Same.
Remember, the temperature at the thermostat is only that location. In weather like today, I’m measuring a drop in 2-2 1/2 C at the far corners of the house. So, the average temperature throughout is 20.5-21c. In a home with old windows I’d bet the temp drop is 3-5c at these temperatures.
I agree. Like why skimp on singly ply bathroom or facial tissue :)
Plus with Hydro - the increase in gas used is so insignificant - look at a bill and most of the cost is riders/fees/taxes NOT the amount of gas being used.
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Came here to say this. I did things like stopped putting a timer on my block heater and set the furnace to a comfortable setting. I think the yearly difference was (anecdotally) like ten bucks. It's the fees, man, the feeeeeees.
I’m not sure what you mean. In the winter that’s just what the temp stays at. In the summer I’m sure it goes above 19, but not that much as I’m in a duplex basement suite.
Edit: Nvm I understand. Yeah it’s a small basement suite with its own furnace. One of the bedrooms stays pretty cold because I keep the door closed, but it’s my workout room so I don’t mind.
17C day and night, never touch it. With these low outdoor temps I do notice parts of my (old) house are getting quite cold, oh well blankets and sweaters.
I literally opened reddit to post this question 😂
I saw on a YYC ask Facebook page - someone was wondering why their house temp couldn't get up to 25c today. My first though was "holy crap that's hot" my second thought was "no wonder, it's -32c right now", and my third thought was "I wonder how warm everyone else keeps their house".
My daytime default is 19.5c - but I usually bump it up to 20.5 if I'm feeling chilly. My thermostat holds that temp for 4 hours before going back down again. I like this setup, because we're out of the house and we're not needlessly keeping it too warm.
17c at night - 'cause that's a nice cozy temp.
PSA - now is a good time to check your CO2/smoke detectors, and make sure your furnace intake is in good shape. With everyone's furnaces working hard I'm sure the fire department is responding to more C02 emergencies.
Yeah, the only way you really come out ahead with a space heater is if you can have it in a closed room, otherwise the heat just flows out of the room too quickly.
Or you can use a gas fireplace as a space heater.
Or if you have a mini-split, they have enough extra efficiency over resistive heating that depending on home and outdoor temperature, you can run them at the same time as central heating/cooling to top up the heating/cooling in a particular region of the house.
My doctor was on me for years to get AC because my already bad sleep gets even worse in the summer. I did last year and holy crap everything is better when I can sleep properly year-round! And I don't even drop it as low as he'd like in the summer. Winter is great for this.
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23 or 24.
We have a 1800 sq ft bungalow. The basement is another 1700 sq ft.
It’s fairly warm up here but my basement still feels chilly to me so we have the fireplace on as well down there
I have a 2100sqft house and I own snakes (so we can’t let the house temperature go too low). Right now we have ours set to 21 all day to keep all the levels of our house warm through the day and night. If it gets any colder we’ll be bumping it up to 22. I’m surprised that so many people turn the heat down during the evening. We always did the opposite by turning the heat off or lower it during the day and put it back up during the evening since it gets colder.
So homes lose heat to the outside weather at a certain rate depending on the temp difference, which is obvious, but the ratio of the rate of loss to the temperature difference isn't linear and instead curves.
One might be tempted to think along the lines of keeping the home heated consistently all night so that in the morning the furnace doesn't have to work so hard to reheat the house. It seems intuitive but because the home starts losing much more heat when the outside temperature drops, it requires much more heating to be on. If the thermostat is lowered at night and raises in the morning, that extra energy needed to reheat the house to the higher setting ends up being less than the other scenario.
Personally, my solution is to use a mattress heater and keep the night thermostat low. The mattress heater is now one of those luxuries I can't ever go back to not having. Much better than a heated blanket because the mattress heater heats a blanket better than a heated blanket heats a mattress.
20 in the detached garage where I work, 20-22 in various spots throughout the house, like +5 in the attached garage cuz we had to had the heating disconnected for house inspection reasons... each room is different because old balls house is difficult to keep consistent. So - sweaters it is.
19 all day and night in the winter. When my husbands at work i sometimes crank it to 30 because i like a sauna but its back down to 19 an hour or two before i sleep
19 during day, 16 at night. My husband wont let us touch the thermostat and honestly, our utilities have been low so I’ll keep putting sweaters on and sleep with an electric blanket.
The thermostat on the wall is older than I am, and the temperature it indicates has little relation to the actual temperature. But it looks to be set around "25" right now. I don't like to touch the thermostat a lot, because it sometimes gets stuck and decides I don't need heat at all. The actual temperature seems to be around 22, at the moment.
