Where is your thermostat set?

[Occam Bandage]

Poll question: Where is your thermostat set?

This is assuming you live in an area in which the daytime temperature is below sixty degrees.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. In the words of my grandmother:

"Put a sweater on! I'm cold!"

[BlueJazz]

My Air Conditioner is set on 74 degrees. (It's 79 here)

[sharp_stick]

25. With All Due Respect

Kiss my lily white ass.

I'm putting on a hat and gloves to go to the car now. It's March and I want winter to be over.

:P

[valerief]

27. LOL! I just finished my shoveling from Sunday's storm. nt

[BlueJazz]

62. I used to live in Minneapolis and I got tired of the "Rush" that comes when you start...

...to brake and your car decides to let go of the road and slide it's ass all over the Ice.

:) :)

[sharp_stick]

64. Oh yeah, that's fun

almost as much fun as taking a curve on an interstate and then feeling the back side of the car move on it's own. Then you know your adrenal glands are in good working order, that happened to me in college, luckily no one was near and I got it back under control and slowed it down a bit.

I guess that if you lived in Minneapolis I guess I can forgive your living in a nice warm environment now and rescind my earlier demand.

[Ron Green]

2. 67 in the evening and briefly in the morning, and 55 at night and

when I'm away from the house.

[DS1]

3. On the wall

[zagging]

4. On the wall.

[CreekDog]

5. it's automatic so it's usually 55 when i'm not home

but basically at 67-68 for periods in the morning and evening.

[tridim]

6. Turned it off last week.

It's 75 degrees in Denver today. :)

[eleny]

10. I was doing yardwork in a tee shirt and jeans

Lovely - and our heats off, too. :D

Supposed to be warm again tomorrow!

[hobbit709]

7. Off-unless it's been below about 40° for several days.

When the heat is on I keep it about 66°.

[Solly Mack]

8. Don't have one

[LisaM]

9. We have baseboard heaters, in two different rooms

We turn it down quite low at night and during the day (50 or so during the day, lower at night) and keep it between about 68 and 72 otherwise. If it's really cold, I'll turn it up for a while, then turn it back down when it warms up. It's not automatic.

[TahitiNut]

11. How many 89-year-olds set their thermostats below 70???

:eyes: Try doing it with an 89-year-old with failing health in the home.

[pipi_k]

43. Forget 89!

There's a 69 year old and a 56 year old living in this house...

Our thermostat is set at around 76 during the day. On the colder days, that is.

Now that it's starting to warm up a bit, the pellet stove goes off during the day and we use the oil to keep it at around 73 until the temperature falls below that in the house, then the pellet stove comes back on again and goes off overnight.


Even with the thermostat set at 76, it's still not all that expensive to heat this place.

Thank goodness for that, because we like it warm

:)

[TahitiNut]

47. My fat keeps me warm. Even at the age of 65, I have a wide temperature tolerance.

:evilgrin:

In my "home office" (an end of the basement), I keep it around 67-68 while the upstairs (where "her nibs" reclines) is kept at 72 during the day and 68 at night -- in the wintertime. I keep the humidifier going full blast (some condensation on the windows) as well, to combat the evils of (her) dehydration and keep evaporative colling (on the skin) to a minimum.

All that aside, I'd rather be warming my bones in Tahiti. :silly: Or San Jose.

[old mark]

12. About 58. We got a wood pellet stove in early December, used

$52 in gas in January, none in February, none so far in March. Wood pellets are renewable, very low pollutiing, costs between $5 - $7 a day to heat the house, and yes, is heats the house as well as the gas did.

mark

[DrDan]

13. off - kinda cool in Daytona Beach today - but not cold enough to warrant the furnace

[mike_c]

14. off....

I don't use the thermostat. I usually turn on the furnace for only a few minutes a day, and just leave it on until the house is warm enough-- that's pretty cool by most folks' standards, but I like it on the cool side. Then I turn it off. I usually do this twice, maybe three times a day. Mostly I heat with a wood stove.

[bullwinkle428]

15. 67° when I'm home, and 62° when I'm away at work (programmable)

[Duer 157099]

16. 55, except for a few early morning hours at mid-60s

wow, I thought I was being an energy hog!

[cali]

23. I'd freeze, but I admire you for keeping it down so low.

[Duer 157099]

26. LOL, I do freeze - but this is California, and so I like cold when I can get it

I think I really belong in a colder climate

[cali]

45. I live in Northern Vermont

plenty of cold here.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. 68 in the house, but

the workshop is set at 2 hunks of oak & a couple pieces of box elder with the stove draft mostly closed.

[havocmom]

18. Live in Montana. Husband sets temp for 66 degrees

State of the art boiler/radiator system.

