This brings up a good point and a question. I decided to set the
thermostat to 65 during the day and 64 while we sleep. Now I am sure
this house could use a bit mroe insulation, but when I had it resided,
they put in 3/4 inch foam insulation prior to putting the new siding
on. My house overhangs the foundation by about two feet so I stuffed
insulation into the void cause I found and I'm not kiding, but ice on
the inside of the house one Winter between the baseboard and the
floor. I figured that wasn't a good thing so stuffing insulation in
there did help with that. I've got a fair bit of insulation in the
attic, but can't recall how much I want to say at least six inches
might be more or less, I'd have to measure. Now with that said, with
the temps around 20 to 30 degreese and lower over the last week or
two, I notice the damned heatpump cycles on and off a lot more and no
doub tcosting me more money. I wonder if it makes more sense to raise
the temp so it will run longer in the hopes that maybe it'll cycle
less or leave as is and just deal with the fact I'm stuck with the
damned heatpump and cope as best I can? I ca't get anything else in
here such as oil etc. cause the way the house is built, it would
require a lot of money to retrofit the place to accept a chimney. I
don't think my wife would stand for me lowering the temperature to 60
degreese and having to put her coat on. She complains it cold
sometimes, but so far she's handling it pretty well. Our house is
about 1,600 square feet.
