Heater on or off at night?

[blowtorch]

Oh man! We heated with wood for a long time, and I'm glad to not have to cut wood anymore. We had one chimney fire in a chimney that wasn't even close to being blocked, and we were lucky that we could get the fire out before it could spread. I remember that it sounded like a jet engine with the after burner kicked in.

I think you were extremely fortunate to not have ever burned the house down.

my mom was just the other day telling me about a relative who lost their relatively-newly purchased home to a chimney fire

 

[tery]

Heat @ 70
A/C @ 79

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

Mrs. Roadie & I just can't sleep when we are cold. Too many blankets become cumbersome. We are at a point where we have paid our dues & can afford almost whatever we couldn't afford with kids in the house and what we want is to not leave the cozy comfort of our bed to face a cold room, so our winter utility bills are not as low as they could be.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

In my experience, men run hot and women run cold.

Excuse me, I just had to wipe away tears from laughing so hard! Have you not heard of *hot flashes*? My wife has been having them ... for eight year now! She'll be cold in bed and snuggling against me ... and then BOOM! She pushes all the covers off and she's covered in sweat. God help me if I touch her then, with my "hot, hot" hand

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Excuse me, I just had to wipe away tears from laughing so hard! Have you not heard of *hot flashes*? My wife has been having them ... for eight year now! She'll be cold in bed and snuggling against me ... and then BOOM! She pushes all the covers off and she's covered in sweat. God help me if I touch her then, with my "hot, hot" hand

I hear the words you are saying, but they have no bearing on my reality. I might be partnered with the only woman in the world who actually likes hot flashes. She is a physical anomaly. Hot flashes don't bother her in the least. Instead, she has a scar on her eye from shingles (terribly painful) and can't stand moving air. She sleeps comfortably with neither fan nor air conditioning in 98/37 degree weather. Other than that she is great.

 

[keithb7]

@BigDaddyLH I too know these episodes. Hot flashes. Some times I am a blanket hog and get blamed for her being cold. 30 mins later its all kicked off. I see her laying there like when when were in our hotel room in Belize that didn’t have A/C.

Men seem to have a natural thermostat. When its cold outside I don’t need to bundle up much. Maybe its all the hair on our backs and chests. Lol. Women seem to run un-regulated.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

@BigDaddyLH I too know these episodes. Hot flashes. Some times I am a blanket hog and get blamed for her being cold. 30 mins later its all kicked off. I see her laying there like when when were in our hotel room in Belize that didn’t have A/C.

Men seem to have a natural thermostat. When its cold outside I don’t need to bundle up much. Maybe its all the hair on our backs and chests. Lol. Women seem to run un-regulated.

Bolded for TRUTH!

 

[Milspec]

We have a poorly insulated block and brick house built in the 40s, part of the post WWII boom. One gas furnace, and a wood stove. In the winter we set the thermostat to 62 at night and 68 in the day, sometimes cheating it up to 70, and the only spot that actually sees that temperature is a foot in front of the thermostat. The rest of the house varies from colder to A LOT colder. If we have the wood stove going then one room is really warn and the rest of the house is an icebox. I wear a lot of long underwear and sweaters.

It's been a great house and we love our neighborhood, but it's impossible to insulate and massively inefficient.

I kind of like the fact that we feel the seasons a lot, to be honest.

Sounds like the house I rented back in college. My buddy and I viewed the place in July and loved how cool the temps were inside without A/C due to the high vaulted ceilings and large walk-thru windows. The house was built in 1907, but it was cheap and seemed like a winner.

Fast forward to winter, there was no ability to heat the place above 50 degrees. Every window leaked air, none of the walls had insulation, and those vaulted ceilings allowed any heat to just rise past you. We gave up and just decided to Valley Forge it. We even unplugged the fridge since it was no longer needed to chill anything...the room was already 45 degrees. We purchased a couple of German Sniper sleeping bags which had sleeves in the them for when we were home and spent as much time as possible somewhere else.

