jack707
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Either 68 or 70 it all depends if I wanna split more wood.
What do you keep the thermostat at inside the house in the winter?
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70~73 in the winter. We heat with anthracite through winter with a stoker boiler that I tend to once every 3~4 days and use an oil fired boiler in spring and fall. I prefer the anthracite heat source since it's all made or produced in Pennsylvania by Pennsylvanians. :cool2:
oosik
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I keep the living room around 66 to 68. The bedroom is 64. Same temps in the summer - except a few times when it won't cool off at night. No AC - just big fans that pull the air thru the house, at night, in the summer.
I remember the year we lived in Glennallen, AK - in a small log home. It would get so dam cold in the house - ice would form in the toilet bowl. Old oil furnace in the basement - heat came up thru big grate in the floor, right in the center of the house. Used a hot wash rag to clear the frost off the ice on the inside of the windows so you could see outside. Big celebration in town the day the daytime temps reached -15F. Everyone knew spring was on its way.
I remember the year we lived in Glennallen, AK - in a small log home. It would get so dam cold in the house - ice would form in the toilet bowl. Old oil furnace in the basement - heat came up thru big grate in the floor, right in the center of the house. Used a hot wash rag to clear the frost off the ice on the inside of the windows so you could see outside. Big celebration in town the day the daytime temps reached -15F. Everyone knew spring was on its way.
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In this log home I heat with two wood stoves. I have a mid efficiency forced air oil furnace (installed in 1995) that still gets 85.5% efficiency. This furnace gets professionally cleaned and a new nozzle every year. The furnace is set at 55. If I (70 yrs old) get cold I put on a shirt/sweater. The old girl (60) likes it cooler in the house than I do. Her hubby [my stepson] at age 50 wont make any waves with her. She does the cooking, so I wont make waves either. 
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I'm in the nutso camp. Ours is set at 58 just in case it really cold at night in which the furnace will kick in. We have a fireplace which I start in the morning to try to get the temp back to where I like it best, around 75. Sometimes it takes almost all day to get up to temp so we don't stray to far from the living room during the process.
If I had to keep it a temperature to be comfortable it would be around 72. As it is I go from jeans and a sweatshirt in the morning to maybe gym shorts and bare back if it really heats up.
LD1
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Hard to just one vs the other because t-stat calibration varies. Dad keeps his set at 74. I keep mine at 71. I cannot tell the difference between his house and mine. Yet if he lowers his to 71 it's cold, and if I raise mine to 74 it's hot.
I have confirmed there is about a 3 degree difference in the calibration with a hand held meter. So I would say that anyone saying they have theirs set at 68 to 74....Are probably all the same and t-stat are just a bit different.
I an not a believer in lowering it at night or when going out. Easier on the system to just maintain instead of trying to play catch up. Which on 2-stage systems will push you onto the less efficient second stage. So savings is minimal, so why be uncomfortable? If you want it cooler in the bedroom to sleep, close the vent.
Those that have electric or propane or gas heat....Playing catch up isn't as big of a deal, but on a 2-stage system....You ain't saving much if any.
I have confirmed there is about a 3 degree difference in the calibration with a hand held meter. So I would say that anyone saying they have theirs set at 68 to 74....Are probably all the same and t-stat are just a bit different.
I an not a believer in lowering it at night or when going out. Easier on the system to just maintain instead of trying to play catch up. Which on 2-stage systems will push you onto the less efficient second stage. So savings is minimal, so why be uncomfortable? If you want it cooler in the bedroom to sleep, close the vent.
Those that have electric or propane or gas heat....Playing catch up isn't as big of a deal, but on a 2-stage system....You ain't saving much if any.
dmccarty
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If we are using the heat pump for heat, we set it at 73 or 74 during the day and turn it down at night into the low 60s so the heat pump does not turn on. On a normal cold nights this means the house gets to maybe 65. I bump up the heat when I get up in the morning so SWMBO is sorta comfortable. SWMBO is really on warm in August when it has really gotten hot outside. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
We do heat, or try to heat, mostly with wood. With the wood stove, depending on the quality of the wood and outside temp, the living room will be at 72 to 85. :shocked: Usually in the mid 70's if we have decent wood and it is not too cold outside.
