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How warm do you keep your house in the winter?

How cold do you let your house get before you crank the heat?

  • >70

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • 65-70

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • 60-65

    Votes: 8 22.2%

  • 55-60

    Votes: 3 8.3%

  • >55

    Votes: 4 11.1%

  • bacon/loco sucks

    Votes: 9 25.0%
  • Total voters
    36
sstalder5

sstalder5

Turbo Monkey
Aug 20, 2008
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Our house is in the mid 50's right now (minus my room thanks to baseboard heaters) and my roommate insists we can go another month without turning on the central heat. :think: How cold do you let your house get before you turn on the heat?
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,613
7,271
Colorado
66-68* It only goes up higher if it's cold while wearing socks, pants, hoodie, and beenie.
 
CrabJoe StretchPants

CrabJoe StretchPants

Reincarnated Crab Walking Head Spinning Bruce Dick
Nov 30, 2003
14,163
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Groton, MA
At night, set the thermostat at 60 (about 10pm-8am)...during the day drop it down to 52.

Last fall I put in a pellet stove insert in my fireplace, and that keeps the main portion of my house plenty warm (it's an open layout ranch), though the bedrooms down the hall stay a bit cool. I'm putting a nice tower style fan in the hallway this winter to (hopefully) blow the warm air from the living room down the hall into the bedrooms. As is, the heat hardly kicks on until the temps are consistently in the teens or single digits. It being a new(er), well insulated house helps as well.

My guess is I saved about $1,000 in oil from the first winter to the second winter after putting in the stove, and 2 tons of pellets got me through the winter (about $500).
 
kickstand

kickstand

Turbo Monkey
Sep 18, 2009
3,441
392
Fenton, MI
65* Do you want me to choose the 60-65 option or the 65-70 option?

I tend to turn it down a bit at night. I started working from home, so I think I will leave it warmer most of the day, whereas in the past I would turn it down, then have it warm up for the dinner until bedtime period of the day.
 
dante

dante

Unabomber
Feb 13, 2004
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looking for classic NE singletrack
Usually 65 during the day (evenings) and 55 at night, but considering how little we spend on heat in the winter we'll probably be turning it up a little warmer this winter. NG is cheap right now, and we only heat ~800 feet.
 
B

bean

Turbo Monkey
Feb 16, 2004
1,335
0
Boulder
10 pm to 6 am it's set at 55
6 am to 10 pm it's set at 65 - I work from home so it has to stay up during the day. Sometimes if one of us is cold we'll turn it up two or three degrees.

We never turn off the furnace. If it drops below those temps, it comes on. It was already on for a few days in September. I see no reason it shouldn't be comfortable in here just because it hasn't reached the appropriate month to turn it on. My mom brags about not turning on her furnace until November, and complains about how cold it is in her house all the time. It's ridiculous.
 
CBJ

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
12,877
4,220
Copenhagen, Denmark
I am in a coop and do not control the heat. Its often above 70 and could be warmer if we did not try to control the old steam radiator and I have even removed an radiator.
 
I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,422
9,467
MTB New England
Jeremy R said:
I see a lot of wrong answers here.
The correct answer is whatever in the hell your wife sets it at.
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haha...I couldn't tell you what the hell she sets ours at (besides the fact that I probably couldn't operate the thermostat). All I know I usually wear a sweatshirt around the house in the winter and I like it that way.
 
boogenman

boogenman

Turbo Monkey
Nov 3, 2004
4,317
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I have had to use the heat 1-3 times a week for about the past month already. Had a few nights down to 38 outside.

If it was up to me it would be at 55 at night and when not home and 64 when we are home. My wife usually wants it at 60 at night and 70 when we are home. I sweat my balls off when it's 70.

We heat our daughters room with a electric heater set around 70, her floor of the house is not really used except for her bedroom so we keep the baseboard heat at 55.
 
