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Have you turned on your heat?
I am still holding out and am being stubborn about turning on the heat. It's 59 in the house right now and a little chilly.
So, have you turned on your heat? If not how cold does it have to get before you do?
Re: Have you turned on your heat?
dude, you people are making me feel like a big ol' wussy.
I turned it on before bed last night. I was trying to hold out until November, but I didn't make it.
I actually wasn't cold during the night, we have plenty of warm blankets on the bed so I stayed warm. It was just cold getting out of bed in the morning the previous couple of days, so I finally gave in and turned on the heat.
Mr. Sammy Dog
Do you turn yours off in the summer? We have heated floors in our master bath and basement bath, and we just left them on all summer. Especially in the basement, those tiles are still freezing in the summer! Of course, both are on a programmable thermostat so they're not on overnight or during the day while we're at work.
Mr. Sammy Dog
I'm glad I'm not the only crazy one trying to hold out!
We do. DH is cheap. Our Master Bathroom is upstairs, and has a sunlight so it gets and stays pretty warm in there during the summer. In the winter though...IT'S COLD in there. Programmable as well. We have it come on shortly before we get up in the AM, turn off when we leave, and turn on right before we get home until we go to bed. On the weekends, it's on from morning to bedtime.
Not yet! It was still 71 in the house when we went to bed last night. We got a new roof put on Tuesday and we are putting plastic on the windows this weekend. Hopefully I can make it to November 1st, I'm cheap!
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I turned our heat on Tuesday morning. It was only 65/64 (which is what it would be if the furnace was on and programmed for night) - but for some reason I had a horrible chill that I couldn't shake. I took a hot shower and was still freezing so the heat came on.
I feel guilty as it really isn't that cold and I had hoped to get through October - especially with as mild as it's been - but I was just SO friggin cold!
The highest it is programmed to get is 67, so it hasn't been running too much.
Next weekend I have to put plastic on the window and seal everything. Fun.
We live in a condo on the 3 floor and are facing South. So we have never had to turn the heat on. We usually have to have the blinds down so the sun doesn't heat our place too much, otherwise in the middle of January it will literally be 80 degrees in our home. We normally have to sleep with the windows open at night otherwise it's unbearably hot in our room.
I'm not looking forward to paying a heating bill someday though because I'm a freeze baby and like our place at 72 degrees.
Nope, we are ridiculous! My husband LOVEs the cold and I just don't fight it any more so once the house hits around the lower 50s then we turn on the heat.
To give you a hint of how crazy we are 64 is "warm" for our house.