What temp do you keep your house set at in the winter?

[Evi]

Found this funny

I read that and thought, "Well, who wouldn't be?"

It isn't the cold that gets me, but the wind. If it wasn't for the wind, I would have still be running around in shorts and t-shirt. It's been toasty warm all of November finishing off in the low 50's. Jeans and a short sleeved shirt with the window partially down for driving anywhere, but if it is for running to the gas station, that calls for a winter coat as the wind will chill you down to the bone.

It's finally fallen in temps here in Western PA, but I think it's still unseasonably warm during the day.

Yeah I guess it sounded funny but I was thinking like when we go to Orlando and its in the 60-70 and I see people wearing winter coats and gloves.

 

[Judique]

61 from 9-5, 66 from 5-10, 61 from 10pm-6am, 66 from 6 am to 9 am.

That keeps out heat bill down to around $75 a month.

What kind of heat and are averaging that $75 over the whole year?

I have natural gas heat and I averaged $65 last dec through this november. I am heating 1500 sq feet. The temp is never set below 68. Total gas bill for the year did not exceed $800.

Same house without my addition next door has costs for oil of $2400 a year.

Another house on my street that is slightly larger with electric heat is paying over $3000 per year in heat cost.

Gas lines run down our street and it was minimal cost to bring it in when I converted from an oil system.

Is this a normal difference between these types of heat? I didn't realize how much my neighbors were paying until we all had coffee one morning. They didn't realize how cheap my gas bill was. The one neighbor is going to convert as their furnace is ready for replacement. It'll pay for itself in a couple of years.

 

[Judique]

PA here and we keep ours at 60 degrees all the time pretty much. No one has frozen in our house either! We do have a gas fireplace in our family room that we run a lot when we are home and that keeps most of our living area very comfortable but the bedrooms do stay COLD.

I have a 2000 SF 2 story house and my heating (gas) bill is less than $600 a year. We used to pay well over $1000 before we got the fireplace and kept the entire house set at a higher temp. You do get used to it

Your costs are more in line with mine. we are in Md, and we have higher temp but smaller area. I was starting to think I was off the mark and had missed adding in a huge bill when I read $800 a month! Wow! Not moving to Maine for the winter!!!!