What do you set your furnace to?

[Nage Waza]

This is going to be an awesome thread!

I set my thermostat to 22 degrees, and it is programmed to drop to 19 at night and 17 during the day (for weekdays). One of us is usually home during the week, so you wear a sweater.

We just lowered it (after a very expensive gas bill) to 20, dropping 2 degrees.

What strategy do you guys follow? I think a sweater when I am home is better than bare feet and a very expensive bill.

[Daradon]

I live in a building and often it doesn't matter what I set it to.

But I have it off for most of the year and around 20 when the severe cold comes.

[Jayems]

Yep. Condo has that radiator heating. To have it comfy in the living room, we have to put it up to about 25, but that makes the bedroom 30+ for some reason. So, even in the dead of winter, we have both of the windows open and 2 fans going.

[ken0042]

21 in the mornings
17 when out for the day
19 when home during the day
20 in the evening before bed.

If we get cold we use a portable heater. 9 times out of 10 that is when we are upstairs for the night, so the 1500 watt heater on for an hour takes 15¢ worth of electricity.

[Devils'Advocate]

15 at night or when I am out of the house.
18 in the evenings.

Pretty much 18 across the board.

[BlackArcher101]

19 24/7

[Dion]

20 across the board for me.

[HOOT]

I live in Victoria...what's this furnace thing you speak of?

Honestly though I don't touch the heat 365 days a year, it stays at ZERO!

[jolinar of malkshor]

I like it cool, around 17 or 18. But the wife likes it at 22 or 23. Every time I walk by I turn it down. Everytime she walks by she turns it up.

[rockstar]

35, all the time.

edit: forgot to mention, it's broken, doesn't work.

The upstairs people have all the control (I live in a basement suite). So you can ask them! If I had to guess, I'd say 12. Brrrr.

[Rathji]

20 during the day,and automatic timer drops it to like 16? at night

[metallicat]

I keep it around 20 during the day, and sometimes lower it during the night. But it is the stupid hot water radiator heating, and takes forever to heat the place up if it gets too cold.

[Gravitykillr]

when home usually between 20 - 22, when we're not home, at night or at random intervals it goes down to 17, liked it at my last apartment where it was free heating so It'd be nice and warm all the time

[FlamesKickAss]

21 all the time. was told that the energy that ti takes to heat the house if you drop it to 16 or 17 uses more gas than a constant temp. house was built in 2005 though so it holds the heat pretty good

[FlamesKickAss]

found a couple thinks for this too

http://www.roanokegas.com/products/s...cienthome.html

Keep your thermostat at a constant temperature. Do not keep changing it up & down. This uses more energy

[prarieboy]

Our heating system bites. It's wildly different in various areas of the house. We keep it at a constant 23. The back entrance and main lever bathroom would probably read 26 if you checked. (closest to the furnace). The master bedroom can drop down to 18 overnight at cold times. (farthest from the furnace) 16 before we replaced the crappy windows. BRRRR!!

I was considering getting a summer switch installed so I could circulate the air on really cold days and kind of even things out. Any thoughts?

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss

Keep your thermostat at a constant temperature

I think that refers to people who when they are home crank the thermostat until they feel warm, then crank it back down until they feel cold, and then crank it back up again. Not programmable thermostats.

I think I found some good info on BC Hydro site once about programmable thermostats, and they said that you should only adjust it a maximum of 1 degree C per 2 hours that it will be in the different temperature zone; and generally not more that 4 degrees between temperature swings. So in winter no sense in setting it to 10 while you are away and then 20 for when you get home, because the furnace has to work so hard to get not just the air warmed back up but the wall and floors too.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by ken0042

I think that refers to people who when they are home crank the thermostat until they feel warm, then crank it back down until they feel cold, and then crank it back up again. Not programmable thermostats.

My wife is one of those people. I have laboured to explain that this is not helpful, efficient, or necessary. She is convinced that you turn up the heat to 25 or 30 when you're cold and down to 15 or less when you're warm.

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[troutman]

20 XLcius.