How warm in the house?

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hello dennis! happy easter to you and the ornery one!

inside, 70f-72f.
outside, if on the lake, 80's is nice. if on the bike (one with an engine) 80's is nice. if working outside, prefer no warmer than the 70's for my "highest output"!
used to be, i couldn't wait for the hot 80's 90's of summer for the best times..but now, the preferred temps are a bit lower...
 
Winter we aim for low to mid 70's in the main level, upstairs where our bedrooms are it's usually in the 60's.

Summer we keep the air on 74 or so. We usually only run the air when it's in the 80's though.
 
BrotherBart said:
I am a happy camper when it is 74 inside. Winter or summer.Same with outside. 74 is nice.
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+1
 
Low 70's in the house during the winter, and same in the summer. I could live with outside temps in the upper 60's/low 70's w/ low humidity year round - I'm not happy in the 80's, let alone 90's. As others have said, humidity levels make a world of difference - if my house was very humid and in the low 70's in the winter, I'd likely not be happy. That's why the low 70's still feel 'too warm' in the summer - the humidity is so much higher - we try to keep the central air to a minimum - too expensive, but when it's on, I'm a happy camper! Cheers!
 
We keep the living room and kitchen area about 70-75° during the winter which is where we spend 90% of our time. The upstairs seems to stay about 66-68° but I could even live with about 60° during the winter in the bedrooms as like it cold where I sleep.
 
tfdchief said:
BrotherBart said:
I am a happy camper when it is 74 inside. Winter or summer. Same with outside. 74 is nice.
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That's about right for me. Now my wife is a little different and that difference varys from time to time :kiss: So I just ask her what she wants.
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+1000 :)
We target the 72-75 range, humidity does come in to play down here, but, above all else...refer to the chief's statement!!!

Ed
 
~70* in main part of house and mid 60s in bedroom. If it's much hotter than that in bedroom I sweat so bad that I have to wash all the sheets since everything will be soaked right through, even the pillow.

I bumped in the 80s a few times when I put too much wood in teh stove and I had to open a window and also the people door connecting in the garage. I was sweating worse than a hooker sitting in a church.

I think when you get old though your body doesn't have a good fire going or something. I went to vist relatives at the old folks home a few times and the old people had swweaters on complaining it was cold while I had sweating pouring off my face and back Mustsa been close to 90* in there.
 
about 70 is good for me for heat.
I wont set the air conditioning that low though.. cost too much.
 
tfdchief said:
I think when you get old though your body doesn’t have a good fire going or something.
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Now we are getting to the root of the problem :cheese:
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Perhaps you are right. I even use a bed warmer.
 
Backwoods Savage said:
tfdchief said:
I think when you get old though your body doesn’t have a good fire going or something.
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Now we are getting to the root of the problem :cheese:
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Perhaps you are right. I even use a bed warmer.
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+1 I'm investing in a electric blanket next Winter.
 
Hiram Maxim said:
Backwoods Savage said:
tfdchief said:
I think when you get old though your body doesn’t have a good fire going or something.
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Now we are getting to the root of the problem :cheese:
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Perhaps you are right. I even use a bed warmer.
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+1 I'm investing in a electric blanket next Winter.
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I'm sure that electric blankets have been improved from those of my youth, but I will state that there has been fires in two of my families houses due to electric blankets. In one instance a pillow was left on top of the still powered electric blanket (elderly grandparents house)...smoke damage, destroyed mattress, and scorched floor...fire department responded. In the other instance (my parents) a blanket was left laying on top of a powered up blanket....it had just started to smolder when it was discovered so no real damage...my mother went around the house cutting cords off of electric blankets after that. I'm sure they're much safer nowadays but I haven't used one since I was a kid.

FWIW,
Ed
 
Hello

We keep our house around 70 and it is plenty warm for us.

The other night we shut the stove down at 7:30 in the morning because the bedrooms got up to 71. Too hot!
 
