I have it on a programmable thermostat - sm
Posted By: on 2008-12-20
In Reply to: Survey: Where do you set your thermostat? Here is why I ask... - Freezing in Wyoming
Week, 4pm-10 pm 69 degrees, 10-pm-6 am at 65 degrees, 6 am-10 am 69 degrees, 10 am-4pm 65 degrees.
On the weekend it is set to be on from 6am -10 pm at 69 degreem 10 pm to 6am at 65 degrees.
If I get exceptionally chilled during the day I will crank it up one time to 68 to reheat the house; I also wear a sweat jacket sometimes, and slippers. We pay about $1200 for the "season" of Dec.-March for our heat. So you are doing good at $100 a month. We spend at the most a total of $1200 a year so it breaks down to $100 a month if you go yearly....though obviously we really do not use the heat much at all May - Nov. This is just the propane cost though, does not include the electric to run the furnace/fan blower.
But if you are still cold at 70 I would go get yourself checked out as that is plenty warm unless your place is super drafty and it does not sound like that is the case.
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I am so cold all the time. I am fine if I am up cleaning the house or out shopping and walking, moving in some way. You know, we sit all the time and work, which is when I am having my problem. I sit at my desk in long underwear, sweats and 2 pair of socks. I often tie scarves or an old flannel receiving blanket on my head (okay, I am short on stuff and this works) to keep the heat in my body. I have a space heater by my feet. I drink hot tea or coffee all day long. I am STILL cold!!!!
I keep my thermostat at 70. I have a mobile home, but it has extra insulation and keeping it at 70, my highest gas bill for heat was only $100 last year. I feel badly that I keep it that high, but perhaps I am not thinking this through. You don't use a setback thermostat with a mobile home because you risk freezing your pipes, and it has an odd way of holding heat anyway.
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