Did you turn your heat on last night?

[Anonymous]

My ac was on set to 60

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not yet. Middle aged wife had our window partially open last night.

Is that you, hubby?

[Anonymous]

Hasn’t dropped below 67 for me yet so no heat. I’m also perimenopausal and I cycle between feeling hot and cold. I’ll probably have to turn it on next week tho

[Anonymous]

I turned it on for a couple of hours to heat the rooms then shut it off.

[Anonymous]

My heat’s been on since early October.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My heat and AC have been on for about 15 years. Why would you turn them off when you have a thermostat to set and control the temperature? House drops below 65, heat starts up. House goes about 74, air comes on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c. You have to turn each one on/off, you can’t just set a temp and have the relevant system kick on.

We have gas heat and electric ac, and we literally set a high and low temp range. .

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such tough old farts on this thread . Must have a ton of blubber like a beached whale

My experience is that it's the lean and mean people who embrace a cold house. Seems to overlap with a keen interest in health and fitness.

Meh. It overlaps with menopause. That lasts about 10 years. Then couples slowly start moving in the opposite direction, back up, and in later life, the house tends to be heated to a temperature in degrees Fahrenheit that matches their age in years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy. Heat is in at night and set to 72. Why be uncomfortable in your own home?

Im the biggest proponent of use your HVAC system to make you comfortable regardless of the calendar. 72 is just way too hot.

[Anonymous]

It was 50 something this am I slept like a baby. But alas the animals so on goes the heat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My heat and AC have been on for about 15 years. Why would you turn them off when you have a thermostat to set and control the temperature? House drops below 65, heat starts up. House goes about 74, air comes on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c. You have to turn each one on/off, you can’t just set a temp and have the relevant system kick on.

Actually we have the same and the thermostat allows you to have both cool and heat selected with set temps for both...so cool over 78 and heat over 65.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy. Heat is in at night and set to 72. Why be uncomfortable in your own home?

72! That’s like Mumbai!

[Anonymous]

In case you are not aware, some fuels are very expensive. Heating oil is ridiculous. It would cost me $10,000 to heat at 78 for four months. No thank you. I’ll set it at 56 and use electric heaters when needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My heat and AC have been on for about 15 years. Why would you turn them off when you have a thermostat to set and control the temperature? House drops below 65, heat starts up. House goes about 74, air comes on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c. You have to turn each one on/off, you can’t just set a temp and have the relevant system kick on.

Actually we have the same and the thermostat allows you to have both cool and heat selected with set temps for both...so cool over 78 and heat over 65.

Our thermostat has memory settings for both, but you still have to tell it when to stop using and a/c and start using heat. It doesn’t just switch back and forth minute by minute on its own. That would be weird - if it accidentally overheated the home it would just turn on the ac to compensate? That doesn’t sound right. But I’m no expert.

We basically have a few weeks each fall and a few weeks each spring where we use no heat or a/c and the rest of the time it’s one or the other. Our home is very efficient though and our bills rarely exceed $300/month for a very large home.

[Anonymous]

We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My heat and AC have been on for about 15 years. Why would you turn them off when you have a thermostat to set and control the temperature? House drops below 65, heat starts up. House goes about 74, air comes on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c. You have to turn each one on/off, you can’t just set a temp and have the relevant system kick on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c and never need to turn either on or off.