Intheswamp said:
Hiram Maxim said:
Backwoods Savage said:
tfdchief said:
I think when you get old though your body doesn’t have a good fire going or something.
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Now we are getting to the root of the problem :cheese:
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Perhaps you are right. I even use a bed warmer.
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+1 I'm investing in a electric blanket next Winter.
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I'm sure that electric blankets have been improved from those of my youth, but I will state that there has been fires in two of my families houses due to electric blankets. In one instance a pillow was left on top of the still powered electric blanket (elderly grandparents house)...smoke damage, destroyed mattress, and scorched floor...fire department responded. In the other instance (my parents) a blanket was left laying on top of a powered up blanket....it had just started to smolder when it was discovered so no real damage...my mother went around the house cutting cords off of electric blankets after that. I'm sure they're much safer nowadays but I haven't used one since I was a kid.

FWIW,
Ed
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From what I have been told....Night and day difference from the blankets years ago.
 
We have both a mattress warmer and a foot warmer and with the foot warmer now I rarely use the mattress warmer but use the foot warmer every night. No doubt the workings are the same but I have not heard of an electric blanket causing a fire for many, many moons.
 
I don't like to be cold, so I set the thermostat for 67 so it doesn't drop below that. My wife likes to be warm, so she's willing to reload the insert once while I'm at work to keep it at 72ish. ;-)
 
We keep it 75 to 80 in the winter. And the central air stays at 74 or 75 in the summer.
 
In the winter I like to keep the house around 68-72 degrees F . . . as measured from one room over from where the woodstove is kept . . . obviously the room with the stove is hotter and things are a bit cooler the further out you get.
 
I started to sweat just reading Dennis' opening post.

With fire - the target temp is 72. Over 74 and the other half starts to get grouchy.

Me - I have a very wide range of comfort zone.
I have also found out that I become "acclimated" to the environment. If it is cold outside, I handle the cold better. If it hot outside, I get used to it being hot. (except the bedroom, you could hang meat in there at night - winter or summer).
 
I like it warmer indoors in Winter than Summer. At present, it is 75f indoors with no heating whatsoever, and that is ok, but in Winter, I am quite happy to have the lounge at 80f.

The reason I am happy for a bit of extra warmth in Winter is I often come indoors feeling a bit cold and want to warm up quickly, right through to my bones.

Sits back and waits for someone to tell me I need to chop wood faster when outside in Winter......... ;-)
 
woodchip said:
I like it warmer indoors in Winter than Summer. At present, it is 75f indoors with no heating whatsoever, and that is ok, but in Winter, I am quite happy to have the lounge at 80f.

The reason I am happy for a bit of extra warmth in Winter is I often come indoors feeling a bit cold and want to warm up quickly, right through to my bones.

Sits back and waits for someone to tell me I need to chop wood faster when outside in Winter......... ;-)
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Not me. I am the same way. I think that is the big difference in the temp. we keep our houses in the winter......it's cold outside and and all parts of the house with wood heat are not the same, so it is nice to have that really warm spot to go to.
 
I am just now replacing my older harmon pellet stove with a new woodstock fireview woodstove because of many reasons, but one is that the 270 sf room it was in never got above 75 degrees. The new woodstove is going in the same spot and I actually hope that it will get 85 at times there so it will maybe keep it 60 plus 80 straight feet away down the hall to our bedrooms.
 
Use the fan on the floor at the far end of the hall blowing toward the stove, sappy. That should make a nice difference.
 
BeGreen said:
Use the fan on the floor at the far end of the hall blowing toward the stove, sappy. That should make a nice difference.
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+1 . . . the "fan trick" really helps "level" out the heat in the home . . . the living room where the stove is located is always warmer than other rooms . . . but typically it's not stiflingly hot and the nearby rooms are just a few degrees different in temp.
 
I think the difference in comfort is because of the humidity in summer and lack of it in winter. Starting with ambient air in summer at 80F+ at near 100% relative humidity, one can barely breathe without sweating. Whereas starting with at at 20F and 20-40% humidity and then heating it to 80F+ dries it out a lot. So even with the high temperature it doesn't "feel" like you are perspiring, since your skin stays dry.

Relative humidity is a tricky beast...
 
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