Heating Unit. Advice?

Question

My heating system has electronic timer. I keep it at 69 degrees during the day and keep it to 55 degrees during night. When I get up in the morning, the temperature of the house has dropped to 55 and then when its time for 69 degrees, the heating system tries very hard. It keeps running continously for more than an hour to bring up the temperature.

My question to you is, is this a good strategy to keep the house temperature very low? Is it actually saving my heating bill? Or is it actually costing me more because of heating system trying so hard during early morning from 55 to 69 degrees.

Any advice will be appriciated.

Answer 1

you are saving

Answer 2

A 14 degree rise to going to cause your furnace to work very hard and run for a longer time. You would be much better off dropping the thermostat to about 63 degrees.
Any savings you might be achieving with the 14 degree difference is LOST during reheating time. That also effects your electrical consumption.

Answer 3

It really doesn't save any money if you turn your heat down more than 5 degrees at night. Just think how long your heat is running to try and catch up to your 69 degrees. Sure you are saving money by turning it down at night but you are spending more money by trying to raise the temperature in the morning. My advise is to turn your thermostat down to 64 or 65 degrees at night.

Answer 4

69 to 72 is normal during the day but at night i go no lower than 65...and the furnaces works harder from 55 to 69 than 65 to 69...

Answer 5

Since most people are using more electricity in the morning, it seems that it takes a lot longer to bring up your heat to the desired level. I dont think you are saving on heat bills by turning it down so low at night.

Answer 6

run it at 62 for a month then compare the bills .iam sure you will find that u are spending your heating dollars more wisely by turning up the thermostat.

Answer 7

In very cold weather, I would not lower it that much at night...maybe just to 62.