I keep the radiant at 65/66 all the time and just fire up the wood stove in the evening (or morning) if I want it a bit warmer. Seems to work well thus far.
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I keep the radiant at 65/66 all the time and just fire up the wood stove in the evening (or morning) if I want it a bit warmer. Seems to work well thus far.
Ha. Love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
My wife insists on wearing flip flops and t-shirts year round. Constantly complaining she’s cold.
Don’t know how much longer I can take it. I’m about to take drastic action and increase from 70 to 71.
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67 in the day and 62 at night works for us. However, she's constantly freezing and running around with sweatpants two sweatshirts, fuzzy slippers, and a blanket to wrap up in when we're sitting down. In the meantime, I'm tee shirt and shorts. Summer is 74 during the day, 70 at night and we're both wearing the same kind of clothing even then.
oh yeah now I’m changing hearts and mindsQuote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
I see your wife and mine attended the same school. 45 degrees and raining outside and she's barefoot, in yoga pants and t-shirt, complaining it's cold. No shit! It's winter!! Put on a sweater. You have an entire room of them, FFS.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
We have gradually gone from 65 daytime/55 nighttime to 68 daytime (when we're home, which is all the time) / 66 nighttime. We would actually prefer it colder at night, but our old pooch begs to differ. Going to be a very different heating bill this winter vs. all the winters we were both out of the house all day and turned the thermostat down.
I would probably divorce over that. I can't imagine the logic she applies to other decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
This made me laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
"How do you want it hon, too hot or too cold?" (I'm talking about the furnace. Get your mind out of the gutter.)
This killed me. Reading along about thermostats, then this.Quote:
I am happy to announce my wife has learned how to properly load the dishwasher.
We have fancy programmable thermostats to go cool at night, etc. and neither one of us is bothered enough to learn how to program them. More fun to complain.
68/58
Y'all must have quiet heating systems, or big houses? Or is it that you've grown used to sound of furnace and fan starting up/shutting down?
The plan here is for it not to come on at night. Gonna hafta make it 55 soon tho for that to work.
(This is first place I've lived with forced air heating)
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Do you go down at night?Quote:
Originally Posted by babybear
Or leave at 71 in perpetuity
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I bought an old house that I am gutting and remodeling that is still on oil. Had to redo a ton of hardwood and needed to keep the place hot for a few weeks straight as it hadnt been lived in for quite a while. Add in my wife staying there periodically for subsequent two weeks and I literally burned through $1600 in one month. Oh yeah, she also went through a pile of wood and about half of a 100 gallon propane tank because everyone needs to have the furnace blasting, a wood burning fire to supplement and gas fire places for ambiance. I will die a poor man simply because of a thermostat and a cold blooded wife.
Our climate is similar to yours. In summer we open the windows, cool the house down to 58 or so (outdoor temps usually 35-40 F), put on a hoodie, and by afternoon the house is mid 60s and it’s about 80 outside.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Should I set up a zoom call for our two SO’s? :biggrin:
78 ish in the bedroom otherwise shes wearing socks and shit to bed.
Ha! QFTQuote:
Originally Posted by babybear
Wife of Norwegian stock was a mutant - always cold, hated snow. Then that glorious day arrived (as you say, with a double meaning) and now she leaves doors open and fans running in January, so complete 180. I, too, have 180'd, but unfortunately in the opposite direction ....... male menopause?!?
They are alwasy fucking cold so when the wife complained she was cold driving the Suby home its the classic boy-who-cried-wolf scenario
except it was really cuz the heater was not pumping out any heat period but saying" I am cold" is not the same as "the heater is not working" so the heater with no heat was not discovered till we were into a 3000km xmas roadtrip to alberta in -30 weatehr, it was xmas so no way to get it fixed just man up
The wife & kids were ok wrapped in S-bags but the driver (me) had about 30hrs of seriously cold feet, the top 5" of the windows in the car would frost from the top down
at some point i went into a work clothing store pointed at some felt packs and said gimme, the clerk said sorry those are womens and we don't have you size , i don't care they are close enough to work
as it turned out when i ran water in the aluminium engine instead of anitfreeze when the waterpump kacked the summer before running water in an aluminium engine had plugged the heater core with some white crap, the rad guy flushed it out when we got home and the heat came back but it eventualy did plug up again ... don't run water in an aluminium engine
I am so glad my wife thru me out soon enough so i could recover financialy from the ordeal of divorce and still retire earl
:nonono2: turn in yer man cardQuote:
as it turned out when i ran water in the aluminium engine instead of anitfreeze
breakdown in the middle of nowhere so no choice, I didnt run plain water for long but obviously too longQuote:
Originally Posted by frorider
Jesus. Another cause for divorce. I'd never fucking sleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by ICantLogIn
Right. HFS. My dogs would be panting.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Now you get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
It used to, I used to try to walk the line between keeping it an optimal temp for her and not being crazy inefficient. And all it would do is get us into fights because the temp wasn't right and it was my fault since I was the one trying to get it right. So I finally gave up, and my mission now is to have the house at a temp that makes her happy. Fuck the environment (on this one thing) and fuck the utility bills (between $200-250/mo year round these days).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Right? That sounds like a sign of severe hypothyroidism or some other serious medical condition.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
And yeah, at least my wife wants it cold when we go to bed, I can handle almost anything in the 60s but she needs it low 60s. 78 would drive me insane.
She won't do it so you can have a new bike? 'Cause you could save enough for a REALLY nice bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Doesn't she love you and want you to be happy??
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