Jeremy R

Jeremy R

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Nov 15, 2001
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I Are Baboon said:
haha...I couldn't tell you what the hell she sets ours at (besides the fact that I probably couldn't operate the thermostat). All I know I usually wear a sweatshirt around the house in the winter and I like it that way.
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Ha, same here. I wear a hoodie (trademark @ stoney98) in the winter if I am cold, and a wife beater in the summer if I am hot. It keeps thing simple.
 
ultraNoob

ultraNoob

Yoshinoya Destroyer
Jan 20, 2007
4,504
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Hills of Paradise
60-65...

I do live in san Diego, so my vote may not count. Rarely gets below 50 here. Although last year we had a cold snap. Got down to 28deg 1 mile from the beach.
 
eric strt6

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
23,313
13,604
directly above the center of the earth
daytime heat is set at 55, evenings and mornings before work 60-62 at night 55 to sleep and the wife leaves the bedroom windows open even if its 36* out. That's when I break out the thermals, cap and sleeping bag, hot flashes bug her as much as me because of it
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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In related news it's cold enough around here now that we put the flannel sheets back on the bed. Flannel sheets are my favorite part of winter.
 
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Bushwhacker

Bushwhacker

Turbo Monkey
Dec 4, 2003
1,220
0
Tar Effing River!! NC
Nothing but wood heat in this old farm house so our routine is...nice and hot all afternoon/evening and cold as all fvck when you wake up in the morning. Cutting, splitting and stacking keeps helps keep us warm...
We had one really cold night when we woke up to this and some broken pipes leading to the tub.
 
DORO

DORO

Monkey
Jun 15, 2006
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CrabJoe StretchPants said:
At night, set the thermostat at 60 (about 10pm-8am)...during the day drop it down to 52.

Last fall I put in a pellet stove insert in my fireplace, and that keeps the main portion of my house plenty warm (it's an open layout ranch), though the bedrooms down the hall stay a bit cool. I'm putting a nice tower style fan in the hallway this winter to (hopefully) blow the warm air from the living room down the hall into the bedrooms. As is, the heat hardly kicks on until the temps are consistently in the teens or single digits. It being a new(er), well insulated house helps as well.

My guess is I saved about $1,000 in oil from the first winter to the second winter after putting in the stove, and 2 tons of pellets got me through the winter (about $500).
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similiar set up as me and been toying with the idea of putting in a pellet stove. Did you get yours
at the depot/lowes or a specialty store? The ones I've seen are around $3k and have a hard time justifying
that upfront expense.
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
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bout 67* during "occupied" times. I think we're going to move the TV area upstairs to save costs on heating the basement.
 
Ciaran

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
9,839
15
So Cal
I live in So Cal. Why we even have heaters is beyond me. Oh noes! It's going to get all the way down to 45 degrees tonight! And I only have one hoodie! Imma freeze to death!

:p
 
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CrabJoe StretchPants

CrabJoe StretchPants

Reincarnated Crab Walking Head Spinning Bruce Dick
Nov 30, 2003
14,163
2,484
Groton, MA
DORO said:
similiar set up as me and been toying with the idea of putting in a pellet stove. Did you get yours
at the depot/lowes or a specialty store? The ones I've seen are around $3k and have a hard time justifying
that upfront expense.
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I was fortunate enough to get it from my parents as they no longer wanted it for whatever reason, otherwise I would have had a hard time justifying the cost myself. Although I will say, If you were to spend $3k on one, based on the past winter alone I would say you could get your money back in 5-6 years depending on the house layout and how much it actually heats. I saved about $500 in heating oil last winter I would guess.

I'm pretty sure this is the one, I believe it was $3,500 new from a specialty stove/fireplace store:

http://www.lopistoves.com/product_guide/detail.aspx?id=130
 
-BB-

-BB-

I broke all the rules, but somehow still became mo
Sep 6, 2001
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Livin it up in the O.C.
Suck it... ALL of you.

It was in the mid 90's yesterday and Im counting the days till I can get some nice cool weather. It has been cutting into my ride time it has been so hot.

Ciaran knows my pain!
 
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