<p>I stayed at my sister’s for a night and it was so warm in the room that I asked them what they kept their heat at. She said 66 degrees but that the rooms tended to be 68. I googled ideal room temperatures and they said room temperature is 68 - 77. I can’t imagine keeping the house that warm in winter. It’s true that their son was in a t-shirt, but I don’t see a need to keep a house warm enough in winter to wear t-shirts.</p>
<p>So…I’m asking around. What do you guys keep the thermostat set at in winter during the day and at night. How about in summer?</p>
<p>We are 64 at night and 68-70 during the day. I am cold-blooded and even bundled up can’t handle below 70 very easily. My office feels cold at 73, for some reason, and due to “issues” with the building sometimes gets up to 82. When I get home and the house is 69 I feel like I’m in Alaska. In summer we keep the house at 80 during the day and 78 at night.</p>
<p>Our house is set like Momofwildchild’s. I feel it is a reasonably comfortable temperature. I hate to be cold. And we wear sweaters and warm socks all winter long.</p>
<p>The ideal room temperature is 5 degrees warmer or colder than the current temperature in whatever room I’m in at any given time. Or so it seems.</p>
<p>Just like MOfWC, I’m cold-blooded! We keep the house at 68 when we are in it, at 61 when we are not or when we are asleep. My office never gets warmer than 60-65 in the winter, therefore I’m a big fan of all things fleece, wool, and cashmere.</p>
<p>speaking of room temperature if you are indoors do you take your coat off so " you won’t be cold when you go back outside" or do you leave it on ( provided it is cool enough for you to be comfortable with it on inside)?</p>
<p>We’re around 65 which my wife prefers. My home office is in the basement which is next to a slider so it can get pretty cold down there in the winter. I use a small ceramic space heater when it gets really cold. I turn the heat up to about 73 when I get up for a shower and then my wife turns it back down when I’m done. Everyone in the household likes it cold except for me.</p>
<p>Around 74 in winter during awake time in office and at home and 67 at night. Heat bathroom to 85 before showering. Summer like it a little cooler at 72 or so. We like it a little warm most of the time.</p>
<p>70 during the day, 65 at night. I work from home (like BCEagle, in the basement), and any colder during the day, despite having a sweater on, my hands get icy.</p>
<p>I feel guilty now. I yell at H that “I’m freezing” even at 68 (winter). I just can not imagine living in 64 degrees indoors. That said, I am pretty good at not racking up the air conditioning bills. I don’t understand how people in Texas can afford to keep their houses at 68 in the summer. We were in shock every month when the bill came for our 80 degree house! Of course, all our guests about passed out from the heat…</p>
<p>68 in the day and 58 at night. As Californians, DH and DD feel that they should be able to walk around the house in shorts and bare feet the entire year. They would rather complain than put on a pair of shoes or a sweater. I , on the other hand, currently have my own internal heating system (aka hot flashes ).</p>
<p>I’m most comfortable when it’s set at no less than 70 in the winter. Any colder than that and my hands freeze. i wonder if that is deceiving, though - it’s a large house and heat gets lost quickly. I’ve been to other homes and have been very comfortable when temp is set at 68 or even lower. </p>
<p>In the summer I rarely even turn on the AC at all, even when temps get into the 90s (though we are at a higher elevation than surrounding areas, shaded with lots of trees and get a good cross breeze, so it probably rarely gets that high in reality). H and kids are the opposite of me - they LIKE it colder and wilt in the heat. I have a friend who keeps the house at 62 - I couldn’t live like that!</p>
<p>In the winter, 68 during the day when we are home, 64 when we are not or at night (I feel sorry for the pets, or I would turn it a few degrees colder when we are not home). I love my programmable thermostat, it is set to warm the house before I get up and just before I usually get home. We also have a Finnish soapstone woodburning stove right in the middle of our kitchen/dining/living area, so we fire that twice a day in the winter. It does play some havoc with the temperatures upstairs, though, as the flue runs thru a wall right by the thermostat up there and fools it into thinking things are toasty upstairs when they are not. Big, fluffy flakes just started falling here, so I will probably fire it up for the first time tonight.</p>
<p>Happydad grew up in the tropics. I grew up in the Midwest. His true comfort range is 70F (“Isn’t it getting a bit cold here?”) to 76F (“Don’t you think it’s too hot here?”). He’s also really leery of leaving windows open for too long, and certainly never overnight. </p>
<p>To control the bills, I cool the place to 82F on summer days, and try not to have to drop it to 80F at night. If we’ll be out of town, I might push it up to 84F. Winters are 70F days and nights, 74F evenings because he’s “too cold right now”, and 60F when we go out of town. I to my best to keep sneaking the thermostat back to 82F in the summer and 70F in the winter, but he’s pretty tricky too and will reset it behind my back. It’s a wonder the dial doesn’t just break off.</p>
<p>There is often a significant difference between the thermostat setting and the actual temperature. I know I can set the thermostat much lower if I wear socks (wool socks) and a sweater… but 66 is about the minimum. But it’s truly 66. In the summer I almost never turn on the AC as it’s rarely so hot you can’t just leave the windows and doors open.</p>
<p>DH likes the window open at night, so I usually have three or four blankets stacked on my side of the bed.</p>
