How many people do you like in the house with a nice 69?
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What it was when I grew up. Now it’s 71 when people are in the house and 66 at night and when people leave.
Set to 65 all winter long. Love a good blanket and cold weather sleeping!
I woke up in a sweat a couple nights last week when I forgot to take the thermostat off of 68.
Summertime the temp is 74 on our house and winter it is anywhere from 64-66. Wear a long sleeve if you are cold!
It's only for a couple days when it gets into the negatives. Just trying to extend its life through these cold snaps, it's not like I do that all winter.
My wife is the one who wants it set that low lol. Our bed room is an upstairs loft area so it gets really hot up there (insert dirty joke here) if we don't have the temp set lower.
I got a Ryobi 18V for the bikes. Works well for cars as well. Uses the same batteries as my trimmer and blower (and their tools if you have any of those)
We set ours to 67 through the day, and 66 at night. But we do bump it up to 70 from 5am to 7am to make getting out of bed easier. It isn’t about saving money. It’s about comfort. I would be in shorts if we kept the house above 72.
We have a shop vac, house vac, air pump, inverter, and various tools that use the 18v battery.
Pretty slick.
Living in the NV mountains, at 7500, life w/o a wood burner is unheard of. We heat house only. Front and back porch - both enclosed, no heat whatsoever. Main house, just over 1000 sq. feet. Wood burner primary heat source, back up via electric baseboard heaters. High electrical bill? $80, during winter months.
Wood cutting permits - $25 (as much as one cuts).
4-6 cords gets us through our long winters (we've had snow, 12 months of the year).
Spent my first 30 years in Iowa. Don't recall anyone with a wood burner, though near everybody had a fireplace (pretty much btu worthless, compared to a wood burner).
Why don't Iowan's have wood burners, or for that matter, pellet stoves?
Wood cutting permits - $25 (as much as one cuts).
4-6 cords gets us through our long winters (we've had snow, 12 months of the year).
Spent my first 30 years in Iowa. Don't recall anyone with a wood burner, though near everybody had a fireplace (pretty much btu worthless, compared to a wood burner).
Why don't Iowan's have wood burners, or for that matter, pellet stoves?
Access to wood at reasonable cost (forest harvest permit) would be a major reason.
Ummmmm, access to plentiful and cheap amounts of firewood, maybe?
Iowa ain't brimming with forests, ya know??
My parents had a wood burner until I, the youngest male child, left for my second year at ISU. Then they had a propane furnace within three months.
The folk I know that have easy wood access do have them.
Fireplaces are novelty/ornamental devices used occasionally. You need exponentially more wood to feed a woodburner to heat a house full time.
KidSilverhair
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My folks in southeast Iowa still have their wood burner, which my dad got around when I was starting high school, so over 40 years ago. They currently live in a pretty small historic house they moved to some woodlands about 35 years ago. Since they’re both in their 80s, they don’t cut wood any more, but they do still use it. There is also a furnace, of course.
My parents have a corn stove. It doesn’t replace one of their furnaces (they have 2 due to a house addition) but it does really cut down on its use. I know someone who had an actual corn furnace.
Not true....way more forests in Iowa, where I grew up - alongside the DM River valley. Maybe the difference being, private lands vs. 85% Nevada BLM. The latter encourages cut, cut, cut, namely invasive Juniper..
Memories of Iowa are fleeting, but I recall plenty of stacks of oak-based firewood, destined for fireplaces.
