....Then his armchair is pulled right up to the wall, huddled against the 72.6 thermometer.
How warm do you like to keep the house?
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toddnic
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LOL. Answer is that you make them agree. It's what we do. Technically, it's called calibration.
At home, it means you're bored and need a job...
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Single=54-57. Married =58-62. Married with child =65-68. Life was a lot cooler before "married with children ". 
Sure, blame wife and kids.Single=54-57. Married =58-62. Married with child =65-68. Life was a lot cooler before "married with children ".
CentralVAWoodHeat
Minister of Fire
I have our propane furnace set at 65. It rarely ever kicks on. With the stove, our main living room is typically between 68 and 74 depending on the time of day and outdoor temperatures.
jb6l6gc
Minister of Fire
I must be mad hotblooded me and wife keep at 58-60 on electric forced air. Try to run that as little as possible. And 64-68 on wood any hotter and we'd have to open windows.
Squisher
Minister of Fire
In general we keep the main areas of the house in the 68-72* range and the bedrooms stay around 66*. But when it gets colder outside I like it warmer. For some reason, the coldest night of winter (-27 wind chill) I kept the living room at 80*. I generally find that uncomfortable, but when it's super cold I load up with my best wood. I find that to be a common response for me; the colder the outside temps, the warmer I want the inside temps. When it's mild and in the 40s, 67 inside is fine.
Did you know that more murders are committed at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature?
I read an article once. At lower temperatures, people are easy-going, over 92, it’s too hot to move, but just 92, people get irritable!
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76-77 is our comfort zone. I dont like to sit around the house in a sweatshirt just to keep warm.
If it were just me most of the time I'd like 66 to68ºF, cooler for sleeping.
Stove room is often 72-74ºF, at 74+ I'm opening windows cuz I can't breathe.
Although in the Summer, in the past the heat never bothered me. Now I have a tough time sleeping when it is 90ºF+, moreso when also real humid.
Stove room is often 72-74ºF, at 74+ I'm opening windows cuz I can't breathe.
Although in the Summer, in the past the heat never bothered me. Now I have a tough time sleeping when it is 90ºF+, moreso when also real humid.
the other day my wife had the stove going, and didn't turn the cat mode on. it was 82º in the stove room, and 74º upstairs. the sun was out, and the windows were closed, so it felt like a sunroom. It was nice coming in from the cold for about a minute, and then i had to put on a pair of shorts. when i asked her about it, she said that she was waiting for the cat thermometer to get high enough before flipping the lever....
BradleyW
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I'm always amazed in these threads at how warm people's houses are. In the dead of winter i couldn't keep our house in the 70's with just the stove even if I wanted to. I prefer mid-60's. Once it gets over 72 I start thinking about the windows. When the weather forecast is wrong it really messes me up. If it's sunny and in the 40's I don't even need a fire during the day. If it's in the 30's and cloudy a fire is a must.
70 F MAX in the main house.
60 F MAX in the upstairs bedrooms.
Anything higher in uncomfortable and a waste of wood in my house.
Wife and kids all like it this way.
60 F MAX in the upstairs bedrooms.
Anything higher in uncomfortable and a waste of wood in my house.
Wife and kids all like it this way.
Factoid: the U.S. is the only country where homeowners insist on heating all their rooms. No wonder we use most of the world's energy .
Norweigian and Scottish houses at our northern latitudes heat only rooms where people spend sitting time, bedrooms are usually unheated.
Swiss bedrooms open windows all year and use thick down comforters; we also do here close to the Canadian line. And, BTW, it's conducive to romance under warm covers.
Ever try a real down comforter at 20 
? Nice.
Norweigian and Scottish houses at our northern latitudes heat only rooms where people spend sitting time, bedrooms are usually unheated.
Swiss bedrooms open windows all year and use thick down comforters; we also do here close to the Canadian line. And, BTW, it's conducive to romance under warm covers.
Ever try a real down comforter at 20 ? Nice.
Times have changed. Many homes in Denmark, Germany and Iceland are fully heated with hotwater supplied from CHP stations. Well-to-do Scandinavians, Germans and Poles may like their homes a little cooler, but often have central hot water heating system with pellet-fired boilers. This is particularly true in newer construction. "In the UK only a small fraction of homes are without central heating today."Factoid: the U.S. is the only country where homeowners insist on heating all their rooms. No wonder we use most of the world's energy .
Norweigian and Scottish houses at our northern latitudes heat only rooms where people spend sitting time, bedrooms are usually unheated.
Swiss bedrooms open windows all year and use thick down comforters; we also do here close to the Canadian line. And, BTW, it's conducive to romance under warm covers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8283796.stm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
Heat pump heating in Germany is on the rise, some 20% of their homes use them now. Some home design is quite progressive. Europeans are also supporters of passive homes that need a tiny fraction of a conventional house's heat to stay warm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/world/europe/27house.html?_r=0
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