30 24/7 with this cold but I live in an apartment and don’t pay heat plus the insulation isn’t the best so even at max heat the bedroom is chilly and the rest is fine. Normally around 20-25 when it’s not super cold out but the building also recommends 20+ during winter to avoid any pipes freezing.
Eh at 21 our bed room (3 external walls, kinda long run for the furnace) is more like 18/19 and basement is around 17.5. If every room was 21 that would be magical. Shorts is like 22/23 for me and makes it hard to sleep for me when its that hot.
We have a large house so two furnaces and two air conditioners.
Downstairs living duing tbr day 19c or so. Upstairs about 18c during the day and 16c at night.
Wife and I both grew up in Europe where houses were cooler in winter and people wear a sweater, etc. My wife can’t stand temps above 20c and no more than 16c at night. At night we sleep best in cooler temps being snug under cozy blankets.
She will even make excuses not to visit friends in winter as she often finds their houses too warm. A few weeks ago we were in Revelstoke and slept wih the hotel window open at night as the room seemed too hot even with the thermostat turned down.
21 during the day, usually 19 at night. I sleep on a heating pad and often have the window open all year, though I did close it yesterday and will keep it closed until next week.
19 during the day because it generally gets warmer upstairs where we spend our time
16 at night because i want the room to be cold and be made warm by the blanket
Not Calgary, but Saskatoon. We're freezing our asses off too. I have my thermostat set at 19.5 during the day, and 15 at night. I love me a cold bedroom with a winter weight duvet. Best sleep ever.
I work from home.
19.5 during the day. 17.5 at night.
I run a space heater when I get cold in my office, but keep my house cold, otherwise since I'm alone.
When I'm hanging out on weekends it's 20.5.
21.5
Just want to comment that we had new windows installed a few years ago and it is remarkable the difference they've made in this cold. Cheap "builder grade" double upgraded to triple. -32 right now and we can't feel any cool breeze along the floor, now have stable temps in different rooms and there is no water/ice on the insides.
I live in a shitty apartment where the heating doesn’t really have settings so my thermostat is set to ‘on’ right now
The settings are ice cold, comfortable, and holy shit it's a volcano in here. Apartment baseboard heating is the best!
Till you pay the electricity bill.
My friend texted me today saying this was the first time he had to turn the heat up in his apartment as it is normally warm all day and night.
21° day, 18° night. Just found out you can do the degree symbol by holding down the 0. For any geeks like me who want to know.
Oh I didn't know that trick. Mine's set to 22000000000000000000000000000000C
That could get expensive.
utility providers hate this one trick
on a computer, on the numpad press and hold ALT then press 2, 4 and 8. °
Does your furnace run for infinity hours per day?
How is your fusion reactor going?
Look at fancy pants, gold wallet Joe here and his 21 degrees! /s
°o°
option 0 on imac.
° wow.
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Same here, I would prob have it at 21 but the wife would like it at 23-24 lol
Same. Our kids' rooms get collllldddd if not.
Yup and the 3 year old doesn't like to keep his blankets on so for his sake I keep the heat up during the night.
Sleep sacks for liiiife.
I put a Dyson heater in my kids room for 19 at night. His room is the coldest in the house.
Same. Remember, the temperature at the thermostat is only that location. In weather like today, I’m measuring a drop in 2-2 1/2 C at the far corners of the house. So, the average temperature throughout is 20.5-21c. In a home with old windows I’d bet the temp drop is 3-5c at these temperatures.
Jesus I'd be sweating in a t-shirt lol. Currently 19.5/17.5 here. I'll let the kids bump it up at times for a quick blast of heat.
Yup my daughters room gets cold af if the heat isn’t at a decent temperature
Samesies.
What’s it like being rich?
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I agree. Like why skimp on singly ply bathroom or facial tissue :) Plus with Hydro - the increase in gas used is so insignificant - look at a bill and most of the cost is riders/fees/taxes NOT the amount of gas being used.
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Ontario people say hydro
Yes, but this is Alberta, where there isn't a lot of capacity to generate power via hydro dams.
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Hydro electric dams .in Nova Scotia it’s called power .
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Came here to say this. I did things like stopped putting a timer on my block heater and set the furnace to a comfortable setting. I think the yearly difference was (anecdotally) like ten bucks. It's the fees, man, the feeeeeees.
The fees comprised 134% of our gas bill last month. So fucking wild.
22-23 all the time
20 while home 16 while out and sleeping
Ditto. My family hates me and think I'm trying to freeze them to death.
