Quote Originally Posted by kittycats_delight
The temps in my house are about the same as yours but they are too cold for me. Unfortunately the house doesn't hold heat well. We have a large entrance door that is all glass and steel and lets out a lot of heat. The windows are quite cold too and a lot of heat escapes that way. The cost of gas is quite high here so we also try to keep it down as much as possible. It is not so cold outside here yet but we need the heat on cause the house is cold now. One of those houses that is hot in the summer and cold in the winter no matter what you do. Ideally for me I would prefer it to be about 22° C or 72° F but that is just me.
I two doors at the front of my house. The front door to the outside, then the small entrance way, and the main door to the house. They are both the originals, and had mortise locks in them. They still have the buttons on the side where if you push the one in, it locks the handle and you can't turn it to get in the house even with a key. I found that out 2 winters ago when I locked myself out during a snow storm and the next door neighbor broke the one pane of glass to get me back in, and then closed the inner door and locked me out AGAIN!! Both doors let in a lot of cold air in, the windows too. There are new windows in the kitchen, and new windows on the 3rd floor from when the previous owners remodeled the attic into livable rooms.

I think that my house generally stays cooler downstairs in the summer than my apartments did. Again, I think it's the high ceilings. I hardly used the AC at all this summer, and it stayed fairly cool during the day with the lights off and the ceiling fans running.

I wish I could renovate the fireplace. I hate it. I would love to get something electric or at least not gas. I don't trust the gas logs. Lord knows how long they've been there, lol, and I guess I need to get the chimney looked at as well. I took out the gas water heater and put in an electric one, and am much happier with it.