Winter house heat setting?

[2531usmc]

Seeing lots of comments with two settings…..a high setting for the daytime and a lower setting for the nighttime.

i recall hearing (or maybe an urban legend) that it’s more cost efficient to keep the hvac set at a constant setting instead of varying it over day and nighttime settings. The theory (or urban legend ) is that whatever you save with a lower nighttime setting, you lose bringing the house up to the daytime setting.

anybody have any insight

 

[KsRancher]

Seeing lots of comments with two settings…..a high setting for the daytime and a lower setting for the nighttime.

i recall hearing (or maybe an urban legend) that it’s more cost efficient to keep the hvac set at a constant setting instead of varying it over day and nighttime settings. The theory (or urban legend ) is that whatever you save with a lower nighttime setting, you lose bringing the house up to the daytime setting.

anybody have any insight

I am curious on that one myself. Ours is currently set at 71 and stays there. Usually in the summer it's a 70

 

[Mish-pop]

70 in winter
72 in summer

 

[Weldor]

68-69 winter 74 summer. set it and forget it. Heatpump. Sometimes down here it is hard to tell summer from winter.

 

[dtrkyman]

68 winter, 72 summer.

Always seems to bump up to 70-72 and wife says she didn’t touch it


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[mxgsfmdpx]

I like 68 but my wife likes 72.

 

[Backyard]

Corn stove keeps everything around 74. Gas furnace set to kick on at 68.


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[4rcgoat]

Wife likes it around 70......way too hot for me. I won't go above 67 in winter when home,62 at night. If wife is gone,60.

 

[hunterjmj]

Seeing lots of comments with two settings…..a high setting for the daytime and a lower setting for the nighttime.

i recall hearing (or maybe an urban legend) that it’s more cost efficient to keep the hvac set at a constant setting instead of varying it over day and nighttime settings. The theory (or urban legend ) is that whatever you save with a lower nighttime setting, you lose bringing the house up to the daytime setting.

anybody have any insight

I would guess with a newer house and a properly sized efficient furnace a heating cycle would satisfy the thermostat fairly quickly.
I have a really old poorly insulated house so I keep it cooler, 65ish, to try to keep the run time down. I burn through a bunch of propane which sucks but we're building a new house eventually with a wood stove and a propane furnace for back up.

 

[mt terry d]

67. and the furnace rarely comes on. Our house has a lot of cubic feet but is insulated extremely well. I have a natural gas furnace with a wood furnace ( and A/C) plumbed into the system and an air-tight fireplace insert in the great room. We like to sit and read in front of the fireplace on winter evenings so it's not uncommon to be 74 by the time we ( wake up and ) go to bed. The bedroom will be abou 70. By morning, if we are too lazy to feed the fireplace the furnace may turn on for a bit but usually I need to get up to pee and will toss in another log.

We despise the gas/power company and prefer not to pay them any more than necessary.

 

[IdahoElk]

up to 55 now should be about 40 when I wake up....

Are you a caveman? Ha!

 

[Crusader]

67 during the day, 65 overnight/sleeping time

 

[riversidejeep]

73-79 all fall, winter, spring. I have a good wood stove and unlimited firewood.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Currently, 64 in house, heat not on. She'll set it when she is to cold, or too hot depending on her mood.

 

[*zap*]

Are you a caveman? Ha!

I prefer the term toxic male Neanderthal. Thanks....and the temps I posted are true.

 

[Dust Rider]

67. and the furnace rarely comes on. Our house has a lot of cubic feet but is insulated extremely well. I have a natural gas furnace with a wood furnace ( and A/C) plumbed into the system and an air-tight fireplace insert in the great room. We like to sit and read in front of the fireplace on winter evenings so it's not uncommon to be 74 by the time we ( wake up and ) go to bed. The bedroom will be abou 70. By morning, if we are too lazy to feed the fireplace the furnace may turn on for a bit but usually I need to get up to pee and will toss in another log.

We despise the gas/power company and prefer not to pay them any more than necessary.

Same here. NorthWestern Energy gets as little of our money as possible.
We do not have another option for gas/power. Despise is a great term. They constantly screw their “customers”.

 

[KsRancher]

I prefer the term toxic male Neanderthal. Thanks....and the temps I posted are true.

That's savage

 

[mtnwrunner]

65 when I'm home during the day, 62 when I'm gone.
60 when counting sheep.

Randy

 

[jazz3ring]

70 all fall/winter/spring.
75 when using A/C in the summer.
I have an outdoor wood burner with a heat exchanger hooked into the plenum on the LP furnace. When the thermostat calls for heat only the furnace blower turns on to blow the heat from the exchanger through the ductwork. The LP does not ignite. The outdoor burner also heats the all the hot water for the house. The only LP I’ve used in the last 15 years is for heating the hot water during the summer months.

 

[jimh406]

I use thermostats that change the temp during the day automatically. I use wood to make it warmer if we want it or simply bump the thermostat, and it reverts to the schedule the next time it hits a scheduled period.

The schedules go to 68 when people are around and up, and 55 at night. Fwiw, it almost never makes it to 55. Heat comes on at 5 AM which makes it warm by the time everyone else gets up. Sometimes I'm up by 5 or so depending on hunting/fishing/etc.

I only have a free standing AC which is set to 72 during the hottest part of summer.