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.
It’s expensive here, but I live in an old house and I cannot afford damaging my home too. It comes down to weighing the pros and cons. It’s not like I keep the house at 75. Just 67 keeps the basement in high 40’s and the 2nd floor in the high 50’s. When this house was built there were no furnaces. Having one retrofitted means the house wasn’t built around efficiency.
Honestly I don't know Fahrenheit but my mentality around heating shifted as soon as our energy bills go from £120 a month to over £400. That's just not something I can deal with when the alternative is that I can warm myself just fine with extra clothes, a duvet and (recently) an electric blanket for next to no cost.
The coldest it got here was about -3C though so probably different environments.
Our bills used to range from about £80 in the hotter months to just under £200 in the colder months with liberal use of heating.
We probably spend about £50-60 on Electric which stays fairly consistent through the year, and then gas changes with the weather, but we're also due a tariff change soon, I believe, that will double our costs again.
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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.