Do you keep your heat on all night or turn it off in the middle of the night?

Answer 1

I turn it off when I go to bed. That's what covers are for! lol! I usually turn it back on at 5:00am when my cats tell me they want to go out.

Answer 2

I have individual baseboard heaters in each room, and they get turned down at night, except for my bedroom. I usually let the rest of the place drop to about 60 at night; I don't want to drop it any lower or it will take too long to warm up the next day, as objects themselves will start to cool down too much. During the day, I do the opposite - the living area, kitchen, and my office are turned up, and the bedroom temps are allowed to drop. My apartment has a heating system for those areas, but I found it to be VERY inefficient, and the baseboard heaters belonging to me have let me turn THAT off, and still stay nice and warm, at about half the utilities cost I was paying before!

Answer 3

Depending on whether your heating system is thermostatically controlled will depend on how you control the heat. For older folks the temperature should not be set below 65 degrees. For younger people 60 is a good sleeping temperature. Thermostat setting should control the temp. all evening. If your thermostat also has a time control feature you can set the sleeping temp and dial in a waking temp and time to increase the heat automatically.

Answer 4

What heat? There is none yet because it seems our building manager has not yet turned it on! It's inadequate steam heat that makes it extremely uncomfortable when it DOES work. I live in California, so I know I won't freeze to death, but is is nice to have a little heat on those cold mornings. I just take a hot shower, get dressed & leave!

Answer 5

I have a programmable thermostat that lowers the heat at night, raises it before we awake then lowers it while we're at work finally, bringing it back up for the evening.

Another suggestion is to get your power company to amortize your payments throughout the year so you don't get hit so hard in the winter. They basically look at your total bill for the year then average it.

Answer 6

I have a set back thermostat and I set it back at night to 68 degrees. I havn't seen any saviings though. My gas bills are still very high and I live in VA where it dosn't get very cold for long.

Answer 7

I usually turn my heat down before I go to bed. I have it programmed to go down to 64 at 11:30 PM, as my finacee and I enjoy chillier sleeping weather.