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random curiosity
How much do you heat your place?
I don't need to heat at all in my climate zone, it remains comfortable all winter.
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I don't (or can't) heat at all, and just tough out the cold with extra sweaters, socks, thermal underwear, blankets etc.
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I heat only some rooms, and these not quite as warm as I'd like to save energy/money, and use some extra sweaters, socks, thermal underwear, blankets etc. when necessary.
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I heat only some rooms, but these are as warm as I like it.
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I heat all rooms when I use them, but not quite as warm as I'd like to save energy/money, and use some extra sweaters, socks, thermal underwear, blankets etc. when necessary.
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I heat all rooms comfortably when I use them, and only turn down the heat when I'm not there.
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I heat all rooms, but not quite as warm as I'd like to save energy/money, and use some extra sweaters, socks, thermal underwear, blankets etc. when necessary.
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I heat all my rooms as warm as like it. Saving some money/energy is not worth being uncomfortable at home.
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I heat all rooms as much as possible, but still need some extra sweaters, socks, thermal underwear, blankets etc., because winters are just that bad here.
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Automatic thermostats sound nice. My thermostats are just a valve on the radiator that you can turn more open or close, so you can't choose a temperature exactly or anything like that, though iirc the middle position was supposed to be 20C or so. Though afaik the building's central heating is automatically downregulated some for the night for everyone.
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Sadly I had to give up on down comforters after my rats chewed holes in my last one, and I didn't want to invest the money into an expensive blanket just to risk it again, next time I forget to put it away from the reach of inquisitive teeth. At least if something chews on the artificial fiber filling it still holds together you don't end up with feathers everywhere, and it's also more easily washed.
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Usually, I'm going to add layers before I turn up the thermostat, in part because I don't trust my body's temperature sense but also, most definitely, from a savings perspective.
I should add that I have a whole arsenal of tricks to warming my core temperature up when I feel cold despite the warmth of the room, so that's a whole other subject. :D
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I also sometimes have odd temperature perceptions. Mine seem to go with my menstrual cycle, i.e. there's always one time a bit before my period when I feel inexplicably cold for 30 minutes to two hours or so, regardless of the temperature. Bodies are just so odd sometimes.
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We never heat the bathroom since it's not worth it, for the little time it's occupied. (Sometimes you'll here a little curse coming from in there.) We only heat the kitchen very occasionally, since it's tiny and the stove usually creates enough warmth.
I don't heat my bedroom except for 10 minutes or so when I'm going to bed - my feet can touch the heater and I have balmy warm feet all night. (Hate going to sleep with cold feet. The never ever warm up on their own!)
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I don't heat my kitchen (unless I have guests), because it is a large room, which is nice for sitting there, because many people can sit there if I unfold the kitchen table fully and it is nice for cooking too, but when it is just me, it's just not worth it. Thankfully the recent renovation and repainting of the building's front took care of one of my kitchen corners being persistently clammy, so I had a spot of mold there recurring every winter. Which of course would have stopped had I fully heated the kitchen regardless of the state of the outside, so I could not complain (as per the lease obviously I'm required to heat and air sufficiently, but I was miserly). But it's not been a problem anymore with the new paint repelling the outside humidity better and I can take care of the cooking humidity by just airing.
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I was raised on wood-furnace central heat, and my mother is terribly cold-blooded. so she keeps her place about 74F (23C?). Moving to somewhere with gas heat and a heating bill hurt.
And my particular medical condition means I cannot even try and keep my bedroom cool, or I will do nothing but throw up all day.
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I'm finding it too hot, so I've been blocking off vents as necessary, and keeping the window beside my bed open whenever I'm sleeping too minimize nosebleeds.
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I also heat-by-cooking, as the heated room contains my kitchen a large pot of stew can raise the temperature a good bit.
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And, also, I like rooms to be on the colder side. For years we never used the heat at all, because we didn't actually need to, and I hate hate hate the way heat smells. (No, I'm serious, it has a smell. I AM NOT CRAZY WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY?) But then we had the earthling, and while I might have enough insulation, and enough acclimatization, to be comfortable in a house that's 60 (15.5 C), he doesn't. (And now, after years of keeping the house around 70 (21 C), I don't, either. I feel cold at about 65 (18 C) now.)
I felt odd when a person on my friends list did a poll about indoor temperature, and revealed that she kept her house at 78 - 80 degrees year round. That is too hot! Way too hot! Way, way, way too hot!
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Why does your heat smell? Do you also have one of those vent systems the people above described rather than hot water radiators? If so I could imagine that it smells, especially if the whatever filter these things must use isn't too great. I mean, vacuum cleaners create a smell of heated dust particles that is unpleasant, and that's the direction my thoughts go when you say your heat smells.
You are however crazy for liking indoor socks. Why would anyone want socks on their feet, when they could go barefoot?
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Some days it gives me more trouble than others, but it was 20F today for the high.
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The indoor temperature without the heater probably drops to about 8C at the coldest, but usually stays around 13-14C. With the heater, we get up to about 18-19C which is comfy.
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I saved up money last year for ducted reverse-cycle air conditioning last year (the ducts are in the roof),and it made such a difference. I'm spending slightly less on heating because the reverse-cycle is more efficient than all the portable heaters. (I'm spending more on cooling in summer, but then the air-con is a bonus which does a much better job on really hot days than the ceiling fans)
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Visitors tend to complain, but I like cuddling up cosy with extra sweaters and woolly socks, or a blanket, so... :D
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But, you see, as far as everyone else is concerned that's cold, because I like bundling up in a sweater, blanket, thick socks. As long as my fingers aren't too numb to turn a page or type, I'm a happy camper. (Amusingly enough, I'm never a happy camper - 'bugs, dirt, rocks, campfires mean smoke in your eyes, what is this no electricity crap, I'm outta here...')
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You are strange. But it sure helps for saving energy.
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