Thermostat Setting

 An appropriate time of the year for this post.

I keep my thermostat at 59 from 8am to 5pm and 9pm to 6am.
From 6am to 8am and 5pm to 9pm the thermostat is kept at 64. Is this
more frugal than keeping the thermostat set at 62 the entire day?

Would it be more worthwhile to keep the thermostat set lower at night
or would you use more gas just getting it up to 64 from say 56? I use
natural gas to heat and I am in upstate NY.

What are your thermostat settings, where do you live, what do you use
to heat, and did you see a savings last year from lowering it at
night?

-N

 

Should be, because you're at the higher temp for only 5 hours
a day and so the losses will be lower for the rest of the time.

It may be hard to see in the bill tho with such small temperature differences.


Yes, because you would lose less heat during that time.


No. You can get an effect like that with a heat pump, but not with gas.

 anarch@666yes.net (Napoleon) wrote:

I don't have a thermostat.


Hawaii.


"Infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with
 grey: but never am I unblest."

 

Shut some rooms down if able in your house during the winter.

 Napoleon wrote:


Probably.  Heat loss is proportional to the difference in temperature
between inside and outside.


The only convincing situation I've heard of where "getting it up" is a
cost factor is people with heat pumps that kick in resistance heating
when faced with a strong demand.  But they're probably not going to live
in upstate NY.


46F at night (electric mattress pad turned on when needed), 55F daytime,
more if my hands feel cold (wearing warm clothes takes care of the rest
of the body).


Minneapolis.  Probably 5-10F colder than upstate NY where I grew up
(Southern Tier, but depends on exactly where "upstate" means).


natural gas


I've been doing this for years.

Dave