We have a programmable thermostat and two heaters. Both are programmed to go on in the morning and off at 8:30 am. The one that heats our bedroom goes back on around 8 pm timed for when we come upstairs. It goes off at 10. Whatever the temp drops to at night is what we sleep at. Most nights we sleep with our sliding door open. I like the house to be around 70 degrees during the hours I’m awake and home.
Note I normally hate sleeping cold. 66 is absolute lowest I can go. Any colder and my joints wake up super stiff.
Though the last few weeks my internal heater (fetus) has turned on and I’m boiling at night. My body heat wakes up Mr R and I’m sleeping without blankets for the first time ever. He can sleep in the cold but I think he’s going to soon be sleeping on the couch with the space heater lol
My mom lives here and is always cold (even with warm sweaters/jackets on), so day is 70 and night is 68. I’d go colder in a heartbeat but H also likes the house warm so I’m stuck for now.
My dh runs hot normally so I’ve always kept the temp in the mid-low 60s at night no matter what the time of year. Our ceiling fan is also running non stop year round. We finally bought a king size bed and I find it easier now that there’s more room. If the bedroom temp dips below 60 I refuse to get out of bed. But I also wear cotton pjs shorts and a tank. If I wore what my 12 yr old calls “snoozie” pjs, I’d probably balk alot less about emerging from my blanket cave.
I have always lived by the rules of my ex, an energy conservation nerd. My thermostat is set back to 58 at night, with a roar up to 68 in the morning and then back to 64 during the day when no one is home and return to 68 in the evening. Confession-at times I bump it up to 69 or if sitting around and getting chilly, or when visitors come over. This worked with my steam radiators in the old house as well as my newer 1927 bungalow with forced air. Although I worry about freezing pipes in the basement if below zero, so turn the setback to 60 when super cold. What I learned from him is that the subjective part is the house insulation as well as outside temperature in terms of comfort. With a well insulated house, and tight windows, the comfort level at lower temps is greater as the walls are staying warmer and there are no window drafts.
I have a programmable thermostat and the temp drops to 58 at night. About 30 minutes before the alarms go off it cranks to 68 and then drops down to 62 while we’re at work/school. 67 or 68 is about the highest I have it while home. I would absolutely die with it being 72 at night. I prefer warm blankets and cold air.
However, I’ve noticed not everyone’s 68 degrees is the same. I go to my aunt’s next door and freeze and she say’s “it’s at 70!” Sure enough that is what the thermostat and an additional thermometer in the kitchen where we’re sitting will say 70. I think it’s just because it’s an older house and maybe not as tightly sealed as mine. Plus most of my living areas are carpet and over a heated basement where as she has hardwood floors and while she has a basement it’s not kept nearly as warm as my finished basement.
It depends on the time of year. In the winter, thermostat is set at 63, but we don’t have a radiator in our bedroom. It’s usually around 55 during Jan-Feb. Summertime, our thermostat is at 80* with ceiling fans running 24-7. Our bedroom has two AC vents, but they are in one corner of the 20x20 room and one wall is almost completely glass. It’s probably 85*+ in there in the summer. (Our house is > 100 years old and not energy efficient.) A couple of years ago we got a portable AC that we turn on with the doors shut an hour before bedtime and let run through the night. It’s a godsend and our bills haven’t increased too much. Opening our windows is not an option. I’m highly allergic to everything alive, and I might be dead by morning if we left them open.
I definitely prefer sleeping in the cold vs heat, but I hate cold sheets. I find that I sleep in a tight curled up ball and can’t move when I wake up. Maybe 10 years ago H got me a dual-controlled heated mattress pad for the winter. It’s a godsend. I set it at 2 out of 10 - not enough to be hot, but enough to take the chill out of the sheets.
Since we have no heater nor A/C, we are at the mercy of the tradewinds (or none), plus the few portable fans we have situated strategically around the house and cross ventilation because we have windows all over the house as well as a screen front door and screen patio doors. H and S also added mylar bubblewrap insulation to our crawl space attic some years ago which also helps keep our home at a nice temperature most of the year. We’ve only been tempted to buy an A/C a few days every year but then just turn on another fan and make it through those few very hot and sticky days and are glad we didn’t bother.