BS: What is your thermostat set at?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 07:18 PM

Baby, it's cold outside.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Rowan
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 02:53 AM

My tent doesn't have a thermostat.

From Rowan, camping at the National in Canberra.

Cheers

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:24 AM

It's irrelevant what ours is set at at present too, because the boiler is on the verge of giving up the ghost... most days we have to relight the pilot and I've come home to a house colder than charity most afternoons...

It's snowing here in London now... not much, and it's not sticking, but there is definately snowflake precipitation... and it's bloody cold!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:15 AM

It's not the main heating boiler, however. It's a cast iron stove in my living room fireplace.

You can get them with back boilers, but I didn't look into that as I just wanted a less messy fire than my open basket.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 03:11 AM

multifuel means it will burn solid fuel or wood, depending how you set the grate for the airflow.

Poor Ruth's bedroom (one with a non-working radiator - and you can't get at, except to bleed it, for the mountain of "stuff") was arctic the other day as it was getting the full force of the north wind.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 08:17 AM

Ours is usually set to 17 in the winter and as low as possible in the summer so it just heats the water but not radiators. I also reduce the length of time its on too depending whether we're there or not and time of year. Occasionally we turn it up to get clothes dry because its still cheaper than running a drier when it rains.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: open mike
Date: 21 Mar 08 - 07:39 PM

this was in an area that did not have "piped-in""city-gas" or natural gas so propane tanks were required for each individual house that wanted gas heat or water heaters.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: open mike
Date: 21 Mar 08 - 07:06 PM

what's multifuel ?
i just looked at houses with my daughter and boy friend (who are looking
to buy and get out of the apt.) and of the 6 houses we saw I believe they all had different heating systems. gas, electric, wood, pellet stove, propane made to look like a fire place, and a fireplace.
none worked on coal or oil or coal oil.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: mouldy
Date: 21 Mar 08 - 03:32 AM

I set mine at 22C, but even if I set it at 30 it would still run at 16! The thermostat is only 2 years old, and it's seemingly broke! There laso seems to be a massive airlock in the system as a couple of radiators are full of water, yet cold. The boiler's due for servicing this month, so I'll get the plumber to have a good go at it. Apart from a sticking radiator thermostat it was ok last year.

Got a multifuel stove in the living room - Hunter Herald 4 - so that's chucking out 4-6kw when it's cranked up.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:30 PM

I don't think I want to hear about 77 degrees F. outside...(do I detect gloating, fumblefingers?)

It's at least 20 degrees colder today than they promised -- and the wind is howling. Intermittant spits of something like sleet.

Says it feels like 31 -- 21 is more like it. We've had some melting of the white icepack (it's no longer snow), and, while I looked for snowdrops as I walked down the driveway, they weren't sticking their little heads out yet.

Have I mentioned yet how tired I am of winter?!?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: fumblefingers
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:54 PM

The setting is irrelevent. The Central unit is off. It's 77° F outside.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 12:49 PM

No thermostat -- we heat primarily with a 30 year old Fisher Grampa Bear woodstove.

Do have an oil-filled electric radiator to sometimes use to warm up the bathroom (haven't used it for the past two winters) and, while we HAVE an oil furnace, we don't have ductwork installed (yet -- the house was built in the late '70s and isn't finished yet), but we run it with the cellar door open (opens to the central part of the house) when necessary.

We have major climate changes from room to room and floor to floor, actually.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 05:08 PM

Don't buy into that rumour, Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 12:38 PM

Canada has summers?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bee
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 11:31 AM

Sinsull...eep! An elderly friend of mine is using two of those to heat her tiny place. They are brand new and properly hooked up and inspected by an electrician, though. You wouldn't know what caused it to overheat, would you? I worry about her, a bit, but hoped the oil filled radiators were a better option for her than electric heaters with hot elements. Her place is very small, she's quite wide and wears flammable skirts all the time, and is a little clumsy.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 11:31 AM

The office thermostat is set at 22C, which many find too warm. However, there are those who would still want a heater on as well, so we have to put up with it.

My reasoning for having it cooler is that if you're cold, you can put more clothes on, but if I'm hot, I can't really take much more off.

