How low did your thermostat go this winter?

[burythehatchet]

I have to keep two residences and when the combined bills were over $350 per month, I set the temp at 60 and kept bundled up.

[GOPisEvil]

1. I left it at about 68.

I have a small apartment, I don't think I got an electric bill over $70.

[Auntie Bush]

12. We got an electric bill for Janurary for over $400.00

And we have OIL heat! That cost about $500.00 a month and we got $00.00 tax break. I don't know how we do it!

[BlueEyedSon]

2. REEEEAALY expensive.

Dunno if it was the weather (which was definitely colder than usual) or the price of NG/electric.

[grannylib]

3. Deliberately...about 64. When we ran out of fuel in the middle of the

night once....about 50. Brrrrr.

[pansypoo53219]

4. ha,

we got a new boiler in JANUARY. i think the house got down to 50 or so before the heat was turned on.

[Az]

5. 60 degrees

We have a fairly big house and an ancient gas powered steam heating system. The next person to tell me steam heat is the best gets kicked in the shins. $400 a month at 60 degrees is insane. We had to carry space heaters around the house and just heat the specific rooms we were in.

[burythehatchet]

6. Love that Spidey gif by the way

I put it everywhere

[TXlib]

7. The temperature once dipped as low as 52 outside.

I think we had to turn the heater on for a few hours.

*ducks*

[burythehatchet]

8. well then we'll just have to pose the air conditioning question in august

then, won't we.

[TXlib]

9. heh heh... touche

[BiggJawn]

10. Shut OFF.

What a DRAG! Shut it completely OFF when I leave for work, turn it up to 66 when I get home, turn it down to 60 when I go to bed, turn it up to 68 at 5AM piss-call so it's warm when the alarm goes off at 6:30, then shut it off when I leave for work...

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

And sometimes I forget and the dust bunnies enjoy a nice torpid 68 degrees all day.....

I have a 400-sq-foot 2 bedroom apartment that cost me $90 to heat last month, even with all that up and down. And it wasn't really that cold!

[burythehatchet]

11. Maybe it burns more fuel to re-heat than it does to keep at a low heat

that's what I heard once anyway

[BiggJawn]

13. Perhaps, I wonder too...

But by leaving it at 66, I spend over $100 to heat the place.

Just a Royal Pain to have to remember to crank it up and down....

[geniph]

15. Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a new thermostat?

You can get a programmable one for about $40, and they're very easy to install. Keep the old one if you don't own your place, and re-install it when you move. Take the programmable one with you.

[geniph]

14. 55 at night or when we're gone,

64 in the morning when we're getting ready for work/school, and 68 in the evenings until an hour before bedtime. If I find any windows or doors left open, at all, I turn the furnace off. I'm the only one who knows how to operate the computerized thermostat, and I pay the bills, so it was one way to teach my stepsons to SHUT THE F***ING DOOR BEHIND YOU.

[Padraig18]

16. 65 when we're awake, 60 when we're in bed.

We have a heated mattress pad and plenty of blankets and comforters. :)

[burythehatchet]

20. I actually sleep better when the heat is under the comforters as opposed

to in the room.

[Padraig18]

21. So do we.

But it makes getting out of bed not much fun. Thank God I have a Pendelton ankle-length bathrobe and fleece-lined houseshoes. :)

[fire1234]

17. Set the temp

At about 70, bill came out about $150.

[nini]

18. Mine's at about 50...

I use an electric room heater for the bedroom that doesn't use much energy and use alot of bankies..

It's cheaper than heating a 3 BR tri-level with cathedral ceilings.

My electric bill ran about 30 dollars a month. :-)

[SOteric]

19. I bought one of those inexpensive programmable thermostats

that kept my apartment at about 58-60, then turned up to about 68 just before I got out of bed and again before I got home to bring the place to a lovely ambient temperature. For unusually cold or unusually warm weather, the programming could be easily (1 button) and temporarily over-ridden, and be set to different times for different days of the week.

My combined heating bill for the 3 coldest months of the year was $82.

I'm happy.

[burythehatchet]

22. whaa?

in Seattle? That's amazing.

[Piltdown13]

23. Hmmm, about 65-68 during the day,

below 60 when we go to bed. Wish we didn't have to keep it up so high during the day/evening, but our 90-plus year old house has the heating double-whammy: very poor insulation, and a furnace that dates to about 1960. We're probably losing about half the heat it generates, so it always has to be on or else we'll freeze (I'm talking cold enough that we're still uncomfortable in several layers plus a blanket). Unfortunately, the landlord can't put in new insulation because after we move out, he has to have the place rewired and a bunch of other work done that would be much more difficult if a bunch of new insulation were blown into the walls. And of course a new furnace is similarly out of the question. Our gas bill topped $300 in January! Oh, well, at least our rent is fairly reasonable for the size of the place...tough to find a 3-bedroom or equivalent much cheaper than we've got around here.