I'm reading all of your posts about keeping your house at 75 or 78 degrees and have decided that:
a.) My family needs a lot less heat than everyone else's, or
b.) My room temp thermometer is broken.
75 degrees?! We got up to 76 when I stuffed too much wood in the stove a few weekends ago and opened all the windows! Based on our fancy digital thermometer, 65 is just about perfect for us. When our uber insulated second floor gets above 72 according to the alcohol thermometer stuck on our bedroom mirror, my wife, son, and I don't sleep well.
Do you folks really keep your houses that warm? Today was in the 40's here and we had a very short burn this morning that bumped the house from 59 to 65, then another burn this evening that kicked us from 62 to 68. By morning, we'll be back down to 60 or so and will do it all over again. If we burned any more than that, we'd cook ourselves right out of the house!
a.) My family needs a lot less heat than everyone else's, or
b.) My room temp thermometer is broken.
75 degrees?! We got up to 76 when I stuffed too much wood in the stove a few weekends ago and opened all the windows! Based on our fancy digital thermometer, 65 is just about perfect for us. When our uber insulated second floor gets above 72 according to the alcohol thermometer stuck on our bedroom mirror, my wife, son, and I don't sleep well.
Do you folks really keep your houses that warm? Today was in the 40's here and we had a very short burn this morning that bumped the house from 59 to 65, then another burn this evening that kicked us from 62 to 68. By morning, we'll be back down to 60 or so and will do it all over again. If we burned any more than that, we'd cook ourselves right out of the house!