Where do you set your thermostat?

The cold weather is coming. It's been a few degrees above freezing lately, but I know it will dip soon. November is almost here.

We've been lucky so far, as we haven't had the furnace on yet. Our place has hovered consistently around 65 F lately. We're the kind of people who like cooler temperatures (especially at night) and will sooner put on sweaters and comfy pants before cranking the heat.

Today, it's a bit colder. The temp in here is dropping closer to 60 F. Outside, it's been between something like 35 F at night and 50 F during the day. The reason why we haven't needed the furnace, I think, is because our apartment unit is surrounded by others above, below, and on either side. We have only two outside walls, and they're only about 15' each.

The other thing, though, is that this place is new to us, including the fact that we control the temperature because we pay for the utilities now. I'm thinking that we'll keep the temperature between 60 or 65 F where we like it. I'll have to see what the SO thinks. We do have a somewhat bad habit of keeping windows open at least a crack year-round because we prefer at least some direct, fresh air. I'm not sure how we'll handle that this year.

In the summer, we often set the AC at around 66 or 68 F, but that was in a single room with a window unit. We used an exhaust fan in the far room of the apartment to help draw out hot air and move some of the cool air into the apartment. However, now we've gone from a window AC unit to central AC. We didn't use the central air much when we moved to the new place because it was already mid-September (and, again, we're nicely insulated from the outside).

What temperature do you prefer?

How do you handle your home heating? Cooling?

 

We keep our house fairly cool as well, all year.

In the winter we sometimes set it as low as 63 F, though 64-65 F is more typical. In the summer we keep it in the high 60s, usually 68-69 F.

That is for a single family home, so we don't benefit from any shared walls. However, our house was built with some pretty good insulation and windows/doors that do a good job of keeping things sealed up. We also have no windows facing the south, and decent shade on the largest window facing west, so that helps keep things cool in the summer.

 

Borla

How have things been lately? Have you turned the furnace on yet?

 

I popped it on for a day or two last week. We had several days with the lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s. After a few of them the house was hovering around 59-60*, and my wife has been fighting some respiratory junk so I didn't want to further stress her lungs by keeping it in the 50s. But it's back off now.

Some mild years we've went until almost Thanksgiving without heat.

 

We started turning on the heat a bit last week. We have ceiling heat. I like it better than baseboards because I only have to turn the heat on a bit and then turn it off, since it warms up EVERYTHING in the room. We leave the heat in the other rooms off most of the time, and only turn the ceiling heat to minimum on nights where it's supposed to be super-cold. That way, the thermostats in each room might click on if it gets below 50.

The house is pretty insulated, so at least when we do turn the heat on, it tends to stay in. I like to keep the heat below 68 in order to keep germs down.

 

Yeah, I just asked that, but edited my post because you beat me to it.

 

Hah, that was my first thought on seeing it too.

 

Ohio gets pretty cold this time of the year. We've had to use our heater a couple of times in the past week.
Winter:
70*F when home and awake.
60*F when asleep or at work.
40*F when traveling out of town.

In the winter we rig our clothes dryer so it vents into the basement (filter on the end of the tubing) to heat our house (and make it smell like clean, crisp laundry - yay). Since we do most of our laundry on the weekends, it makes our place warm without adding to our utility bill.

Summer:
Thermostat is off when below 80*F, unless unbearably humid.
75*F when home.
72*F at night.
80*F when away.

 

We live in an interior-unit townhouse, our neighbors keep their houses quite warm enough to avoid it actually dropping below 60*F. It's really annoying when we do want it cool. There have been times when we've opened windows in the winter because we're roasting.

There are no natural gas lines running to our building.

 

My favorite is 69

Fortunately now, I save a lot on utilities because I'm in an apt in just the right place.
I'm off the first floor, so the cold earth doesn't make it colder in the winter.
I'm on the equivalent of the 2nd floor, even though I can walk in off the road...so the apt. below heats me in the winter.
And I'm on the opposite side of the complex building, so the sun doesn't hit directly and the wind doesn't either.

My bill really goes up in the summer with AC, cause I hate humidity.
But since I've kept it off the past month...just $11 for electricity/gas.

But when I had a large house, I hated those bills.
And my ex's health issues didn't help because her body temp fluctuated radically...
and she had no disipline, so the 'stat would either be at 59 in the Summer or 75 in the winter, or change by the hour.
I remember easily dishing out $500 per month.