I prefer it to be about 22-24C =75F, but at night about 66F... with a window slightly open. I would freeze to death if it was under 62!
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I prefer it to be about 22-24C =75F, but at night about 66F... with a window slightly open. I would freeze to death if it was under 62!
uhh 68* with a cracked window in my winters would cause everyone to freeze to death lol. in the winter my house is kept around 78-80* with all windows shut and sealed. heck my house right now is 74* and its not even winter yet :p
You would just need more cats! :D :D ;) :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Randi
Since moving into our older home, we have kept the thermostat at 65-68 during the day and we let it drop to 60 at night. I really like it cool at night while I'm snuggled warm under a duvet!
We also have radiant heat (radiators/boiler) and I can't imagine having anything else to heat my home! It's great for allergies since the air isn't being blown around and you don't have to worry about cleaning out any ducting. And it seems to heat the home more efficiently.
We just added a sunroom off the back of the house and we added a gas fireplace and radiant flooring. I absolutely love it and I'm so glad we already had the boiler to accommodate the heat for the sunroom floor.
Now I just need to add the kitties and they'll also give their approval for warm sunroom floor! :D
58-62 during the winter, I love the cold and keep the bedroom window cracked also!
I grew up in a house that had only 2 coal stoves, one in the kitchen and one in the parlor for heat and usage, so we never really caught on to the thingie on the wall!
We never froze but we did love snuggling in the featherbeds! My hubby keeps trying to turn the heat on each year and I keep turning it off right after him!
Ok, here's a question... ducting?? Do home with furnaces and the old grates in the walls have ducts? Do they need to be cleaned? If so, how often?? I had the furnace checked 2 years ago, since UGI had some offer to go along with a yearly maintenance package, but it didn't seem like such a big deal, so I haven't done anything since. Is this something that I should actually invest in getting done? There's an Aprilaire humidity thing that goes along with the furnace, and there's supposed to be an air cleaner, but I think when the guy who was cleaning/checking the furnace that time looked at it, he said it wasn't working (the air cleaner). Like anything would work with all these cats, lol! I'd probably have to change some filter every other month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian Blue
Is there anything that I really need to be doing, or getting checked, in my home??
I have never taken the temp of my house in the winter, but i like to be warm, with all my aches and pains, it is a necessity really, i like feeling cosy and not having to wear heaps of layers of clothing as i find that uncomfortable, i think if it were me i would make the place a bit warmer when your parents visit and wear less clothing myself, i hate my guests to feel uncomfortable and as you get older you do seem to feel the cold more,it would be more pleasant for them, it puts me off visiting people when i feel cold,but if i know there house if going to be cooler than mine , then i will wear warmer clothing,your parents could do that too and probably do, but when you are elderly it is hard to retain the body heat.
We don't even have a thermostat! When we're hot we use fans and when we're cold we use portable heaters. I love being cold. I can go out in 50 degree weather without a jacket and be fine. It's the heat I can't stand so I rarely use a heater. But in the summer you can find me sitting in front of a fan or stuck off in the living room with the air conditioner all the way up. :p
We keep it about 70 during the day when hubby is home and I usually turn it down to 67 when I get home because I'm too hot. I'm a firm beliver if you're too hot put on a warmer shirt or cover up in a blanket. ;)
I'm with you, Jenn. I like to be warm enough, but not too warm. :p I will tell you that although my mother has always been cold natured, once she had open heart surgery and started taking a blood thinner, it has been much worse. She is thin to start with, but add that thin blood, and poor thing about freezes in our house, summer or winter. That may have something to do with your dad's issues, too.
Right now, we are without any heat in the lower level of our home. I went to turn it on last Monday to knock the chill off, as it had gone down to 33º overnight and heard the worst noise ever. Turns out that something related to a combustion fan (I think that's what they said) failed and fell apart. We have gas pack heating/air conditioning for our downstairs and that means forced air natural gas heat in the winter and electric air conditioning in the summer. Anyway, it was going to cost $400 to replace the part and our unit is almost 20 years old, and we still wouldn't know if there was something else wrong until that part was installed and we fired it up, so we are getting a new unit tomorrow. The upstairs unit is holding its own. It is a heat pump, totally powered by electricity.
The downstairs is cold during the days and evenings, but we used our indoor wood burning stove two nights, just to warm the living area, if we were going to be in that room, and the electric blanket has come in handy, too. For several days in a row, the highest inside temp was 59º, while it was over 70 outside. Most of our leaves are still on the trees, so it is quite shady around our house. Our wood stove isn't all that great, but at least we have it, and it has helped during power outages and with the heat going out this time around. I have used an electric space heater, in spurts, for the sake of the birds and the fish. I worry about them the most. Butter (kitty) and the dogs have been just fine. And we did add an electric fireplace last spring in our kitchen/den area. Tacky, but it will warm up that room better than the heating unit does, when it is working.
Our home is poorly configured and most of the heat and cool are concentrated in the two rooms that are closest to the unit. We will live with that, though, as I don't see putting in new ductwork and a unit under the house at this point.
Logan
Our house is old, needs siding and insulation (although we do have a new roof and new windows) and it's VERY drafty. We put plastic up over the entire 3 sided front porch effectively killing all use of the front door.
WINTER - temp. is 70-72 degrees Farenheit when we are home (at that we feel chilly) and when we are not home the programable thermostat goes down to 62. The cats don't like it that chilly but we do have the heated pet bed, numberous warm fluffy pet beds, and several afgans and quilts out for them to use.
SUMMER - We only have a VERY old and HUGE window A/C that was given to us for free. We only have one outlet in the house that can handle the load and unfortunately we have an open house type floor plan that the A/C just wasn't designed to handle a space that large. We only run it when the temp gets up to 90+ degrees in the house, or on the rare occasion that one of the cats seems to be having difficulty with the heat. In which case we run the thing wide open which on a very hot humid day only gets the temp down to 75 after 2 solid days running 24/7 but it's better than nothing.
Wait.. so you have no heat in your house at all??? No electric, no oil, no gas, nothing??Quote:
Originally Posted by sumbirdy
I like it much warmer than my hubby does. In the winter I would prefer the thermostat at 72 but we live with 70 during the day. At night it is on a setback temp of 65, and I don't mind that except if I have to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom. I make that trip quick! :o
We used to never use the heat in the winter (okay, we live in Florida, but it does get cold here). We would just turn on the heaters in the reptile rooms and if it got cold enough the bird/rodent room too. We usually like it around 70 degrees. We've had a few cold nights (not super cold, low 50s) and Nathan does not like it! He slept with us for a couple nights until we finally found his perfect winter sleeping temperature, 76 degrees! It's a bit too warm for Justin and me, but we turned our fan on and slept in light cloths.
I miss the wood stove we had when we lived in NY. We have a fireplace in this house and we use it often in the winter, we absolutely love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by critter crazy
I too have a huge fear of gas and will never have it in my house.
I am sweaty just thinking about what some of you keep your temps at! :p
I keep my heat set at 60, and will use a space heater if we are sitting around watching TV. Even at that temp, I still sleep with a window open, though I do turn off the ceiling fan. :o
A nice duvet, as well as a feather mattress, makes all the difference in the world.