Not without frightening the horses anyway.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: MMario
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:52 AM

65 F in the main part of the house - bedrooms set at 55 F.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:46 AM

Watch those oil filled things carefully. A folkie here had one overheat, explode and burn the house down.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bee
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:41 AM

Peace is being wimpy. It isn't too cold until the water's frozen solid and the bottom bungs out of the bucket.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:37 AM

Peace...remind me to only visit you in Summer....which weekend is that this year?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:31 AM

This is Canada. I use a bucket of water. When it is frozen on top it's too cold. When it isn't frozen it's room temperature. When steam comes off it's too hot. When there's no more water the bucket is empty. And that's when there is no more temperature.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: topical tom
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 10:06 AM

In colder weather 67F to 70F in the living areas, 50F in the bedroom and washroom, though we briefly turn it up at times in the bedroom and also in the washroom for baths and showers.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 09:04 AM

My Uncle Curt claimed he kept warm all winter with one stick of wood. He kept throwing it out the upstairs window, then going out after it.

Our thermostat, 60 at night, 68 day.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 06:03 AM

12C.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 12:39 AM

This is the BIS Panorama but don't believe the BS about it keeping the glass smoke free. It doesn't, despite my very dry, well seasoned, Douglas fir/maple mix, particularly when I've got it going 24/7.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 12:21 AM

Like number 6, we have electric heat and each room is set differently.

The downstairs storage room is set at 50F, but heat from the freezer is enough to maintain the temperature, so the heater rarely if ever trips on. Same with the the laundry room upstairs. The secondary bedrooms are set at 14C.

Living room/ kitchen and MB are open plan, on one thermostat, set at 15C (60F) during the day, upped to 18C in the evening and turned down again to 15C at bedtime.

Office and drafting room is also set at 14C because I think better at that temperature and wear a vest or sweater if I feel chilly and I'm stationary for any length of time.

All this gets overridden if I use our BIS Panorama wood burning fireplace. When its going and its above 40F outside, the house gets way too warm and we have to open all interior doors and sometimes a window. Keeps everything except the downstairs at about 72F even with a very modest fire. If it gets really cold (minimum outside temp 18F, we are the Pacific northwest, after all) it will maintain the whole main and upper floor of the house at around 68F.

I don't know why, but I find the kind of heat the wood stove produces much more comfortable than electric heat, particularly at higher temperatures. I love my BIS, despite the work.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: MarkS
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:50 PM

Set it down to 55 F when we went away for a week. Saved a lot of money but did not realize we would trash my wifes African Violets.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:26 PM

Nope, Bee, it is an airtight stove, but it isn't very airtight right now. I have to do the gaskets on it this spring.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bee
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:58 PM

We have wood heat, electric backup. Electric is set at 10 in any room with running water. Woodstove keeps main living area, kitchen, computer room 15 to 25 (30 if the man gets at the stove too often) depending on distance from stove.

Big Mike, do you have a wood furnace?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:49 PM

When I was 8, we moved TO Kansas from New Orleans. My mother, who had years of living in Wyoming and Colorado in the late 30s, said she was never as cold in her life as when the temperature got down to *gasp* 39 or so and that wet wind whistled in off Lake Pontchartrain.

Cold is relative in many ways...humidity can be brutal.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:41 PM

68 (Fahrenheit) while I am up & about; 63 when I am in bed.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:37 PM

Oh yes...we have a wood burning Kingsman in the back room and use electric fans to move the heat. It WILl get up to 90 pretty quickly with only a couple pieces of wood.

In summer the thermostat goes OFF. Down to 55 where it never kicks on. We don't have central cold air and I don't want it either.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:37 PM

Dr. Elsworth Huntington, whose knowledge of geography is reputed to have been significant, maintained that the mental optimum of Homo sapiens, which includes at least most Mudcat posters, is 68 deg. F, the physical optimum being 72 deg. F. Lemme see now, British cousins, if I can do the math that's a range of between 20 and 22 C.

But I know where Wesley is coming from; my wife grew up in Kansas, and will tell you that there is nothing between there and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence. I start quoting Elsworth Huntington (I had charts and a pointer, but she threw them in a dumpster), and she goes into this Scarlet O'Hara type deal, shaking her fist at the sky and muttering, "I'll never be cold again!"

