I'm so cold. What's your thermostat in your house set at?

[prolesunited]

Brrrr.... I need to go find my long underwear.

[inna]

1. I never turn one on.

I live in San Francisco, and I'm quite comfortable with ambient temperature all year around. :)

[HopeHoops]

2. 69

I like that number.

Keeps the house at a comfortable temperature all year.

[GoCubsGo]

3. During the winter....

66-68 during the day, 62 at night. I sleep better in a cool room. I raise the temperature up 7-10 degrees, depending on the time of day.

[pokerfan]

4. 60

(50 at night.)

[jesus_of_suburbia]

6. I'd do that too if I didn't have a roommate. I'm lucky he puts up with my 66 in winter.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

5. 66 in winter and 70 in summer. I like it cold.

There's nothing better than needing to wrap up in a warm blanket while I'm on the computer.


Needless to say I have to turn my heat higher whenever guests come over.

[yawnmaster]

7. 68 during day and evening.

60 during sleep times.
will push it up a couple degrees temporarily if feeling cold.

[mnhtnbb]

8. 68 in winter--down to 66 from 11 PM to 6 AM

[HereSince1628]

10. Do you do that with a timed thermostat, or just twist it back by hand?

We've taken to letting the house go cold overnight and using an electric blanket on the bed.

I'm not sure if the physicis of heat exchange make this favorable or not. My feet sure don't like cold floors in the am.

[mnhtnbb]

39. Programmable thermostat. Beware electric blankets. I know someone

whose bedroom was in flames due to electric blanket.

[redqueen]

9. 65

[kentauros]

11. Mine doesn't work because the furnace doesn't work.

So, I place a heated-oil space heater in front of the air-return and turn on the fan. Oh, and turn on the oven in the kitchen with the door slightly open :)

[Scruffy1]

19. I am concerned for your safety

Please e mail me at [e-mail]. and tell me about your furnace problem. I might be able to help. I don't want anyone to freeze or die from CO.

[kentauros]

30. There's no problem of CO.

First, I live in Houston ;)

Second, I shut the oven off at night. The space heaters are sealed, radiant heat only.

Third, I have an electric blanket I will be getting out tonight :)

Thank you for your concern, though; I really appreciate it :hug:

[CreekDog]

12. 65 or 66, when I'm home though I crank it to 70-71 at times

:hi:

[Raffi Ella]

13. 60

It's not exactly comfortable but I'm trying to save money so, yeah, Brrr is right.

[Capn Sunshine]

17. right there with ya

you KNOW it's cold when the heater kicks on.

[Raffi Ella]

73. LOL! seriously!

Well, being born and raised in the South, cold to me is anything below 70! :P Below 60!? ugh!


But I'm dealing with it pretty well so far. Got lotsa firewood stacked and ready to use and I have some really warm fleece lined leather booties-

Plus, thinking of the money I'm saving makes it not so bad!

[prolesunited]

20. Yep

I have space heaters in the bedroom and bathroom, but try to use them sparingly.

The best thing we have is the heated mattress pad my MIL gave us for Christmas. That with the flannel sheets keep the bed toast warm and I let the thermostat go down really low at night. I have it programmed to kick on in the morning for an hour so everybody can get ready for the day.

[Raffi Ella]

74. That sounds like a perfect set up-

especially for a true cold state like Chicago!

[hobbit709]

14. 66 in winter, 78 in summer

[rurallib]

15. We heat with corn. Right now it's on a medium setting.

[Kali]

16. don't have one but it is 44 outside right now and 60.3 inside

going to drop to 20 tonight brrrr

I need to bring in some more wood

[trackfan]

18. The heater is busted now.

When it was working, we would never set the thermostat, nor would we use the heater during sleeping hours. We sometimes would run it on cold mornings, or in the evening before going to bed.

[prolesunited]

23. How cold does it get inside?

I wasn't running it in November, but now it's too cold. It's only 52 in some rooms right now.

[trackfan]

29. I think it's getting into the mid to high 50s.

The lowest I've ever seen in the house is 52.

[Paper Roses]

21. 64 and it never moves. Fleece is cheaper than fuel. This old farm is hard

to heat, even with a fairly new furnace. I find the evenings hard to cope with. Flop on the couch with a throw and a book. It is the only way I can cope. Don't pay the bill? No more oil deliveries.

