As the temperature starts to dip remember to go around to your rooms and close all of the closet doors, and doors to rarely-used rooms that don’t need heat.
We have a gas heating in our home. The vents to our bathrooms and laundry room are closed, and we shut those doors at night so those rooms aren’t heated. We open them in the morning, and those rooms end up the same temperature of the whole house during the day.
We keep the house at 67 degrees during the day and 60 degrees at night. I love to dwell at 78 degrees, so I layer.
But being able to have your house at different temperatures throughout the day requires a programmable thermostat. They are available at most home-improvement retailers, and if you have a gas or electric furnace, or even oil heat, it’s worth considering, as it can pay for itself very quickly with the savings on your energy bill. They even come with a variety of programming options available: you can program M-F all the same, and the weekends differently, or all seven days can get their own program. It just depends on what you’re looking for.
The less square footage you have to heat the more you save. Even if you are saving pennies, pennies accumulate into dollars and dollars into 10s of dollars, etc….
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