Figuring Out What Temp to Set The Thermostat at Now

My bedroom door has been open for an hour and a half and the temp in my bedroom is at 73F/23C now. I'll need to reset the thermostat to 66F and see if that drops the temp in here to 72F/22C. I think that will still be warm enough for Pretty and be comfortable for me, too. We shall see. We are down to 32F/0C outside now.

@DaddyEvil It's still warm outside, very foggy today and it rains. I am glad we do not need to go out.

@LadyDuck We have a thick frost on the grass that I can see even without the sun coming up yet. The weather app on my laptop says it is 30F/-1C outside right now. That's supposed to be our low for today. The humidity is 100% and I can see the car windows are covered in frost.

@DaddyEvil You’re such a kind man. When I lived with my parents we argued over the temperature. My mom didn’t care, but my dad said in the summer I needed to keep the air higher. I told him being too hot made me sick. The only time he’d turn the air down was when we’d have company. I told him if he’d do that for a friend he should be willing to do that for a daughter. I mean, it is his house, it’s his right to have it on what he wants. I just figured if I have to be there he could cut me some slack. He’s seen me get migraines because I was too hot. How hot does it really get? So hot a couple who frequently comes over to visit bought him a tower fan. THEY get too hot when they are there; it’s not just me!

I'm sorry you live like that. I dropped the thermostat again to 65F in the house and now my bedroom is at a comfortable 72F. Pretty says that's fine with her, too. We've always fought over the house temp but we eventually settle on temps we can both agree on. (At our last house, I ran a little window air conditioner to keep my bedroom at 69F and she wouldn't let me turn the big air conditioner on. This house has central heat and air so we can't do that.) If we had more room, I'd invite you to come stay with us for a while. This is a very small, two bedroom house with a small living room and a small kitchen and a tiny laundry room. We have a bathroom between Pretty's bedroom and the kitchen.

@AmbiePam True, I would agree that if he changed the temps for friends, he should be willing to change it for you, too. I kept my bedroom cooler because I have hyperthyroidism and that made me sweat even at cooler temps. I'd start sweating at 70F just standing still. If I moved around or worked on something, the temp needed to be colder. FINALLY, when I saw an endocrinologist, he said I needed meds for hyperthyroidism but kept saying the meds he prescribed kept it "under control" without thinking about how long it hadn't been under control. If it was really under control, my eyes wouldn't swell shut and I wouldn't have a whole lot of other symptoms. That's why I argued until Pretty finally agreed that I should switch endocrinologists. When even the eye doctors I saw said the hyperthyroidism wasn't under control, Pretty finally agreed to let me see a different endocrinologist. She was afraid that if I saw a different endocrinologist, that Social Security wouldn't believe there was anything wrong with me and wouldn't let me collect disability. Social Security WON'T let me collect disability so I might as well try to figure out what really under control means for me. Maybe now I'll get some real help with this disease.

This is the first house we've rented that had central heat and air. We're used to doing what we want in our bedrooms and it doesn't affect anyone else. At our last house, she'd have a small heater running most of the time and I had air conditioning running most of the time. That doesn't work here so I ask if she's too warm or chilly. She'll pull on extra clothes if she's chilly and her desktop computer seems to give off as much heat as a heater.

@DaddyEvil That;s always important never had a kid, but I would do the same for my dogs, closets thing I have to a kid. Brothers and sisters is one thing, we like to do things out of spite to piss each other off, but a parent will never do that to their kid,OK, maybe once or twice but be like that is my kid. I will not do that again where brothers and sisters will.

@crossbones27 Yeah, once in a while, it's just too funny... But she knows what my buttons are and will push those once in a while, too.

I did for now but we can always change it later. I set the living room for 65F. That puts the living room's actual temp at 70F and our bedrooms at 72F. Comfortable for both of us.

65F in the living room brings the heat in there to 70F and our bedrooms to 72F. That's comfortable to both of us.

@porwest I may have to play with the thermostat again later but, for now, setting it at 65F seems to be comfortable for both of us in our bedrooms. We spend most of our time in our bedrooms so we shall see.

We hit 65F in the house two weeks ago and I turned the heat on. I set it to 74F, which is what we've always kept it at the past winters since we moved here but that keeps the house too hot for me to sleep well now. Last night I started experimenting and have the heat set at 65F now for the living room. Our bedrooms are staying at 72F right now and that's comfortable for both of us. (The temp in the living room is 70F right now. Since we don't spend a lot of time there, that's fine. I'm mostly in my bedroom or the kitchen and 70F is perfect for me.)

@DaddyEvil We tend to do gradual acclimations. By the time you're freezing your butt off at 65, 72 seems rather cozy...until you get acclimated to 72 and have to jack it up. lol

That's 82F, which is a nice summer day here.

With all the new insulation and the new windows, this house feels warmer than it used to.

True... I don't sleep well when I'm too warm.