🏡 Better Homes Utility bill pity party.
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Wood. Wood everywhere. We used to do 70 but with gas so expensive I refuse. By my logic what’s 2-3 degrees? You could argue what’s 2-3 degrees on the cost side too I suppose.
My logic is I work too hard I’d rather pay more and be comfortable year round. Not worth being cheap
We turn our heat down to 60 at night with a couple box fans on for background noise. Sleep great.
This exactly. I don’t work all day just to cheap out and be uncomfortable at home. That goes double for the AC. What’s the point of even having it and setting it to 78*? And at work in the winter like today, our shop was 54*. I had a coat on and kept getting blasted with cold air every time the doors opened. Sure I can wear a jacket but my nose was dripping all day from the cold. I refuse to come home and pile on blankets because it’s 66* in here.
$270ish this past month, usually in the 150-180 range all winter long.
100 year old house with boiler and cast iron radiators, half of which have seized adjustment valves which makes things fun. Virtually no insulation, some in the roof, windows are newer which helps, but the old doors and general design of old houses leave it a bit drafty at times (especially days like this).
Temp set at 67 during the day, 63 at night, if it was any warmer the upstairs would be 80-85 in the 3 rooms (guess which valves are stuck lol). With all the bedrooms upstairs and the temp at 63 at night, we still need to crack our bedroom window as I’ll wake up and see our room at 80, way too warm to sleep.
The wife and I just layer up during the day and have learned to just deal with it the 6 years we’ve lived here. We love old houses and understand it is what it is until we do an addition/remodel to address these and other issues.
100 year old house with boiler and cast iron radiators, half of which have seized adjustment valves which makes things fun. Virtually no insulation, some in the roof, windows are newer which helps, but the old doors and general design of old houses leave it a bit drafty at times (especially days like this).
Temp set at 67 during the day, 63 at night, if it was any warmer the upstairs would be 80-85 in the 3 rooms (guess which valves are stuck lol). With all the bedrooms upstairs and the temp at 63 at night, we still need to crack our bedroom window as I’ll wake up and see our room at 80, way too warm to sleep.
The wife and I just layer up during the day and have learned to just deal with it the 6 years we’ve lived here. We love old houses and understand it is what it is until we do an addition/remodel to address these and other issues.
That’s how my wife feels too.
I rent a tiny place in western Illinois that’s like that. Built in the 1920’s, windows appear to be original and at least one of my 2 valves is seized. It’s either freezing in there or unbearably hot.
I grew up in a house with radiators and this is the first time I've heard the valves were supposed to be adjusted. I thought they just ran wide open.
Could depend on the system. I have a water boiler, there’s also steam which may not be adjustable, not familiar with those systems.
Yeah mine were steam. I'm sure anything is adjustable, but we never did it.
Just like how people put water pans on the registers to put some humidity in the air. We never did that.
What I don't get is, if you drop the thermostat from say 72 during the day to 64 at night, come the next morning it just means more demand on the furnace to get the temp back up to 72.
If you do 72/69 then it isn't working as hard to meet the demand. Yeah, it's still using gas to run during the night, but probably less to maintain 69 for 7-8 hours then to have to go from 64 to 72, in which case it's going to be running at full chat until the AV meets the SP.
So which would use less gas then?
If you do 72/69 then it isn't working as hard to meet the demand. Yeah, it's still using gas to run during the night, but probably less to maintain 69 for 7-8 hours then to have to go from 64 to 72, in which case it's going to be running at full chat until the AV meets the SP.
So which would use less gas then?
Depends on the energy it takes to bring the temp back up vs what you save by running lower Temps for X amount of hours.
for heating it doesn’t matter as much. You’re mostly adding sensible heat. It doesn’t take much energy to raise the temp of air.
AC is a different story. You’re actively fighting to remove moisture from the air before temp will drop.
AC is a different story. You’re actively fighting to remove moisture from the air before temp will drop.
I just run a toasty 70.5* and tell the old lady that we have the nicest temps on the block any time she complains.
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