Settle an argument in between dh and I:
How cool does it have to get in your house before you turn on the heat?
I ask because it's been getting a bit chilly here lately. The heat is off and during the day the house stays in the mid 60s, but at night it dips down and gets cooler.
Dh thinks we need the heat on ASAP. I told him to buck up and put on a freaking sweater if he's cold. He bitches about being cold at night, but then the dude sleeps in his underwear! He also thinks it's cold in here during the day, but I think that low to mid 60s is adequate.
Oh, and FWIW, we have a space heater (one of those oil filled radiator things, they seem safe enough) in MIL's room. I keep a thermometer in her room. It's currently 72 degrees in there and she's bitching at me too.
When do you turn yours on?
Re: When do you turn on the heat?
Our heat is not on at all on the first level (only the master is on that level). It gets down to about 65 at night, but back up to 68 during the day.
It is on on the second level though (this is where Preston's bedroom is). I have it on 65.
Once the heat dips down to 65 in the house during the day on the main level, I will be turning it on too and set it for 68 during the day, but 63 at night.
We turned it on just to test it out last week (and got a furnace check and cleaned out the filters).
Today it only made it to the mid-30's and was snowing. . . and it's been pretty cool all week so it was on.
It's set to 66 day and about 63 night, I think.
We normally keep our heat at 72, so I guess whenever it hits that.
ETA: 60s??? It was 60ish outside the other morning and Noah thought it might snow he was so cold. I could never be comfortable in a house that was below 70. It must be the TX heat that does that to us.
well, in the winter we usually keep the house around 65 degrees during the day and 60 at night..... it's about that right now, a few degrees more. But right now I am sitting in a t-shirt.
We usually turn on the heat when it feels a bit cool and we're all wearing long sleeves/light sweaters..
mid to low 60s for several days in a row (day and night)
Luckily I'm in the south so I probably won't have to turn it on until next month.
we turned it on Sept 30th - i was so mad we didn't make it to Oct, lol.
it was about 60 in our house- and we finally gave in.