Annual "What is your heat set to" post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Typically 64-66 daytime and 58-60 nighttime. I also crack the window in my bedroom on all but the very coldest of nights - I sleep best when I’m snuggled up in my comforter in a cold room.

But how can you bear to get up in the morning? That's my problem. I love sleeping like you, but hate having to get up on cold mornings. I need to get a programmable thermostat that heats up the house 30 minutes before I wake up or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typically 64-66 daytime and 58-60 nighttime. I also crack the window in my bedroom on all but the very coldest of nights - I sleep best when I’m snuggled up in my comforter in a cold room.

But how can you bear to get up in the morning? That's my problem. I love sleeping like you, but hate having to get up on cold mornings. I need to get a programmable thermostat that heats up the house 30 minutes before I wake up or something.

So get one. This isn’t hard or expensive.

[Anonymous]

60. At night 57.

We have an arctic sled dog.

But, truthfully, now when the heat is above 60 our house feels hot.

[Anonymous]

70 all the time. I’d keep it cooler, but the kids kick their covers off all the time and I don’t want them getting too cold at night. I also put a mattress pad on for them at night.

[Anonymous]

If you have a multistory house, the number on your thermostat is meaningless.

[Anonymous]

^and single zoned

[Anonymous]

55 overnight. 60-65 during the day/evening

[Anonymous]

72 day, 70 night

Main room has a whole window wall so even when it's on 72 that room is still 66ish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope you get the attention you so desperately seek. I’ll start it off. Wowwwww, 64/63 that is so lowwwwww, I’d be so colllllld.

And then you can tell us all about your flannel sheets, your layers, and your dedication to the environment. He who cuts his own wood is twice warmed, etc.

You sound triggered.

+1
🤣🤣🤣

This was my first thought as well.

I tend to be cold all. the. time.

So I keep mine at 73-74 degrees.

I live in a below-ground apartment if this by any chance matters.

[Anonymous]

64 day, 60 night. It used to be a lot warmer but my teenagers run very hot and still complain they sweat in the night. They open their windows. They try to set the air conditioner to the same in the summer.

[Anonymous]

70 day
60 at night but it doesn't generally drop that low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typically 64-66 daytime and 58-60 nighttime. I also crack the window in my bedroom on all but the very coldest of nights - I sleep best when I’m snuggled up in my comforter in a cold room.

But how can you bear to get up in the morning? That's my problem. I love sleeping like you, but hate having to get up on cold mornings. I need to get a programmable thermostat that heats up the house 30 minutes before I wake up or something.

My husband wakes up 30 min before me and turns up the heat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typically 64-66 daytime and 58-60 nighttime. I also crack the window in my bedroom on all but the very coldest of nights - I sleep best when I’m snuggled up in my comforter in a cold room.

But how can you bear to get up in the morning? That's my problem. I love sleeping like you, but hate having to get up on cold mornings. I need to get a programmable thermostat that heats up the house 30 minutes before I wake up or something.

I keep my toasty warm cashmere cardigan right by the bed, so I can put it on immediately as I get out of bed. Growing up in the 70s my father threatened a fate worse than death if we touched the thermostat, so I learned early that the key to comfort in winter is layers inside as well as outside the house.

When I read about all the folks keeping their homes in the 70s in winter it’s very disheartening. Low 60s is plenty warm for the house, the only thing you might need warmer is your body, and you can heat that much more economically and ecologically soundly by wearing more clothes and choosing appropriate fabrics. Too many Americans seem to think they should be able to walk around the house in underwear or light pjs in winter and still be warm. They might as well burn their money in the fireplace and nevermind that they are contributing to a bleaker future for their own kids.

[Anonymous]

69-70F during the day; 65-66F at night. But our bedroom is about 5F cooler than the setting/main part of the house, so it feels more like 60-61F at night.

[Anonymous]

Main floor has a ecobee set to a range of 69-74 in winter. Meaning ac would kick in above 74. Heat kicks in below 69. But it just doesn’t run.. ever. It would have to get low to start running. Overall the temp stays around 71 all day, and never seems to run.

Upstairs is usually set to 71. If it’s freezing, I bring it up to 72! Sometimes I lower to 70. But every other year it needs tuning .. for example this year, it can’t always keep up to 70-71. On freezing nights, it struggles to keep up, so I actually lower it a bit. Then it can keep up to something like 66.