Your Home Temp. in Winter

[Togakure]

At what temperature do you keep your house in the winter, when you are home and active (not sleeping, etc.)?

[Devastatin Dave]

I like it 72 F, but my pregnant wife likes it 69 F, so I'm sure we all know what temperature it is in my home!!!

[the Count of Flanders]

20 degrees C

[R'as al Ghul]

20°C and slightly above. My Girlfriend freezes (?) easily and since we both smoke the window is frequently open in the evening with heating turned down slightly. Don't turn on the radiator directly under the window though, as that wastes energy.
About the bedroom, my doctor recently told me that it's not good to have it under 16°C.
I'm used to sleeping with the window open so it can easily drop to 10-13° or under in there, which sometimes gives me sore shoulders.
I'm now slightly heating the bedroom to about 16° and open the window when going to bed. It's a compromise I can live with.

R'as

[Togakure]

Hmm ... that's what I figured. In order to save $ on energy we keep the house at a rather chilly 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius). We just bundle up to make up for it. Energy costs are high here. At first I hated it, but now I'm used to it, pretty much. Toughened me up a bit, which is a good thing.

[Beirut]

Between 15c and 20c.

Last night was -33c so pretty much anything inside felt warm.

[Ar7]

I always sleep with my windows open, whatever the weather, I just can't get any sleep if they are closed.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Hot! Mom and dad need it to be very hot. It's bad for my bronchitis but, well, they are the big fellas.
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[BDC]

I always sleep with my window open too, except with howling wind...

It was about 5C here until I shouted at my parents and made them actually put the heating on. Now it is 20ish.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Our heating is crazy, so I always set the thermostat at 298K, but the house normally ends up being about 293K.

Real men use Kelvin.

[BDC]

Our heating is crazy, so I always set the thermostat at 298K, but the house normally ends up being about 293K.

Real men use Kelvin.

lmao

Good job you didn't misread and put it at 20 lol. Would have been fun when Bose-Einstein Helium concentrate started pouring out the upstairs windows.

[ichi]

74 deg F (about 24-25 deg C) when up, down to 60 deg F (15 deg C) at night. Its usually in the mid 60s outside during the day, down to the mid 40s at night.

We heat with a wood stove and have a heat pump for backup.

During the summer it can be as high as 115 deg F (approx 46 deg C) and we use a swamp cooler to bring the inside down to 74 also.

An odd question TO ichi wonders why you ask?

ichi

[Byzantine Prince]

22-25 degrees Celsius. I always freze when Igo to other people's houses. It doesn't up my heating bill though because everyone here pays the same anyways. I can put it to 30 degrees if I wanted to and no one would say a thing.

Well in contrast with out side I guess my way toughen you up as well. Inside 30 degrees, outside -45 degrees. Now that's cold.

[DemonArchangel]

60 degrees in the winter
82 in the summer.

[Togakure]

74 deg F (about 24-25 deg C) when up, down to 60 deg F (15 deg C) at night. Its usually in the mid 60s outside during the day, down to the mid 40s at night.

We heat with a wood stove and have a heat pump for backup.

During the summer it can be as high as 115 deg F (approx 46 deg C) and we use a swamp cooler to bring the inside down to 74 also.

An odd question TO ichi wonders why you ask?

ichi

Well, my brother and I have differing opinions on what is "normal" for home temperatures, so I figured I'd ask here and get an international sample. I was also curious to see the differences between people who live in warmer countries and people who live in colder countries. Personally, I don't like being cold (was raised a California sun boy)--but I do like the lower energy bills. My brother runs hot-blooded so he doesn't mind the cold (he went to college in Cleveland ...).

[R'as al Ghul]

Personally, I don't like being cold (was raised a California sun boy)--but I do like the lower energy bills.

Toga, if you want to save energy don't make the mistake of turning down the heat completely when leaving the house for a few hours. A lot of people in Germany do turn it off when going to work. But the amount of energy to heat it up again (after 8-10 hours of cooling down) is way higher than the amount it would cost to keep it at a reasonable rate (heat turned on slightly to keep it at 18° for example).
Another point is the question how your radiators are heated.
I give you my own example from home: Gas is used for heating while power serves to heat water. Now if I look at the price per kwh on gas, it's still quite cheap and gives not to much room for savings. Power on the other hand is quite expensive and makes up a huge amount of my bill. If I wanted to save a few bucks I would have to reduce the time of showering (water being heated with expensive power) or anything like dishwashing that uses hot water. Even turning on warm water to wash my hands makes me hear those coins jingle. If my water was heated with gas, too, it would be way more cheap. Unfortunately that isn't my decision as the place is rented.
I think it is important to feel comfortable at home.
I don't want to freeze when I'm at home.
Oh, another tip, there are those tiny and cheap devices that allow you to measure the amount of power a device of yours, like a tv-set, consumes. It's easy to calculate which devices in your household consume how much kwh and $$.
BTW, I worked a good amount of my time being a student as a part time worker for a huge energy-provider, I picked up some things.

R'as

P.S.: And the ultimate tip: a wool blanket around your legs while watching TV or sitting in front of the computer, i.e. not moving. Well, it makes you look like a granny (be sure no guest are awaited) but gives you this warm fuzzy feeling. I also have one.

