12-06-2010, 08:49 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Good question I have wondered this myself. In the end, am I burning more gas when it ramps up from 16.5 to 20, than I would be if it was going from 18 to 20?
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12-06-2010, 08:51 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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I dunno either... I've always just ramped up from 17 to 22 and never let it fall below that.
Now would be a good time for us to find out tho... one month to the next we could test it out of need be
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12-06-2010, 08:51 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Just leave it at 16.5. We aren't living in Palm Springs here.
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12-06-2010, 08:52 AM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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I've asked the question before and I wasn't able to find a concrete answer. My guess is that it largely depends on the size of your home and how easy/hard it is to heat. I used to be a real "put on a sweater and shut up" kinda guy, but I'm getting soft and weak in my old age and am cranking the heat more and more.
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12-06-2010, 08:55 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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16 at night (which is admittedly a bit cold), 17 during the day when we're not home because my dogs are sissies, and 20 when we're home. I might bump the overnight temperature up to 17 as well.
I read somewhere (can't recall where), that even though the furnace has to run a bit to get it up to 20 again, it is still more efficient than maintaining that temperature all day when the house is empty. I'd be interested in seeing something to back it up though.
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12-06-2010, 09:02 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Sorry, don't have any numbers here, just what I've read from people's observations. If your house if even half decently insulated it is more efficient to keep it cooler during the day and "reheat" it at night as opposed to maintaining the same temperature 24 hours a day.
Last edited by Komskies; 12-06-2010 at 09:06 AM.
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12-06-2010, 09:07 AM
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Sounds like something Jamie and Adam should sort out for everyone.
When I used to live in Jolinar's basement, the temperature never rose over 16 degrees at any time. Cheap ####### didn't want to pay Enmax any more than he had to.
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12-06-2010, 09:20 AM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: In front of a monitor or TV
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By setting it lower, you are making the house lose less heat to the outdoors - thus saving on gas during the day.
Heat transfer is proportional to the difference in the temperature. So you lose more heat from your house being at 20 and outside is -10 than when it is at 16 and -10 outside.
I suspect that is also more efficient for the furnace to go from 16 to 20 when you come home in a single shot than it is for it to go 18 to 20 continously throughout the day.
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12-06-2010, 09:55 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I think I read on a BC Hydro site that dropping the temperature by more than 1 degree Celcius for every 2 hours actually ends up being a waste of energy; as the system needs to work that much harder to recover.
So if your "overnight" period is 6 hours; dropping it more than 3 degrees is a waste. However for myself during the day, that time period is 10 hours for me; so I can drop it by 5 degrees.
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12-06-2010, 10:00 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Removed by Mod
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fredr123
Sounds like something Jamie and Adam should sort out for everyone.
When I used to live in Jolinar's basement, the temperature never rose over 16 degrees at any time. Cheap ####### didn't want to pay Enmax any more than he had to.
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Couldn't you have run a cord to an electric heater?
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12-06-2010, 10:03 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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I put it down to 20 and leave it at 24. I love my house very nice and warm. That said I put on like 5 layers when I go outside even if it's -15
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12-06-2010, 10:23 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by algernon
Couldn't you have run a cord to an electric heater?
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You should have heard him complain about the electricity bills! No win with that guy...
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12-06-2010, 10:38 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wooohooo
I put it down to 20 and leave it at 24. I love my house very nice and warm. That said I put on like 5 layers when I go outside even if it's -15
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My in-laws always have the thermostat at 24 and it nearly makes me puke because it is so stuffy. They're Italian, however, and I'm a pasty white Anglo Saxon - that might have something to do with it!
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12-06-2010, 10:55 AM
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^^^ My in-laws are also like this - it is like they feel the need to bake you out of bed in the morning......place is 24 on a year round basis......
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12-06-2010, 11:01 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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I have one of those many times a day programables, which I love - I use it like an alarm clock
M-F 5am - goes to 25C at 5am, so I am hot when my alarm goes off at 5:15 and I want to get out of bed....Really helps avoiding staying in bed past 5:30am.
M-F at 6:15am - When we leave the house for work it goes down to 18C - Cool, but comfortable for our little pup while we're away
M-F at 6:15pm - back up to 23 as a " while we're home" temp. Wife gets cold quickly, so anything below it and I get the nagging "I'm cold!" comments - I'd rather pay an extra ~10-20 bucks a month to avoid that.
Weekend - I have it set the same way, but letting me sleep in until 7am, then bake me out of bed, then 23C during the day.
At night, all week, it's about 22C, I don't like to be cold...
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12-06-2010, 11:04 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northendzone
^^^ My in-laws are also like this - it is like they feel the need to bake you out of bed in the morning......place is 24 on a year round basis......
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The funny part is, they decided to get a programmable thermostat after some costly heating bills a few years back (you think?), but the thing stays on override at 24 degrees 24/7. Add in the heat from the oven/stove, and the body heat of a family gathering, and we might as well be in a sauna.
To each their own, I suppose, but I plan to have to peel off a layer whenever I go there so I ensure that I have a t-shirt on under my sweater. And I sneakily turn their thermostat down to a more reasonable 21 or 22 when they're not looking.
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12-06-2010, 11:08 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Mayor of McKenzie Towne
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You are all wimps.
At night my thermostat drops to 13.5.
During the day it rises to 18.5.
My wife is a homemaker and we have two small children and we get along just fine. With the cheap gas this season we will sometimes get a little crazy and bump the thermostat back up to 19.5. The other cheat we use is the fact that we have a gas fireplace in our family room and some evenings we will fire it up for an hour or so.
EDIT: Just checked out my most recent gas bill (Nov 29, 2010) and we were charged $105.01 in total (12.92 gJ). This bill covers our home (3yrs old) of ~2,200 sq ft plus I have a detached heated garage ~700 sq ft with an occupied carriage suite above ~576 sq ft.
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Last edited by firebug; 12-06-2010 at 11:23 AM.
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12-06-2010, 11:09 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northendzone
^^^ My in-laws are also like this - it is like they feel the need to bake you out of bed in the morning......place is 24 on a year round basis......
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Too much! Anything over 20 and I have trouble sleeping.
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12-06-2010, 12:05 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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24 is perfect!!! I hate going to people's houses who have it set at <20. My hands and feet are cold and I walk around with a jacket. Kinda weird.
I have a friend whose parents put the house at 15 degrees. Last time I'll ever play video games there. I spent more time warming up my toes than playing the game.
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