On 12/31/2015 7:11 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 12/30/2015 6:06 PM, Vlad Lescovitz wrote:
The wife doesn't like the house being set at 55 degrees
so she (and the teen)

How poor are you that you can only afford to keep your house at 55 F?
There's no way in hell I'd subject my family to that unless financially
I had no choice - and I'm a tightass.

I keep our house at 58 F at night, 62 F during the day - but I allow an
override up to 65 F if anyone's at home.

If you're not doing this out of financial desperation, then your family
is entitled to do whatever the hell they need to do to beat you at your
skinflint game.


We keep the house between 68° and 72°, although it will fluctuate if we
get colder spells and go lower than 68°. For a long time the house was
always on the cold side, but this fall I bought 2 portable rolling oil
radiator heaters that are wonderful at keeping the house warm. They
cycle between high/med/low/off power settings and maintain a surrounding
temp based on the thermostat temp that you set it at. When it cycles to
off it's still producing heat because the coils are radiating heat from
the warmed coils.

They work so well that we have to turn the thermostat down. They are
slow to heat up a room, but once they get up to temperature we never get
cold. We've tried all sorts of portable space heaters to supplement the
gas furnaces and baseboard heaters throughout the house which never
really kept us warm, but these 2 oil radiator heaters weren't very
expensive at all and they do the job of all the other portable heaters
couldn't do.

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Maggie