normal thermostat heating settings

Rodney Summers

i like 70 day 65 nite

clammy

Thermostat temp settings

Just wondering and would like the pro's and HO opions on what temperture they set there thermostat at .I recently had a call for no heat and found a loop ran in 3/4 heatway tubing frozen ,no leaks but still no heat now keep in mind it has been alot colder in the past and nothing has frozen .Now here's the kink why did it freze now it's kinda warm mid 30 ,well i got a look at the t/sta set at 52 when no ones home and 56 when there home .Now is it me or does that sound like it's cold ?They do walk around with snow caps and fleece wear i just don,t get it am i seating in my home at 68 wasting energy?give me some insight peace and good luck clammy

Ron Schroeder

Set Point

I got a call from an angry customer a few years ago because it was 10 below zero and her furnace was running. Yup she kept it set at 40* and couldn't understand why the furnace would run. She said she only wanted it to run once a day for an hour when she took her shower. I sujested that she could turn off the E switch in cold weather, but she would run the risk of freezing pipes.
At home mine is set at 73* because the wife has been going through cancer treatments and she's freezing and I am boiling, normally I set for 66* and adapt. I try to tell customers that 56* 5 feet up on a wall isn't 56 down on the floor or in a wall. Just feel behind the drapes on a cold night and you will discover that real quick.

Brad White_35

No explaining comfort

Some people are really on a budget. Older folks who have been through the Great Depression tend to be hardy and frugal. (OK, cheap. There, I said it. )

I would surmise that at colder temperatures the system naturally runs more hours in the day at a given T-Stat setting so that maybe soaks the house with heat enough to mix it up a bit. Come milder weather the system takes a rest, long enough for isolated areas to drop below freezing. Bottoms of stairwells, hallways, places where drafts can linger....


I had a freeze-up years ago in a laundry room. Old house (mine, new to me at the time). The rest of the house had these standing cast iron radiators, some with really nice Egyptian motifs. I kept the heat at 68F and 55 at night.

Single thermostat for the whole house.

The reason for the freeze-up was that the previous owner had put in fin-tube for the laundry room and it was behind the washer/dryer. The sill leaked air and whammo. It took a while to figure it was not the washer overflowing (although that did freeze too).

Lesson learned. That was in 1978... did not know then about not mixing two types of radiation on one circuit then. My boss at the time set me straight as to why.

Unknown

it can go the other way too

i replaced an electric boiler for a customer just before x-mas last year and they called @ 5PM christmas eve saying "the boilers not running, we got no heat!" so i went out and the thermostat was turned all the way up and it was like 80 degrees in their living room! idiots......

oh, i prefer 67 by the way

JB_8

70 day 68 nite

Long Beach Ed

For steam..

I like 69 in the daytime and 65 at night.