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Poll #1087969 Thermostat Settings
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I meant to ask: when you're awake.
Er, and right now / during the winter. For heat.
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What is the thermostat in your home generally set to when you are there?
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Lower than 57F
2 (4.8%)
57-58F 0 (0.0%)
59-60F 1 (2.4%)
61-62F 3 (7.1%)
63-64F 4 (9.5%)
65-66F 7 (16.7%)
67-68F 16 (38.1%)
69-70F 7 (16.7%)
71-72F 1 (2.4%)
73-74F 0 (0.0%)
75-76F 0 (0.0%)
77-78F 0 (0.0%)
79-80F 0 (0.0%)
81-82F 0 (0.0%)
Higher than 82F 1 (2.4%)
I meant to ask: when you're awake.
Er, and right now / during the winter. For heat.
i have central air, i don't tend to (much ever) use the a/c. only if it's really NASTY or i'm sick and need lower temps/humidity. that amounts to less than 5 days a year typically; 0 this year, 2-3 times last; 0 before that.
currently i don't have my heat on yet. apt is now 73.9. magic. perfect southern exposure, windows, and appliances. my heating bill last year was $80ish iirc. it was also relatively mild.
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Under 70 F by default. Usually 60 F when it's not bitter cold out, then up towards 62-64 F when it's getting chilly. I'd rather be too chilly than overheat. (And yes, I've had both frostbite and heat stroke. I prefer frostbite. Pins and needles and burning extremities win out over passing out, choking on air and hallucinating.)
I could be odd; I just asked the maintenance people in my building to turn my heat down. I'm waking up panting from the heat, and that's with my window opened.
In Malden, when I was the only person living on my floor, I kept the heat low, but supplemented it in the room I was in with a space heater. Best of both worlds, as long as you don’t mind the house burning down. :-)
This year we are trying to use the woodburning stove more and the heat less. The stove is in the living room and that's about all it will heat, but we spend most of our time there anyway when we're home, that's where the computer is. We moved the snake into the living room and the bird into the next warmest room and the guinea pig and the cats have fur, so they can deal.
And of course we'll be putting up plastic on the windows soon and such.
So far I think the heat has been on a lot less than this time last year, we'll see how things work out when January hits.
Need to get off my butt and plastic up the worst of the windows at least, and possibly do some caulking (first winter in this house).
As it is, it's set at 68 degF, turned off when I leave for work, and turned back on when I get home.
58F when at home and asleep.