It is that time of the year. Time to turn on the heat because it is getting cold. It has been in the 30s at night here.
This might seem like a weird question but what do you guys set your heat? We have been in England the last four winters and there your heat is a gas boiler and radiators. The heating gas is so pricey that everyone only keeps it on for a few hours in the morning and a few hours at night. There are no thermostates. You get really used to being cold and wrapping up.
It has been so long, I totally forget what a reasonable tempature is to set the thermostat. We have gas radiator heat but it is run by a thermostat. I don’t want to have it really warm and toasty and end up with a huge gas bill when we could turn it down a little and put on a sweater.
Ken is no help. He doesn’t seem to register cold until it gets really cold, I am always cold and poor Ellie cannot tell us what she wants.
So I am taking a survey to see what everyone else sets theirs.
Wednesday, 22. November 2006
Colly,
I think your mom must set ours on 60 degrees before she goes to work. Right now it is 68 and I’m going to turn it up because I’m freezing. I think your Granddad keeps his on 90-95. I think most people keep their’s somewhere in the middle or about 72.
Glad ya’ll like your new mwttress. Anyone who doesn’t think that the small things in life doesn’t matter has never walked very far with a gravel in their shoe.
Dad
Wednesday, 22. November 2006
Depends on how drafty your apt. is:)…If I’m home during the day, I like it toasty at around 72 BUT we have bad drafts so it still feels even cooler. At night, we turn it down to 67-ish. If you can convert your thermostat to a digital one from Lowe’s (around $20) it will make the single biggest difference in your $$ bill each month. We have regular gas, forced heat and our bills run around $180 and supposedly, gas will be cheaper this year.
Wednesday, 22. November 2006
We have electric baseboard and we try to keep our thermostat around 68-72. I try to turn it down during the day, but since Bobby and I have opposite work schedules, it usually gets adjusted.
Thursday, 23. November 2006
This is from Sydney:At our house it is 72. But when we are not here we have it at 65. PAPA HUTCHENS IS HERE SO IT IS ABOUT 95. Love and miss. Sydney
Thursday, 23. November 2006
Nah, Papa is being pretty good . . . wondering why he can’t figure out that newfangled thermostat we have, but he’s doing pretty good. We have him wrapped up in layers like the little kid in The Christmas Story.
We just cover him up in blankies and he does OK. With minimal insulation in our attic (haven’t gotten around to it in the renovation wish list), i’ts a toss up depending on the way the wind is blowing and how hard it’s doing it.
Auntie A.
Friday, 24. November 2006
Up here in VT we put in on 76 when it drops 30 or below. Otherwise, the cats get the sniffles.
Sunday, 26. November 2006
We’re pretty firm 72 degrees. I usually go lower if there are bunches of people in the house and higher when it’s windy out. But, I recently read that 72 is the perfect heat temperature and 76 the perfect ac temp.
It’s so encouraging that all is going so well with Herself!