember a couple of years ago he bought a 10-tog duvet. This was when we were too poor to afford heating. We used it on a freezing cold night of minus temperatures, but I got SO hot under it, I thought I was going to die. But as soon as I put a leg out the duvet I immediately felt the cold, so that just proved how cold the room was compared to how hot the duvet was. I said a little joke, that even a homeless person sleeping rough on the streets in the middle of winter would reject the duvet for being too hot.

I find it helps to wear pants with a flannel lining inside. I have flannel lined jeans sold by Eddie Bauer.
Fleece lined pants are even warmer!