What's your home thermostat set at?

[carlotta]

We live in an old building with steam radiators (no individual thermostats). The building is mostly inhabited by elderly women who apparently complain A LOT when their apartments are below 75 (80?) or so. Thus, we leave a couple windows open year round....

I do love that the radiator pipes act like radiant heating in the tiled bathroom...nothing like warm floor when you first get up. I don't miss my grad school apartment...5 winters with virtually no insulation in a cinder-block box with a little tiny furnace. Good times.

[Pax]

We live in an old building with steam radiators (no individual thermostats). The building is mostly inhabited by elderly women who apparently complain A LOT when their apartments are below 75 (80?) or so. Thus, we leave a couple windows open year round....

I do love that the radiator pipes act like radiant heating in the tiled bathroom...nothing like warm floor when you first get up. I don't miss my grad school apartment...5 winters with virtually no insulation in a cinder-block box with a little tiny furnace. Good times.

I lived in a place with radiant heat when I lived in Chicago, it was around 80 most of the winter, I'd keep a window open even on zero degree days.

[Brandi]

my hubby just told me our heat does not come in the night unless it get's below 64 in the house. But he has it set to go off in the morning around 5:30 am to 70 so it is not freezing when we get up and then it is set to go off after 4:30 during the day if it get's below 68. but turns off at around 9 pm. We also have lot's of throw blankets we get under during the winter. Including 3 cats!

[Norse]

In winter for the main thermostat, 68 days, 65 nights; and 60 for the separate den temp control. We also use the fireplace a lot, especially on weekends. Our house is drafty due to all the windows (over 40!). During the transition season of autumn, we only turn it down to 67 nights until our bodies, and our cats, have had a chance to acclimate a little to the new lower temps. The dog loves cold and snow.

[Norse]

One other point, except for the den and the basement, the whole house has hardwood or tile flooring, which tends to make things cooler.

[GLC1968]

Ours is set to 55F. That temp keeps the pipes from freezing in the outer walls if the temp happens to drop to below freezing outside (which doesn't happen all that much). The furnace does kick on for half an hour at 6 am to take the house up to 65, but then shuts off again for the rest of the day.

My H works from home, but he sits in a tiny room surrounded by computers, so it's quite warm in there.

We also have a wood stove (a new one that is the right size for our house, finally!) and we use that to keep it comfortable when we are home like in the evening or on the weekends.

[Tri Girl]

wow- I feel like a major winter wimp here. Our house is very old and very under-insulated (we're working on that one exterior wall at a time). We have it set at 68 in the evening and 73 when we're home.
One winter we lost power for a week during an ice storm. Our house got down down 61 and I swear I almost froze to death. I don't know how you people do it below 61.