What do you keep your thermostat set at in the cooler months and Winter?

[Ruthanne]

Right now 65F at night - 71F during the day.

It's about the same as how I set it once Winter hits.

 

[Ruthanne]

In the fall, we like to keep the windows open for the air & especially at night to sleep since we like a cold room. When it gets too cold to do that, we'll set the thermostat to 65F at night & around 70-72F during the day.

The wood burner isn't used until the temp drops down into the teens, otherwise it would run us out of the house during the rest of winter. We'll have a crack in the windows when it's on in the bedroom too.

If we do get cold in the evening watching TV, there are always sweat shirts, fleece throws & cats.

Yes that's a great point you made. I can always get out one of my sweat shirts and pants and my big warm robe

 

[JustDave]

Thermostat usually at 73. I told this to a friend, and he gave out disgusted sigh, like I was a wuss. Later, I realized I had given him the wrong impression. At 73, the rest of the house is 69 to 70. I don't know if the thermostat is wrong, but rooms in the rest of the house each have their own thermometers, and they are all the same type (digital from the same manufacturer). But it could be because of the placement of the thermostat. I don't know.

I don't turn it down at night for economic reasons. The tech guy that installed my heat pump told me it's cheaper to set a heat pump and leave it. Heat pumps put out steady heat, but if you want to turn it down a night and expect to get a blast of heat when you get up, then the heat pump switches to auxiliary heat, because heat pumps don't blast out heat by themselves. So in the morning you will be heating with electricity almost entirely, until things get up to normal.

Also, I find it more economical to lower the thermostat in the winter, and raise it in the summer. But for reasons I don't understand yet, it's not just more economical. Instead, it feels more normal to me. Maybe when it's in the teens outside, it's easier to live with a lower temperature inside. Don't know.

 

[C50]

I have a programable thermostat so temp varies. Day time is 62F., evening (pre shower time) it kicks up to 65, than at 7:30 P.M. it drops to 56 for overnight.

While this is how my thermostat is currently set I will change it as the deep cold sets in. Right now temps here are fifties Fahrenheit during the day and low forties to mid thirties at night. Once it drops into the teens and lower I will up the temps a few degrees.

 

[Veronica]

@MACKTEXAS that is true about the silk underwear.

@Veronica my husband was like yours after he had his heart attack and had to go on blood dinners. We suddenly became polar opposites in temperature. He was always freezing unless it was 100° out and his poor skin was paper thin; it just broke my heart to see that. If the dog‘s toenail barely touched his skin, he would bleed like someone sliced him with a knife.

When we were younger we were polar opposites too. Then I got old and hot and he got a pacemaker and a defibulator and things switched. This man who slept outside the covers in gym shorts in January now needed flannels in August. What helped us cope was a small waterproof heated mattress pad.

I dont know what it is about some men and their underwear. The first time I bought the husband some colored underwear he was horrified. These were his regulars just in basic colors. He got over it after his wife said and just who will be seeing you in this underwear besides me.

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[seadoug]

Thermostat usually at 73. I told this to a friend, and he gave out disgusted sigh, like I was a wuss. Later, I realized I had given him the wrong impression. At 73, the rest of the house is 69 to 70. I don't know if the thermostat is wrong, but rooms in the rest of the house each have their own thermometers, and they are all the same type (digital from the same manufacturer). But it could be because of the placement of the thermostat. I don't know.

I don't turn it down at night for economic reasons. The tech guy that installed my heat pump told me it's cheaper to set a heat pump and leave it. Heat pumps put out steady heat, but if you want to turn it down a night and expect to get a blast of heat when you get up, then the heat pump switches to auxiliary heat, because heat pumps don't blast out heat by themselves. So in the morning you will be heating with electricity almost entirely, until things get up to normal.

Also, I find it more economical to lower the thermostat in the winter, and raise it in the summer. But for reasons I don't understand yet, it's not just more economical. Instead, it feels more normal to me. Maybe when it's in the teens outside, it's easier to live with a lower temperature inside. Don't know.

We also have a couple of digital thermostats, and the placement definitely makes a difference. During summer, the thermostat in the family room (right outside the master bedroom) can show 75 degrees and the master bedroom has to be 80.

 

[Nathan]

60F nightime, 70 daytime.