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now here is a question. you set your temp to 60 at night and when you're away so you don't heat an empty house, now you come home and turn it up to 68, do you think you are saving energy by doing this, or is the energy required to heat the house from 60 (in the dead of winter I assume you could get an actual 60 degree or less house) back to 68 negate the savings or even cause you to use more energy??
Actually, two different plumbing/heating guys told us exactly the same thing: That you actually use less oil if your thermostat is set at a single reasonable temperature and kept there, rather than ping-ponging up and down. Especially if your house is not optimally insulated in every respect. We keep the house at 68 pretty much all winter, day and night.
Wow, electic heat ughhhhh! I'm sorry....bet the pellet stove helps
The pellet stove is one of the best things I ever did for that house. More cost effective than switching to gas or oil too. Cost me $700 for the stove, pipe kit and mat (all on clearance from Lowes), I put it in myself (no cost) and though pellets have skyrocketed in price, it's still less than I would have paid to convert and to heat with oil or gas. Now my only problem is that it gets too warm sometimes and I have to open a window! So much better than shivering all night because I couldn't afford to heat the house.
I keep our programmable thermostat at 68 at all times. I don't see the point of lowering it at night, because that is when you want to be warmest! So 68 at all times. And keep our central air at 74 at all times in the summer.
60 at night and 62-64 during the day. I'm installing a programmable stat soon.
As you increase the differential between the inside and outside air temps, the RATE of heat loss increases. So keeping the temp down whenever possible will be more efficient. The fact that the burner needs to run for a while to raise the temp when the thermostat goes from a lower setting to a higher setting is offset by the fact that the burner can go for a long time without running at all when the temp goes from a high setting to low setting.
Actually, two different plumbing/heating guys told us exactly the same thing: That you actually use less oil if your thermostat is set at a single reasonable temperature and kept there, rather than ping-ponging up and down. Especially if your house is not optimally insulated in every respect. We keep the house at 68 pretty much all winter, day and night.
sorry they are wrong.....the water of your boiler is set to 185 degrees so getting your house back to tempature is a small factor of time extended during the time to get your home to the day time temp. Setting the temp
back at night prevents and delays how many times the boiler fires, saming you money.
we're waiting on a guy to put in our pellet stove, which we brought with us when we bought this house. in meantime during the day we put the thermostat at 71 (i am home with two kids), and at night 73. i know for a fact my kids get uncovered at night and end up sick the next day if too cold.
we're waiting on a guy to put in our pellet stove, which we brought with us when we bought this house. in meantime during the day we put the thermostat at 71 (i am home with two kids), and at night 73. i know for a fact my kids get uncovered at night and end up sick the next day if too cold.
did you ever consider a portable space heater for the kids' rooms? I have one set up in my son's room, it has a timer on it, so I set it to go off at midnight, and shut off again at 5:00. Definitely keeps the room warm enough for him, as he like your kids doesn't sleep with a blanket yet, well with a blanket on him let's just say, hehe.
It is the type that looks like a radiator, it's not one of those little fan propelled ones, if you are concerned with safety. It just gets hot like a regular radiator, I place it in the middle of the room and all's well, and I can set my thermostat to 64 or so to save oil.
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