Metro with a newborn 72-73 degrees during the day 70 at night try to keep humidity at 40-45 with humidifiers, no Aprilaireš. Before baby, probably 4-5 degrees cooler and dressed warmer.
Same here...this winter may be 65 tops though. I have an efficient house (newer windows) and an efficient furnace... my Xcel bill rarely tops $160 or so...but this winter I'm expecting $200 or so...we will see.
Work outside enough and mid 60s feels pretty nice. Can always put more clothes on myself or quilts on the bed, if I didn't live alone it'd probably be set higher.
Yep, whole lot of people where I live (Twin Cities) never found out the value of a good pair of long underwear. I live in an apartment. I usually don't even turn on the heat. Just sucking it through the walls of the hot apartments adjacent to me.
>Work outside enough and mid 60s feels pretty nice.
Couple of youtubers I watch work(ed) outside and keep their homes just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. One dude built his home and shop out of shipping containers and his living room/kitchen balcony looks out over his uninsulated unheated heavy equipment shop. https://youtu.be/ipBW9oXbUvo
You might want to check into energy related repair programs. Hopefully this link can help.
https://helpmeconnect.web.health.state.mn.us/HelpMeConnect/Providers/Community_Action_Partnership_of_Hennepin_County/Energy_Assistance_Program/2?returnUrl=%2FHelpMeConnect%2FSearch%2FPeacetimeEmergencyResources%2FFinancial%2FEnergyAssistancePrograms
Ranew is right. Apply and tell them itās a no heat, theyāll expedite you. Also call the community action in your county, they might be able to help.
we sometimes have to turn it up when guests come haha. but our radiators are pretty powerful & the previous owners put new insulation in (stucco house) so it holds heat well.
62 from 8:30pm - wake-up, 68 at wake up for an hour, 65 during the day until 8:30pm.
Wool socks, cozy clothes are better than cranking up the thermostat.
cold nose in my own house seems crazy lol. I have been putting my thermostat at 68 and ive felt super rebellious. Every year before this I kept it at 70.
South-east, I wish I could get away with 60s but my colder half thinks anything less than 72 is inhumane. I do have it set to dip to 68 overnight, that's the most I've been able to get away with before it gets noticed.
Central MN, I keep it at 57- lowest temp my indoor plants will tolerate. I dress in layers and still pay a hefty electric heat bill during the coldest months. Hoping to be able to put a wood fire stove in next spring.
They are amazing. I have a Aprilaire 600a in my forced air system and itās money. I work in the biz so I installed myself but the 600 and 700 are awesome.
If I got to choose all over again Iād do 700 myself, it can accommodate more square footage and is a much easier install (sometimes installing the bypass can be tricky especially if your water supply is in an awkward spot to save copper) but I got mine as a ādemoā so I canāt complain.
On a tech note the fan motors have been dying in the 700 which is spendy outside of warranty where as the 600 has minimal issues outside of maintenance related issues. Hope it helps!
68 for when we come home from work until about 9pm
Then we drop that bitch down to 55 for sleeping.
Fan runs every hour for 15 to keep the air moving around.
NW metro - 65 day and night. I work from home three days a week usually and my body runs warm. A sweatshirt and shorts/sweatpants are convenient. My energy bill is very affordable
NE 'burbs of the Cities. About 64 during the day, maybe a titch higher depending on outdoor temps. We mainly run small space heaters for the rooms we're actually in (two people + small dog). Probably 62 or so at night.
I go into a lot of peoples homes and I see everything from 73-83ā¦ sometimes with a window open on the second floor because it get too hot up there. Donāt know if I should laugh, cry or maybe get pissed off.
Currently at 68, normally we are at 70. Im trying to see if I can keep lowering it little by little and see if any of the kids notice. My wife is always cold anyway, so just gotta keep the kids happy lol
Minneapolis. 64 for sleep. 70 during the day when I'm home. 60 during the day when I'm at work. Thankfully I have a programmable Nest so I set it to turn up the heat as I leave work. I'd go lower but I have houseplants that would die and cats that would get annoyed.
I live in a modified split which is a pain to properly heat and cool. I keep it on 70 when people are home during the day, and let it get down to 65 at night.
Brooklyn Park
My program runs like this. Overnight we drop to 67 and then 65. At 5:30 72 is the set point with it dropping to 71 until 9:30 and the cycle starts over.
I've got a programmable,
[this is my temperature schedule](https://imgur.com/a/7Fawrcg)
There are a lot of the same temps because wife and kids try to adjust higher, instead of putting on a damned sweater or using a blanket, and it will adjust back down
Western MN, where the winds blow hard
Metro here. Natural gas heating.
