What temperature do you keep your house - poll to follow

[Tohru]

I recently heard some one complaining about the temperature of the house they were renting and their landlord didn't understand their complaint, which made me start wondering...what temperature does everyone usually keep their house at during the winter?

 

Thanks!

[Luanne]

We are keeping ours at 72 right now.  We live in a mobile home and the temps have been below 20 Fahrenheit.... mostly below 10 lately so... that is the only way we don't turn into popsicles.

[Mrs Mungo]

Where does the other person live?

 

The temp in my house is currently 76, but I have to run the AC to keep it there. In a colder climate? I keep it around 72. My mom keeps her house at 62 in the winter, brrrr!

[Kathryn]

We have a programmable thermostat set to keep the house between 69 and 75.

[BrittanyM]

Ours is set at 64 during the day and 59 at night (although right now we turn it off at night).

[Tohru]

Where does the other person live?

 

The temp in my house is currently 76, but I have to run the AC to keep it there. In a colder climate? I keep it around 72. My mom keeps her house at 62 in the winter, brrrr!

 

Mountains, snow outside. 

 

The general mentality in the area is that since it's cold outside, indoor 60's is fine.  However we keep our house pretty toasty because we have a small child that refuses to wear all their required garments.

[Arcadia]

We don't set the thermostat; we don't turn on the air-con or central heating. Below 80dF and I would already feel cold and start layering. Above 100dF then I would start to feel warm.

My kids don't feel cold until at least below 50dF.

[Ellie]

Mine is 66/67 during the day, 70 at night.

[RebeccaS]

I keep ours at 65* in the day and 60* at night.  Anything higher than that and our bill is just too high.  

[gingersmom]

I go between 71 and 72.

 

Growing up my house was always at 64 and I was always cold.

[Mrs Mungo]

Mountains, snow outside.

 

The general mentality in the area is that since it's cold outside, indoor 60's is fine. However we keep our house pretty toasty because we have a small child that refuses to wear all their required garments.

I would have to keep my house at least 68 or I would be miserable. But, I have lived in mostly fairly warm climates.

[JFSinIL]

We try for 69....but if this old American Foursquare ( with original windows) hits 69 it is only in the vicinity of the thermostat. We have space heaters for upstairs bedrooms.

 

Even at 69 degrees, I am wearing a t-shirt, hoodie, down vest (from a Land's End Black Friday sale a couple years ago) and covering my legs, when sitting, with a blanket. If I go upstairs to work on a computer, even with a space heater I must wear fingerless gloves and cover my legs with a blanket.

[Mrs Mungo]

Mine is 66/67 during the day, 70 at night.

This is interesting because most people I know lower their thermostats at night?

[trulycrabby]

66 at night, 67 during the day.

[Ali in OR]

Ours is programmed for 67 during the day, but dd or I will bump it to 68 if we feel cold. It is set for 64 at night. In summer, the AC is set for 77. We do have a newer construction home with decent insulation. I was always cold in the 1930's home I grew up in and we couldn't get it warm enough (not sure what thermostat was set for). We had to use individual heaters too.

 

[Chelli]

65 during the day, 68/69 at night.

[Word Nerd]

I would be quite happy at 76-78, but it's more like 69-70.

[BlsdMama]

68 during the day and 60-64 at night depending on who does the temperature drop. :D

[nukeswife]

We just moved at our old house it was 72 during the day 70 at night.  In the new house it's 71 around the clock because I don't have a thermostat that I can program.  I may swap them out soon so I can do that.  I don't like to wear tons of layers in my house, so we like it warm enough to be comfortable in pants and a t-shirt.  We also have a bearded dragon so keeping it set to low would require me to get extra heating items for her tank to keep it in the right range which would almost negate any savings from lowering the thermostat.

[idnib]

I voted 68/69 but we have individual heaters in each room and that's only for the 2 rooms in which we spend most of our time. The other heaters are left off and those rooms are heated incidentally and are 4-5 degrees cooler. I run the heat in the kids' bedroom for a few minutes before bed and turn it off after they fall asleep, so about 20-30 minutes total.

 

ETA: No heaters at night, but it's rarely below 40 at night here.