[Togakure]

Good tips indeed, R'as, I thank you. My father is a grumpy, penny-pinching, nagging old fart (sound familiar?) and he drilled us both on every possible angle of being miserly. Thank Gah'd he lives a thousand miles away now, hehe. But, we learned while living with him the tricks with blankets around the legs, double-socks, long johns, a wool cap, and layered clothing. We look like idiot Canadians sitting around as a result ( j/k j/k j/k ... I like Canadians), but we are warm and the bills are reasonable.

We keep the house at a constant 59 degrees fahrenheit (damn, I hate the fact that there is no degree symbol on this keyboard!), only raising the thermostat to 63 degrees for the hour when we first rise from sleep and shower, etc. After a shower and aikido warm-ups (they are GREAT for getting the blood flowing and loosening up the muscles and joints), I'm fine (until I sit here relatively immobile in front of the computer for more than an hour).

In my old house we had gas heating, and a REALLY funky solar heater for water that my dad installed--another one of his pricelessly useless "money-saving" efforts (he's a major Homer ...). Gas was cheaper than electric heating, but it has gotten expensive in California, nonetheless. Here, everything is electric, and hence, expensive.

An Ogami Itto fan eh?? I've encountered few who have seen the Lone Wolf and Cub series ... my favorite Japanese sword-fighting serial. I really dig the music and sound effects too. My favorite episode is the one where the kunouchi-like woman would stun her enemies by flashing her tattoo'd tits, then chop them up while they stared . Gotta love that tactic.

[Divine Wind]

Currently in my student house, so we dont usually have the heating on at all, as we cant afford it!! Im usually walking around with a couple of jumpers, 2 pairs of socks, gloves and my slippers in the winter!

[ah_dut]

Me, 18c all year round...part freom when it goes negative in which case, 16c, I like the house cool, my brother agree, my parents like it in the 20s though

Divine Wind: I feel for you dude, if that's what it's like in Uni, I may consider not applying in 4 years time...

[Byzantine Prince]

Currently in my student house, so we dont usually have the heating on at all, as we cant afford it!! Im usually walking around with a couple of jumpers, 2 pairs of socks, gloves and my slippers in the winter!

ROFLMAO!!! HAHAHAAH!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Well I'm in a doorm...the heater only has two settings: "off" and "Very very very hot"...I just end up switching it on and off all day.

[Lemur]

I have no freaking idea. This ancient brownstone shares one thermostat for three floors, and everyone wants a different temp. My wife and I like it cooler, but the downstairs neighbors want a steam bath. There must have been battles like this in the past, since the landlord put a case and lock on the thermostat. (Of course, the case has vents, and a butter knife fits nicely through the vents to help dial the heat down ...)

Between a cheap thermostat and cheaper steam heat, it's anybody's guess what the temp is. I modulate the ambient using the aforementioned butter knife and the strategic open window.

No AC in the summer. That's for suburbanites and rich folk. Real Brooklynites sweat it out. At least, that's how we justify it to ourselves.

[Devastatin Dave]

Well I'm in a doorm...the heater only has two settings: "off" and "Very very very hot"...I just end up switching it on and off all day.

Are you in school or something? When I lived in the Dorms here on base before I moved off base for a little while each room had its own heating and air conditioning, thank you tax payers BTW!!!

[Hosakawa Tito]

I think the type of system used to heat/cool your home has a bearing on the temp and comfort level. Central air/forced air is nice in a hot climate during summer, but if the humidity is not regulated during the colder winter months the air is way too dry for me. I get nose bleeds and the skin on my hands & feet dry out till they crack and bleed unless a humidifier is used to put some moisture into the air. I use hot-water base board heat/with natural gas in our home because I believe it produces the most even & comfortable heat for the least amount of $$$. I just replaced the hot-water furnace back in November (the old one was 30 years old) and with the better efficiency, zone valve controls (they regulate different areas of the house) and an automatic damper control on the furnace flue (keeps the boiler from wasting heat going up the flue pipe) it is much cheaper to operate, less wasteful, and keeps the house much warmer. A fireplace can be a nice addition for its esthetic appeal, nothing like snuggling up in front of a crackling fire with your favorite refreshment to warm your bones on a cold night. However, as a primary heat source no thanks, it's either too hot or too cold. We usually keep the thermostats set at 66-68 F.

[makkyo]

Since my power went out a couple weeks ago, it got down to 30F but I usually keep it at 70. Nice round number.

[Spetulhu]

Bedroom thermostat says 20°C, so I'll believe that. We use oil for heating, but the house is still equipped with several fireplaces. Kitchen stove, two heat-retaining tiled ovens and a sauna. It's nice with a good fire in the stove when you get home, so the kitchen is sometimes 25°C in the evening.

The sauna is comfortable at about 90°C.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

72 summer 66 winter

[Ja'chyra]

Hot, damn hot. I like it hot enough to wear shorts in the house.

[71-hour Ahmed]

At my old (parental) abode it was 15 C, equiv to 59 F. Now its 20 C, equiv to 68F. I'd give it in Kelvin to please BKS, but I'm fed up with using them at work, so I'll use Rankine instead: 518 and 527 approx each my mental maths says...

Mind you, it never ever actually got to 15 Celcius in my room, that was only in the living room you got that. My room averaged about 10 C I reckon.

Damn parents. The stupid thing is that now I moved up to Aberdeen of all places its colder outside, but I've never been warmer...

[Pausanias828]

It's kept about 20 Celsius during the day, and about 14 - 16 at night.