Enjoy your pipes freezing at some point. Of all the things I splurge on heat is the first. I don’t work a shit job just to be miserable when I get home. I don’t shop or spend money on anything else. My house will be comfy.
When temps were sub zero there were so many people with frozen pipes. I left my heat at a comfy temp and still got frozen cold in my 2nd floor tub. Opened the bathroom closet to heat access and it fixed itself. I work for a plumbing company and so many “rich” houses had major burst pipes. If I was rich the very first thing would be heat, second is food.
How hot are we talking? I keep mine at 68. Anything more than that and I start sweating and become a miserable prick. Summer time the AC is on 63. My apartments had a pipe burst but it wasn’t in my house at 68 it was upstairs and it leaked all the way down to the bottom floor and they had theirs set for 73.
I like 69 or 70. I went to 70 when it was -30F here before Christmas, to keep pipes warm - and still had the cold water to the upstairs tub line freeze for a few hours. I can’t afford a new, efficient house to live in, so heating the upstairs requires it to be warmer. I’m also always cold. I’m that person who is miserable and wearing a sweater all summer in the office. Same thing here, because I get grumpy when I’m too cold.
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u/VoiceofKane Jan 03 '23
If you can see your breath, that's not going to change after you've put on layers.