I don’t pay for utilities in my apartment. I like a reasonable temperature though and see no need to piss away resources heating air.
62 at night.
64-66 when laying around in the evening.
If you visit and are too cold, too bad. Put on a sweater. It’s also very easy to get acclimated to colder temperatures. Think about how warm a 45 degree day feels in January compared to a 45 degree day in September. I’m to the point where I’m very comfortable at those temps.
I can’t sleep with it any warmer than 62. Thankfully the wife is the same way.
68 right now, down to 58 at night, and I usually don’t feel the need to turn it back up until dinner time. It’s an old house but it has mostly new windows and 10K worth of recent insulation work done. The last owners kept it at 78 degrees all day, crazy cold old people.
67-69 depending. One of my friends keeps his house at 57, I refuse to go over there in the winter. It’s a big ass old farmhouse, so when it’s set at 57 it’s actually just over freezing. You literally have to keep your winter coat on the entire time.
My house never really gets down to 50. It usually gets down to 60-62ish between the times it’s 50 and 68. My house has all stone work up the sides and it seems to insulate well. It’s just over 1400sqft and my gas bills never make it over $225 all winter. I’m doing some more insulating next week to try and help with it more. I wanna keep it under $185 all winter. The huge temp differential costing more to heat back up is an old myth. I have been heating my house this way the past 2 winters and it seems to keep my bills lower than anyone I know.
I have mine programmed by the energy star guidelines or whatever it was that I looked up to be the recommended temps for efficiency and comfort. It hits 70 when we are home, but much lower at night and during the day.
generally keep it between 68-72 all year round… if I’m freezing I run my little honeywell space heater. the most it’s ever added to the electric bill was 20 bucks, running nearly every night.
When I lived off campus at canisius and had heat included, we used to put it on 75 and open the windows to get back at the landlord for fucking us over.
Kinda tricky for me, I don’t have a thermostat. We heat with a forced air wood burning furnace. There’s a thermostat on the furnace that turns on the blower when the firebox gets hot enough, and turns it back off when it cools down. I can control the temperature of the house by how hot of a fire I have burning. Right now it’s 68 in here and that’s fine with me. Last winter I really cranked it up just for fun and had it over 80 in the house. If we’re going to be away or at night, I turn the draft way down and close the stack damper. The fire will burn for 30+ hours and the house temp drops to about 62. I burned coal for awhile last winter too, but I couldn’t burn it slow enough to keep a comfortable temp in the house, it kept getting wayyy too hot and I had to keep opening the windowstats.