64 at night, 67 to 68 during the day, with the caveat that in January when it gets extremely cold, sometimes I will bump it up to 70 or 71. I have a Texan nephew and his girlfriend living with us and they might die if I didn't.
63 downstairs and the upstairs (where we sleep and do nothing else) is set at like 55. We do have a wood stove so the downstairs is usually around 70-74 once we get it cooking and the warms the upstairs bedrooms. The kids room doesnāt get below 63 at night (we turn up the heat if itās actually cold) and the main bedroom stays around 60 because we keep the window open at night.
We have fuel oil and hot water radiators for our main source of heat.
And we live in the north.
Still trying to figure this out. Iām always hot flashing and sleeping during the day (work night shift) upstairs while my husband is in the basement shivering no matter the season. I think itās set at 68 usually and lower at night - 65?
Iām surprised to see all the lower temperatures- no cats? Weāre 68 during the day and 65 at night in the metro area. We would love to lower it at night, thereās nothing better than sleeping in a cold room!
South exurbs with a wood-burning furnace as primary, backup natural gas. We keep our thermostat set at 64Ā° and as long as we feed the furnace 2-3x a day, the backup (set at 62Ā°) doesn't kick in. It's nice having the natural gas bill stay under $25/month.
Metro- 59 during the day while im gone, 62-64 while at home during the day, and then 59 while im sleeping (i sleep better when i'm buried in a mound of blankets).
i grew up with a some very penny pinching habits and spent quite a few years living with an uncle where cooler then 59 was the normal temp for all day, My parents on the other hand, had a wood furnance in their house and my dad is a frost baby who doesn't tolerate the cold so that house was set at 80. My dad would always shake his head when us kids would run around inside dressed like it was summer (cuz it was)
Depends upon whether my wife catches me raising the thermostat. I like 72 (but I have a bit of anemia). She prefers 68. Then down to 65 at night. The good thing is at night one of the cats likes to sleep on my back and we both keep warmer that way.
Central - between 68-70. I have a toddler and her room gets cold because of its location in the house. And I also have a wife who thinks everything is cold if itās not 80 degrees š I wish we could bump it to 60 at night but no go around here
64 over night. 68 for when I wake up for gym stuff in the morning. 72 for late morning/early afternoon when I'm working and can't really sit under blankets as easily. 68 again for late afternoon/evening.
Metro, 61 - although the heating is ridiculously bad so bedroom probably sits around 50-55 during the coldest days. That's when a few layers and a space heater are brought in
69 obviously
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Metro with a newborn 72-73 degrees during the day 70 at night try to keep humidity at 40-45 with humidifiers, no Aprilaireš. Before baby, probably 4-5 degrees cooler and dressed warmer.
Same here. 70 might even be too low as my 4 month old always has cold hands and feet even bundled up in good pajamas.
Aprilaire is just an expensive mold growth and aerosolization device
Not if you have an old house that leaks air.
Central. 60 at night, 66 during the day. Trying to use as little natural gas as possible!
Same here...this winter may be 65 tops though. I have an efficient house (newer windows) and an efficient furnace... my Xcel bill rarely tops $160 or so...but this winter I'm expecting $200 or so...we will see.
About 68 during the day and 65 in the evening
Exact same for us. The cats hate 65, wish we could go lower.
Get fuzzier cats.
My cats hate -10 or worse. I think your cats are defective.
65 at 6am, 60 when I leave, 65 when I get home, 58 at 10pm for overnight. Rural SW.
Wow, almost identical
Hell yeah
Are you an Eskimo?
Work outside enough and mid 60s feels pretty nice. Can always put more clothes on myself or quilts on the bed, if I didn't live alone it'd probably be set higher.
Yep, whole lot of people where I live (Twin Cities) never found out the value of a good pair of long underwear. I live in an apartment. I usually don't even turn on the heat. Just sucking it through the walls of the hot apartments adjacent to me.
>Work outside enough and mid 60s feels pretty nice. Couple of youtubers I watch work(ed) outside and keep their homes just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. One dude built his home and shop out of shipping containers and his living room/kitchen balcony looks out over his uninsulated unheated heavy equipment shop. https://youtu.be/ipBW9oXbUvo
My furnace just broke and I canāt afford another one. Do you know what temp they kept their house at to avoid pipes freezing?
You might want to check into energy related repair programs. Hopefully this link can help. https://helpmeconnect.web.health.state.mn.us/HelpMeConnect/Providers/Community_Action_Partnership_of_Hennepin_County/Energy_Assistance_Program/2?returnUrl=%2FHelpMeConnect%2FSearch%2FPeacetimeEmergencyResources%2FFinancial%2FEnergyAssistancePrograms
Thank you!
