What temperature should my heat be set on?

If you can turn the stat down it will save a lot for every degree you drop. You will get used to a lower temperature after a while so wear more clothes in the house. You may need to have 'spot' heating for the bathroom and your tropical birds to improve the comfort zone. You say your floors are cold, well put lots of rugs and carpets down as that will help.

wow, I hear 70 is fair (I have a gas heater and gas prices can be ugly too but I have not pay what other people were paying before last winter that was a harsh one in Valifornia (around 300 dllrs)

I would set the temp between 70 and 73 that's a comfortable temperature for you and the birds. I would definately not go above 75 though. This will keep the house at a steady temp and also keep your bill down. My new bill was $60! I was SHOCKED!! My heat is run by gas and since I have that on leveling, I don't pay more than $40 a month. So $100 max for electric and heat is not bad at all, that's $160 I will be saving now. Good Luck

I am so happy for you also. We heat with natural gas and it is going to be expensive this year. I try to leave my heat on 68 sd it does not kick on alot. I also use an small electric heater and keep all doors shut to rooms we do not use.

We keep our heat at 67 too. It isnt always the most comfortable setting, but we can throw on a blanket and be just fine. There are times I just want to crank it up and not think about the bill, then there are times when it turns on and drives me crazy because I feel like I might as well be burning money. Id like to get some other options.

We are on budget billing and right now our bills are $168 a month, but we are ahead and next month we will owe nothing:) Instead of turning the heat up and down, we keep ours at 70. This way the house is always warm and we don't freeze. I think if we kept it lower I would be turning it up to heat up and then back down.

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we have ours set around 70 and this makes the furnace not come on during the day unless it is super cold (its still manageable here in canada - around 5 or 6 c) so we just wear sweaters and that sort of thing around the house and then at night, it does come on to keep us warm.

That is great! Our electric bill is ridiculously high and averages about $210 a month. I have done all I can think of to keep it down and it seems like nothing helps. I have even started to unplug things during the time that we don't use them. I hope that it goes down some this month. We are never caught up on it. I find that our house is the most comfortable to me on about 74 but I usually keep it at 70. We heat with gas and so I know that the bill will be ridiculous if I don't do something.

i have always heard sit your thermostat & leave it but ol' hardheaded me i don't do that. at night i turn mine way back & have the vent closed in my room because i can not sleep where it is hot. i never set mine any higher than 70 degrees . sometimes i have to move it back some. i do wear plenty of clothes in the winter so i don't have to have it so high. hope u stay warm. i've had my doors & windows opened all day. it's beautiful here. greetings from tennessee.

i wouldnt lower it any lower than that!! i keep mine on 68 but i have to be COLD to sleep but i think normal people usually have it on 70..

Well, since you have birds, you really can't turn it down much more. Winterize as you can, and use a kill-a-watt device to measure how much electricity your various appliances and such are using. Also, kill any energy vampires; unplug them when they aren't being used.

I think 70 should be fine.That is where i keep my thermostat at.They say to put it on one temperature and forget about it.It is the turning up and down all the time that affects your bill.

well it all depends on how much you can spend a month on you bill because you dont want your birds to get sick you have them because you love them maybe you should look around your house and change you bulbs to the new one if you havent already and they say 65 is the temp to keep your house at in the winter but thats to cold for alot of people all i can say it for you just dress warm wear slipers and such and turn things off when not using them

We tend to keep ours at seventy, and we turn it down a few degrees during the sunnier days. I'm growing some food plants indoors this year, because they're from the tropics, I really can't have the temperature down that much...but so far so good.

....we had our heat on for a month last year. and then the furnace broke. its still broken... and I'm looking forward to winter, how we survived? we pay about 279 dollars to run the three heaters a month in winter, compared from the 600-1200 dollars we could pay for our oil heater in our low insulation home... It was also educational for Nathan and I because we learned to survive on what we had, and we each caculated how much it cost to run our heaters (nat figured it out last year, then I forgot and calculated it myself this year) we learned something smart to do... (I pioneered it in our house *so proud*) we build "Heat houses" basically we use whatever we have available to build a fort with blankets...chairs... furniture... w/e we have laying around ( we have quite a bit lieing around) and it can get pretty toasty in there, our cats usually join us XD lorl... its nice hanging out in your own fort...I'm really looking forward to it this year :D