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What do you keep the thermostat at in the winter?

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either off or at full blast. when the house gets hot, it goes back off.

and i generally only turn it on before bed ... heat the room .. get under the covers... and off again.
 
Got mine set @ 60F.

However living in an appartment the temp is usually around 66F.
If I get chilly i'll boost it to 70F for an hour or so.
 
Mai72 said:
Yes, it sucks. The cold air creeps in thru the windows. It's a summer home that acts poorly in the winter.
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Actually, the warm air creeps out.


And I have a pellet stove. Woke up this morning and my house was a beach like 85 degrees. Awwwwwwww yeahhhh.
 
I've got two furnaces. One for the main floor, and a 2nd for the upstairs where all the bedrooms are. Main floor is set at a constant 68 degrees. 2nd floor is programmed. It's set to drop to 62 degrees through the day, the go up to around 68 degrees around 7PM when we are getting the kids ready for bed. It drops to 66 again overnight. Then back up to 70 degrees at 5:00AM when we are getting showers and ready for work.

It works well for our house.
 
I have a two year old, and for bedtime I set it to 72. Normally 73 during the daytime. But if it was just me I would hold it at 69-70 and wear a sweatsuit around the house if I'm home.

Recently put in insulation in my attic and bought this bad boy www.ecobee.com
 
madoka said:
Using energy to heat a house is a waste of money. I just bundle up more and even bought a sleeping bag to use instead of blankets when it gets really cold. I've seen the temperature in my bedroom sometimes go into the 30s.
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Screw that.
 
madoka said:
Using energy to heat a house is a waste of money. I just bundle up more and even bought a sleeping bag to use instead of blankets when it gets really cold. I've seen the temperature in my bedroom sometimes go into the 30s.
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Aren't you the guy who has a $35,000 lego collection, a dozen iPads and spends $8,000 a year on christmas presents?

Maybe you could make an igloo out of the Legos and put all the ipads on an endless loop of a fireplace flame on youtube and use the heat generated by the ipads to keep you warm.
 
I keep the hvac around 70 year round and it does whatever it needs to (heat or ac) to maintain that. It's currently 19F outside so the heat is running.
 
05:00 - 07:00 at 66°F
07:00 - 15:00 at 60°F
15:00 - 22:00 at 66°F
22:00 - 05:00 at 64°F

Sometimes I will bump it to 68°F in the evenings if I am feeling cold.
 
74F in the day, 64F at night but the thermostat is poorly placed on a wall that is too close to the furnace so 74F translates to ~70F for most of the house.
 
IronWing said:
74F in the day, 64F at night but the thermostat is poorly placed on a wall that is too close to the furnace so 74F translates to ~70F for most of the house.
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Your temp sensor is inside the thermostat? I'm not an expert on these things so maybe I'm using the wrong terms. I thought the thermostat was the control box where you set the temp, schedule, etc... Our temp sensor itself is in the living room as close to the center of the house as possible. Considering how many places put the control box in a terrible place to actually get a livable temp reading, that seems stupid.
 
rsbennett00 said:
Your temp sensor is inside the thermostat?
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Yep. We had the furnace replaced this summer. The old analog thermostat was mounted across the hall and so away from the furnace. The new one is mounted such that while it doesn't share a wall with the furnace room it is on a short wall that T's off of that wall and so the wall and thermostat stay warmer than most of the house.
 
68 for 2 hours in the morning, and 6 hours in the evening. 63 the other 16 hours when we are at work or sleeping. It's a programmable, so we may turn it up if we feel chilly, especially now that natural gas is $.47 a ccf, the cheapest I've ever seen it in winter.
 
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