[vadawg]

22. 78 in the winter, sometimes 80, dont need ac so much in the summer

[LynneSin]

24. 65 and I use really nice space heater for the rooms where I do need some heat

the problem with my heat is that I can't just heat certain rooms that I use regularly. Either I heat the whole house or the whole house goes cold.

So this year I'm setting my temperature at 65 degrees and I bought a few electric space heaters so I can warm up the 3 rooms I use the most (Living Room, Bathroom & Bedroom). Even then I only use the heaters when I'm in those rooms.

I'm hoping this cuts down my heating bill for 2009-2010

[Odin2005]

25. 69F, I'm in Fargo.

[trof]

33. 69. Me too. Is this a sex thread? IBTL

;-)

[KG]

40. 69 is divine.

[trof]

42. Oooo. Kinky.

;-)

[Odin2005]

52. +1

:evilgrin:

[janx]

59. Good for you! Excellent! n/t

[fizzgig]

26. 65ish

i'm not really sure, though, because only one of the dials has actual numbers on it, the rest just have a 'comfort zone' and i keep it well below that.

[Fire1]

27. 69. n/t

[Fire1]

28. dupe.

[phasma ex machina]

31. 67 down to 55 at night. nt

[blueamy66]

32. off during the day and 72 at night...

but after reading this thread...I may turn it down to 70! :-)

[prolesunited]

45. You definitely sound like a rebel

in comparison to most.

[El Supremo]

34. 68 day. 64 night and when I'm at work.

[Broken_Hero]

35. 65, and its cold outside, last night it was 17 degree's

reminds me of home, :)

[Brickbat]

36. We set for 60, but we heat with wood, so it can get up to 70. I NEVER set the oil furnace to 70,

though. That stays at 60.

[TrogL]

37. 24.5

[S n o w b a l l]

38. 63

But I just turned it up to 68. It's 30 deg outside and it's cold in here! I have to get some insulation done to my house cause even though I keep the heat down, my bill is always over $300. Something wrong.

[janx]

56. I understand.

My little dive needs some insulation work--warm air leaks out everywhere! There is one door that I will work on over the weekend.

[prolesunited]

63. We have an old, leaky house as well

Brick with plaster walls and no insulation in between. You can literally feel the cold seeping through the walls. When we have money to repaint, I recall seeing a special paint with insulation properties that I'll look into.

We have OK windows, but have started using the plastic window treatments as well. It really has helped. You can pick up a couple of kits under $20. They improved quite a bit and don't look too bad. Also, check around the door frame and make sure you can't see any light of feel air.

[Mutley]

41. 63-65

It will not be going higher than that unless it gets very much under freezing. I only want it up just enough that I don't freeze to death in my sleep, or that the pipes won't freeze. Whichever comes first.

[cordelia]

43. 68 during the day - 60 at night. n/t

[mike_c]

44. off....

Coastal norcal. Mostly I don't need the furnace at all. Occasionally I turn it ON in the early morning to warm the house if it's cold-- I like it pretty chilly, so too cold usually means 50 F or below, indoors. I just turn it off after 15 or 20 minutes when the house warms up a little. Otherwise, I just build a fire in the wood stove. It never freezes here, so I don't use any heat at all unless I'm home or at night.

[BrklynLiberal]

46. 68..and lower at night.

[marigold20]

47. 67 day, 58 night

nt

[libodem]

48. 60

that's why I'm in my bed, under a down comforter, with the cat on top of me.

[grasswire]

49. 64 but it's 80 upstairs and 62 downstairs

figure that one out! The thermostat is downstairs, and the furnace just keeps running and running cuz there's no insulation in this over-garage apartment and it never gets up to 64.

[NMDemDist2]

50. we just kicked ours up a degree, it's set at 73 now i think

it's 22 degrees outside......

[michreject]

51. 74

Warm inside.

[janx]

53. I normally keep it under 70 degrees, even when it's cold outside.

Just now it was set at 65, but I had it set above that this morning. I turn it down as far as it will go at night--I sleep with two warm dogs and a down comforter--and I turn it way down when I go to work in the morning (the dogs can curl up together on my bed for warmth).

It's in the 20s outside now (24?), but my small dive is still warm from when I set the thermostat at 68 for awhile during the day.

I'm over fifty and getting more sensitive to cold, but since I was raised with people who often said, "Put on a sweater!", I figure I'm still doing well. ;-)

I only complain when my hands and feet get cold, and this is probably due to bad circulation.

