Do you run your heater in SUMMER (For SF and coastal residents only) (San Francisco: homes, living in)

[legal_eagle]

Yes every day, every season.

[johnmarg]

Whoever says they don't turn the heat on is either lying or freezing their butts off in a 65 degree house.

[NorCalLover]

I've lived in three places in SF. Two of them were typical drafty residences that needed daily heat year-round. The third was unusually warm all the time and only needed heat in the winter.

[capoeira]

Originally Posted by johnmarg

Whoever says they don't turn the heat on is either lying or freezing their butts off in a 65 degree house.

65 is not freezing, it is about 5 or 10 degrees too hot!

[dalparadise]

My apartment has north and west-facing windows and is on an upper floor of a large brick building, half way up Russian Hill. Altogether, I'd say I'm about 100 feet up above the neighborhood alone. These factors all contribute to my rarely needing heat, even in winter. My apartment is in full sun after about 11:00 am all day. And is well insulated. It gets a constant breeze from the west, which is easy to regulate by opening and closing windows. I leave the windows partially open year-round, only closing them when it's damp in winter for maybe a week or so, or when the wind gets really going in summertime.

The only heat in my apartment is a steam radiator. I don't like to turn it on, because if I miss the window of when it shuts off automatically, I'm unable to turn it off for up to 6 hours and it gets too hot in the apartment. There's also one in my bedroom that I have never turned on. The few times I have used the radiator in the living room and have come home in the evening to find that I have mistakenly left it on, I have simply opened up the windows wider and cooled off the apartment. It has a window near it that can be used to regulate its heat, but I prefer to just leave it off.

I'm with the above poster who says he uses heat about 30 hours per year. I'd place mine at longer than that--about more like 80 hours per year--but only because I'm sometimes unable to turn it off in a timely fashion once it's on.

[Scott456]

Originally Posted by dalparadise

My apartment has north and west-facing windows and is on an upper floor of a large brick building, half way up Russian Hill.

Bricks provide better insulation then the plywood. But brick houses are rare for residential development in San Francisco.

[dalparadise]

It's stucco over brick--very common in Russian/Nob Hill for post-quake construction, especially in 6-10 story buildings like mine.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

I'm on the coast in Del Norte County, and the daily highs have been upper 50's/low 60's mainly. Nightime lows are about 10 degrees cooler. So, basically 63/53 temps.

I"m in a very tiny studio apartment that is just a short walk away from the ocean, and my apartment faces the southwest. My apartment stays around 70 degrees, and if it gets warmer than that, I just crack the window open. Overnight it only gets down to maybe 68 degrees, and that's with the window open.

I don't like it any warmer than that. To me, 70 degrees is perfect, but I'd rather have it cooler than any warmer than that. So, it would just depend on your comfort level.

I haven't turned on a heater since January or so. And even during December and January, I only turned it on to take the chill out of the apartment for about an hour or so in the mornings.

[andyadhi01]

I run it every morning and evening except those 15 days or so when the temp hits 70 degrees! I live in a cold and windy desert-

[dalparadise]

Originally Posted by andyadhi01

I run it every morning and evening except those 15 days or so when the temp hits 70 degrees! I live in a cold and windy desert-

Ha! I'm in Sacramento right now in 80 degrees, feeling like I'm going to die. It'll hit 100 later. Can't wait to get back to 65 and sunny.