What's the thermostat set to in your house? Also, where would you like it to be set?
23 thoughts on “January 17, 2021: Temp”
I set at it 63. I think the dog would set it at 72 if she could reach the thermostat.
I keep ours as close to 60 degrees as I can. The house is well insulated but being raised due to being built on a waterbed the cold air seeps up. I’ll grudgingly agree to 65 during the day.
Now the summer.... 80 during the day and 74 at night. Even though at 74 it just runs all night long anyway.
67 at night, 70 during the day. In the summer, 70 <— not my doing, for sure.
When I lived in ND as a bachelor, I bought a programmed thermostat (that was a long time ago) and I would let the temp fall to 55 at night. It would warm up to 70 when I got up, and then back down to 55 all day. Then back up to 70 for about five hours when I got home at night. I was heating my house for just a few hours a day and I never experienced it not being warm.
She sets it to 60 at night, which I surreptitiously bump to 62. When I am working at home during the day I might bump to 63 until the house warms up from outside.
We have a split system, so the downstairs stays effing cold (usually set to 60 or 61.
In the summer, set to 80 or 81. I will pull rank and cool the upstairs to 79 at times. Downstairs stays naturally cool, so the system rarely kicks in, even on 100-deg days. But the upstairs gets hot and the system has trouble keeping below 82 when it is 100+.
We have high ceilings with three skylights, but manual crank and no screens, so they never get opened. I hope to remedy that situation when we remodel our upstairs this summer. Contractor suggested a motorized skylight for the bathroom (which has no exhaust fan -- wtf? Second floor was added in 1990, so wtf? But code only requires fan OR window in a bathroom).
We have our set at 68° (occupied) and 65° (unoccupied), and the thermostats adjust the timeframes when it considers each floor occupied or unoccupied. Of course our outside temps aren't subarctic.
I keep it at 68 during the day, 60 at night. I have to sit by a fan during the day, though. The 68 is to prevent complaining from the rest of the household. During the summer its set at 72 day and night, which has had the effect of making it easier to budget for the power bill since its pretty much the same year round.
Winter: 72 during the day and 73 at night (because otherwise the jalapeno, who has a bedroom on the north side of the house, will wake up between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. and won't fall back to sleep); it used to be 65 when we were all gone for the day, but that doesn't happen anymore.
Summer: 80 during the day and sometimes I go a degree or two higher if it lets me keep the windows open more.
I'm fascinated by this NYTimes article about how what we eat changes our microbiome. I have been wanting to shift away from eating mainly cereal for a breakfast for a while now, and this article might just be the final push I needed. I made bS's steel cut oats (with slivered almonds and dried cherries) last week and was pretty pleased with it, so I'm going to make another batch tomorrow!
Runner daughter has been fascinated for quite a while about the possibility of "gut transplants" being done to overcome some diseases.
NBBW was making rolled oats at night with berries, cinnamon, protein powder, etc. and letting it overnight in the fridge with almond/soy/whatever/milk. And then eat it cold for breakfast.
My wife makes a big pan of baked oatmeal with fruit and nuts once a week and eats it for breakfast every day.
Today is the 13th anniversary of my ordeal with Mark’s Towing of Eagan.
So, lucky day!
January 17th has been a pretty crappy day overall for you, it seems.
Yes, the kicker of the Mark’s Towing story is that it was on my birthday.
I had three consecutive birthdays in the Caribbean, though which was pretty great.
I wonder if they would have treated Michelle Obama any better on her birthday
Or Betty White.
Or James Earl Jones
Our upstairs and downstairs are in separate zones and my office above the garage is another zone. There isn't much difference between the two floors during the day because we're occupying both nearly equally. I have the thermostats set for 67 °F during the day and let the the upstairs drop to 64 °F during the night. I don't know what the downstairs reaches but it's set to 62 °F.
The summer is set to 73 °F overnight and part of the day. I let the upstairs go up to 75 °F for the hottest part of the afternoon in a limited attempt to save a few bucks.
The office doesn't have a programmable thermostat so I let it get down to around 62 °F in the winter or maybe 80 °F in the summer before turning it on. This summer I never turned it on and only activate it on the coldest, for Connecticut, days.
68F during the day, 62 during the night. Energy-wise (old house, oil-boiler, steam radiators) not sure if it would be cheaper to leave the same all day but we sleep better with it cooler at night.
Default is 67 degrees, day and night, but Mrs. Twayn runs a space heater in the basement office while she works.
