What temperature do you keep the thermostat at?
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66 during the day, 62 at night. I’m from the “put a sweater on if you’re cold” school of thought.
During the summer, our thermostat is set at 75.
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Ooh, @beebee3 , you are right in line with my husband!
During the day when no one is around but me, the house is at 64. I do turn it up in my office though to 65.
Then, in the evening from about 5-10, it’s on 68 in the main living area. We use a wood burning stove when it’s really cold.
Then after 10, it’s at 62, unless it’s going to be in the teens or lower.
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Same here, the colder the better. DH is the gate on our thermostat because I like it colder in the winter and colder in the summer.
We have gas heat and whole-house solar on our AZ house, so no concern about the summer electric bill. We rarely need to turn on the heat. Now that we spend summers in Maine, we leave the AC in AZ at 85 while we’re gone. We have mini-splits in the cabin for summer AC, but we turn the whole system off for the winter. Basically, we live in mild temps all year round, so our energy bills are low.
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66 during the day.
70 in the evening.
63 overnight.
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70 during the day and 65 at night. We have a wood boiler we use in most of the house if the high temp for the day is not forecast to be over 32 (the boiler runs best when it’s cold). We also have a heat pump in our bedroom/bathroom.
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Do most of you find that you are comfortable sitting (reading a book for example) with the thermostat at 66 degrees, as long as you are wearing a sweater?
(This thread inspired by sitting in a room which was only 60 degrees and I definitely noticed and was cold even after bundling up.)
68 during the day. 60 at night in the winter. But when temps don’t get out of the teens, we leave the heat set at 68.
Summer, temp for me would be 70 or even 68…but DH thinks that is too cold (note…his lower temps in the winter aren’t too cold🤷🏻‍♀️). So…it’s usually 70.
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Temperature is set room by room. Keep all rooms except one at either 52 degrees or 54 degrees. One bedroom is set to reach 60 degrees during the night (thermostat set at 58).
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If I was bundled up, 66 would be tolerable. 60, probably not.
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60? BRRRRR. Is there some reason why this is your temp @Publisher
Or is your living space room set higher?
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It’s 62 during the day when we’re at work. When we get home we bump it to 67 until bed time, then we drop it back to 62.
BTW, I just got a $775 oil delivery yesterday. Maybe I’ll drop the temperature to 55. 
We have throw blankets in the living room and family room. With a sweater and a throw blanket across my legs/feet - I am very comfortable sitting anywhere in the house at 66.
I also wear socks and slippers in the house. Also wear a lot of wool (socks and sweaters).
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I prefer this temperature (54 degrees). No sweater needed. Also, have a doggy door that allows heat to escape so no need to heat the outdoors. (I have difficulty with the high temps for indoor heat kept by most schools in the Northeast US. The heat makes me feel as if I am suffocating.)
(FWIW I also use a 300 gallon tub for cold shock baths outside whenever temperature is above freezing. For several years, I lived with constant debilitating pain–refuse to take pain meds or cortisone shots–and the outdoor cold shock baths take my mind off of the pain.)
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I’m with you on the socks and slippers and blankets and more sweaters. I pretty much wear slippers all year round though because my feet are always cold.
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I have summer weight slippers and winter weight slippers. 
I don’t like walking around in bare feet ever (also have perpetually cold feet), and don’t allow street shoes to be worn in the house.
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We are figuring this out after going from a home that had boiler-register heat which was less regulated to conventional forced air. We are not used to thinking about varying for different times of day.
Right now we are at 68 during the day and 65 during the night. I’m leaning towards dropping another degree or two day/night. We have a loft area (second living space) upstairs and we are seeing that they didn’t put in enough vents when it was constructed so it’s noticeably cooler up there. I keep a portable electric heater up there and when I watch tv in the evening it’s cooler but I just have a fav warm blanket that i use. It works well enough! H is home during the day and I think gets colder than me so can’t turn it down during the day
I would like to get a new thermostat that makes it super easy to set times. We can do it with our current one but it seems a bit complicated…
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Our loft area is open to the first floor, and is definitely the hottest place in our house…because warm air rises…and it sure does!
We’re in the south and don’t often get really cold weather. This week is an exception with highs in the 20s and 30s and lows dropping to single digits. News sources here recommend keeping the thermostat at the same temperature 24 hours/day in the hope that will help prevent frozen pipes.
When we were younger, our winter setting was 64 and I often told our kids to put on a sweater if they were cold. Now that we’re officially old, and we babysit grandchildren several days a week, we keep the thermostats on 68 -70. There are three and we vary them according to who’s in those rooms and the sun exposure.
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We set it at 68º during the day, and 67º at night. Less than that and he’s cold during the day; more than that at night and I can’t sleep.