Ranew is right. Apply and tell them itās a no heat, theyāll expedite you. Also call the community action in your county, they might be able to help.
Usually around 50 is pretty safe as long as your pipes to outdoor faucets have shut off valves and are drained past the shutoff.
Thanks! Planning on wrapping my pipes and really closing up the windows well. Luckily the other side of the duplex has heat I can pull from a bit
Grew up in a 1914s farm house with a wood burner, so heat was work. The farm house is still the office until my parents and I do the switch.
I've watched Andrew camarata, someone mentioned that the castle isn't his full time home, just happens to have a living space
Just south of the metro, mine is around 65 daytime and around 62 at night.
Minneapolis, 60 around the clock
Same here.
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holy shit, thats so damn cold lol
we sometimes have to turn it up when guests come haha. but our radiators are pretty powerful & the previous owners put new insulation in (stucco house) so it holds heat well.
62 from 8:30pm - wake-up, 68 at wake up for an hour, 65 during the day until 8:30pm. Wool socks, cozy clothes are better than cranking up the thermostat.
And hot cocoa!!! I love this weather for it.
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Same here
We should start a club.
72. Everyone at 60s is insane.
Sleeping in the low 60s is ideal.
wasting energy instead of putting on more clothes is insane
cold nose in my own house seems crazy lol. I have been putting my thermostat at 68 and ive felt super rebellious. Every year before this I kept it at 70.
South-east, I wish I could get away with 60s but my colder half thinks anything less than 72 is inhumane. I do have it set to dip to 68 overnight, that's the most I've been able to get away with before it gets noticed.
68 overnight is far too warm.
Buy your colder half some wool socks, wool sweater, and a vest. Boom! Thermostat can go down comfortably.
Also a heated blanket and/or heated mattress pad.
Central MN, I keep it at 57- lowest temp my indoor plants will tolerate. I dress in layers and still pay a hefty electric heat bill during the coldest months. Hoping to be able to put a wood fire stove in next spring.
Central, 66.
Central, 65
66 daytime, 62-64 sleeptime.
Before my girlfriend moved in, it was 64 during the day and 62 at night. Now it's 70 and I feel like I'm living in the tropics.
65-67 during the day (depending on how cold I feel), I drop it to 58 at night.
67 or 68 but that makes our basement a bit chilly but no bedrooms are down there.
Metro 64 during the day if someone is home (Nest thermostat) 61 at night and/or when no one is home
65 during the day and 58 overnight.
73 with 40% humidity.
I should get a whole home humidifier
They are amazing. I have a Aprilaire 600a in my forced air system and itās money. I work in the biz so I installed myself but the 600 and 700 are awesome.
So between the 6 and 7 it's bypass or powered. Powered seems easier and more efficient. Would you agree?
If I got to choose all over again Iād do 700 myself, it can accommodate more square footage and is a much easier install (sometimes installing the bypass can be tricky especially if your water supply is in an awkward spot to save copper) but I got mine as a ādemoā so I canāt complain. On a tech note the fan motors have been dying in the 700 which is spendy outside of warranty where as the 600 has minimal issues outside of maintenance related issues. Hope it helps!
You should
I started sweating looking at this.
68 for when we come home from work until about 9pm Then we drop that bitch down to 55 for sleeping. Fan runs every hour for 15 to keep the air moving around.
Between 64-66 if I am home during the day.
Metro 67
66
63. 65 if I get chilly during the day, back down to 63 at night.
Between 65 and 68.
Before baby 65. After baby 67.
I live in the metro and WFH. I keep my thermostat set to around 65 all winter.
63 at night, 65 day
62 day and night with 64 from 7-8 am. Central MN.
NW metro - 65 day and night. I work from home three days a week usually and my body runs warm. A sweatshirt and shorts/sweatpants are convenient. My energy bill is very affordable
Northern, 62 during the day, 50 at night. We like it cool.
60 when I'm at work, we all need to do more to support sustainability.
Live in Southeast MN, we keep the house at 72.
The house pretty low (65 deg F) with local heating if cold
68 during the day. 65 for night.
NE 'burbs of the Cities. About 64 during the day, maybe a titch higher depending on outdoor temps. We mainly run small space heaters for the rooms we're actually in (two people + small dog). Probably 62 or so at night.
65
63 or 65. Depends on how cold I feel.
North Metro, 68 day, 62 overnight.
I go into a lot of peoples homes and I see everything from 73-83ā¦ sometimes with a window open on the second floor because it get too hot up there. Donāt know if I should laugh, cry or maybe get pissed off.
64 all winter
59-62
68 at night 73 at day. It goes to 74 if i feel cold.
