What Temperature Do You Keep Your Living Quarters?

[Ice]

I try to keep it around 66-67, but my mom enjoys lowering it down to 60 when nobody is home and I am sleeping. I guess she forgets that I'm home from school and in the basement. Let's just say I woke up to a freezing cold house and no food in the fridge. I'm a very unhappy person right now.

How warm does everyone like it?

[Hooahguy]

67 degrees during the day.
68 during the night.
70 from 6:30 7:15 am, when i wake up and shower/

[TinCow]

72 during the day while at home. Drops to 62 while I'm at work and at night.

[Centurion1]

73 and my dad lowers it way down when we arent at home (what i last lived in california!)

[Louis VI the Fat]

At least 25. About 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

I hate cold. Bring on Global Warming.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

70 degrees! You can almost boil a kettle at that temperature!

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[Ice]

Man, I thought I kept my house warm. 72, 73, 80 degrees?! Wow!

[Furunculus]

no idea, house has no thermostat.

its damned cold right now, but given a few hours of toasty central heating it will be nice and warm for the rest of the evening.

is that any help? :p

[Ja'chyra]

About 23ish.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Ah yes, the battle of the thermostats. I prefer it at 66, especially at night. I sleep better when I'm not sweating. The wife & daughter prefer 70-72 or are always complaining about being cold, the boy don't care as long as the fridge has food. So we compromise, I keep it at 66.

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What happens after I leave for work is beyond my control.

[drone]

I've got one of them fancy programmable thermostats. In the winter, I let it drop to 65F at night and while I'm at work, 70F while I'm home. I used to have it at 60F and 68F respectively, but the woman complained...

[Andres]

19.6 ° C when we're at home (+/- 67 Fahrenheit?); 16 ° C when we're out or sleeping (+/- 60,5 Fahrenheit?).

It is clear that I won the "Battle of Thermostatos" at our place

[Whacker]

72 during the day while at home. Drops to 62 while I'm at work and at night.

Something to consider.

I don't know how well your domicile is constructed, but mine down here isn't terribly well insulated (but it's within code), so our heating can sometimes struggle when it gets really, really cold. I have been told in the past by several folks that you don't want to let your thermostat differential be greater than 5 degrees. The reason being it takes more energy to make up the difference in an average insulated house than it does to simply maintain the greater temperature. We did this, and noticed a 10 dollar drop in the cost of our gas bill.

[Andres]

I have been told in the past by several folks that you don't want to let your thermostat differential be greater than 5 degrees. The reason being it takes more energy to make up the difference in an average insulated house than it does to simply maintain the greater temperature.

I read on the website of our gas company that that is a myth.

But then again, it's the site of the guys making money out of selling gas, so maybe not the most reliable source

[Ja'chyra]

19.6 ° C when we're at home (+/- 67 Fahrenheit?); 16 ° C when we're out or sleeping (+/- 60,5 Fahrenheit?).

It is clear that I won the "Battle of Thermostatos" at our place

19.6 when you're at home? I'd be freezing

[drone]

Something to consider.

I don't know how well your domicile is constructed, but mine down here isn't terribly well insulated (but it's within code), so our heating can sometimes struggle when it gets really, really cold. I have been told in the past by several folks that you don't want to let your thermostat differential be greater than 5 degrees. The reason being it takes more energy to make up the difference in an average insulated house than it does to simply maintain the greater temperature. We did this, and noticed a 10 dollar drop in the cost of our gas bill.

With electric heat pumps, you definitely don't want to force a quick catch-up, as the "emergency heat" feature kicks in. The modern programmable thermostats deal with this by slowly ramping up the heat at some point during the "away" setting (1 degree per half-hour or something similar).

[Louis VI the Fat]

With electric heat pumps, you definitely don't want to force a quick catch-up, as the "emergency heat" feature kicks in. The modern programmable thermostats deal with this by slowly ramping up the heat at some point during the "away" setting (1 degree per half-hour or something similar).