Right now we are burning some low BTU hardwood that is all but a softwood and it is not producing as much heat as the normal red oak we burn. Tis getting to record lows tonight and tomorrow so I will be burning some of the red oak and hickory I have been saving. We have a electric heater that we bought to keep the laundry room warmer when we get abnormal cold down to single digits. The water supply to the house enters at the laundry room and one year when it got to 6 or 9 the water froze a bit. We saw a rather large and ungainly electric heater at Costco around XMAS and decided not to buy it because it was so large. We should have bought it then because we bought it this week. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Figured we should have two electric heaters in the house since it is critical to keep the laundry room warm. I need to check the well house/rock to make sure the lights are running to keep it above freezing....
We were supposed to get 6-8 inches of snow overnight and today. Looks like we might get 2-3 inches. Maybe. Got a bit more ice than they guessed too but not enough to cause problems thank goodness. Supposed to go to 6-9 degrees tonight and 0 tomorrow night. :shocked: I have not seen 0 degrees since living in KY many decades ago. Going to run one of the heaters in the laundry room and likely keep some water faucets dripping...
Later,
Dan
We do heat, or try to heat, mostly with wood. With the wood stove, depending on the quality of the wood and outside temp, the living room will be at 72 to 85. :shocked:
Usually in the mid 70's if we have decent wood and it is not too cold outside. Right now we are burning some low BTU hardwood that is all but a softwood and it is not producing as much heat as the normal red oak we burn.
Tis getting to record lows tonight and tomorrow so I will be burning some of the red oak and hickory I have been saving. We have a electric heater that we bought to keep the laundry room warmer when we get abnormal cold down to single digits. The water supply to the house enters at the laundry room and one year when it got to 6 or 9 the water froze a bit. We saw a rather large and ungainly electric heater at Costco around XMAS and decided not to buy it because it was so large. We should have bought it then because we bought it this week. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Figured we should have two electric heaters in the house since it is critical to keep the laundry room warm. I need to check the well house/rock to make sure the lights are running to keep it above freezing.... We were supposed to get 6-8 inches of snow overnight and today. Looks like we might get 2-3 inches. Maybe. Got a bit more ice than they guessed too but not enough to cause problems thank goodness. Supposed to go to 6-9 degrees tonight and 0 tomorrow night. :shocked: I have not seen 0 degrees since living in KY many decades ago. Going to run one of the heaters in the laundry room and likely keep some water faucets dripping...
Later,
Dan
jcbGM
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T-stat is set at 67-68. We have our own gas well with free gas, but seldom turn it up over 68. We do however have a woodstove and really enjoy keeping it burning over the weekends.
T-stat on the boiler for the shop (2500 ft) in-floor heat is set at 57. Reznor air handler in shop is at 55. That works really well Floors are a nice even temp, but the air handler kicks on when we open a door or turn in up for a short burst of heat.
T-stat on the boiler for the shop (2500 ft) in-floor heat is set at 57. Reznor air handler in shop is at 55. That works really well Floors are a nice even temp, but the air handler kicks on when we open a door or turn in up for a short burst of heat.
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62 degrees with an occasional increase to 65 (if a damp cold).
The wood stove gets the center of the house into the 70's (I'd estimate since we don't have a thermometer in that part of the house).
We keep it at 62 to reduce heating costs (oil as primary, wood as needed...but wood costs money too). If necessary, it's easy to put a sweater or sweat shirt on and cheaper then buying fuel.
The wood stove gets the center of the house into the 70's (I'd estimate since we don't have a thermometer in that part of the house).
We keep it at 62 to reduce heating costs (oil as primary, wood as needed...but wood costs money too). If necessary, it's easy to put a sweater or sweat shirt on and cheaper then buying fuel.
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