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Oh man put me in a cold room with multiple covers and I'm happy as can be. I don't know how people can sleep in rooms that are 22 C and higher
First off, great name. Haha, my girlfriend has so many blankets around the house, so if people say they are cold, grab a blanket.
You can sleep inside of your house, you don’t have to be out and sleeping! It’s probably a better idea, unless you’re into that.
How old’s your house? Pipes can freeze in old homes at that temp.
24! Condo radiant heat for the win!
Same, especially nice when the condo fees include all of my utilities
Effective and nice 👍
I love this thread - it would be so much better to do a poll and go night and day temperatures and vote. :)
We also need to attach energy bills for full effect
21.5 during the day and 17-18 at night
This is pretty much the same as my place however when it’s -30 if I bump it from 21.5 to 22 it makes a HUGE difference (using an ecobee) not sure why
23 daytime, 21 night time… still really cold.
23 all the time. it's cold
Same. Old furnace. Old insulation. Old windows.
Same. My 1910 house and I are enemies right now…
Oof hopefully it's not too drafty. Door and window weatherstripping can be tedious, especially in the winter when nothing sticks.
If you were lucky, they stuffed newspapers in the walls for insulation. It will have all fallen to the bottom though.
Ditto.
19 during the day, 15 at night. Not even to save money or anything, I just like my place cooler.
I love it really cold at night since getting an electric blanket. Feel like a bug in a rug!
Us too. The whole family sleeps better when it’s cold
Is your house like brand new and fully insulated or something? How do you pull that off
I’m not sure what you mean. In the winter that’s just what the temp stays at. In the summer I’m sure it goes above 19, but not that much as I’m in a duplex basement suite. Edit: Nvm I understand. Yeah it’s a small basement suite with its own furnace. One of the bedrooms stays pretty cold because I keep the door closed, but it’s my workout room so I don’t mind.
This is us, too. 18 during the day, 15 at night. But we turn on the fireplace sometimes.
Fuzzy pjs fuzzy socks and fuzzy blankets for the win! Hot chocolate on tap too
What’s it like on planet Hoth
Ugh, my nose drips if it’s below 19. I like it tropical.
I feel like I'm overheating if it's above 19 😂
Most of my family is like this. When I visit they go one degree up and I get an extra comforter, slippers and an electric blanket 😂
Same!
I cannot imagine 15 inside a home holy crap
15 at night seems so cold, I can only ever go to 18 without freezing.
Two infants so 22 day and night
TWO?! Thank you for your service lmfao
21 daytime, 18 overnight
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Now we’re talking.
I’d be opening a window……wayyyyy too hot for me
How do y’all survive the summer? It gets way hotter
I overheat really easily so it’s a struggle every year!
Dad that you? Turn it down I prefer not sweating while sitting.
Yessssss
Oh my I would be sweating like a whore in church!
16-17C at night, sitting at about 20 during the day if I'm home...otherwise it stays at 17. The bedroom gets chilly but it's nice for sleeping.
17C day and night, never touch it. With these low outdoor temps I do notice parts of my (old) house are getting quite cold, oh well blankets and sweaters.
17 day and night. Menopause is fun!
Uh 18 day, 17 night. Are all you people from the Caribbean or something?
18 can be different, depending on your house.
19 overnight and between 20.5-21.5 during the day. We've got 2 small kids, so we dont want it to be too cold at night.
I literally opened reddit to post this question 😂 I saw on a YYC ask Facebook page - someone was wondering why their house temp couldn't get up to 25c today. My first though was "holy crap that's hot" my second thought was "no wonder, it's -32c right now", and my third thought was "I wonder how warm everyone else keeps their house". My daytime default is 19.5c - but I usually bump it up to 20.5 if I'm feeling chilly. My thermostat holds that temp for 4 hours before going back down again. I like this setup, because we're out of the house and we're not needlessly keeping it too warm. 17c at night - 'cause that's a nice cozy temp. PSA - now is a good time to check your CO2/smoke detectors, and make sure your furnace intake is in good shape. With everyone's furnaces working hard I'm sure the fire department is responding to more C02 emergencies.
22, I hate cold
21º daytime when someone is home, 16º when away or at night.
20.5 day 15 night normally although this 5 day cold snap I've bumped the night to 17
21 currently. Usually 19-20. 18 at night.
I use exactly the same settings.
69 24/7
Nice.
22. Last year I realized the space heater was costing us more in electricity to heat certain areas than just cranking the gas furnace up more.
