What temperature do you keep your house at in the winter?

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@SketcherD (1114)
Canada
October 28, 2008 6:28pm CST
It can get to be -40 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit outside here in Canada in the winter. We keep our house at 21 degrees Celsius in the winter. Do you try to put on a sweater instead of turning up the heat? I will even light some candles to help warm up the house a degree or two if I feel cold. What do you do?
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
29 Oct 08
i keep it around 70 degrees. i put on my clothes if i get chilly. i try to be real careful w/it. my bill is usually worse in the summer w/the air on because i can't stand to be hot.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Oct 08
yu can do what u want to when u live alone like i do. lol
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
You are too funny my dear.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
Yes it is always easier to put more clothes on. You can only take so many of those clothes off to get cool. LOL
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@k1tten (2318)
• United States
29 Oct 08
We usually try to keep the apartment about 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Or as warm as my partner can stand it. If I'm cold I usually do find a sweater or something to wear. And really fuzzy socks. If my feet are warm them I'm warm.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
I agree if my feet and hands are warm then the rest of me seems to follow. I like fuzzy slippers myself.
• United States
29 Oct 08
We are in a basement apartment, we try to keep the place at about 65-66 fahrenheit..sometimes we kick it up to 70..we have a small benefit though..we dont pay gas or electricity in our place..and for 5 yrs living here we have never had complaint from landlord on our usage of those things.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
You have a really great landlord I guess but really you don't have the place too warm I don't think. That seems like a very reasonable temperature.
@lisa0502 (1724)
• Canada
28 Oct 08
I am also in Canada, so I know how cold it can get. Now for my house I have to keep the temperature at about 25 degrees. We also have to put plastic on all the windows and sometimes even a blanket over the door. The place I rent is a really crappy place. One year in January our gas was cut to our furnace due to the fact that our furnace was broken. It was around -35 out not including the wind. Our landlord took a week to get a new furnace in here. Needless to say we used lots of heaters, blankets, sweaters etc.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
WOW that was a nasty week for you. I remember during the ice storm of '98 when we went without heat and electricity for 4 days and it was -20 out most of the time. Oh boy don't you just love our country!!! LOL
@jesssp (2712)
• Canada
29 Oct 08
In the winter we turn ours down to 15 celsius when we leave the house and before bed. When we come home we turn it up to around 20-22, I try not to go any higher. We seal the windows with silicone and put the shrink plastic over them in the winter and make sure the weather stripping on the doors is in good shape. If your house is drafty then it doesn't matter how warm you have it, it's still uncomfortable. We have natural gas heat and our budget billing is about $140/mo., but I think that's about to change because natural gas just dropped quite a but. Fingers crossed anyway!
@jesssp (2712)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
Ouch! I have heard that about hot water heat. Well, there's nothing wrong with a nice thick sweater and chunky wool socks!
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
We can't regulate ours as nicely as that and we found if we put ours up and down it does not help the cost because we have hot water heating and it takes too long to heat the house up. We also heat our hot water with our boiler which is brand new. It costs us about $250 a month for both. Yes I typed that correctly. We try to keep the house at 21 all the time.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
Well that is what is built into the house and it was way too difficult to change it so we just bought a newer furnace and that cost $5000 as it was. So we were not about to have all the pipes ripped out and change the heating to something else.
• United States
28 Oct 08
Hi.We keep our heat at 69.I live in a ranch style house.If I feel that it is getting a little cold I put on a crocheted poncho or put a small electric heater on for a few minutes in the room I am in. I live in Western New York and it can get pretty cold.My gas bill is still about $300.00 in the middle of winter.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
We pay about $2500 in heating in a year but that includes heating our hot water as well. We use hot water heating in our home. This is a very expensive place to live when heating your home.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
28 Oct 08
I do not own my home, so I depend on the landlord controling the heat for my apartment. I am a cold natured person, and it is never warm enough for me. Like tonight, as I type this, I have a sweater on and the oven on for heat. Even though today was very cold, rainy and there was snow in places, my landlord has not turned the heat on. I know heating can become costly, but please, when it is this cold, we need heat.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
That is true. Have you tried a space heater instead of the stove?
@sankata (236)
• Estonia
28 Oct 08
I turn the heater on , it's much more comfortable so, then putting on the sweater. When you put on the sweater, the air is still cold..
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
30 Oct 08
I see. I try the sweater first and then if that doesn't work I may turn the heat up but only if it is not set to the proper temperature.