Is your house warm or cold?

I hit the wrong key don't know where my first one went oh well,
my DH work out in the cold and he has on his insulated pants most of the time, so he is aways hot in here and turn it way down, says 72 is warm enought,
I told him that thermostat wasn't working right,
we had friends over and they were cold,
he says it is 73 in here,
ever one yell no it not no 73,
I turn it on to take a bath and freeze, when I get out and look he has turn it off,
so off on, off on, that is the life around here,
we have a 2 story house and down stairs he has a wood stove,
whice is nice for down stairs,
and when it not real cold, like down in the teens,
it keep the up stairs warm to,
so came on how is it at your house?
Mary

freezing! we keep it at 68 unless the babies are here, and then only go to 70. gas is just sooooooo expensive, it's costing about $300 a month or so. I'm so tired of my hands being cold (poor circulation) and want a 10 month summer!!

We have a digital thermostat and it's set to be 68 from noon until 10pm, then it drops to 65 since I can't sleep when it's too warm. If I get chilly during the day, I plug in a little ceramic space heater, which works nice and keeps it cozy. The electric is cheaper to run than it is to turn it up and pay for the gas.

We have 2 houses and they are both warm. One is heated by a new Trane gas furnace and the other is oil heat with a woodburner fireplace insert that we use if we're going to be staying for a long period of time. Our new gas furnace is great..at least so far. It seems to run alot but since we had $200 gas bills last year and our last bill was only $40 I guess it's okay. It seems warm in our home at 68 deg. but everyone's temperature tolerance is different. Personally I prefer cold to warm but then again I'm a winter person. "T" :)

Do none of you have any insulation, you cant move in our house for it,we have cavity wall insulation, 8 inches of loft insulation, got double glazing and a very modern combi gas central heating system and boy are we hot inside. It cost me to heat my house which is detached under 300 British pounds last year thats for heating and cooking, so it pays to insulate.All new houses in Britain must be insulated when built now its law.

we have a lot of insulation, but when that wind blow it is like it goes right throught you,
I am just cold, move to mich from Okla and I wrote my mom at they have 6 months of snow and 6 months of cold,
but now I couldn't live in Okla because it is just to hot in the summer,
we have central heating system-oil heat
but if you are cold you are cold and that is me,
Mary

This is a terrible winter at least in the house where I live. I have had the same roommate on and off for 20 yrs. We have lived in this house since 1993. I think HE must be going thru the change!!! In the last few wks, I have been so cold! I know exactly what tiG is saying. My fingers are so cold I can't hardly type!
We have always had pretty much the same feeling about cold weather. WE DON'T LIKE IT!!!! In fact, he moved down here fr Indiana to get away for it. But in the last month(temps down to the teens), he is freezing me out. In fact, I asked him last nite to wake me up when he left for work this morning @ 4:30am, just so I could turn up the heater & it would be warm when I got up @ 5:30.
COME ON SPRING!!!!!!!!!

I live in a fridge. I have one gas fire in the living room and that's it, It never gets about 68 and during icy weather jack frost comes and paints the insides of my windows LOL. My visitors come and sit in their coats when they visit.

The bonus is during the Summer when its still only 68 inside. I know we don't get 'hot' Summers like the USA but everything is relative to what you are used to I guess.

Gee whizz Baa, how can you live in a cold house, is your loft insulated, if not you can either get it done free or very cheap, all the Electric and Gas companies have got very good and cheap offers for cavityf its not an old house and loft, gee whiz i cant stand the cold, and its lovely and warm in my house, to me its more important than a car or holidays etc.If this message is a bit garbled i think something is now wrong with my keyboard

It's not my flat I'm afraid Sheila, so I have to put up with what the landlord will do. I must admit that I grew up in a house with one gas fire, 3 brothers, 2 parents, 1 gran and a bull mastiffX dog plus various other creatures to compete with for warmth LOL Baa being the youngest was the bottom of the pile. On the farms I get occupational asthma so in a way it was better not to have central heating back then, it stirrs up too much dust. I reckon I keep the wool industry going with all my cardy and jumpers LOL.

You're right though it's important to keep warm, when I move next I will definitely be asking how warm it gets!

Are the keys sticking for you? I had to buy a new keyboard last year because it wore out.

my computer room is the warmest room in the house. when i'm cold in here i sneak down the hall and turn up the heat then run back to my desk and put my blanket over my legs. in the tv room i have a small space heater i crank up. this is the south it should be warm lol. at night the heat goes way down about 60*

Sometimes our house is pretty cold, especially the floors. But my room is mostly very warm and the air isn't very clear.. heh. We often have fire in our fireplace on Winter. Right now it is 21,7 inside, downstairs... upstirs it is a little warmer. -3,9 outside.. And on fridays one room in our house is nearly 90 C warm :) I like that room alot.

Evert where are you from I don't know that place "Dumb Me"
I don't think I would like it there or where Baa is,
I will just Thank God I am here in the good old USA,
when that sun come out it is just beautiful, and it just does samething to a body, you feel like doing things,
like clean your house,wash your clother,dust
Mary

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Evert I hope you mean 90 degree F :)

Mary

Englands beautiful and I live in a very warm part of it (again it's all relative LOL), it's just my flat which is freezing ;) Only thing is the 8 months of rain and the sometimes long Spring (April-September) which we have but it does mean we can grow a huge range of plants in our gardens without much worry.