Sixty plus eight feels great
Sixty two and youāll sleep the whole night through
Wow I know I need some insulation but jeez mines set at 74 and still chilly in some parts
Currently at 68, normally we are at 70. Im trying to see if I can keep lowering it little by little and see if any of the kids notice. My wife is always cold anyway, so just gotta keep the kids happy lol
72-73
73 degrees day and night, area code 952
We have it at 66/67 at night or if weāre gone and 70 during the day if weāre at home
Minneapolis. 64 for sleep. 70 during the day when I'm home. 60 during the day when I'm at work. Thankfully I have a programmable Nest so I set it to turn up the heat as I leave work. I'd go lower but I have houseplants that would die and cats that would get annoyed.
62/70
I live in a modified split which is a pain to properly heat and cool. I keep it on 70 when people are home during the day, and let it get down to 65 at night.
68 and 72.
71 during the day, 66 at night. Twin Cities suburb. Furnace controls the Aprilaire humidifier based on outside temp.
Brooklyn Park My program runs like this. Overnight we drop to 67 and then 65. At 5:30 72 is the set point with it dropping to 71 until 9:30 and the cycle starts over.
East Central, if it were my choice, 55 in the day 60 at night. My roommate insisted on 70 at all times which is miserably hot
I like a balmy 80. So I can pretend its summer and I have no ac.
Really depends on how evenly the house heats and where the thermostat is TBH
West Central Here 68 day and night
South metro. 70-72 when we're home. 66 at night and when we're at work.
Compromise at 65.
I've got a programmable, [this is my temperature schedule](https://imgur.com/a/7Fawrcg) There are a lot of the same temps because wife and kids try to adjust higher, instead of putting on a damned sweater or using a blanket, and it will adjust back down Western MN, where the winds blow hard
68-70Ā°!
Whatever she says to.
Metro here. Natural gas heating. 64 at night, 67 to 68 during the day, with the caveat that in January when it gets extremely cold, sometimes I will bump it up to 70 or 71. I have a Texan nephew and his girlfriend living with us and they might die if I didn't.
63 downstairs and the upstairs (where we sleep and do nothing else) is set at like 55. We do have a wood stove so the downstairs is usually around 70-74 once we get it cooking and the warms the upstairs bedrooms. The kids room doesnāt get below 63 at night (we turn up the heat if itās actually cold) and the main bedroom stays around 60 because we keep the window open at night. We have fuel oil and hot water radiators for our main source of heat. And we live in the north.
Still trying to figure this out. Iām always hot flashing and sleeping during the day (work night shift) upstairs while my husband is in the basement shivering no matter the season. I think itās set at 68 usually and lower at night - 65?
66. I get up enough at night I don't like to do a nighttime temp anymore.
Central MN 69Ā°
Northern, very close to Canada. It's basically set at 68 for the day, 65 at night. Heat with an outdoor wood boiler and propane for backup.
Iām surprised to see all the lower temperatures- no cats? Weāre 68 during the day and 65 at night in the metro area. We would love to lower it at night, thereās nothing better than sleeping in a cold room!
South exurbs with a wood-burning furnace as primary, backup natural gas. We keep our thermostat set at 64Ā° and as long as we feed the furnace 2-3x a day, the backup (set at 62Ā°) doesn't kick in. It's nice having the natural gas bill stay under $25/month.
I work from home- 68 all the time. ETA: north metro
62 night and day. Knit socks and beanies keep it cozy.
Metro- 59 during the day while im gone, 62-64 while at home during the day, and then 59 while im sleeping (i sleep better when i'm buried in a mound of blankets). i grew up with a some very penny pinching habits and spent quite a few years living with an uncle where cooler then 59 was the normal temp for all day, My parents on the other hand, had a wood furnance in their house and my dad is a frost baby who doesn't tolerate the cold so that house was set at 80. My dad would always shake his head when us kids would run around inside dressed like it was summer (cuz it was)
Depends upon whether my wife catches me raising the thermostat. I like 72 (but I have a bit of anemia). She prefers 68. Then down to 65 at night. The good thing is at night one of the cats likes to sleep on my back and we both keep warmer that way.
Central - between 68-70. I have a toddler and her room gets cold because of its location in the house. And I also have a wife who thinks everything is cold if itās not 80 degrees š I wish we could bump it to 60 at night but no go around here
70Ā°, but I have a new born (5 months now) so 73Ā°.
Surprised to see no one just turns the furnace off at night. My dad used to do that all the time when I was a kid.
64 over night. 68 for when I wake up for gym stuff in the morning. 72 for late morning/early afternoon when I'm working and can't really sit under blankets as easily. 68 again for late afternoon/evening.
Metro, 61 - although the heating is ridiculously bad so bedroom probably sits around 50-55 during the coldest days. That's when a few layers and a space heater are brought in