How cold before you'll turn on the heat?

[sbj405]

With winter here and home heating prices skyrocketing, I'm curious what everyone's threshold is (interior temp, degrees F).

It's 65 in my house now and I know my BF will want to turn the heat on when he gets home. I think he's wimpy.

[Shrek]

1. At 65 I still have the air-conditioning on

It needs to be well below 50 before I'll turn on the heat.

[sbj405]

2. It's been rainy, so the 65 does feel a bit chilly. I think a space heater

might take the chill out enough. That or making dinner in the oven

[Shell Beau]

3. Your numbers don't go low enough.

It has been 39-45 degrees at night here lately. I haven't turned on the heater yet. When it starts to be that temperature during the days, then I'll turn it on.

[sbj405]

4. Interior temp.

I hope your house isn't 40 inside ;-)

[Shell Beau]

5. Gosh no!!

I'd be an ice cube. My house is really well insulated, so it stays pretty warm. My interior temp is about 65.

[Left Is Write]

6. If the in-house temperature overnight drops below 58...

we will turn on the heat.

It's 69 in the house now. I was a little chilly, but I'm wearing a long-sleeved shirt under a warm sweater. The outside temp is supposed to reach 72-73 later today, so heating isn't an issue right now.

I'm hoping the nice weather holds through Halloween and that we'll be into November before we have to consider the furnace.

We have a house full of quilts my mother made, and we have a few fleece throws too. I just placed an order at kohls.com for three down throws and two more fleece throws. Two of the down throws will go on the little kids' beds. We'll have lots of warmth wrap up in while we sit around the house!

[redqueen]

7. It was 64 in my house this morning.

:scared:

I turned the heater on. :)

[Chicken Girl]

8. I'm a college student so I haven't had to make that decision yet...

But 60F seems like an appropriate temperature to turn on the heat.

They turned on the heat in the dorms a few weeks ago. I turned off my radiator and opened the window. :p

[bigwillq]

9. I haven't turned on my heat in 2 years

I still live at home and we have electric heat. I live in CT. I just put on extra sweaters and blankets if I get cold.

[Wcross]

18. So who turned the heat on?

Are you saying you don't heat your home at all in the winter or that your parents turn the heat on and off?

[Rising Phoenix]

10. don't hate me...

I have free heat

[Patiod]

11. Live w/smoker - windows open all year round

:scared: <-- me, shaking all winter, but not scared

[huskerlaw]

12. No heat.

Not in SoCal. What kind of sissy do you think I am? ;)

[tjdee]

13. This is going to suck for me because I am cold all the time!

I have the heat on right now, but thanks to DU (well, I guess the oil industry :grr: ) I'm hyper cognizant of it and feel guilty and am wondering how I could possibly keep it on all winter like this.

I don't like feel of the Stay Puft Marshmallow look. At a shirt and a sweater, I'm done with the layering. And my extremities are still cold, at that!

Curses!

[Nikia]

14. My husband turned on the heat for me

When he found me sleeping in a cold weather sleeping bag on my bed under my normal sheet, comforter, and blankets. I don't have much self insulation. I usually need it in the low 70s.

[gizmo1979]

15. He is whimpy

unless the temp drops into the low 50's it stays off.Bake some cookies that will warm him up.

[ikojo]

16. I voted 55 degrees but I have no control over the

heat since it is radiator heat and I live in an apartment.

Sucks!

[FuzzySlippers]

17. I'm keeping it at 62. At that temp I have to wear so many

clothes, I can barely move. I turn it down to 50 when I go to bed and huddle under my 'lectric blankie.