So, prolesunited, get out that long underwear and put on a sweater! ;-)

[Jamastiene]

54. It's about 73*

*because my aunt gets cold and will not stop nagging until I turn it up. She would have it at 78 or higher, if I did not purposely pretend to turn it up. I have found that 73 calms her down some. I have to run a fan to keep my computer (and me) from being too hot. I don't want to keep it that high or waste extra energy running the fans, but she's impossible to live with unless I at least take it to 73.

If I had my say, it would be set at around 65. I don't like anything over 65 anyhow.

[janx]

55. It's nice of you to take care of your aunt in that respect,

and it's NO FUN living in a house that's too hot. As the old saying goes, you can put on more layers to get warmer, but you can't get past naked to cool off! :rofl:

[Jamastiene]

58. Don't I know it.

:rofl:

[janx]

61. Can you get her a space heater for her room?

I have one for my home office, which is a tacked on room with no heat. Electric heaters can jack up the bill, but if you use it to augment the heat she already has, it might not be a bad idea.

[prolesunited]

62. It's really warm at my dad's as well

It's always at least 72 and he's always complaining. It feels like such a treat to me.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

57. 72 during the day in winter and 68 in the summer

I didn't install this shit so I could be miserable. If I wanted to be miserable I'd move to a tent. Then I would still keep it comfortable.

[AVID]

60. 68, but my kids crank it and go ballistic!@

[old mark]

64. Thermostat set to "OFF" - we have been using a wood pellet stove

to heat the entire house, only turned the gas furnace on for about 15 minutes back in October, just to make sure it was still working well.

The pellet stove produces a very pleasant heat, keeps us warm enough for tee shirts when the outside temp is in the high 20's. It is a great product made in CANADA!! ( it's an Enviro Empress )

See, I do give Canada credit for the good things they do...but Rush still sucks.

mark

[rainbow4321]

65. 73 in the evening but it goes to 71 at bedtime....

cuz I keep my bedroom door shut to keep the dogs from wandering around at night and by the middle of the night the room is way too stuffy/warm at 73.

It's 31 outside now, and with the ever present Texas windchill that would equal a "feels like" mid 20's.

[quakerboy]

66. not on yet

It seems to be about 58 in the drawer near the oven, which is on, which means its probably about 50 in the rest of the house.

[emilyg]

67. 69 night. 70 day.

I keep a little heater on in office and bedroom at night.

[laundry_queen]

68. 67.

If I didn't have little ones, I'd turn it down more. I like being cold enough to snuggle in sweaters, fluffy socks and slippers.

[Inchworm]

69. 55

hold me.

:*

[prolesunited]

81. Long underwear

and two layers of thick socks before putting on slippers. Works wonders.

[RadicalGeek]

70. Depends

65 when I'm asleep or not home, 67 when I'm around.
I have a lot of sweatshirts and sweaters I can wear.

[mtnester]

71. 67

[carlyhippy]

72. 69, and I wear sweats in the house even to bed

I used to have it set higher, but trying to save money...it's not hard to get acclimated to it.

[susanr516]

75. We only have 2 small electric heaters

We live in S. Texas, so it's usually not much less than 40 outside, anyway. Yesterday, it was in the 30s, with a strong north wind, all day long. It got down to 49 in the house last night, but it's already back to 53 today. It doesn't stay cold for more than a couple of days here. The last time it got below 30 here was Christmas 2004.

[femmocrat]

76. 63, plus we use a couple of space heaters.

It's always cold in this house. :scared:

[tigereye]

77. just got a new furnace, the old one croaked - it's set at 67, I think

much more even temp than our 45 year old blaster that over-heated one room and left the others a bit chilly.


:hi: hey lady!

[applegrove]

78. My apartment is really warm. Apparently everyone in the building opens

their windows all winter cause there is no lite amount of heat. The heat is either off or it is hot. My cats love it.

[doc03]

79. 70º

[TK421]

80. 64 it looks like

we have been using a space heater here in the living room when it gets really cold, but since our radiator heaters in our bedrooms don't work ( mystery to our landlord ) we just use lots of blankets at night...

It's snowing like a motherf***er here right now

[tandot]

82. 72

It would be lower if it would just for us, but our son can't tell us yet when it is too cold in the house. We keep it warmer for him

[valerief]

83. 67, as in the Summer of Love. nt