I set at it 63. I think the dog would set it at 72 if she could reach the thermostat.
I keep ours as close to 60 degrees as I can. The house is well insulated but being raised due to being built on a waterbed the cold air seeps up. I’ll grudgingly agree to 65 during the day.
Now the summer.... 80 during the day and 74 at night. Even though at 74 it just runs all night long anyway.
67 at night, 70 during the day. In the summer, 70 <— not my doing, for sure. When I lived in ND as a bachelor, I bought a programmed thermostat (that was a long time ago) and I would let the temp fall to 55 at night. It would warm up to 70 when I got up, and then back down to 55 all day. Then back up to 70 for about five hours when I got home at night. I was heating my house for just a few hours a day and I never experienced it not being warm.
She sets it to 60 at night, which I surreptitiously bump to 62. When I am working at home during the day I might bump to 63 until the house warms up from outside.
We have a split system, so the downstairs stays effing cold (usually set to 60 or 61.
In the summer, set to 80 or 81. I will pull rank and cool the upstairs to 79 at times. Downstairs stays naturally cool, so the system rarely kicks in, even on 100-deg days. But the upstairs gets hot and the system has trouble keeping below 82 when it is 100+.
We have high ceilings with three skylights, but manual crank and no screens, so they never get opened. I hope to remedy that situation when we remodel our upstairs this summer. Contractor suggested a motorized skylight for the bathroom (which has no exhaust fan -- wtf? Second floor was added in 1990, so wtf? But code only requires fan OR window in a bathroom).
We have our set at 68° (occupied) and 65° (unoccupied), and the thermostats adjust the timeframes when it considers each floor occupied or unoccupied. Of course our outside temps aren't subarctic.
I keep it at 68 during the day, 60 at night. I have to sit by a fan during the day, though. The 68 is to prevent complaining from the rest of the household. During the summer its set at 72 day and night, which has had the effect of making it easier to budget for the power bill since its pretty much the same year round.
Winter: 72 during the day and 73 at night (because otherwise the jalapeno, who has a bedroom on the north side of the house, will wake up between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. and won't fall back to sleep); it used to be 65 when we were all gone for the day, but that doesn't happen anymore.
Summer: 80 during the day and sometimes I go a degree or two higher if it lets me keep the windows open more.
I'm fascinated by this NYTimes article about how what we eat changes our microbiome. I have been wanting to shift away from eating mainly cereal for a breakfast for a while now, and this article might just be the final push I needed. I made bS's steel cut oats (with slivered almonds and dried cherries) last week and was pretty pleased with it, so I'm going to make another batch tomorrow!
Runner daughter has been fascinated for quite a while about the possibility of "gut transplants" being done to overcome some diseases.
NBBW was making rolled oats at night with berries, cinnamon, protein powder, etc. and letting it overnight in the fridge with almond/soy/whatever/milk. And then eat it cold for breakfast.
My wife makes a big pan of baked oatmeal with fruit and nuts once a week and eats it for breakfast every day.
Cold oatmeal ideas.
Today is the 13th anniversary of my ordeal with Mark’s Towing of Eagan.
So, lucky day!
January 17th has been a pretty crappy day overall for you, it seems.
Yes, the kicker of the Mark’s Towing story is that it was on my birthday.
I had three consecutive birthdays in the Caribbean, though which was pretty great.
I wonder if they would have treated Michelle Obama any better on her birthday
Or Betty White.
Or James Earl Jones
Our upstairs and downstairs are in separate zones and my office above the garage is another zone. There isn't much difference between the two floors during the day because we're occupying both nearly equally. I have the thermostats set for 67 °F during the day and let the the upstairs drop to 64 °F during the night. I don't know what the downstairs reaches but it's set to 62 °F.
The summer is set to 73 °F overnight and part of the day. I let the upstairs go up to 75 °F for the hottest part of the afternoon in a limited attempt to save a few bucks.
The office doesn't have a programmable thermostat so I let it get down to around 62 °F in the winter or maybe 80 °F in the summer before turning it on. This summer I never turned it on and only activate it on the coldest, for Connecticut, days.
68F during the day, 62 during the night. Energy-wise (old house, oil-boiler, steam radiators) not sure if it would be cheaper to leave the same all day but we sleep better with it cooler at night.
Default is 67 degrees, day and night, but Mrs. Twayn runs a space heater in the basement office while she works.