Baa, nope, 90 C - it is our Sauna! hahahahaha :] It can go over 100 though.

Gosh Evert you must be cooked every time you go in there LOL

Evert If I lived in your climate I think I would have to sleep in the sauna to keep warm!

We have a gas furnace that hasn't been used in 4 years (it doesn't work) and a wood stove that puts out enough heat to heat downstairs and upstairs even though this old barn is drafty and not insulated at all. This has been such a mild winter that we have only had to use 2 cords of firewood when we usually go through 4-5 cords. And for those of you who think wood heat is cheap...it is about $245.00 per cord for hardwood and in a cold spell that can translate into about 250-300 dollars a month for heat and it is a lot more work than the gas!

No i am quite happy to be here in England, but i do hate the winters but it does make you excited when its mild like it is now and everything is growing and you can plan what seeds you are going to grow.Hubby does not like hot weather i just love it,and i mean hot i love going to Spain and other warm counties for the heat.No my house is lovely and warm, the answer is to insulate to keep whatever heat you have got on stays inside for as long as possible. We are very energy consious?? here to use as little energy as possible. Just cost us a lot of money buying a Bosch washing machine as its A rated energy saving so we will get our money back in less than 2 years, same with other appliances to. We also have low energy light bulbs too, cos they last at least 10 years had some for about 15 years now.

We have a relatively small house, 1344 square feet. Last winter, our gas heating bills to keep the house @ 65 degrees daytime, 70 degrees evenings, then back to 65 to sleep, averaged $300 a month, even with using the fireplace most evenings. It always left the bedrooms chilly.

We stay warm and toasty both days and evenings if in the living room, DR or kitchen area, although the bedrooms get cool. Our thermostat in the hallway usually is set at 68, which makes the bedrooms about 65. This is quite a difference from last year when my fingers, too, stayed too cold to type!

This summer, I closed off the fireplace and put in a small but highly efficient Jotul woodstove with very low emissions, which we burn most nights and even days if I am working at home, in an area off the living room. Our gas bill has averaged around $70-75 a month instead of $300, and we have burned under $200 of wood since Fall. The bedrooms are still a bit chilly but we are okay with that as it is no change, and we turn up the furnace in the mornings for a bit to shower if the fire has gone out in the woodstove. And, we love tending the fire! Makes me feel so much more in control of my environment (and WITH my environment!) than just adjusting the thermostat.

Our house is an older concrete block construction with NO wall cavity for insulation, and very poor single-pane windows that don't all close tightly. I have managed to add extra insulation to about half the attic over the last 2 years. Since only half the attic now has decent insulation (R-30), I think the difference is the woodstove, and already this year it has paid (in gas bill savings less firewood costs) half of what it cost me for the stove and stovepipe insulation. We didn't run the stovepipe up through the masonry chimney as it would have made the fireplace inoperable if we ever wanted to open it up again. Two nice features of the woodstove is that it is designed to also burn with the door open (with a firescreen) and that it has a glass door so you can see the fire all the time.

I DO wish I had gotten the next larger size stove, which I would definitely do next time, but my budget and lack of experience wouldn't let me! (The reason is only that the next size keeps a fire longer overnight.)

Hey it is not -20 C here all the time outside. Come on.... it is as warm here as in Maine or Pennsylvania on summer. Even +36 C sometimes on summer. So.. :]

we have friends in Congleton 3 J E Cheshine England
Harold and Gladys Amery, they come over about once a year,
is that close to any of you?

we cut our wood on the back 40,
so it doesn't cost us anything,
just go out and cut it,

and Baa Gladys has told me how beautiful it is over there,
maybe sameday I can see for myself,

we need that rain over here, our ponds are drying up,
but I wish it would rain at night while we sleep,
than the sun came out in the day, Ha Ha
Mary_Mi

Yes Congleton is not far from me only about 30 miles, in fact i am going to Cheshire working tomorrow, going to Altringham, in fact Lancashire/Cheshire border is only about 10 miles down the road, remember England is only a small country, but a lot of people live here so it takes you a long time to get anywhere cos its gridlock, i work a lot of weekends as i can get more work in then as the rest of the week.

I live in central Illinois & we converted from a heat pump to Geo-thermal heat/air conditioning. Geo-thermal uses the ground temp to heat or cool the house & I love it. It stays the same temp all the time, no flux in temp as with forced air furnaces/air conditioning. It cost a bit more to purchase, but they said it would pay for itself in a 5 -6 years, but with the gas prices going up, I think it has about paid for itself already. The heat pump costs were around $200 - $250 to heat with (& it wasn't warm heat here in Illinois) & more in the summer to cool, where my highest bill with geo-thermal has only been about $150 & most of the time under $100. We are total electric too, no natural gas out here in the country; it would have to be propane or oil & that is real expensive here.

I read a book, a short while ago it was the life story of Kirk Douglas, his parents came from Eastern Europe,his dad was what we call in England a rag and bone man, and he had a horse to take the cart around, and in winter the house was so cold that Kirks dad used to use the horse manure building it up around the house, cos Kirk makes jokes about it, hes so proud of what he has done he likes to remind people how they tried to keep warm with the horse manure. If you have the chance read it, its a great book.

We keep our house at 65 and love it. That has nothing to do with the cost of heating, we just like it that way. We have it set to go down to 60 at night. I like to sleep in the cold. If it was not for GW sinus headaches I would probably have the window cracked most of the time. I love the cold fresh air.