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.

@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.

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.

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.

@DaddyEvil You have all that nice insulation now. I have a ton of floor to ceiling windows.

@LindaOHio A floor to ceiling window in the living room is what causes the house to be too hot during the summer. I have heavy drapes over it so that helps in the winter.

@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

@DaddyEvil I hate noise when I try to sleep

Yes, that's true. Leaving my bedroom door closed also means I don't have to listen to whatever show/music she's playing in her room. She doesn't use headphones or earbuds like I do. I don't pay the bills anymore...

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.

Right now the temp is at 65F in the living room. That keeps the living room/kitchen at 70F and our bedrooms at 72F. (Pretty would freeze if the bedrooms got any cooler than that. I used to keep my bedroom around 65F and she'd claim I was storing frozen meat in my room. )

@Marilynda1225 Poor kids.

@DaddyEvil Pretty sounds like my granddaughter who is always cold even if the rest of us are sweating. I always tell her she has no blood

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

I did that when it was just my bedroom but Pretty gets cold too easily so I have to find a temp we both can put up with now.

@BACONSTRIPSXXX I built a desktop computer for Pretty a few years ago for her gaming. It puts out enough heat that I'm uncomfortable in her bedroom. Her room is always warmer than mine.

@DaddyEvil Sounds like my wife, she puts it at 74 lol

@DaddyEvil yeah. For some it’s cold.

@DaddyEvil It may be weird but during the summer I keep my thermostat at 74.

@lovebuglena We do, too.

That's good you don't need to set a temp in your house. I live in a climate that can be very hot or very cold in the same day. Sometimes we have heat running in the night and early morning and sometimes air conditioning by the afternoon.

@Shivram59 Yes, I live in the continental US... Almost exactly in the center of the country. It is hilly going to mountainous in my part of the country. 5C is about 40F and I experience MUCH colder temps than that every winter. I have experienced -21F which is about -29C.

@DaddyEvil You live in the USA, don't you?? Here in India we have a climate that becomes extremely hot in summer. But in winter it does not get as cold as in your country. The lowest temperature I have experienced in my life was 5 C.

@DaddyEvil I do like playing some games however my old body doesn't like sitting for long.. lol Guess a gaming computer isn't for me. Time to get out the winter gear I guess, I hate saying hi to winter.

That's the way the two genders work. Women are always too chilly and men are usually too warm. (It didn't help that my thyroid gland is overworking so I'm always too warm. Even taking meds for hyperthyroidism doesn't always mean I'm comfortable in the temps my daughter finds comfortable.) Several years ago I built her a gaming computer and it pumps out a lot of heat. Her bedroom is always warmer than any other room in the house, which helps me stay comfortable at a lower temp in my bedroom.

@Ithink I watch a lot of YT videos and use one of the free video services to get free movies from several different streaming services. I can't sit for long periods of time (I had rectal cancer and it hurts to sit for hours.) so am usually lying on my bed while reading on my phone, watching YT videos or visiting on myLot. My daughter and I don't go outside a lot and do it even less when summer gets really hot here (I live in Southern Missouri.) or when it gets down to freezing. I can't see well enough to drive often and don't want to drive in cold weather (especially if there is ice or snow on the ground). I was forced into early retirement and my daughter doesn't have a driver's license and doesn't want one.

Thank you. I certainly hope so.

Most women like it warmer than I do... Both my ex-wives kept our houses too warm and I was always sweating in the house. Pretty did that here before all the insulation and new windows were installed. (I told her she could wear more clothes if she's chilly but I can't take off any more clothes when I'm too hot.)