I bump temp DOWN when he isn't looking. I'm kinda hawt, in a menopausal sorta way

[Siwsan]

19. It's set at 50, over night, and when I'm gone

I sleep under two down comforters, or curled up with the cats, on the couch, in front of a fire in the fireplace and beneath two quilts. I keep lights at the minimum, and use energy effecient bulbs, but I still gasp when I open the energy bill.

[AlCzervik]

20. off, it's around 48f here right now.

i haven't turned the heat on in my house in few weeks.

[cali]

21. wood stove. no thermostat, keeps me toasty.

[onethatcares]

22. at the present, we're getting some cold weather for Florida

so for heat we have it set on 55 degrees. So far the house stays around 60 but at night it goes on. I use a heat pump and it sucks big time for a heat source, the 10KW heat strip is what goes on and the electric company loves it.

[liberal N proud]

24. 68 in the evening and weekends 55 all other times

We have a programmable thermostat set to come on for an hour when we get up in the AM and again in the evening when we are all due home and down at our normal bed time.

[InvisibleTouch]

28. Right now about 75.

I'm bringing some pet reptiles out of hibernation, so I'm having to play with the temperatures a bit. Normally over the winter we freeze at 67 or so. I hate it, but can't afford to keep it as warm as I'd like. Even now it's about 15 degrees colder than my preference. Can't wait for Spring!

[sandyj999]

29. And mine is at 72 because I have birds.

And I don't like being cold if I have a choice. It's strange but when it's 60 outdoors it's perfect but in here it seems cold.

[Occam Bandage]

54. Well, when you're outside,

you're usually moving around, and there's often sunlight as well. If you sit quietly in the shade when it's 60, you'll eventually feel chilly too.

[sandyj999]

56. You're right, it's been so long that it was 60 outdoors that I forgot.

Seems like a distant memory.

[MadBadger]

30. Its 20 degrees here, my Air/Heat is off...its 74 in my apartment

never gets cold, only hot in here. When it gets too hot for my taste I set it for 72-74

[L0oniX]

31. What thermostat??? My heat pump crapped out on me last summer.

[HughMoran]

32. 67 where I occupy, 60 for rest of house.

Of course I turn it down when I'm going to be gone for a while. They are programmable, but I've bypassed the programming since I've been laid off.

[kestrel91316]

33. In the summer, 86F.

This apartment has NO insulation. When it hit 117F for two days last summer (as part of a 9-day 113F+ heat wave) I couldn't get it under 90F.

[damntexdem]

34. In the hallway.

OK, I answered on the poll: 68.

[Pakhet]

35. you need an "other"

I don't have heat or a/c

[LaydeeBug]

36. we've been using amish fireplaces

and set the thermostat waaaaay down. It gets cold in the bathroom, but it's really not that bad. I have oil heat, and have saved a LOT of money. These things will pay for themselves next year.

[KittyWampus]

37. what's an Amish Fireplace?

[sandyj999]

57. Does it do a good job?

I've been looking at the ads but wondered if they really worked.

[norepubsin08]

38. My thermo is set at 48

anybody who has theirs higher is an energy waster!

[ogneopasno]

39. It's set at 60 when we're on oil; we run it as high as we want when we're burning our own firewood.

[XOKCowboy]

40. Off with the windows open. It's 71 in Denver..

Sorry NE.

[bigwillq]

41. We have electric heat.

I haven't turned on the heat in my bedroom in four or five years.

The other rooms are set between 60 and 65.

[Strong Atheist]

42. 50. That is as low as it will go. I use a space heater in my small

bedroom...

[Spike89]

44. Have a programmable thermo

We drop it into the upper 50s at night, bring it to mid 60's for when we get up, drop it to 60 during the day when we are at work then get it to 68 by the time we get home and thru the evening...the weekends have a different, warmer schedule.

[Seedersandleechers]

46. My cats like it at 64 at the very least

If I have it lower then 64 my cats will bitch and bitch. They seem to know I control the temp.

[bertman]

48. It's set differently depending upon whether I am at work or at home being active,

or at home asleep.

It would be helpful if you were more specific. This poll is too broadbrush to be helpful.

[EFerrari]

49. What thermostat? This apartment doesn't have one.

I can either decide to turn on the electric heater or to not turn it on.

[Demeter]

50. How About Below 5F Outside Temps?

In which case, where do you think the thermostat is set?

Our March 2009 is colder than our winters are supposed to average. Global warming is a farce.

[tonysam]

51. I'd Freeze to Death if It's 70 Degrees

Despite having storm windows and the like, this brick building still gets very cold in the winter.

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Like many folks, we have varied forms of heating, and varied forms of "cold".

Dry cold some days, humid cold other days, intermittant cold usually.
This winter windy and damp cold, for several weeks longer than normal.

