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loneryder
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Dec 12, 2015

What do you set your house heat at when leaving for winter?

This will be my first time SB ing and I was thinking about what to leave the heat set at when gone. I was thinking leaving the heat pump at 50-55. Water and everything else will be off and unplugged....
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The_Texan
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Dec 12, 2015
We live in the western mountains of Idaho, where temps can and do reach into the MINUS teens. We have a hybrid heat system with a heat pump & gas furnace. I set the thermostat to "vacation" mode, which automatically sets 50° as the low and 85° as the high. We have a SimpliSafe alarm & monitor system and right now it is 49° inside and 29° outside. The lowest we have ever seen inside is 48°.

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