Warmth

What temp do you keep your thermostat set at in the winter? I am tired of freezing ... but I really don't want to turn the heat up. It's already at 68, it's a new house (although I'd like to get more insulation blown in next year), I'm wearing slippers ... and I'm FREEZING!

We have it at 68 during the day and 64 at night. Our crawl space is not well insulated and slippers or wool socks are a must. If it is an especially humid or rainy day, I bump it up to 69 which seems so much warmer.

<<shiver>>

[SuzySunshine]

We have ours programmed to 68 but our windows suck and I'm always cold so I usually end up increasing it to 70. With that said though the temp is usually closer to 68 when I have it set at 70. Have you tried putting an independent thermometer in the area of the house you use the most to see what the temp really is?

We just added one around Christmas and it has shown us how the house is actually colder then the thermostat reads.

I also read that a higher humidity house will feel warmer but then we have condensation/ice situations on the inside of our windows so our house is fairly "dry" though we don't really notice.

[Stella]

I *hate* being cold, so I keep my thermostat at 73 when I'm there and 69 when I'm at work. Luckily, I live on the third floor and my apartment isn't all that big, so I can afford to do that. But I also have a space heater... (and a second one for the office.)

I don't do cold.

[alison]

We live in a super old building. An old hotel from the early 1900s.

It's steam heat. I don't control it and I don't pay for it. My indoor thermometer says 75 degrees (outside we're just barely in double digits today), so we leave a window open overnight. Seems like such a waste...

[Sheherezade]

We keep it at 68 in the areas we are using -- and off in the others. They people that owned the house before us had it zoned into 6 heating zones. That's what you do if you are a retired couple living in a 5 bedroom house, I guess.

During the recent cold snap, I went around and cranked all the heaters to 73. I was $%#& freezing. I turned them down later. I snapped!

Usually, I wear a fleece jacket in the house and we use our wood stove every day to keep the family room warm. 68 in the kitchen and bedrooms. I wish I wasn't home during the day so we could turn it down.

[Michele]

72...sometimes 74 We're such south Floridians!