s/o turning the heat on - temp when youre not home

[megalicious]

I got a note from my gas company saying you could save up to 10% on your gas bill if you turn down the heat by 10-15 degrees during the day when no one is home. That seems really extreme to me. I usually turn mine down 4-5 degrees to somewhere around 65- 68 when we're not home and around 68 at night. ETA: I'm always cold, so our home temp is 72; sleeping is 70.

What's your home/not home/sleeping temperature variation?

[dexteroni]

We used to do a 10 or so degree difference before we had dogs. Now we're more of a 5 - 7 degree difference. Yes, they're furry, but we don't want to freeze them.

[yellowbrkrd]

We leave it at 64 when we're gone, it's usually at 68-70 when we're home.

[Pilsy]

Ours is set to go as low as 58 when we're not home and then back up to 66 when we are. And I usually kick it up to 68 manually once I'm home.

Despite being old, it seems to heat up very quickly. We I would not agree to putting it down to 58 if that were not the case.

[ddi741]

We don't adjust our temperature when we are home/not home. When we finally put on our heat, our upstairs is on 65 and downstairs is 68

[RoxMonster]

When we're at home, it's usually around 68 or 69. That's pretty comfortable in our house, especially upstairs where it warms up very quickly. If we are downstairs, we'll turn the heat down or off and use the fireplace instead.

When we're not home, it goes down to 60. We have it timed to start warming back up 30 min. before I get home from work.

Sleeping--usually around 67 or 68.

FWIW, we just moved in this house in Aug. We have not been through a winter here, so these are our temps now with outside temps in the 40s or 50s. When it gets really cold, we will kick up the heat in the house.

[keweenawlove]

Ours goes down to 60 when we're not home and up to 68 when we get home. We have a fireplace that we use most nights when it starts getting really cold to heat it up even more than that.

[chessie]

When the stove is not on, its cold 50's it will drop down to

[penguingrrl]

We don't adjust our temp to sleep and there's always someone here during the day (I'm a SAHM) but we keep it far lower than most people, at 60-62 day and night. We were visiting the ILs yesterday and I was overheating in a short sleeved shirt because their heat was set to 72 and that's too warm for my comfort.

[arch01]

61 when we're gone, 64-65 when i'm home, 66-67 when DH is home.

[aspentosh]

Home- 68
Away- 65
Sleep- 62

[ssmjlm]

65 when we're gone, 69 when we're home. I'm not sure on the sleeping temp, I'll have to check.

[Awkward]

Jeebus remind me never to visit you people during the winter!

68 when someone is home, 62 during the night, 60 during the day when no one is home.

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Oct 14, 2012 20:26:54 GMT -5 @pnkybrwstr said:

Jeez... I must be really cheap or really warm blooded. Before having DS, I would keep it at 64 while we were home and awake and 58 when we were out or sleeping. I now keep it at 65 at all times.

Am I freezing my baby? It sounds like some of you take better care of your dogs.

This is us too! We have a programmable thermostat. When we're gone during he day the house is at 58, and it kicks back on at 5pm to heat the house to 64. I'm hot blooded, we're cheap and we live in a cold northern climate. We wear sweaters/ sweatshirts.

Our golden retriever seems to be fine.

[ssmjlm]

I think a lot of it has to do with the type of heat you have. I know growing up we had electric and a heat pump heats differently than gas, which is what we have now.

[lishie]

When we're home we usually keep it around 68. When we're out or when we're sleeping it's at 58.

We set it to start warming up about an hour before we get home from work.

[Deleted]

My cats don't like it when the temp dips below 68. The floor gets cold and they take to sleeping on the couch and the bed, which pisses me off.

[minniebee]

68 when home
62 when sleeping
60 when away

Sometimes I'm cold at 68. I wear sweaters, slippers, and turn on a fireplace if I want to warm up a bit.

Our dog is not going to freeze in 60 degrees. He's probably more comfortable in 60 degrees than 68. We have several outside dogs in our neighborhood (dogs not allowed in the house) and while I don't agree with keeping outside-only dogs, if they can survive cold Minnesota winters outdoors, I don't think I'm hurting my dog by turning the heat down to 60 :-)

[definitelyO]

ours is programed for
Home: 68 (6am - 8am and 3pm - 10 pm)
Night: 64 (10pm - 6am)
Away: 64 (from 8am - 3pm)

[ladyk]

Gas heat, programmable
Away-64/65
Home-66/67
Sleep-65/66