What is the difference between your indoor and outdoor temp without cooling/heating? (floor, furnace)
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What is the difference between your indoor and outdoor temp without cooling/heating?
For me its as much as 30 degrees warmer indoors than outdoors. The insulation keeps the house warm and also stabalizes any sudden temperature changes. It got down to 40 degrees outside a few days ago, yet it was 63 to 70 degrees indoors depending where in the house. My own bedroom was between 66 and 69 degrees at that time. Now that the cold is over, my bedroom is slowly warming and its going to get to 85 degrees if it stays 70+ degrees outside. Then itll be time to crank up the a/c
The difference between indoor and outdoor temps will vary from location to location as well as person to person.
I am in the midwest.. and during the winter.. its usually around a 35-40 degree difference in my house (granted its about 25-35 degrees outside) if it gets a real hard freeze and wind chills in the single digits.. it will be warmer inside.
In the summer.. usually it is about 15 degree difference (but it is really humid here.. so it can fluctuate on that too)
The older home that I am living in now was built without benefit of insulation. It has had some added in the attic, and someone used that blown in foam (which is crap) to try and help reduce the cost of heating & a/c. This house still has the original windows.
There is at most a 20 degree swing when it is cold out, and almost no swing when it is hot out. When it is stupid cold and/or the wind is blowing my new heat pump has a hard time keeping it warm and I have a couple of oil heaters (the ones that look like old radiators) that I run. In the summer I run the ceiling fans along with the a/c.
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Today, it's about 50 degrees (70 inside, 20 outside); day before yesterday, it was about 70 degrees (70 inside, 0 outside). Still wanna move to the NE?
Right now it's 67 out and I have an indoor temp of 69. In the summer when it's 110 out, I still keep it a comfortable 68-69. My a/c bill is out of this world but that's what I get for living in AZ.
It is 78 outside today and nothing has come on, heat or a/c and it is a comfortable 74 inside with the ceiling fans on to move air in every room. Beautiful weather here, almost darn near perfect today.
If you plan on moving to areas of extreme cold you better get used to the idea of turning on the heat otherwise your going to have some serious problems not to mention sick all of the time.
Here in Southern Cal, I live in an overpriced 1+1 apartment. I'm on the 2nd floor in a 3 story building. There is only one thing that is cheap here, utility bills. Since the outside temperature is rarely below 40 degrees at night in "winter" (which lasted about 3 weeks this year) I never turn on my heater at night. I have only turned on my heater about a dozen times this "winter". Last time was end of January. Usually the people that live downstairs turn on their heater if its cool outside, and that keeps my place comfy 68 even on those few days when it does not get above 55 degrees outside here.
Summer is the opposite. It rarely gets hotter than 95 degrees F during the afternoon. I am at work during the day so I don't care if it's hot in the afternoon. Soon as the sun gets low in the afternoon sky, a cool breeze starts rolling in from the Pacific Ocean, about 15 miles away. Around 8 pm I open all the windows and screen doors wide, crank on some fans and the temperature drops into the mid 70s. Stays like that all night and into the following morning and I hardly ever use AC. It has really spoiled me compared to all the previous places I have lived.
when the temperature at night is 20/16 degrees should I leave the furnace or pellet stove on?
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