What is your average household temperature in the winter?

[ronandannette]

That's really interesting about the 'draft' feeling and thinking about it now, it makes total sense. Thank you for passing that on

I do like it cooler because I naturally run hot. If I get cold I put on a pair of socks or sit under a blanket for a while. Yes, even in the dead of winter if I'm home..I'm usually barefoot.

It's called "conduction" - the opposite of "convection" which is when air moves past a heat source and warms up as it travels. I'm in residential construction and there's literally nothing that could possibly go wrong with a house in our climate that I'm not an expert on (yeah - lame thing to be "up on", isn't it ).

 

[ols386]

Michigan, 70 during day, 73 at night. DH turns it up to 76 when he gets home from work. When I return home in the evening, after DH, I turn it down to 73. Our house isn't well insulated, but our floors are heated. We have hot water heat.

 

[ronandannette]

Do you have a source for this? i have heard HVAC people say this, but most of what I have read says the opposite.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/01/07/curious-if-better-to-keep-thermostat-level/

Our professional HVAC contractors and the furnace manufacturers - primarily Goodman & Coleman. I'd have to look up the literature for you when I'm at work. But it does occur to me that so many variable conditions contribute to this - primarily having a high-efficient furnace and what your energy source is. For example, in this market natural gas costs pennies on the dollar to what electricity costs. All our homes are heated with natural gas. Electric heat of any kind would be prohibitively expensive and I couldn't even speculate on the cost of heating oil or something like that.

 

[MinnieMouse84]

I'm in the midwest and I keep it at 75.

 

[NJlauren]

68-71. If it's colder out we go up to 71, the warm days we get away nicely with 68. But usually set to one temperature for days on end.

 

[bluezy]

We're in PA. We have a programmable thermostat set to the following:

5:30 a.m. goes to 74 degrees to warm things up before everyone's getting ready for work & school. I get up a 5:50 and the bathroom is usually toasty by then. On weekends we sleep a little later so the bump in temperature doesn't occur until 7:00.

8:00 a.m. drops back to 68 (though the house is well insulated so the room temp is usually about 70 degrees most of the day). On weekends this drop occurs at 8:30

11:00 p.m. drops down to 64 because we like the house to be cool at night (the room temp doesn't usually drop below about 66 degrees)

We rarely make any manual adjustments during the day.

 

[Mickeynutty]

70 degrees in winter, 78 degrees in summer.

 

[Kimkimba]

Near Philly here, getting a foot of snow tomorrow night. We usually keep it at 61 with an electric heat pump. My dds and I are home all day and we're usually fine. If we're freezing I'll turn it up to 62, but the highest is 63. It always goes back to 61 at night. I used to go even lower when we had oil heat.

If we had it up to 70, sweat would be rolling off us. Seriously.

 

[hereyago]

SE portion of Va: 65 day 68 night.

I have an older house,bad insulation, but have big floor to ceiling Windows to let a lot of sin in.

I hate the cold, but I am perimenapsial and my hot flashes help warm me up,lol.
Oh,our beds have either mink (not real mink) or Sherpa blankets, so warm and toasty.

Summer time, I can do hot and humid all day every day without a.c. if needed.

 

[mummabear]

DH and I have a battle that I put down to a kiwi vs. Canuck thing.
I think the house should be warm enough to be in a tshirt and feel warm DH thinks with A big sweater and blanket you should feel not cold, so for him 10-16 and me 22+

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I live in New England, so I know those who live in most parts of Arizona or California might have incomparable answers....But for those who live in "like regions"...

My DH & I have an ongoing battle in the winter about the heat temperature in our house. Our house is well insulated. I tend to stay on the cooler side, ranging 64-68 in the day & in the night. My DH thinks it should be on 70 all the time. When my kids were newborn, this made sense to me, but not now that they are older. We also all tend to enjoy sleeping with layered blankets in the winter.

I also acknowledge that I am in my 40's, so the big M could hit me at any time & maybe that is attributing to my wanting a lower temp in the winter. I also grew up in a home that always had the temp on lower at night in the winter and we layered up and were comfortable.

Just wondering what the norm is with heating in regions that are similar to mine in weather & temp.

Thanks!

64-68, I would freeze. We keep it at 72.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

64-68, I would freeze. We keep it at 72.

I would freeze at 72

MG

 

[SanderMC]

Ours is set to 65 when we are sleeping or away and 70 when we are home.

 

[mrodgers]

I only have a single bedroom. It's the furthest away from the furnace and AC. In the winter it is 55-58°. In the summer it is 85+

Miserable, but out of my hands.

 

[VACamm]

In VA and we keep it at 70 in the winter !

 

[blana]

Not sure what the conversion is, but 21 during the day and 18 at night.

The conversion would be 70 during the day, 65 at night.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

It's so weird here.
If I'm running the a/c, it's no lower than 76; no higher than 77. Any lower and it is too cold; any higher and the humidity is horrible. If I'm running the heat, it's no higher than 67-68 (at most); any higher and we're burning up!

 

[MIGrandma]

We are in Michigan - our thermostat is programmable and we have it set to go down to 65 at 10 p.m. At 6 a.m. it comes up to 68. Occasionally, I'll bump it up to 70 during the day if it's very windy outside and feels colder than normal in the house.

 

[PrncessA]

Ours is set to 67 during the times we are home during the day and colder at night and during the day when we are at work. I think 65. If it is really cold outside we might turn it up to 68-69, but then it tends to get too warm.

 

[aprilchem]

We keep ours at 62 day and night in the winter, if the heat is on. I've had the heat off for a couple of weeks, and turned it on this weekend because our in-laws were visiting and it had gotten down to 60 in the house.

In the summer I think we keep it at 75.