CC

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 07:56 PM

We converted an attached garage to a "family room" when we lived in Ohio. Put in a wood stove -- an airtight, I can't for the life of me remember the name now but it might have been a Vermont Castings. Anyway, the first time we used it we used a half-dozen pieces of wood and drove the temperature in the room up to 90F. We had to use a fan to exhaust heat into the rest of the house. That was a GOOD stove!

We currently have two fireplaces, both of which have inserts. One insert, I'm told, is excellent and the other is junk. I'd like to rip out the junk one and turn the fireplace into a fireplace again, with glass doors and all that. However, in the four years we've been in the house we haven't had to use either one so it's not high on the priority list!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 06:53 PM

Well my partner is alsways very 'hot' who needs central heating ;-))

Sorry could not resist that one 8^)

rc

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: open mike
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 06:49 PM

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' THERMOSTAT..
OOPS sorry for yelling...
i just meant to say that i have wood heat.
since my stove also heats water, sometimes
i have a fire and have doors and windows
open for fresh air.
the water is heated in a loop of pipe that
goes thru the fire box and into a water heater
(formerly an electric one) which thermosiphons
thru the hot water tank via two pipes, cold out
of the lower part and hot into the upper part.
(as long as (bottom of) the tank is above the
(top of the )stove (the electric tank is more
insulated because the propane one has a flue
up the middle which allows heat to escape if
not burning gas. IMPORTANT: don't forget the
pressure relief valve! sometimes i have to
run a sink or tub full of H2OT to draw off heat.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/blogs/diy-hacks/hack-wood-stove-efficient-water-heater-461203
DHW = domestic hot water
http://www.woodheat.org/dhw/dhw.htm

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: number 6
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 06:07 PM

"nice stove" ... good one Mick.

I'm very aware of the Vermont name in Wood Stoves .... one of the best out there .... my nephew sells and installs them. I'll have to ask him about the Defiant Encore.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 06:03 PM

It's a great stove, bill. It was made by the Vermont Castings company. The model is the Defiant Encore. It has a catalytic element in it. I don't think they make it anymore, but every time I go for a gasket kit, the clerk always says something like "nice stove".

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 06:01 PM

My thermostat only goes down to 55° but it stays uncomfortably warm in the bedroom because it's right over the furnace. Elsewhere in the house, I wear a fleece or multiple layers.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: number 6
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:59 PM

"Vermont Castings Defiant Encore" ... now that is one hell of a name for a wood stove!!

Had a Napoleon wood stove in house we lived in a while back .... regardless, I still met my Waterloo in trying heat that mammoth money pit.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: ranger1
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:54 PM

I've had it set at 65F this winter. Heat is included in our rent, but with the big increase in the price of heating oil and the very tiny increase in our monthly rent, I thought I'd be a good a good tenant and decrease the setting from 68 to 65.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: skarpi
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:46 PM

dont need one , its automatic . 0(= o =)O

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:42 PM

Don't use a thermostat, just heat with my Vermont Castings Defiant Encore. House is always nice and toasty. I also use an oil filled wheeled radiator like Bill and Rita where needed. And the grain filled bags are a big hit in our house as well. We have them filled with cherry pits, and others with flax seed. Slap it in the microwave for 3 minutes, and you have wonderful heat for your neck, hands, forehead...whatever.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: number 6
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:34 PM

I'm back ..... 15c in the living room, 15c in the fun room ... the thermostats are off in the remaining rooms of the house.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:31 PM

62 0r 63F (16.5-17.5 C) for general areas...we use a wheeled oil radiator if one room needs to be a bit warmer for awhile. ....and microwaved bags of corn or grains to take to bed for warming hands or feet.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:30 PM

I just checked with She Who Sets It.

Winter: 62 at night, 65 during the day, warmer override if needed (rare).

Summer: 70 at night, 75 during the day.

If we are gone longer than two days we set it for 55 in the winter and 78 in the summer.

(We have central air conditioning -- and need it!)

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:22 PM

What Sinsull said...62 F or 68. Too expensive to have it any higher.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: number 6
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:10 PM

Our house is heated electrically ... baseboard heating in every room.

so

"What is your thermostat set at?"

I dunno, I'll go take a look.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 04:07 PM

62
When I feel cold I raise it to 68 for a short time.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your thermostat set at?
From: autolycus
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 04:04 PM

Don't know anyone with central heating in their car. Oddly. he said slightly, but not very, testily.

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Ivor