back up heat temp ?

Stats are set at 60 and we run the stove until the stove room runs up to 80 with a constant goal of upper 70s.

T-Stat is set at 70* since my son is 8 months old. If he was old enough to regulate his temp and knew what to do with a blanket I'd probably have it set around 60*. From Nov. 6th through Dec. 23rd we used 100 gallons of propane so we are doing ok even with it at 70*. I also went hunting for a week in Nov. so my wife ran the furnace for that week.

Mine is at 66. Stove is to assist, not the primary heat. It's an insert in the lower level of a bilevel.

Steve

mine to is at 60, heating bills are between $40 and $60 a month with gas heat, still have to run dryer and cooking stove and my wife loves to bake.

Very well insulated home with all new windows. We keep it in the mid-upper 70's while we're burning the stove. Central forced air electric furnace (resistance heat, not a heat pump). Set at 65°F. On cold nights, it'll come on for a while early in the morning. No biggie, our electric rates are quite reasonable. I don't make any real effort to load up the stove just before I go to bed. More often than not, in fact, I just bank the coals I have and shut the primary. Sometimes in the morning there are coals to assist restart, sometimes not. Rick

My thermostat is useless because it's not very far from the stove. I only turn it on in the morning if I sleep in an extra hour or so. I have roomates with a 5 year old daugher and have a door that leads to their area. There is a rather large cutout in the wall that has a shade for privacy. I took some braided fishing line and dropped the shade about 18" and with the help of a few fans I can get them up to temp.
When I live alone I try not to use the furnace.

I set the thermostat to 58. I hate being cold, but I also hate having the heat run when I'm asleep or away from home. The tiny house heats up fast once the stove is running. When I'm home, I think about reloading once the thermostat is at 65. (before the stove, I was trying to survive with the heat set at 62. I was miserable)

I need more insulation in my attic, then I'll have more mornings where the house is still 60 or higher

I have a programmable thermostat on my natural gas furnace and it is set the same as if I didn't have the wood heat, 68 to 71. That said, if there is no wood heat the wife will bump up the furnace. My goal is to minimize how much the furnace runs.

I keep my electric heat pump at 65 at night (no overnight burns yet) and 68 during the day. The wood stove keeps it between 68 and 70, which is comfortable for me. My house is small (900SF) and one story. I bet if I had storm windows and insulation, I'd be able to turn it down more. One of these days, I will.

My thermostat is set at 62, but like hareball, my t-stat is in the stove room. When the stove is running, the furnace is not.

The furnace only kicks on if we're away from home for too long, or if I oversleep and don't have time to get the stove going in the morning before work.

-SF

Mine is set at 58° F throughout the house, but it never ever kicks on.

I didn't run my heat pump at all last year until the temps took a nosedive down to the minus digits, and then the darn thing wouldn't heat at all.
When my yearly service came up this fall I mentioned it and he winced and told me to run it more- there was a thingamajiggie outside that he adjusted and all is well now. I don't know if it is correct or not that heat pumps need to run but that's what I am doing.

So last year the heat pump thermostat sat at 60ºF and never ran and this year I have moved it up to around 68ºF and it runs some. My thermostat is in my upstairs/main floor and my insert is in my basement family room where I basically live. It generally works well- upstairs is very well insulated and the air flows well.
The power bill hasn't been too nasty at all so it's working for me. We used massive amounts of wood last year and while I have a good stockpile I am trying to be more careful with it. Not having to keep a raging inferno going 24/7 is a bit of a comfort, actually- it was like a full time job last year to keep it going at maximum temps all the darn time.

I (and I am only speaking about me, no one else) became a little too caught up in my attempt to boast about using only wood to heat my home. I would rather have sat on a cold toilet every morning with my pride intact than admit to using the heat pump and this year I have let that go a bit.
I am all about the balance now, and not freaking out if I sleep late or am away from the house and let it burn down too low every now and then.

60 in the eveing & night, 65 in day. kicks on if i don't burn the stove.

Haha, I'm 23 and just bought my first house. The house's primary source of heat is electric and there's not too much extra money in the pot for heat. The electric heat is set at 45*. Stove room is between 65 and 70, just gotta wear a sweatshirt in between stoking the last fire and getting under the heated blankets on the bed.

My T-stat is OFF. i just run the FURANCE maybe once a month just to make sure it is working. But Im getting tried of the wood already this year.

Oil fired boiler on 5 zones to supply heat and hot water to a 2500 sq. ft. that's closing in on 20 yrs. old. It's well insulated (all interior walls are insulated and there is upwards of 15" in the attic) and all windows and doors are tight. We leave the zones on the ground floor set in the mid-50s unless we're going to use them (a guest suite and two large work areas). The two zones in our 2nd. floor "apartment" are left at 60 and only rarely come on when the stove is in use. Very comfortable home and definitely not a budget buster to heat, either. I hate being cold.

We've toyed with the idea of swapping out a couple of the thermostats for programmable ones but since it hasn't been an issue for us we've kept the money in our wallets.

I've got an oil-fired boiler and six heating zones plus domestic hot water. The insert heats the first floor (2 zones) and a good part of the second (1 zone). I have all t-stats set at 60, however, for the three zones that are mainly heated by the insert, they bump up to 72 for fifteen minutes twice a day (just before midnight and just before 6 am). If I don't have them bump up, in cold spells (-10 or so or a little warmer with strong winds) I run the risk of having the pipes freeze.

natural gas furnace still switched off. so far the indoor temp hasnt fallen below 60. i will set the thermostat to 60 and turn on the heat as soon as it gets in the teens. with a bit of effort we hope not to use the furnace this year.this year we upgraded from an insert to a stove that i calculated will heat the house even at 0f outsde, will see? pete

Live in Upstate, NY. Set the furnace at 50 degrees. Hasn't kicked on yet. Our stove is in the basement, we try to run it 24/7. Stove room gets as hot as 80 degrees and as low as 70 degrees. We live in our finished basement. The upstairs teeters around 55-65 depending on the day.

All thermostats in the house are set to 60 degrees . . . when the boiler kicks on we tend to notice it . . . although my wife said even now she has to stop and think for a minute to figure out what the sound is . . . having it come on only occasionally is definitely a good thing. Pretty much the only time we hear it is when it is wicked cold outside (below zero) and the stove hasn't been reloaded for several hours (i.e. overnight burn, overday burn, etc.)