Dale, in my opinion we made a big mistake by not turning back the
thermostat this winter. I got the word from isnide this place
that by turning the heat back some were" freezing" well my proof
for health purporses is on my trips to the doctors so beginning Feb
1st our thermostat is going back to clicks . I say clicks because I
have an older honeywell thermostat which clicks ever two degrees up
or down. I will say in the defense of the" Other side" on real windy
days I can barely get the house to stay at 71 so on those days I
run a tea kettle on low to provide a bit of steam as my prodagy meter
will say the room temp is 66 or 65 . so why do I want to move into a
Dome home, log cabin built at the beginning of the ce4ntury or buy an
old Missle silo? you be the judge. meanwhile some ice cubes and a
decent swig of Scotch seems to keep us all alive. Lee
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Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:57:02PM -0500, Dale Leavens wrote:
> I might have got the message heading wrong but thought I would share this
> observation to expand on the topic earlier this week.
>
> I was reporting on the effects of setting our thermostat back to 16C (60F at
> night. The last two nights it didn't get below freezing, about 2C 35F
> outside. The indoor temperature didn't get down below 19C or about 64F and of
> course it took much less time to bring the house up to temperature in the
> morning.I would conclude that the money saving efficiency would depend a lot
> on how cold it gets, obviously. Clearly we didn't use any gas for heat the
> last two nights and we certainly would have had we not set the temperature
> back.
>
> The heat wave has sadly passed. When I got into the shower this morning it
> was raining out and a couple of degrees above freezing outside. By the time I
> got out it had dropped 4C and just a little over half an hour later when I
> got to work it had fallen 12C. About 22F drop over about an hour. The rain
> turned to blowing snow with white out conditions and they closed the highways
> both the south highway and the west one and they closed the schools. It was a
> pretty quiet outpatient day at the hospital today.
>
> Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
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