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Is your heat still on?
DH and I turned our heat off last week because we are cheap and oil is EXPENSIVE. Our bedroom was down to 55 this morning and our first floor was at 51. I don't know if I can handle this over the weekend when we are home all day! We have a space heater that I turn on at night sometimes if I am sitting on the couch, but it is useless if I am moving around getting stuff done. I feel like a wimp. I am very much looking forward to Monday and its forecasted 70something degrees!
Re: Is your heat still on?
Yep, heat's still on and will stay on until temps are consistently at 60 minimum. We have a programmable thermostat and gas heat, but tend to keep things lower than most. When we're out of the house it's at 55, at home it's at 64. Sometimes I'll turn on the gas fireplace and sit in front of it if I need to warm up more.
I'd be careful about turning yours off completely. It can still get chilly at night and you don't want your pipes freezing one night (unlikely, but not impossible around here!).
This is something I am going to have to budget for when it comes time to have kids. I can't even imagine how high our heating bills will be to keep our house that warm!
Rock, we do monitor the temps all over the house to make sure the pipes aren't going to freeze.
Our oil company delivers oil based on our estimated usage and we've had to call them 3 times this winter to tell them we are running low. Finally, last week they said "You're using oil much faster this winter" and DH said "Yeah... well... we have a baby now. We need to turn the heat on more." haha
In all seriousness though, our heating bills have just about doubled. We used to be able to turn it down lower during the day and keep it at around 62 when we were home. But now, I'm home with the baby so it's on 68, all day every day.
I was like this when I was pregnant. We had the air conditioning on in November.
SCM, that's like 72 degrees.
We have the crappiest heat ever in our apartment, so it's always up around 68-70. Because I refuse to be cold in my own house, I don't care what it costs. We got spoiled in our last place, because heat was included, but at least we have gas now. I remember having a $600-700 oil bill one winter, and my roommates and I almost threw up when we saw that.
Our current place has electric heat, but it's zoned heating, so we only turn on the rooms we are in. We haven't been using it as much...but I'm a FL girl and do not like to be cold, especially in my house, and especially at night. DH sleeps with a fan on him (aka us) all year round, which keeps me cold. Warmer weather can't get here soon enough....although I'll be complaining about the heat during the summer
Luckily our new place has central A/C (so excited!).
I have never had oil heat, thankgod. It is so pricey. I did have electric heat in one uninsulated attic apt once and regularly had heat bills in the $400s each month. Ugh.
So, I'm in SC but there were a few nights last week I still had the heat on. Not for me, but because I cannot use a blanket on DS and I would check on him and his hands would be freezing. he sucks his thumb, so I can't cover them up with those gloved shirts.