It is about that time for some heat

I switched out heat pump to heat couple weeks ago, but until the last couple days, it hasn't hardly run. last couple nights have been in the teens. It will warm up now for the next week or so. I turn the thermostat down to 68 at night, and when we get up turn it up to 72. We are OLD, and don't like to be chilly. Also we scrimped and saved all our lives to save up for our old age, so we aren't gonna be uncomfy now. Of course the house is all electric.
 
Turned ours on last week, otherwise we got about a month without having to run AC or heat. Set to 68, wife usually likes it at 66 but we have a newborn so it’s been on 68.

Seems to run far less with this Honeywell thermostat, I have it set to “circulate” so it’ll kick just the fan on for a few minutes every so often. The nest that came with the house didn’t have that feature and the downstairs would get cold while upstairs would be hot.
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Turned mine on few days ago. 65 is what mines set at. Mind you we had a coal furnace in our house growing up.
I don’t pay utilities either so it’s a real win/win

But I help my landlord cut firewood and split it for his house as he appreciates it
 
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That's the best post!

Put the heat on this week (Natural gas). I did some renos this sprint and summer to add rigid insulation and roxul in the garage (bedroom is above garage) and under the floors of the other front bedroom.

Some folks are in for an expensive winter heating their houses. Look how bad the UK has it and winter hasn't even started.
 
I don't turn the heat on until I got sleep for the night. Currently keeping the temperature at 65 degrees.

It's a good idea to get your furnace serviced and cleaned btw.
 
JC1 said:
That's the best post!

Put the heat on this week (Natural gas). I did some renos this sprint and summer to add rigid insulation and roxul in the garage (bedroom is above garage) and under the floors of the other front bedroom.

Some folks are in for an expensive winter heating their houses. Look how bad the UK has it and winter hasn't even started.
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If I put that note up at my house, it would be tantamount to an open declaration of war.
 
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redhat said:
Who put their heat on? What do you use?
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We have a 2 ton mini-split that does a pretty good job of heating the house at this time of year. If I keep the living room (where the mini-split is mounted) at 70F, the rest of the first floor will be in the high 60's and the upstairs bedrooms will be a few degrees less. The part that usually drives me to fire up the main heating system is the basement and hardwood floors start to get pretty chilly. Usually that ends up being the first week of November. When I finally cave in and light the boiler for the season, that is the end of the cold floors. The boiler and piping is insulated but still keeps the basement around 70F.
 
JC1 said:
That's the best post!

Put the heat on this week (Natural gas). I did some renos this sprint and summer to add rigid insulation and roxul in the garage (bedroom is above garage) and under the floors of the other front bedroom.

Some folks are in for an expensive winter heating their houses. Look how bad the UK has it and winter hasn't even started.
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You reap what you sow
 
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When we lived in NY, we left the furnace's on/off switch turned on all year long with the thermostat set to 62 during most times, 66 during hours we would most likely be at home and awake. She came on anytime the house temperature dropped below those settings which typically didn't happen until sometime in November. But if it dropped in October, the furnace turned on.
 
We had our first freezing day up here in SE BC, north across the border from Bonners Ferry, Idaho. The heat pump has been running in the mornings. We pretty much coast all night. My 10 year old heat pump is good for 27 F at which point it automatically switches to my propane powered boiler which heats a heat exchanger in the furnace and sends hot air through the ducts. When it gets colder I’ll send hot water to the in-floor heat in the basement and rely on that with the forced air furnace just touching up the temps during the day. If it’s a sunny day I don't need much heat. Below 27 F , I’ll make a fire in the wood stove in the walk out basement when I’m home. I pay $200 USD equivalent for a cord of split fir. The heat pump is cheapest, followed by wood and then propane. Sunlight is free. :D
 
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Mine is set at 70. I have geothermal HVAC. I’ve only been in my new home a few weeks so I don’t know how it will perform in extreme cold or hot weather conditions.
 
We heat mainly with a Harman pellet boiler in this old farmhouse. Hardwood pellets are going for $266/ton here. I'll go through 6 tons in an average season.
 
Actually been a pretty good fall as far as keeping the windows open but here's the deal, I refuse to be uncomfortable as I get older. Earlier this week we had to close the windows and turn the heat on, couple days with lows in the teens and highs in the 30/40 range. Suppose to be 80 for the next couple days so may need to turn the AC on for a bit.
 
RamFan said:
I tried to make it to Oct. but had to cave on 9/26 as we had a cold snap. We're warm blooded. Keep the house at 70 while we're there. Let it drop to 66 when we're out of the house and at night.
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I'm ordered to go no higher than 60 at night and 65 during the day. If the daytime high will be 70 or greater no heat until the sun goes down. Mind you this is the outdoor day time high, not the cooler indoor temp. It's 61 in my office at the moment.
 
My apartment has huge south-facing windows and is on an upper floor (an issue in the cooling season with an anemic wall a/c, as I posted about this summer), but recently they have helped keep the place comfortable without any need to turn my heat on.

I haven't needed heat or a/c for the past month and a half or so, which is nice. Even though we've had lows in the high 20s/low 30s and a few days where the highs were in the 30s, the temp in the apartment has stayed remarkably steady (right around 72F), never dropping below the high 60s and typically being warmer than that.

I'll certainly use the heat when I need it, but I'm enjoying the near-zero utility bills for the time being... I got a $30 electric bill for mid-September to mid-October, of which only $15 was usage (the rest being fees) - pretty much just the fridge, a fan, chargers, and a few LEDs, plus a few dishwasher cycles and a bit of stove usage. I'll be interested to see how much heat the place needs over the winter.
 
Here in Phoenix, heat isn't even a thought until maybe Thanksgiving time. That's when the house dips into the upper 60's.

It does get pretty cold though eventually.
 
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