How cold do you keep your house?

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My bedroom is 55 day/60 night, heated with a propane monitor heater.

The rest of the house is heated with a pellet stove, so the hottest room is about 72 and the coldest at the far end of the house is 60.
 
Heat in the house is set at 68f. Perfectly comfortable temp. My computer is in the basement anyway, so I get to enjoy nice cool temps down there, and I like it cold when I sleep anyway (Plus a fan for noise). I'd turn it down more but then it'd be way too cold when getting out of the shower.
 
We have kept the heat at 68 since we've had our son, who is 2 now. We used to keep it at 65. AC is set at 74 in the summer.
 
66 degrees, with a few areas a little warmer.

Electric throw on the sofa, electric mattress pad on the bed upstairs.

The fireplace has an electric insert (fake fire) with a heater if you want to warm that room.

The study where the kitties hang out has a De'Longhi oil filled heater in there.

So the majority of the house is 66, closets are 50'ish, and a few areas are a little warmer..
 
55...lol. Wife would kill me if I set it that low...

usually do 65-66 during the day, and 64-65 at night. If the wife gets real cold (she does get cold easy), it might get bumped up to 68-69 for a little while....

Summer...don't have my ac unit installed yet...so we live with window ac/fans during the summer....
 
Originally Posted By: GreeCguy
Back in August, when the weather was close to the temperature of the sun in these parts, my wife insisted on keeping the house cold enough to hang meat in the living room. As her excuse, she claimed to be going through "the change" and adjusted said thermostat to compensate for the curse of nature.

Friends, I suffered. Countless nights in the dog days of summer found me under a quilt, trying to conserve as much heat as possible so as not to die of hypothermia during the dark hours from sun to sun.

Now with winter upon us, I have informed my wife that we will not be turning on the heat during the winter. "This is the very thing you wanted!" I declared with all my husbandly might and authority.

Outside night time temps have been dipping into the low 30's in these parts, and yet I am surprised that the lowest recorded temps inside our humble dwelling have dipped to a mere 63, (it's 65 degrees right now).

I am relatively comfortable, following the sage advice of my dear old Dad who, when we as children complained of a chilly house, would lovingly say: "Shut up and put on a sweater!"

I haven't spoken these words of wisdom to my wife yet, but ironically, she does complain the house is now too cold, (can you believe that?).

So here I am, wearing my hoodie and two pairs of sweatpants, happy in the knowledge that this "air conditioning" is free.

But I can't help but wonder, for those of you who live in colder climates, "how low do you go"?

Help me brothers. Give me verbal ammunition to counter my wife's unfounded accusation that we have the coldest house in the lower 48. Even now, she is gazing ever so longingly at the thermostat on the wall. I am determined to leave the heater switch in the "off" position as long as possible, but I have to sleep sometime.

The great thermostat war is on. Rally, my friends, rally to my side!



Wow, always love your stories!! Funny how to some people's perception of cold changes based on the season, even though temps inside the house remain the same!

Comparison between FL and MT might not be valid, but

Winters we keep.the house 63 while we're up, 57 overnight with programmable thermostat.

Summers, it's windows open overnight, close them around 10am and ac on 75 or so.
 
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I think ours is set to 64 overnight, 66 during the day, and 68 for the 6-7am and 8-9pm regions. I find 66 pretty comfortable as long as I'm not on a computer--if I try to work from home I about freeze at those temps. But as long as I'm moving around (housework, in and out to work on the car, whatever) it's not bad at all. Our bedroom is unheated and if we notice it drop below about 62 we will kick on a space heater.

I seem to have poor circulation though and never go barefoot. Explains why I can't type on a computer if it's below about 70.

Summer is different. The window ac units pretty much run open loop. We might kick them off when it gets down to 70, but often will run as long as possible--it might cool off enough outside but often we need the humidity knocked down.
 
Summer, 78. Winter..68 day, 64 night or if were not home.

My wife gets cold very easily...she will wear 3-4 layers at 50 degrees in order to not shiver violently. She is more comfortable at 95 degrees than she is at 65.
 
This will be my 3rd winter in the current apartment - I didn't have to pay for heat or electricity in the previous apartment. The management also REQUIRED that we keep the heat above 70 to avoid the pipes freezing. They would check, too, more than once I turned it down because it was too warm and I came home from work and it was turned up to 75.

In the current apartment, I have to pay for electric. It has electric baseboard heat.

The first winter, I would leave whatever rooms were not being unused at 60 and turn the heat up to 65 where I was.

Last winter, I tried to use that strategy and had a $200 electric bill. National Greed tripled my rates. So i cut back, and it still went up ... they quadrupled my rates before the end of the winter! For last winter, I turned the heat off beginning of March this year and did not turn it back on until November! March was a ... cold month.

This winter, I am only heating ONE room to 55 degrees. That's either the bedroom or the living/kitchen/dining (they all share one thermostat). The cat likes to lay in the living room during the day, so that gets heated to 55. When I go to bed, I turn the heat off in the living room and turn the bedroom to 55.

Quite a bit lower electricity usage this year.
 
Originally Posted By: Bandito440
My bedroom is 55 day/60 night, heated with a propane monitor heater.

The rest of the house is heated with a pellet stove, so the hottest room is about 72 and the coldest at the far end of the house is 60.


Does yours have a thermostat? Every house I have been in with a pellet stove is like 100 degrees.
 
Originally Posted By: GreeCguy
Back in August, when the weather was close to the temperature of the sun in these parts, my wife insisted on keeping the house cold enough to hang meat in the living room. As her excuse, she claimed to be going through "the change" and adjusted said thermostat to compensate for the curse of nature.


I can not speak for a woman going through menopause, as a man, obviously. However, hot flashes are a well known symptom so if she has them it can be tough.

I have MS. The disease, and medicine I take for it, make me extremely heat sensitive. I can start sweating( and sweat out )at the drop of a hat( has sent me to the ER after passing out due to dehydration twice during the summer when I was out in temps too hot for me )and any swing in temperature no matter how small is noticeable to me. If her hot flashes are anything like what I am dealing with I can sympathize with her.

My A/C goes on when the temp hits 65F and I use a fan when it is 58-60+. I sleep with a fan every night even in the winter and still get night sweats. I have to change sheets 2-3 times a week because of it. My thermostat this winter is being kept at 54 degrees and I am somewhat comfy. If I do any cleaning, cooking, etc... however, I get hot and will sweat even at such a low temp.

The way I look at it is your wife's hot flashes, or cold flashes now, will not last forever. She has no control over her symptoms either so you need to try and get along to help her out. Run the AC and wear a sweater when it's hot and run the heat and wear shorts when she is cold. Until she gets passed this it is far easier for you to get warm/cool off than it is for her.
 
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I'm usually happy with the inside temp at about 68 F. in summer, a little lower in winter. In fact I enjoy wearing a sweater indoors if it's cold enough. And I'll lower the heat when I go to sleep, and toss another blanket on the bed. With the cats curled up next to me, we're all warm enough.
 
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