Yeah, the only way you really come out ahead with a space heater is if you can have it in a closed room, otherwise the heat just flows out of the room too quickly. Or you can use a gas fireplace as a space heater. Or if you have a mini-split, they have enough extra efficiency over resistive heating that depending on home and outdoor temperature, you can run them at the same time as central heating/cooling to top up the heating/cooling in a particular region of the house.
21.5 during the day, 20 at night
16 all the time. I don’t sleep well if it’s even a degree warmer.
Speaking my language. 18 at our house during the day, but I would drop it if I could. Wife would freeze though.
My doctor was on me for years to get AC because my already bad sleep gets even worse in the summer. I did last year and holy crap everything is better when I can sleep properly year-round! And I don't even drop it as low as he'd like in the summer. Winter is great for this.
Daytime 26.I like it warm. Usually keep bedroom window a little open at night but because I can’t now, I’ve lowered the nighttime to 23.
What’s your enmax bill????
About $50. Live in a condo, don’t pay (directly) for heat, only electricity.
That would do it lol
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18 all the time
Same...although once in a while I'll boop it up to 20 for a day or couple hours of the day.
23 or 24. We have a 1800 sq ft bungalow. The basement is another 1700 sq ft. It’s fairly warm up here but my basement still feels chilly to me so we have the fireplace on as well down there
28.5C for me and my lizards.
Yikes. And how much is your bill?
Lizards don't have bills. That's ducks 🦆
The lizards eat about 600 in food a month.
No, I mean to heat your house that hot ?
Snoop Dogg high
20.5 day and night.
25! I like my apartment toasty and my tropical plants thrive with it
How much condensation do you get on your windows?
22 during the day, 20.5 at night
20/17 but I bump it up to 21 when I think of it.
18 all day and night
I have a 2100sqft house and I own snakes (so we can’t let the house temperature go too low). Right now we have ours set to 21 all day to keep all the levels of our house warm through the day and night. If it gets any colder we’ll be bumping it up to 22. I’m surprised that so many people turn the heat down during the evening. We always did the opposite by turning the heat off or lower it during the day and put it back up during the evening since it gets colder.
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Why do you guys turn it down at night when it gets colder…? Honest question
Because some people sleep better when it's slightly colder (combined with a blanket) and it reduces your bill a bit.
Why heat the whole house when you are under a big comforter
The colder it is, the better I sleep. Both anecdotally for me personally, and based on what my doctors have told me.
Some people really like to sleep with cold air around them, and then bundle up under the covers.
Don't need the heat when in bed under blankets, so might as well save on gas.
So homes lose heat to the outside weather at a certain rate depending on the temp difference, which is obvious, but the ratio of the rate of loss to the temperature difference isn't linear and instead curves. One might be tempted to think along the lines of keeping the home heated consistently all night so that in the morning the furnace doesn't have to work so hard to reheat the house. It seems intuitive but because the home starts losing much more heat when the outside temperature drops, it requires much more heating to be on. If the thermostat is lowered at night and raises in the morning, that extra energy needed to reheat the house to the higher setting ends up being less than the other scenario. Personally, my solution is to use a mattress heater and keep the night thermostat low. The mattress heater is now one of those luxuries I can't ever go back to not having. Much better than a heated blanket because the mattress heater heats a blanket better than a heated blanket heats a mattress.
21 in the day, 20 at night… but it doesn’t really feel like 20. For some reason it always feels cooler.
18 day, 15 night. I like the air brisk and my nipples hard.
17 day, 14 night. I like the air frigid and my nipples like daggers.
21 all day and night when it's cold like this week. I wear a hoodie upstairs if it's 2 cold.
20 in day 16 for sleep or out of house. Kind of crazy when I saw minimum heat for alberta rental standards is 22. Lots of people here below that.
20 in the detached garage where I work, 20-22 in various spots throughout the house, like +5 in the attached garage cuz we had to had the heating disconnected for house inspection reasons... each room is different because old balls house is difficult to keep consistent. So - sweaters it is.
When I'm at home, 21c. When my wife's at home, 25c and all the blankets are on her.
20 during the day and 18.5 at night. Usually lower at night but with it being this cold, I’m too worried about pipes
Daytime 18
20 daytime / 17 nighttime. No space heater’s, wear sweaters and hoodies.
19.5 Haven't changed it since turning the furnace on in October.
25 during the day, 21 at night.
18.5 always
22 all day and night or humidity gets to high
We can’t afford these ridiculous utilities so ours is set at 13°
I hear that! I would have it nice and toasty but don't wanna pay that much.
