When do YOU turn on your heat?
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My house at home (not school) is what they call "passive solar." Windows all along the south side of the house, so when it's sunny that pretty much heats the house on its own. Thick slab of concrete between the main floor and basement ceiling retains heat through the entire day pretty well. There are times when we have to open windows in the winter for a few minutes because it gets too hot.
One of my roommates is a cheap ***, even though he is loaded and used to whine at me this summer when I turned the AC on during the day when it was 100 degrees out.
Yesterday he said we need to keep the heat off for as long as possible. I live in the basement of our house so it's already freezing down there. Getting out of a warm shower to a freezing basement is horrible.
I told him I'll have to get a space heater so I don't wake up frozen. I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not when he said I should just use more blankets.
Yesterday he said we need to keep the heat off for as long as possible. I live in the basement of our house so it's already freezing down there. Getting out of a warm shower to a freezing basement is horrible.
I told him I'll have to get a space heater so I don't wake up frozen. I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not when he said I should just use more blankets.
We try to hold off because the heating system is terrible in our apartment (wall unit for the living room/kitchen area that is either 100% tons of cold air or 100% tons of hot air so you only run it for about 30 minutes before you are freezing/roasting, baseboards for the bedrooms). Little temp thing said 67 in the bedroom this morning, but I'm pretty sure it's 5-10 degrees below. The room is on the west side of the building and in summer when it's 100F, it says it's like 83 but you're sweating just standing in the room. Probably going to turn on the baseboard for our room tonight.....it's just soooooooooooo hard to get out of bed when it's dark and cold.
Our house takes a really cold night to drop as well. With the lows dropping in the 30's I have been setting the thermostat at 63 just in case it does drop. It still has yet to drop below 65. Shut it off during the day.
Our main issue is that our son's room is a dormer on the top floor that is outside walls on 3 of the 4. Luckily his room is at the top of the stairs in the living room so we can just kick on the fireplace for an hour before bed with the fan in it going and most of the heat heads right to his room if we don't turn on the ceiling fan. Luckily he likes a cold room so it is generally not much of an issue but his room can be a good bit colder than the rest of the house.
But back to the OP's question we turned it on the last couple of nights but I don't think it has ran yet.
I don't think this is right. If it's 32 degrees outside it will never (well, it would take weeks) for it to reach 32 inside your house. And 32 is freezing, yes, but your pipes will not freeze solid enough to burst at 32. I've gone away for weeks at a time and turned my heat down to 50 and never a problem. Now if you have a house with pipes in outside walls and it gets below zero with a nice strong wind you can get problems.
I'm surprised how much it depends on how many people you have in your house. A family with a couple of kids generates decent amount of heat. Also, not to try to open a cave-like thought in this thread, but if you use florescent bulbs they don't generate the kind of heat that regular light bulbs do. This also makes a difference.
We still have our windows open. As soon as I close the windows it is 80 in our house. Woke up this morning and it was 76 and all the kids were in shorts.
Remember the volcano lair of Syndrome in The Incredibles? Yeah, brianhos lives there too.
When the low temperature goes below 40 I set it at 68 during the day and 60 at night, and add blankets to the living room furniture.
I already have blankets on our furniture...but it's mostly for spit up/projection.
I'm glad we're all cheap ***** in my house. We had the air conditioning on for 3 days total all summer. But one of them said he's a ***** when it comes to coldness so he might start whining soon. No one lives in the basement though, but it is warmer down there than the rest of the house