In winter:

The thermostat (s) get turned up to 70 in the am, then down to 65 about an hour later, but usually does not go on after that till arond 7 pm. ( gas heart).
the sun usually warms the south facing windowed part of the house all day, ceiling fans blow the warmth around.
I have a small oil filled heater in the north facing office/computer room which is on all day in the winter.
Not at all powerful but it is constant warmth after a couple hours.
Wall thermostat goes down to 58 at bedtime if it is below 35 outside, other wise off.
electric blankets and 2 cats work well at night.

Our gas bill for a 2,000 sq, foot rambler and 15 nights of freezing weather was 46.00 last month.

Summer:
drag out a box fan, turn A/c to 76, close the curtains on the south window room, works pretty well.

We are lucky in the orientation of the house/windows, so can choose which rooms to utilize with each season.


Good question, btw...interesting to see how others handle the heating/coolng issues.

[JuniperLea]

53. It's not

I live in So Cal, five miles from the ocean. I use the heater maybe five days a year. I don't have AC, but I have a lot of windows.

I could install AC to the tune of $2000, but I'd only use it for two weeks out of the year. Eh... the beach is close. I can take a few days of 100+ degree weather.

[Thothmes]

55. set at 60 day or night

lots of blankets at nigh and several layers of flannel during the day. Highest electric bill in the last 18 months was $125.00. Had 17 straight months of $99.00 a month or less electric bills.

[Bryan]

58. Around 70 here in Colorado

I've often had it as high as 80 this winter; my HOA locks in a set rate with Xcel every year, so I pay a steep fee year-round, but I can afford to be toasty all winter (which balances out, since the covenants prevent me from replacing the crummy single-pane windows). I'm looking forward to turning it off in a couple of weeks once the windblown interseason of late February-middle March is over.

[Kansas Wyatt]

59. 72... I don't have a lot of insulation on my bones.

But, I do make up for the increased winter energy costs, by keeping the thermostat set higher in the summer time.

[WolverineDG]

60. Off

I don't have a heater & it's not hot enough for the a/c yet. :)

dg

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

61. Got Mine On 79 Right Now.

God I hate the cold.

[cboy4]

68. LOL.....if I lived in the cold, that's where mine would be as well ..

much to the disgust of DUers, I'm sure.

[sandyj999]

71. I'm with you. As long as I can be comfortable I will.

I stopped going to my daughters for just that reason. Son in law (ex that is) wouldn't turn the heat up at all and you would freeze in there. Now that she has an apartment she keeps it warm.

[MorningGlow]

63. 65 during the day, 60 at night

If we hadn't run out of firewood, we'd have it at 62 during the day and have the woodstove going.

[mwooldri]

65. Totally dependent on day, season....

We got a draughty old singlewide to live in right now. Can't beat the rent payments but we pay in other ways unfortunately. One way is in winter, with the heating.

Thermostat can some really cold days be set on 68 and the place still not get warm - i.e. the central heater is working 24/7 and still not doing its job.

Typically we have the thermostat on heating days between 64 and 69, if we're awake it's higher, asleep, it's colder.

There are times of the year we don't need heat or air. If it gets nippy of a night we switch on a small portable fan heater instead of powering up the central air.

Air in the summer is OK. We have central forced air heat but not cold air, so we have window air conditioners. Some rooms are nice and cool in summer, others not so. May add a window unit to the bedroom we didn't use last summer but using now, so that may keep the house cooler.

We are also under a number of trees so the tin box doesn't get so hot, plus when we re-do the roof coating we'll do it aluminium grey so it'll reflect sunlight.

Mark.

[bridgit]

66. 61-62

[TripleKatPad]

67. 52 degrees give or take

This is the winter of testing my limits in Michigan. I bundle up while at home and my hands are frequently cold. The sweatshirt, robe and fuzzy slippers keep me comfortable enough and I have the ThreeKats to snuggle around me at night, so it's not all bad. My goal is to not owe the gas company hundreds of dollars at the end of the heating season.

[me b zola]

69. Off.

We heat with our wood stove exclusively. In the summer I will occasionally turn on the AC, but not often. Closing the curtains where the sun is hitting the windows, and closing the windows early to lock in the cool air and running fans is key.

[Canuckistanian]

70. About 65

But we're Canadian.

[tabbycat31]

72. 60 during the day/night, 65 in the evenings

during the winter.

I have no central a/c (only a small bedroom window unit) so not in use in the summer.

[RedCappedBandit]

73. 55-62

Don't feel like paying more.. just bundle up

[TwilightGardener]

74. 70 during the day, 67 at night.

edit to add, I would keep it warmer during the day--72 or 73, because I'm always cold, but my husband won't let me. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

75. My house doesn't have a thermostat and I live in NJ

Well, it does, but we don't use it. Haven't used the oil furnace at all this year. We don't plan on ever using it.

[Kablooie]

76. 98.6 -- Oh -- wait a minute. That's my thermometer.