I put my central heating at 'emergency heat' in October, and take it off in May.

[Vuk]

55 real temperature. Not sure what that is in European.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

19.6 ° C when we're at home (+/- 67 Fahrenheit?); 16 ° C when we're out or sleeping (+/- 60,5 Fahrenheit?).

I'd actually say roughly similar, though 16 is the usual temperature and not the sleeping/out one.

[pevergreen]

If I had it my way, 19C.

Normally its outside temp (high 20's low 30's cel) or if winter 25C

I love the cold. And I'm from the Sun Cancer capital of the world.

[Lemur]

65 °F, or 18.33 °C to those who do not live in the U.S.A., Burma or Liberia.

[Whacker]

With electric heat pumps, you definitely don't want to force a quick catch-up, as the "emergency heat" feature kicks in. The modern programmable thermostats deal with this by slowly ramping up the heat at some point during the "away" setting (1 degree per half-hour or something similar).

It's got nothing to do with speed, it's energy required, plain and simple.

@ TC

It's also not a given 'fact' that doing what I suggested will save you money. There are a number of factors, the big ones being outside temp., your desired inside temp., how well your house is insulated, and how efficient your heater is. When you let your house get cold, everything else about the house on the inside gets cold also. Furniture, the sheet rock on your walls, metals, everything. Heating up the house requires not only the air be warmed up, but everything else as well will absorb a certain amount of that heat energy as well.

[Husar]

22

Though there's something wrong with the heating here and at the moment I'm usually happy to get that at all. Well, right now it's there but that's with the heating at full power.

[naut]

Whatever the weather ends up making it. No aircon here. We live on a point overlooking the harbour so there's no point, the wind and house design keeps it pretty cool, unless the temp hits the mid to high 30s, then it's beach time.

Winter, 18-20 degrees C. Mmm heating.

[TinCow]

Something to consider.

I don't know how well your domicile is constructed, but mine down here isn't terribly well insulated (but it's within code), so our heating can sometimes struggle when it gets really, really cold. I have been told in the past by several folks that you don't want to let your thermostat differential be greater than 5 degrees. The reason being it takes more energy to make up the difference in an average insulated house than it does to simply maintain the greater temperature. We did this, and noticed a 10 dollar drop in the cost of our gas bill.

My house is pretty well insulated. All outside walls have double drywall in addition to insulation. Doesn't take more than about 20 minutes to bring the temperature back up, even in winter. Having it drop on the automatic timer like that is already what has saved me a ton of money. Since my wife and I both work, the house is empty for most of the day, so that's a very long period of time when the furnace would be running for no purpose.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I've upgraded the furnace *hot water base board heat*, hot water tank, siding, insulation, roof, windows & doors, over the last 7 years. However, the one thing I didn't upgrade were the thermostats, and I should have. We have 1 non-programmable thermostat upstairs and 1 non-programmable downstairs, that's it. I guess that's my next project so we're not heating an empty house. I've also heard good things about those tankless water heaters too, and will change to one soon.

[Fragony]

Not too hot, I keep my windows open until it becomes too much I like fresh air, only close them when it freezes. I live above a kitchen so I have free floor heating. It's been -18 outside closed my windows but didn't have to turn on the heater, sweater + blanket will do + cup of tea, Frag happy.

[KukriKhan]

Southern California here. Outdoor temps run 30 at night, 65 in the daytime. I've only turned on the heat once a year for the past 4 winters, to make sure it still functions. Sweaters and tea, like Frag reports.

However, we do use the air conditioning in the sweltering summers, keeping it @75 a couple of hours per day. Which is too bad, since the a/c runs off electric (expensive) vs the heater which runs off (cheap) natural gas.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

COLD here (I'm guessing around 10-20C depending on the house, occasionally low enough for your breath the mist.

[a completely inoffensive name]

72F. Any higher or lower and someone flips out.