poll question! BRRRRRR edition

[k2daisy]

Question for the small DW crowd: when do you turn on the heat in the fall?

Do you wait for a certain date? A certain temperature? Or just when it's gotten too cold for you (or your pets) to be comfortable?

We had a big drop in temps at last, and it looks like this one is going to last. It's now consistently in the 40s with a few daytime spurts to the 50s. Our house thermostats says it's 58 inside, but it feels a lot cooler than that.

Aghans and blankets are all over the house. Poor Molly is living under a big fleece all the time right now.

R and I are discussing when to turn it on. I prefer a cooler house so this is nice for me, but tbh now that my hot flashes are over post-menopause it's verging on too cold for me. I doubt we will make it to November 1.

So what do you do?

Comments

[minnaway]

I'm actually not sure when the condo building association turned it on! IIRC from the orientation in spring, it's variable--usually around mid-October to mid-May. I checked today just out of curiosity by turning the thermostat up way high and my radiators did turn on, so they activated it as some point this season. I've got my thermostat at 70, so the radiators will kick in when it starts dropping below that point, and they're about at that point now.

I'm actually super excited to have control over my own heat now, since I didn't with my previous apartment complex. They went by dates, regardless of temp, and the last set of property managers basically set it once per season, such that the basement apartments would never go below 68 even in the coldest days. Which effectively meant that my first floor apartment was regularly hitting 80 to 85 degrees until the weather dropped below freezing.

[k2daisy]

Ha, I forgot how much warmer it always was in the condo, just by sheer nature of the units being attached. Unfortunately for us it didn't matter what temp we set it at, we lived in shorts and t-shirts all year round because the people on either side of us had theirs on high. Hopefully you won't have that!