So what temp do you set your thermostat too in the winter? 68, 70, 72, 74, even higher? Or maybe you are one of these people that turn your thermostat back at night? I leave our thermostat at 72 all winter long.
I do have a problem with the idea of turning your thermostat back at night. They say you save on energy turning you thermostat back at night, but I really questing that, even if you do, I wonder what the real savings are if any?
When you set your thermostat back at night, in the morning when you turn it back up is where I see you losing your savings. I can see having your thermostat set to a lower temp will help save money, but turning it back then to a higher temp in the morning? I question the savings.
When you turn your thermostat back at night, everything in your house cools off a few degrees. When you wake up and turn your thermostat back up, your furnace has to run longer and come on more often to get everything back up to the new temp you set the thermostat too.
Even though your furnace reaches the new higher temp, everything else in the house is still cooler being it's all at the temp that you had the thermostat lower temp set at. This being the case, the coolness off everything in the house absorbs the heat in the house causing the house to cool off faster which means your furnace will run longer and more times until everything in the house equalizes with the temps in the rooms.
In other words, even though your thermostat reached the new higher set temp and turned off the furnace, there is still coldness coming off everything in the house cooling off the inside temp until it all warms back up to the new higher temp.
I don't think anyone like to sleep in a bedroom that's to warm, which would make for a good excuse to turning your thermostat back at night. Here it's not bad. If I keep my thermostat set at 72 deg. F., the furnace will kick on around 71 degrees, then run until the temp reaches 71 or 73 degrees. At the same time, the temp in the bedroom is 68-70 degrees.
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