I’m amazed that it’s October 9th and I only JUST turned on my heat (and only for a few hours before bedtime and ONLY because I had a bit of a chill) last night.
Where do you live and when do you turn on your heat? And does it stay on, for the most part once you do, or is it more like what I did? That is, it’s a little chilly so you turn it on for a short while at different parts of the day?
By now, in good ole’ Anchortown, most of us would have our heat on pretty much from here on out until Spring to maybe late Spring.
Tokyo. The summer finished just a few weeks back. The heat comes on around the middle of November. Its the nice time of the year now, when the weather is perfect.
North Florida here–we’ll turn it on eventually (we do get hard freezes overnight now and then in January and February) but right now it’s a joy to not have the AC running for the first time since May. The blessed sound of silence.
In Philly, I try to go till Nov. 1st, but I don’t always make it. Call it last week of October. Haven’t even thought about it yet – it was chilly last week, but up in the 70s today, gorgeous day.
Suburbs of Chicago - ours kicked in a week or so ago, automatically, when the overnight low hit 39F. Today it reached near 80, so I suspect it’ll be a little while before we need it again.
I live in New Hampshire, and we’ve begun “priming” the heat system by running it for short periods. We’ve yet to have it on more than half an hour, though, and never because it’s cold enough to truly need it. It’ll be another month or so before it’s used for real.
Hah! Suburbs of Hartford, CT, and my screen door is open right now so that I don’t have my A/C on. It will be at least the middle of November before I even think about heat - I’m the kind of person who sets it around 60 or so even when it’s on.
Suburban Chicago. Turned it on a few weeks ago, when we were first having lows in the 40s. It’s not running now, because it got close to 90 today, but it’ll probably be needed at night again by the latter part of next week.
London outskirts, UK. Within the last few weeks it has become necessary to heat the place in the evenings and mornings. It’s on a thermostat, and only seems to be actively pumping out heat for about an hour each morning/evening. Daytime max in October drops to something like 60F, overnight lows in the upper 40s F.
I have a wood pellet stove, and I haven’t started it yet. I’m in Tennessee. It was in the high 70’s outside today. My windows and doors were open all day. It did get down to 53 degrees in the house last week, but that was early in the morning when is was about 31 outside. By the time I got home from work it was in the 60’s inside. Until it gets really adn regularly cold, I don’t start burning fuel.
It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to start it up just to make sure everything’s working before winter starts, though.
No, but it’s getting close to those only-in-Arizona days where you need the A/C during the day, and the heat at night. It’s been in the 90’s during the day, but getting down to the low 60’s at night, which makes the house a little chilly in the morning.
We had a very warm spell through late September and early October, but it’s finally cooling down nicely, with the exception of tomorrow if the weather people are right. I am so tired of anything above 60F right now. South-central Idaho, in the mountains, about half as high as enipla though apparently having had the same warm fall. We did have a big storm a couple of weeks ago that dropped snow up around 9000 feet and up, though.
I don’t really think about turning on the heat unless it drops below freezing for a few nights running. I mean, I know that sounds crazy to some people. I would have thought so before I moved here. But while I’ve turned on the heater in the bathroom a couple of times when I was showering (I have baseboard heaters) it’s nowhere near cold enough in here to turn it on otherwise.
