Annual "What is your heat set to" post.

[Anonymous]

70 during the day, 72 at night. We turn up the heat at night because our bedrooms are upstairs and it's always a lot colder up there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My office thermometer right now says it's 72 and I'm frickin freezing. I don't have control over the heat but I'm so uncomfortable.

Do you have health issues? Do you exercise regularly (beyond just walking). Being cold at 72 with a sweater and hoodie sounds abnormal.

Not if the house is poorly insulated.

PP is in an office.

Even in a poorly insulted house, unless you're sitting right next to a drafty window, being cold at 72 with a sweater + hoodie is not normal.



Our house is set to 64/65. But I workout 6 days a week and get my blood pumping. Hanging out on the sofa with a hoodie, socks, and basic sweatpants is totally comfortable as a short, small, female.

You come across quite holier than thou. I workout 6 days a week too and 64/65 is too cold cold for my tall, thin, healthy frame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:66- we have a boiler so we keep it the same day and night.

Why would that make a difference? I have a boiler, and I have always had different temp settings for different parts of the day/night. The boiler heats when the thermostat calls for heat regardless of the temp setting.

I do know an elderly couple who have a fuel oil boiler that was installed in the 1950s, but that's a whole different story, and they have so much hoarded stuff their radiators haven't' seen daylight for decades.

[Anonymous]

Checked into a hotel last night and the room was set to a sauna like 80. How do people live like that ?

Promptly turned it down to 68.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Checked into a hotel last night and the room was set to a sauna like 80. How do people live like that ?

Promptly turned it down to 68.

It beats the reverse, in the summer when I check in and the room is at 60

[Anonymous]

68-69
If it's really cold outside, like when it is in the 20s, at some point we turn up to 70. That's when it gets a bit hot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:68-69
If it's really cold outside, like when it is in the 20s, at some point we turn up to 70. That's when it gets a bit hot.

This is weird. Doesn't that stress your system? When it's really cold, I'd think one would want to bump it down a little.

[Anonymous]

62F. Our house is well insulated and we are comfortable in cashmere layers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My office thermometer right now says it's 72 and I'm frickin freezing. I don't have control over the heat but I'm so uncomfortable.

72F is freezing? I agree, PP get your CBC checked. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Question to those that keep their temps low, especially at night: How worried are you about pipes freezing and bursting? We keep our heat at 63/night, but in the basement it gets to 53/54. Still 20 degrees above freezing, but these walls border the outside where it's 16 degrees.

[Anonymous]

How's everybody' heat keeping up in this cold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How's everybody' heat keeping up in this cold?

Hmm... That's hard to tell. The thermostat switches AUX heat as necessary. Just looking at the temperature cycles, I had to use AUX heat from 4:15 to 6:15 today. That seems correct since it was 11F this morning and the heat pump isn't supposed to run when outdoors temps drop below 16F or so.