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hollybells · 01-17-2021, 02:44 PM

I'm in Canada, on Lake Ontario. We keep the house at 19C during the day (about 66F) and 16C or 17C (61F or 62F) automatically at night. At some point we looked into it because I'm fine with it being even cooler at night but our research at the time suggested a more than 3 degree (C) difference didn't save any money because too much heat was needed to return to the day time temp.

Some in our house would be fine with it higher, I've always been fine with it lower.

DD18 will watch the thermostat like a hawk and if she sees 18C, she excitedly turns it up a degree or two. Otherwise, she'll occasionally hound me about turning it up, usually while wearing a t-shirt. I've suggested she put on a sweater.

Just for perspective, we're having a really mild winter. It's currently 1C (33F) and we're expecting about -6C (21F) overnight. More typical in January is below zero temps, day and night. It's rare that we'll manually override the thermostat because the inside temp is fine.

01-17-2021, 02:44 PM	#2
hollybells Deactivated Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,751	Re: what's your winter thermostat setting? I'm in Canada, on Lake Ontario. We keep the house at 19C during the day (about 66F) and 16C or 17C (61F or 62F) automatically at night. At some point we looked into it because I'm fine with it being even cooler at night but our research at the time suggested a more than 3 degree (C) difference didn't save any money because too much heat was needed to return to the day time temp. Some in our house would be fine with it higher, I've always been fine with it lower. DD18 will watch the thermostat like a hawk and if she sees 18C, she excitedly turns it up a degree or two. Otherwise, she'll occasionally hound me about turning it up, usually while wearing a t-shirt. I've suggested she put on a sweater. Just for perspective, we're having a really mild winter. It's currently 1C (33F) and we're expecting about -6C (21F) overnight. More typical in January is below zero temps, day and night. It's rare that we'll manually override the thermostat because the inside temp is fine.

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