Winter thermostat temps?
It's a constant battle here at the house, as I am always freezing & my husband's always hot.  |
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| My old, drafty farmhouse on a hill - well it is a constant battle here too!
Our bedroom is on the NW corner of the house and the thermostat is in our room - for the whole house. We also have a corn stove, it is on the east side.That warms the kitchen, dining/living room areas. Usually the thermostat is set on about 62, and the corn stove warms up the core of the house to close to 70. In this miserable wind from the west, I have it set on 65, the corn stove on a 4 (out of 6). I am toasty on one side from the stove, and the other side of me is cold from the draft of the wind.
At night I don't mind the cold - I jump into my toasty bed with my electric blanket!! |
| I would be happy if our thermostat was on 70, but usually it is btw 64-68. I usually walk around the house with 2-3 sweaters on and cut-off finger gloves. When I pull out the ski cap it gets a little ridiculous.
Dawn, & all of you other Northern people, I give you so much credit for dealing with the temps & the snow. And it's not even January yet! |
| I have a programmable thermostat. When I'm at work, it's set at 64. Goes up to 70 around 5pm, and down to 66 at 10pm. My townhouse is 10 years old and pretty well-insulated. However, I had to get a new furnace last year. |
| Mine is set for 65 but it is cold. We have a gas stove in the living room which is on 75% of the day. There is no other heat in that room. I am always cold. I wear at leasr 2 sweaters eveyday and warm pants. Latlely my husband who is always warm has even turned up the temp. I can't stand cold ears. So I have a set of earmuffs. LOL must look crazy in the house. We are on a budget plan and for one hole yr we only went over $78.00 !!! thats not bad. |
Ah....one of the nice things about hot water heat!  It cost more to install it when we built the house but I've never been sorry! We can set the thermostat at 66-68 degrees & it feels like 72 degress because the temperature never varies up or down like with a forced air furnace. I like to keep the kennel a bit cooler for the dogs so I just adjust their vent to let less heat in there. |
| ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How can you guys live in a house that's only 64 degrees in the winter? I don't even leave the dogs alone at a temp that low! If it's not at least 72 in the house, I'm miserable. I'd rather pay double the heat bill than suffer! |
 I have forced air and I hate it: it's either too hot or too cold!  I set the thermostat at 68, but that leaves the downstairs family room(with TV, books, etc and my office) too cold.  I have an electric fireplace where I watch TV. Willoughby usually sleeps next to it when I have the TV on.  There's a gas fire in the living room upstairs. They should be reversed but there was no place for direct vent in the downstairs.  I have a heating pad in my TV chair and one in my bed. At night, Percy and Edwina hop onto the bed, usually near the heating pad while Willoughby has his bed and his rug on the floor. All the floors are cold in the AM. |
| When we were younger we used to keep our apartment at 55. We were young and in love back then...
We used to keep this house around 68 or so; then we got setback thermostats and so during the day it was 68 and nighttime was 64. We control each room separately as each room has it's own thermostat for the electric heat. A few years ago when I wasn't feeling so hot I couldn't get warm (which was very odd, as Joan married me because I was always "her furnace") so we upped all the thermostats in the house to 78. Surprisingly it didn't add all that much to our bill; I was prepared to double our usage but it only went up by a quarter, give or take. I guess keeping individual rooms cold really doesn't help all that much; all the insulation is in the exterior walls I guess. This year started warm but we turned it down after the first electric bill -- our usage jumped by 1/3 over last year and I didn't think it was very cold this year. So we're at about 70 daytime and 66 nighttime in all but one room. |
| We have hot water, oil heat too. But with the cost of oil being so high last summer (when pre-buy season was), we decided to only buy half of our usual amount and invest in a wood pellet stove. We have the thermostats (4 of them) set at 68 but until this cold snap hit, the pellet stove has kept the house warm enough to keep the heat off. So we've only had to use out furnace for heating the house water. This is our test season, since it's the first for the pellet stove. We'll see how much we save, or how well the heat from the stove circulates thru the house. |
| I grew u in a house with hot water heat and Marilyn is right - it is so much more comfortable!!
we have hot air in the house we are in now (propane) and keep the house between 66 and 68 when we are home, 62 when we are at work. we use a programmable thermostat and only the Macaw seems to mind. Morgan still sleeps in the doorways looking for a breeze! I always used to be cold and Dan hot - this winter he is freezing and I am used to wearing layers and sitting under a blnket. of course I think it is colder at work, people are wearing gloves and I sit wrapped in a fleece blanket. spoiled state workers  |
Our' is set at 65 at night and 69 during the day. When we built our house three years ago, the standards were energy star. In addition, I payed for extra insulation and to have all openings for pipes, etc to be sealed. It's the first house I've lived in that's not drafty. 
However, we have two floors and only one heating zone. The lower floor is always at least 4-5 degrees cooler. Bummer, that's where my office and the family room with the great TV are. We installed far infrared panels in each room for less cost than what it would take to make the house two zone and I love, love, love the way they heat, it's so comforting and cost almost nothing to run. They aren't the regular infrared stuff you see all the time. Some of that stuff can cook you like a pig on a spit. |
| Dh is the cold one in our house and turns the heat up to 74degrees. I see that or feel it and turn in down to 68-70 degrees. I'd like to turn it down to 64 at night but ours is not programable and dh gets up in the morning freezing and complains I'm used to dressing in layers with two blankets on the bed and if I'm lucky a warm sheepie. |
| I keep the thermostat at 68. I also have space heater I use in one room, due to lack of insulation and windows. I try to keep the door closed to that part of the house. But Obe loves it in there, reason for heater. |
| I set the thermostat to 75 (24C) is that right? But our heating system is 30 years old so I have no idea what the actual temp is, sometimes the only way I can get warm enough is in a hot bath. |
| I think it depends on where you live among other things ...like size of your house, etc. I've asked this in Alaska boards and in TX boards. In TX boards, it's SO MUCH higher than a cold state. We keep ours between 68-70, and I can't stand it being remotely cold. I'm such a baby, and refuse to freeze in my own home. |
| we keep ours set at 67....if i get cold i turn on the fireplace (gas)....
its been very comfortable at night...however last night, i was freakin HOT...i ended up sleeping with just the sheet for most of the night...dang hot flashes! |
| ah the wonders of florida our never drops below 74 and at 78 we turn in down but at the moment we don't really have either the cooling or the heating on and if we do it only for a few minutes to regulate the house temp.
zoe and eint |
| Our house stays at 72-73 all the time. That may seem like a lot this time of year, but we were in the mid-upper 70s all last week. We use our central heat & air very little in the winter really. We make up for it in the summer unfortunately though. |
| I try to keep my house temp set at 78F all year 'round. I say try, because my daughter, who is on pain meds gets hot and will set it at 75F and I freeze at that temp, so back up to 78F.
I used to open the windows when the temp outside would drop to 82F or lower, but decided, with beige carpet all through the house, to keep the windows closed and live in a/c 24/7. Keeping the windows closed helps keep the carpet cleaner and keeps the humidity out of the house as well. |
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