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Posted by Joe on January 15, 2008, 7:36 pm
I work in an unheated basement all day and the temp ranges from 55-62
degrees. I've grown accustomed to the temp with an array of fleece
pants, jackets and socks. My children don't seem to be bothered by
cold temps. The problem is my wife, she cannot handle any temperature
lower than 66 degrees. I feel it's a little wasteful to turn up the
heat for the whole house (we have one-zone heat) when she is the only
one uncomfortable so I was considering an oil-filled heater to follow
her around. I'm just wondering if it's worth it or will it be a wash
cost-wise. Has anyone else tried this?
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Posted by RBM on January 15, 2008, 7:49 pm
What part of Uzbekistan do you live? 66 degrees is not an unreasonable
temperature to keep your house. It's probably better for the interior
surfaces and structure as well. That few degrees probably won't make that
much monetary difference and everyone will feel better.
>I work in an unheated basement all day and the temp ranges from 55-62
> degrees. I've grown accustomed to the temp with an array of fleece
> pants, jackets and socks. My children don't seem to be bothered by
> cold temps. The problem is my wife, she cannot handle any temperature
> lower than 66 degrees. I feel it's a little wasteful to turn up the
> heat for the whole house (we have one-zone heat) when she is the only
> one uncomfortable so I was considering an oil-filled heater to follow
> her around. I'm just wondering if it's worth it or will it be a wash
> cost-wise. Has anyone else tried this?
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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on January 15, 2008, 9:55 pm
>>I work in an unheated basement all day and the temp ranges from 55-62
>> degrees. I've grown accustomed to the temp with an array of fleece
>> pants, jackets and socks. My children don't seem to be bothered by
>> cold temps. The problem is my wife, she cannot handle any temperature
>> lower than 66 degrees. I feel it's a little wasteful to turn up the
>> heat for the whole house (we have one-zone heat) when she is the only
>> one uncomfortable so I was considering an oil-filled heater to follow
>> her around. I'm just wondering if it's worth it or will it be a wash
>> cost-wise. Has anyone else tried this?
55 to 62 is reasonable if you are active. A bit chilly for most that are
not. We use 68 here and are comfy.
You'll probably find the space heater very expensive to operate. I tried
doing that by keeping our family room warm and the rest of the house cooler.
Oil bill went down, but the electric bill went up twice the oil savings.
Many people think keeping a house in the mid 60's is some sort of torture,
but that is really considered warm compared to typical homes before cheap
central heat. Can you imagine what it was like in some of the big stone
castles? Last March we stayed in a stone house built in the 1100's. (Yes,
1100's, in Italy) The owner kept the heat at 57, but I had to boost it to
62. The walls were about 2 feet thick so it took some time for it to warm
up.
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Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/
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Posted by Dr. Hardcrab on January 15, 2008, 10:17 pm
> Many people think keeping a house in the mid 60's is some sort of torture,
> but that is really considered warm compared to typical homes before cheap
> central heat. Can you imagine what it was like in some of the big stone
> castles? Last March we stayed in a stone house built in the 1100's.
> (Yes, 1100's, in Italy) The owner kept the heat at 57, but I had to boost
> it to 62. The walls were about 2 feet thick so it took some time for it
> to warm up.
You know what gets meare the people that have weekend homes around here and
the can't understand why
they go through so much oil during the winter.
"I keep the thermostat all the way down at 60 degrees!"
They can't understand that when it's in the lower 20s at night, it's going
to burn some oil to keep it at 60.
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Posted by on January 15, 2008, 11:07 pm
wrote:
> You know what gets meare the people that have weekend homes around here and
> the can't understand why
> they go through so much oil during the winter.
>
> "I keep the thermostat all the way down at 60 degrees!"
>
> They can't understand that when it's in the lower 20s at night, it's going
> to burn some oil to keep it at 60.
I dunno, it's pretty routinely around that temp where I live at night,
and I keep the thermostat on 64 after 11PM and the heat rarely comes
on overnight. (I'm kind of a night owl on weekends, so I know.)
Thing is, if you've got a house that's good at holding heat, it's
going to take it a while to really drop down into the lower 60's
assuming it's kept close to 70 during the day. (We keep ours at 70.)
In fact, my heat usually only comes on twice a day unless it's really
down at around zero degrees outside - then it starts to have a hard
time keeping up.
We do have plaster walls that are good at holding heat, and we've done
our best to weatherstrip the hell out of this place and replace any
leaking doors and windows. This house was not this efficient when we
bought it, that's for sure. But I'm sure plenty of houses are more
efficient than ours, even now.
Those old stone castles are actually also really good at holding in
heat. The problem is there's no good way to heat an entire castle, so
of course they're cold today if you go and stay in one now in a room
that was never used during winter when the castle was built. That's
not what they used to do back in the day; the family would live in a
couple of interior rooms during winter and they'd heat that with a
couple of massive fireplaces that were constantly running. I
guarantee you those castles were plenty warm - stone walls radiate
warmth and seal out any cold air pretty darn effectively.
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