Too hot, too cold or just right?
Out of curiosity I've kept a digital thermometer out to see what room temps are comfortable to me.
Conclusions:
Chilly: 61F/16C
Good: 65F/18C
Warm: 70F/21C
The fire went out last night and it's 61.4F inside this morning. Cool enough to make restarting the fire a priority. Eventually I will have to turn on the furnace to keep pace with the dropping outside temps, but doing so feels like giving in to winter. Yuck.
How warm do you keep your home in winter?
4 comments:
Ha, your "chilly/good/warm" temps are the same that we feel!
On my blog I've talked about the fact that we're experimenting this fall and winter with heating with L.P. gas instead of our usual wood fires. So far, it's been pretty rocky . . . learning that the L.P. gas furnaces provide a heat we're not used to (we expected that) and doesn't feel as comfy to us as the radiant heat from the wood stoves. Also, as strange as it may sound, we are having to learn to regulate the thermostats during the day and night (it's been hit and miss!) whereas regulating the wood stoves was second nature and much easier!
It's hard to say because we currently rent a very "leaky" cottage...the thermometer says 22C, but I have two pairs of socks on, a sweater with polar fleece pj's AND my robe...some mornings, I put on my winter hat lol...the cold seems to come right through this place!
Different seasons give me different comfort zones. Being in south Texas, we do use air conditioning. To not do so, especially right here on the coast, would be insanely miserable in town with the wind blocked by all the houses. We keep the thermostat between 77 and 79, whatever we can get away with and still have the unit run enough to dry out the air (which is what we're really after anyway) and we keep fans going. Cheaper to run a fan than an air conditioning compressor!
Now, in the winter, we very VERY rarely light a heater. Again, it's the humidity that drives our desire to light a fire. It's 62 right now where I sit in shorts and barefoot, and I'm okay with it so long as it's not a damp 62 degrees. If it was drizzling outside, or raining, I'd have more clothing on. Last December we didn't light the heater when it snowed 8 inches and got down to 23 outside (and I woke up one of the mornings of that cold snap with ice in my nightstand water glass,) but a week later when it rained 1/2 inch over four days we kept the heater lit pretty-much the whole time, and it was in the 50's outside.
I'm sure this might raise a few eyebrows, but I keep my house at around 58 degrees. There are plenty of fleece blankets for the 'kids' and it keeps me awake...!
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