Most Comfortable Temperature

NorthernLight said:
I'm built backwards I guess. As long as I'm up and about, I'm fine. In fact, if the daytime temp is above about 72°F (22°C) I feel too hot.

As soon as I lie down, I need to be warm. If the room isn't warm enough, no problem. I just pile on the blankets, and cover my neck and head if necessary.

But none of this "turn down the heat at night" business for me.
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you have the heating on at night when you;re in bed ?.. OMG I would die... :eek:
 

senior chef said:
I live in Northern Mexico and most apts here do not have furnaces. The outside temp is aprox 56 F and inside my apt it is 70.2. However, i am quite cold.
I must be fully clothed with a T-shirt, woolen long sleeve shirt, Levis, socks, slippers and a med heavy coat. STILL, i need to wrap up in a blanket and lay down on the sofa while watching TV/movies . dressed and covered like that, I'm comfortable. At least the refrigerator puts out SOME heat.

This will continue until at least April.
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You could buy a space heater something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Dreo-Portabl...-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
 

I live in a cold spot in PA. You won't believe me, but one night last week the temp outside went down to the single digits F. Couldn't get the inside heated up to 72° F. It is back to normal here now but spent the evening back then praying that the power didn't go off. I can't stand winter alteady.
 
senior chef said:
I live in Northern Mexico and most apts here do not have furnaces. The outside temp is aprox 56 F and inside my apt it is 70.2. However, i am quite cold.
I must be fully clothed with a T-shirt, woolen long sleeve shirt, Levis, socks, slippers and a med heavy coat. STILL, i need to wrap up in a blanket and lay down on the sofa while watching TV/movies . dressed and covered like that, I'm comfortable. At least the refrigerator puts out SOME heat.

This will continue until at least April.
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I tried your suggestion about the refrigerator.
Within 2 seconds, I was shivering.
And I had to put all that food back in it.
 
I think some of the discomfort comes from low humidity when it's cooler. Skin evaporation is greater and you feel cold. I get that from how the weather is like here now.
 
The house we keep at 68, and I usually have a long sleeve shirt and a light fleece vest on. If we feel a little chilled we will turn the heat up a deg. or two, or turn on the free standing cast iron gas heater in the living room which you can stand next to and get toasty in a hurry. At bed time the house gets turned down to 60. At night we have a high efficency gas fireplace in the bedroom and set it at 65, and it will come on occasionally through the night. The shop I keep at 50, and turn it up to 58-60 depending on what I'm doing when I'm out there. Don't much care for anything above 80 or so.
 
The temperature was 54.1 f (12.3 c) inside here the last two mornings, and right now it's 55.9.
The outside temp was 33.6 this morning.

We got a fireplace insert (wood stove) some two decades ago, and haven't used the gas furnace since.
Since I'm the only one here now, I've used the heat less and less, maybe 1 wood fire in the last two or three winters.

My solution now is to simply bundle up, plus using a comforter on the bed.
Why? It's part saving money, though all it would take is the small fan at the side of the insert.
The wood is free and plentiful. I've got plenty for several winters, and more rounds outside ready for splitting.

The other part is just maybe a need for penance. Here's a poem that relates.
If I was sharing with someone else though, of course the heat would be on. At least once a week. 😉
 
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It's 70 in my apartment right now. I ran the heat this morning when it was 68, just once and turned it off. I think damp matters also. We have high fog so it feels damp and a little colder. I grew up on the Pacific Coats so I'm used to that damp foggy weather.

I'm wearing light sweatpants. A long sleeve cotton top with a tank top underneath and slipper socks. I'm warm enough.
 

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