[Melissa in Australia]

Other. we do not have central heating. We light the fire if we feel too cold. Otherwise it is whatever temperature it is

[Lucy the Valiant]

We set it at 62, but it often goes higher than that when we run the woodstove (warmer in rooms near stove, cooler the farther away - lowest daytime temp in coldest room is 62).

[umsami]

In the summer (Florida), we keep it at anywhere from 75-77.

 

In the winter, 70.  The heat rarely kicks on.

[Chris in VA]

Winter--70 during the day, 65-67 at night. We have a space heater in the den (where the computer and TV are) and it is probably a degree or so warmer when it's on.

[DragonFaerie]

This house is big with a ton of windows.  I keep the thermostat at 62 because the heating bill would be way too high if I didn't.  We just layer up, and we all have a nice big blanket on the couch, one for each of us.  We also have these little table-top heaters called My Heat that we use in the school room on our desks.  And we'll build a fire if we don't have to go anywhere.

[MrsBasil]

This is interesting because most people I know lower their thermostats at night?

We sometimes turn up the thermostat at night, because our main floor is warmer than the upstairs where the bedrooms are. DD still doesn't pull covers over herself and is still a gymnast while she sleeps has the coldest room in the house, so we try to keep her warm.

 

We also get a lot of sun during the day, so it feels warmer when the sun is up and out.

 

I'm in Colorado. It's been cold lately, but we keep the heat around 68/69 and will sometimes turn it up to 71-72 at night or if the temp dips to far below 0.

[Joker]

We're wimps. Ours is usually 75 day and 72 night. We're in Florida. When we lived in a colder climate we were able to go cooler but just aren't comfortable with it anymore. As far as being frugal goes, our electric bill is rarely over $100 (maybe two months during the summer and only barely over at that) and it's been that way the entire 8 years we've lived here.

[TracyP]

Our stat is set at 68 when we are awake and 64 when we are sleeping. We recently installed a wood stove, so now the actual temp is running 70+ in the main rooms and around 65 in the bedrooms.

[Crimson Wife]

62 in the winter and 80 in the summer in order to keep the gas & electric bill reasonable. Children who complain about it being too cold get no sympathy, only a suggestion to put on a sweater.

[MomtoCandJ]

68-72 during the day (depends on how cold it is outside) 65 at night

[ChristusG]

Umm, this FL girl keeps her temp at 74 during the daytime, year around. At night it is 72. I'd freeze in your houses!

[greenvneck]

In the winter, 65 during the day, 62 at night. My family hates it, I love it.

[Pawz4me]

68.

 

I'd like to drop it to . . . . oh, maybe about 50 at night.  That would be comfortable for me.  But I think I'd get some protests.

 

Note that I'm a woman of a certain age. ;)  A few years ago I would've voted 72-73.

[Joyofsixreboot]

Ours is at 64. In summer at 82. We do sit under blankets in the evening and dress warmly in the house. Everyone but me is comfortable. I'm always freezing.

[elegantlion]

We keep it on about 66-68. Right now it's in the 20s outside and I have it set on 66. I can't have it too warm, the dry air makes me cough. Ds gets too warm too. This house stays warmer though. In previous homes we've had it set on 71 or 72 to be comfortable. 

[cjzimmer1]

Ours is set at 65 but the thermostat  is in a room with a large southern facing window and right next to the kitchen.  Between those two, that area tends to heat up a lot and so the thermostat thinks the house is a lot warmer than it really is.  For instance today it thought it was 68-70 and so no heat but the bedrooms and downstairs were much colder.  DH said the downstairs was registering at 58.  He does have a space heater for down there on the days when he works from home and it's just too cold.

[Annie G]

Ours is at 64. In summer at 82. We do sit under blankets in the evening and dress warmly in the house. Everyone but me is comfortable. I'm always freezing.

 

 

This is about right for our house. Usually 63 during he day, lower overnight.  And quite warm in the summer. 

 

Our house was built in 1882 and has almost all original glass in the windows.  It's very expensive to heat in the winter and I'm too frugal to spend enough to heat it above 63. 

 

It's very cold here in the winter. Lows this week are in the 12 degree range and highs this week are in the 20's. And this is just the beginning of winter. 

