How Low do you Set Heat at Night?

[Anonymous]

@19:05 - how much money do you save? First winter in a SFH and not sure what the "best practices" are. Currently we just keep the thermostat set to a constant 68-69 degrees.

[Anonymous]

My God, you all like it hot. I can't sleep if it's 65 or more. I can't stand it if the heat is on period. If it comes on at night for some reason, it wakes me up.

We set it at 55, and the heat doesn't come on all night. It doesn't usually get down below 60, but we don't mind if it does. We did this even when the kids were tiny. We all have down comforters and sleep cosy.

My family always did it this way, so to me it seems an awful waste of heat to keep it on when you're all snug in bed. (My European mom used to let her babies nap in the buggy sitting out in the backyard even when it was snowy outside. She felt the fresh, cold air was good for us! We were well-bundled, so we weren't cold. Just the air we breathed was cold. I still like it that way.)

[Anonymous]

67 all the time in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Upstairs 72 during the day and 70 at night.

Downstairs 72 during the day 65 at night.

Only issue is that I think of am wasting money upstairs because the auxiliary heat comes on in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Wow, some people like it cold! We set it at 70-72. DS's room gets freezing so we have an oil filled radiator in his room set to come on at 70. I would like it a little cooler, but DS is an infant and wakes up more often at night when it gets below 70ish.

[Anonymous]

70 and I'm always freezing for 20 minutes until I can heat up the bed.

[Anonymous]

70. If I'm cold in my bedroom, I'll turn on my space heater while I read in bed to warm things up.

Sometimes I'll put my heating pad in my bed to warm up the sheets too.

[Anonymous]

This is 19.05. When I lived in a condo and bought a timer my monthly gas bill went from about $100 a month down to about $80 a month.
Now I am in a SFH I think the savings are about $30-$30 a month.

Theres a percentage that you save for every degree you go lower, I can't remember the actual percent though.
We also have it set to 65 degrees when were all out of the house on work days.
If you get a timer make sure you get one that has settings for the week/weekend and 4 different temp changes in a 24 hour period. Or 2 temp changes if you stay home and just want to do it at night.

[Anonymous]

68 night and day.

[Anonymous]

68 at night, comes back up to 71 during the day. We live in a 3 story townhome with just one zone of heat. When someone sleeps on the lower level we generally need to turn on the auxilliary oil-filled radiator to warm things up as it gets much colder than 68 down there at night.

[Anonymous]

I like being warm, so we keep the entire house at 76-77 when we are home - whether it's day or night. And we don't care about the bills because we'd rather pay $100-200 more than feel uncomfortable at our own home.

[Anonymous]

4 zones in my house. Basement is 60 -- we rarely go down there. Main level is 62 during the day and 67 from 6-9 pm. Same for level with kids bedrooms. Our floor 60 at night and 68 when people are up there.

I can't stand sleeping when it is too hot.

[Anonymous]

60 at night. 62-3 during day.

We live in a 1914 house with original windows and zero insulation. When that heater comes on? I'm heating the outdoors. So my goal is to almost never have the boiler come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like being warm, so we keep the entire house at 76-77 when we are home - whether it's day or night. And we don't care about the bills because we'd rather pay $100-200 more than feel uncomfortable at our own home.

Holy cow, 76-77?! That's pretty hot. We keep ours set at 68 during the morning and evening and 64 during the main part of the day and at night. Both DC and I get hot when we sleep, so we keep it low (much to DH's chagrin!). DC (2 yrs old) sleeps in cotton pants and a long sleeve shirt and is comfortable without any blankets. I usually sleep under blankets, but he gets way too hot under them.

[Anonymous]

Ours is at 70 overnight. The bedrooms rarely get above 65 by keeping the setting at 70 (north facing windows and thermostat is just outside laundry room where furnace is...bad set up). We tried setting the heat lower at night but I froze even with heavy covers. Our heat is set lower during the day while we're gone (about 68) and kicks up a bit just before the first person arrives home in the evening.