70
I don’t have a thermostat, heat’s included with the rent. I regulate heat by turning radiators on or off. Generally the one in the kitchen is the only one running, and it keeps the kitchen and LR around 68-72. The bath and BR are a little cooler, which I like. If I want a warm, snuggly, toasty time, I turn on the radiator in the LR and then the temp gets between 75 and 80. Then if it gets too hot but I don’t want to turn the radiator off yet, I crack a window and sometimes run the window fan from outside to in.
I voted “I keep it low to save money.”
Actually, I did not turn on the heat or the AC for the entire calendar year 2012. Nada. Zilch.
It helped that the cooler months were several dgrees warmer than normal, and the hotter months
little if any warmer than normal. Also, training a fan directly on me during the heat (it got up to 101F)
made the no AC no real challenge. Keeping the heat off during the many days when the average was
in the 30sF was much more difficult.
Wish I could report killer savings, but it was only $192.51 for 2012 ($381.72) under 2011 ($574.23).
Still, I am trying to make it two years in a row. That $192.51 will buy me a lot of steak dinners.
Throw in some smoked salmon and Brie, even.
68 but I’m freakin freeeeezing this year for some reason. Ugh.
I have no heat period in my apt. The neighbors heaters keep my place too warm for my personnal comfort. My house I set at 64 and leave it.
65-68 but it seems to stay around 70 during the day. I think this is due to heat leakage from our neighbors.
75 pretty much day and night, but only because some idiot put the thermostat right next to the wall heater, so if the thermostat reads 75 the rest of the house ranges from 68-75.
Voted 68 F, but that’s only when I’m at home. Programmable thermostat - 75 by 7 AM - I hate waking up to a cold house. Setpoint drops to 55 F at 8:30, by which time I’ve left for work. System holds the house at 55 F all day. Next setpoint is 68 F by 5:30 PM, which is when I get home from work. Hold 68 until 10:30 PM, by which time I’ve usually gone to bed. From 10:30 on (to the next day, 7 AM) it holds at 55 F.
MY PEOPLE! I get cold wayyyy too easy so I go for comfort. I keep it at 77F.
God, I’d kill for 68. We never keep it above 64 and for some reason my room refuses to warm up. It’s usually about 5-10 degrees colder in here. We keep it low to save money because the house has like NO insulation. There’s maybe 5 inches of insulation in the attic, probably from the 70s and nothing in the walls. So since my room’s on a corner, I get 2 outside walls PLUS a huge picture window with single plane glass. Even with thermal curtains it gets ass cold in here. I’m praying for the summer, but being in Oregon, it won’t be till like…July.
Call it “below 60”. My one-bedroom apartment is heated (and cooled) by a hotel-style unit with heat and A/C settings, and in the winter, I use the heat only when ice forms on the inside of my windows.
BUT…
I like it cold. I’m weird. In the summer, I run the air conditioning 24/7. The way I look at it, if you’re spending money on your lifestyle — and if you live in a first-world country, you are — then what possible better use do you have for it than ensuring that your moment-to-moment existence is comfortable?
So, if you’re the sort that shivers at 70, then by all means cook yourself alive all winter. Don’t let anyone look down on you for it. Life’s too fucking short to spend it freezing (or sweating) every goddamned day. Climate control is one of the foremost luxuries of the modern era — revel in it.
I generally hover around 72. I can take down to 70, but below that my fingers start getting stiff and painful.
Now we keep on 72 because my sister is an ass.
She’ll sneak it up to 76 when she can.
Normally it would be on 68 or 70.
I closed the vent in my bedroom and it still can get too hot at night.
I closed it for other reasons though. My bedroom is over my mother’s bathroom and I can smell the peppermint when she brushes her teeth, the other odors coming up through the vent aren’t as tolerable.
She keeps the vent closed in the summer because the AC makes it too cold, I keep it closed in the winter so I can breathe.
66 round the clock. Money saving reasons. In the past, I was the one who would turn it up to 70, 71, 72 and by the end of winter my wife was having shit fits when the gas bill would arrive. Now I just put on a sweatshirt when I’m cold.
I like it around 72 year-round. All you people in the 60’s are nuts!
Then again I am in South Texas and I cannot stand being cold, at all, for any reason. I wish it was summer year round. (Instead of only 8 months or so. :D)
We have a programmable thermostat that keeps the house between 72-75 year round.
Trust me, in South Texas it is summer all year round.
(Waves from frosty Ottawa. It was zero F this morning and has now warmed up to 5.)
We keep it at 68 all day and night. We get a statement from the gas company showing our usage versus our neighbors’ usage. It shows the average usage for all neighbors (a sample of 100 or so houses), the average usage of the “efficient” neighbors, which is some percentile of neighbors. And then it shows our usage, which last month was 13% below the efficient neighbors. It doesn’t say that we are the most efficient of the sample but we certainly must be in the running for that distinction. Given what it costs to keep our house at 68, I wouldn’t want to have to pay the bills the inefficient neighbors are paying.
64 at night, otherwise I roast while trying to sleep upstairs (two-story condo). It doesn’t matter what kind of bedding I’m using - summer or winter. If the air is too warm, I’m miserable and don’t get a good night’s rest.
If it’s a really cold day, I’ll crank it to 69 and dress in layers. I have a couple of very toasty comforters I use in the downstairs living room to watch tv or work.
Depends on who was the last person at the thermostat. I like things balmy, so I set it at 72. The wife prefers a cooler room and sets it at 64. But it always gets dropped to 60 for overnight. The cats just burrow under the covers with us and we’re all nice and toasty until sunrise.