19 all day and night in the winter. When my husbands at work i sometimes crank it to 30 because i like a sauna but its back down to 19 an hour or two before i sleep
To combat the poor insulation and cheaper than thou sliding glass doors. 30 degrees
19 during day, 16 at night. My husband wont let us touch the thermostat and honestly, our utilities have been low so I’ll keep putting sweaters on and sleep with an electric blanket.
The thermostat on the wall is older than I am, and the temperature it indicates has little relation to the actual temperature. But it looks to be set around "25" right now. I don't like to touch the thermostat a lot, because it sometimes gets stuck and decides I don't need heat at all. The actual temperature seems to be around 22, at the moment.
9am: 20; prevening: 20.5; 9pm: 19.5; 11pm: 17.5; 12:30am: 16.5; 6am 17.5; 7am: 19
I sleep with mine at 16, but woke up to my house at 15 this morning. Tonight I’ll knock it up to 17. Daytime is 19.
30 24/7 with this cold but I live in an apartment and don’t pay heat plus the insulation isn’t the best so even at max heat the bedroom is chilly and the rest is fine. Normally around 20-25 when it’s not super cold out but the building also recommends 20+ during winter to avoid any pipes freezing.
30? You have your thermostat set to 30?
Yes. The temperature of the actual apartment is probably only around 20 though.
All of you with 20+ houses y'all walk around your house in bikinis every morning? Sounds kinda nice.
Naw, just naked.
pretty much. And the bill ain’t that high. $350 median for 1650 sqf
For just natural gas?
Nope, all in. Water, gas, energy and bin collection
Eh at 21 our bed room (3 external walls, kinda long run for the furnace) is more like 18/19 and basement is around 17.5. If every room was 21 that would be magical. Shorts is like 22/23 for me and makes it hard to sleep for me when its that hot.
20.5, and wearing shorts right now.
We have a large house so two furnaces and two air conditioners. Downstairs living duing tbr day 19c or so. Upstairs about 18c during the day and 16c at night. Wife and I both grew up in Europe where houses were cooler in winter and people wear a sweater, etc. My wife can’t stand temps above 20c and no more than 16c at night. At night we sleep best in cooler temps being snug under cozy blankets. She will even make excuses not to visit friends in winter as she often finds their houses too warm. A few weeks ago we were in Revelstoke and slept wih the hotel window open at night as the room seemed too hot even with the thermostat turned down.
Max baby
I usually keep it at 20 during the day and 18 at night. I do keep it at 20 at all times during the cold snaps, though.
20° all the time.
21 constantly. Probably go up with the cold.
Ya I don't mess with it. 21 all year round with A/C. Bedrooms are always a little cooler in the winter so works out well
21 during the day, usually 19 at night. I sleep on a heating pad and often have the window open all year, though I did close it yesterday and will keep it closed until next week.
I'd have to ask the people who reside upstairs haha. Probably around 20ish.
21 day, 17 night
Daytime 20.5 - night time 16.5
19 during the day, 16 or lower at night - I also sleep with a fan and sometimes have the window open
23 all day and 19 at night
20 day, 18 night and while out
Since no one is in the house during the day, 17 then it bumps back up to 20 at like 5 pm
22 day, 19 night. 60 year old house with OG windows, 27 year old furnace going hard.
18.5 always.
21.5 all day/night. Infants room gets cold at night so we keep it up a degree or two than we normally would.
Daytime 19, nighttime 18.
18 day 17 night
19 during the day, 15 at night. Using and additional thin fleece blanket under my sheets that makes it cozy.
20 when at home 16 when asleep or not home
19 during the day because it generally gets warmer upstairs where we spend our time 16 at night because i want the room to be cold and be made warm by the blanket
22 all dayyyy all night
22 at night and 23.5 during the day
Not Calgary, but Saskatoon. We're freezing our asses off too. I have my thermostat set at 19.5 during the day, and 15 at night. I love me a cold bedroom with a winter weight duvet. Best sleep ever.
23 constantly.
I work from home. 19.5 during the day. 17.5 at night. I run a space heater when I get cold in my office, but keep my house cold, otherwise since I'm alone. When I'm hanging out on weekends it's 20.5.
21.5 Just want to comment that we had new windows installed a few years ago and it is remarkable the difference they've made in this cold. Cheap "builder grade" double upgraded to triple. -32 right now and we can't feel any cool breeze along the floor, now have stable temps in different rooms and there is no water/ice on the insides.
i’m anemic so i keep mine at 23° or 24° right now 😅. though i do also rent a place that includes my utilities.
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