Not judging your tactics, but do you have an idea of what your savings on your heating bill actually are as compared to say 70 or 71 degrees? Personally, my daily comfort is more important to me than the dollars in my entertainment budget
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In general, you lower your heating bill by 3% for every degree you turn down your thermostat.
Get one of the portable ones that connects to your 12v outlet in the car, and then pump them up in the garage. Best $30 I ever spent.
You can get cheap 115 plug in for 50 bucks at harbour freight. They are cheap, I have to turn the tool knob off and let it air up or it will leak but the extra 2-3 minutes to air tires hear and there isn’t too big of a deal. Especially when the wife/kids will let them go a little too long.
You can get cheap 115 plug in for 50 bucks at harbour freight. They are cheap, I have to turn the tool knob off and let it air up or it will leak but the extra 2-3 minutes to air tires hear and there isn’t too big of a deal. Especially when the wife/kids will let them go a little too long.
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We just drove to Coralville and back on 380. The Interstate is mostly pretty good, with lots of dry pavement in at least one lane much of the way; one lane is still fairly icy south of the airport, and the packed ice is more widespread south of North Liberty.
We counted over 50 disabled vehicles basically between CR and North Liberty (we got off 380 on Forevergreen Road). Proving the ice was still a factor, there were two vehicles that had spun off the interstate right before we passed by just north of North Liberty on our way back.
We counted over 50 disabled vehicles basically between CR and North Liberty (we got off 380 on Forevergreen Road). Proving the ice was still a factor, there were two vehicles that had spun off the interstate right before we passed by just north of North Liberty on our way back.
For me, that equals about $1.80/month per degree. It’s worth paying that much for me just to not hear complaints about how cold it is in the house.
KidSilverhair
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Discount Tire will do this for you, for free. You might have to wait in a long line though
Good for you. I happen to be really comfortable at 68 degrees and my wife, although she wouldn't mind a few degrees warmer, doesn't complain too much.
I installed a geothermal system when I built my house in 1995 at a cost that was fairly close to the same as the most efficient furnace/air conditioner at the time. I'm rural so I avoided the swings in price of LP over the years. Recovery times do not make setback thermostats very practical so we set ours to 71-72 and leave it be. Biggest drawback is loss of electrical service but even in a rural setting those events have been few and far between.
I'm not trying to be "that guy" but you are literally just tricking your furnaces thermostat into thinking your house temp is warmer than it is. And I know you know that already. But if you get a cheap Kill-a-watt plug off Amazon and check the energy usage of that space heater I think you'd be shocked what it costs you in electricity. A/C unit replacements are ridiculously expensive but furnaces are actually pretty cheap, I think you might have a pretty quick ROI on a replacement.
1500 watt space heater costs about $2 a day. When I have to go into office buildings to figure out why their electric bill is so high, the majority of the time is because of space heaters.
That’s great, I’m just pointing out moving the thermostat a couple degrees is saving less than buying a cup of coffee per month. To people that are in the fence between saving some money or being comfortable, it’s good to have the perspective that it’s not saving you much at all.
Ours is set at 67 in the winter. Put a sweatshirt on. Now it probably balances out in the summer, I wont sit in a hot house.
My set of cubes had 6 women running them. We tripped the breaker multiple times. Think theyd raise the damn temp. Nope. Women had fleece blankets and fingerless gloves.
Roads have terrible snowpack we traversed today. Way home saw an accident we turned to avoid. Tow truck pulling a vehicle out of the ditch. The vehicle? A snow plow.
Ya, that sounds like the responsable thing to do
Yeah, I was surprised that the main in-town roads were so bad still. I understand why, but it's going to be an annoying week with that crap.
I WISH.
Ours is set at 74 because she can't stand the cold. And it's boiler/radiant heat, so it doesn't go down at night and it's just too hot to sleep. Luckily its pretty efficient so its not really that expensive. Just too ****ing hot.
