What temperature do you leave your home at
Today, I had my furnace guy come for the annual check-up, cleaning etc. I've known the guy for many years. I was telling him that next year we would be spending winter in the South and was planning on...
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Just a couple of thoughts from a retired "tekkie". The temp you want to set the house at depends on the humidity over the winter period in your area. For us, it's so dry that I have to tighten up the cupboard door latches in the spring when we return home. You may want to research the highest sustained dewpoint in your area and consider setting the temp above that to prevent mould, if you live in a wet area.
We set our furnace at 10.5C, that's around 52F. After doing heat loss calcs for Y2K, I'm comfortable with the temp, it would take a long time (a day or more) for the temp to reach freezing. In addition, I turn off the water and most of the water pipes are in our basement which I monitor and it stays at a higher temp than 10.5. I have remote temp monitoring and control with email warnings to me and our house checker if the temp drops below 8.5C.
A final comment, we have a high efficiency gas furnace, it gets the high efficiency by condensing the water out of the flue gas, comments about rusting in these furnaces are incorrect (bogus).
We set our furnace at 10.5C, that's around 52F. After doing heat loss calcs for Y2K, I'm comfortable with the temp, it would take a long time (a day or more) for the temp to reach freezing. In addition, I turn off the water and most of the water pipes are in our basement which I monitor and it stays at a higher temp than 10.5. I have remote temp monitoring and control with email warnings to me and our house checker if the temp drops below 8.5C.
A final comment, we have a high efficiency gas furnace, it gets the high efficiency by condensing the water out of the flue gas, comments about rusting in these furnaces are incorrect (bogus).