 

When we retire we're moving back to Georgia. 4 years and 3 months...not that I'm counting. 

[Mandylubug]

68 and we do keep a fire going in living room if in 30s or lower during day outside

[wendy not in HI]

We like to keep it at 65 in the day and 55 at night. 

 

It's a little cold, but it is do-able - I wear socks and long sleeves most of the time.  If I feel chilly I will put on a sweater and pull up a blanket.  If we have company, I bump it up to 70.

[wendyroo]

66 during the day and 56 at night.

The nursery is at the end of a duct run and is always pretty chilly, so I have a space heater in there that I run for about an hour before the baby goes to bed.  On especially cold nights or if he is sick, I pamper him by putting a heating pad in the crib for a while before bedtime so his sheets and blankie are nice and warm when he lays down.

 

Wendy

[Amy in NH]

67-68 in the winter.  Whatever it gets up to in the summer - we don't do a/c but it usually stays pretty cool except for a couple of weeks when we use the ceiling fans a lot.

[JumpyTheFrog]

63 during the day (in winter)

58 at night for the whole house

 

We still have a ceiling fan, box fan, and a window fan going in our room even if it's in the 40s at night.. I need (and DH tolerates) setting our room to "snowflake." For the last seven years, with my insomnia, I can't sleep at night if the room is over say 61-63, and that's with a ceiling fan and box fan going. If I'm stuck in hotel and it's 65, I lay there all night. I don't necessarily feel hot, I just can't sleep. I've often wondered if maybe my body temperature fails to drop properly at night. Strangely, during the day I can take a nap at normal room temperatures.

 

All of the above means we pay a ton for A/C in the summer but not as much for heat in the winter. Yes, to stay warm we all need fleece jackets and sometimes blankets. But we grew up in the north and my parents especially kept the house on the cool side to save money on their heating bill. So to us it's normal to be chilly inside in the winter much of the time. I guess we save our wimpyness for the summer heat.

[Farrar]

71-72. Not only does the temperature outside make a difference, but also the draftiness of the home. Our century old house is just drafty. I'd love to keep it at 68 or so, but I can't. The main room where the thermostat is would be okay, but not many of the other rooms.

 

I do not turn it down at night. I get cold in the evening. I can't sleep when I'm cold.

[peachskittles]

I am so glad to be back to hot water heating.  I kick my heat on when I wake up (it usually has fallen to 60-62 degrees overnight) and let it warm to 70 (which feels so much hotter than it is).  Once it hits 70, I turn it off for the day.  At night, I turn it on again and get the house back to 70 (and put a fan on for myself at bed).  It goes off and we all sleep well.  Last year, my kids wouldn't want to get out of bed because it was so cold in our other rental.  I have not heard a peep about cold in the past month.  I really do love hot water heating and really hope I can find a house that has it when I go to buy a house next year (*crossing fingers*).

[Mommy_of_4]

We keep it at 73 during the day and 69 at night. Any lower than that and I would freeze. We live in a mobile home and the insulation sucks.

[Tammi K]

Mountains, snow outside. 

 

The general mentality in the area is that since it's cold outside, indoor 60's is fine.  However we keep our house pretty toasty because we have a small child that refuses to wear all their required garments.

 

We set our at 65 and I still have one in the kitchen right now wearing a t-shirt and shorts and no shoes on his feet sitting next to DH wearing jeans and a flannel shirt along with socks and shoes.  He constantly says, "Put some shoes on your feet!" To which they reply, "Why, it's not cold?"

 

 

[Annie]

We keep it at 72-73 during the day and 71 at night. I'd like to keep it a little cooler, but my oldest has cold induced uticaria, and he does well at that temperature.

[Dory]

We keep it at 68-69. We don't change it at night because we have infloor heating with a concrete slab foundation, so it takes a few days to cool down a few days to heat back up.

[LucyStoner]

We live in an apartment and I think the woman below us keeps it at sauna temp so we basically never have to turn on our heat except for briefly on the coldest days. Thank you downstairs lady for saving us so much money.

[zoobie]

Just thinking about the heat going on 75 degrees makes me sweat! :)

 

68 in winter here during the day, 64 at night.