We even purchased some military surplus parachutes to hang from the ceilings to reduce the height in hopes of adding some warmth down lower, but the fire marshal was not impressed and warned us that we were asking for a fire? We looked at each other and told him that we welcomed the fire...it would be the first time either of us wasn't shivering.

 

[maxvintage]

Sounds like the house I rented back in college. My buddy and I viewed the place in July and loved how cool the temps were inside without A/C due to the high vaulted ceilings and large walk-thru windows. The house was built in 1907, but it was cheap and seemed like a winner.

Fast forward to winter, there was no ability to heat the place above 50 degrees. Every window leaked air, none of the walls had insulation, and those vaulted ceilings allowed any heat to just rise past you. We gave up and just decided to Valley Forge it. We even unplugged the fridge since it was no longer needed to chill anything...the room was already 45 degrees. We purchased a couple of German Sniper sleeping bags which had sleeves in the them for when we were home and spent as much time as possible somewhere else.

We even purchased some military surplus parachutes to hang from the ceilings to reduce the height in hopes of adding some warmth down lower, but the fire marshal was not impressed and warned us that we were asking for a fire? We looked at each other and told him that we welcomed the fire...it would be the first time either of us wasn't shivering.

We just have eight foot ceilings. Post WWII there were thousands of two story brick colonials around here built out of cinder block with brick facing. They are all pretty bad for heat, and we put on a small addition that's well insulated. rest of the house is a monument to mid 20th century tech

 

[Fiesta Red]

2100 is too hot for me

Yeah, but that’s the average temp in San Antonio during August, isn’t it?

 

[unixfish]

The new furnace was installed a week ago today. We got a new thermostat as well.

70 during the day, 67 from 22:30 - 04:00.

The new furnace has a "half heat" mode which slowly brings the house to temp when the furnace runs. This avoids the hot blast that used to wake me up during the night.

The system was a bit pricey, but it was worth it. The house is much more comfortable now.

 

[Ironwolf]

It is too cold here in the winter to turn off the heat. Especially if the wind is blowing.

 

[bowman]

We turn down to 60 at night, no matter how cold it is outside. In the daytime, we keep it at 62. On a really cold day, we’ll turn it up to 64 briefly. Blankets (her) and sweatshirts (me) are much cheaper than paying for heat, and we’re both lifelong northerners, so it’s really just business as usual in winter months.

 

[rcole_sooner]

Ours is set to auto, when it gets below 69 the heat comes on.

 

[David Barnett]

In my experience, men run hot and women run cold. Guess who ends up being uncomfortable in the winter?

At the office I noticed the women were all wearing sweaters in the summer, so I turned up the thermostat by one degree.

Then they all complained it was getting stuffy.

In the winter, if I turn up the heat to where I'm comfortable, I start getting complaints about "wasting energy". Our office lease includes all utilities, so it wouldn't cost us any more to be cozy.

 

[rcole_sooner]

I grew up snuggled under down comforters with a window open above my head.

My always-cold partner would kill me if I tried that now.

In my experience, men run hot and women run cold. Guess who ends up being uncomfortable in the winter?

My wife claims menopause makes her run hot vs men. But, yeah, my experience is she uses a lot more heat and blankets than I and would sweat to death with all that. So I have a method where I fold the blankets up beside me (between us which is not so good) and just use the sheet.

I guess we guys get the ol' men-o-pause too.

 

[Monoprice99]

It's that time of the year when the nights can get too cold and that cycle is for the heat, but the daylight hours are plenty warm for cool AC. So I'm constantly switching it end of the day to heat, start of the day for cool. My efforts of just trying to maintain a constant temperature & humidity level for my guitars. Summer in FL is more about changing the temperature more so than the heat/cool cycle. For the cycle change I nudge temperature +/- a degree, just enough to cycle on the heat pump HVAC system t ensure it's working properly. Humidity level stays right at 50-55% year round with the thermostat set at 74. I may get the occasional day where the front moves in and gets humidity between 30-40% but that lasts a day or so and then normalizes between 50-55%. 45-55% is the ideal range, I seem to have been able to tighten the range to +/- 5% instead of +/- 10%.