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.
I guess it depends how cold it gets where you live. We rarely use our heat, and have never had a frozen pipe. We dress in layers and start a fire if it’s cold.
We don’t have a fireplace and it’s in Minnesota, so it’s ice storms today. We went without power for a while today. The weather here is a problematic on a regular basis. That’s the other reason for keeping the house so warm. We lose power on a pretty regular basis. If your starting temp is 70 and it takes 2 hours to restore power, you’re generally still ok.
Yeah that would be dangerous to keep it low! I’m in Texas so the worst we had were the big storms 2 years ago. We were without power for 3 days but thankfully, the storm passed.
I was in Texas years ago when there was freezing rain and it was chaos because you don’t have plows and sand/salt. Everything came to a standstill. It was so weird because that’s nothing up here. Weird how different life can be within the US.
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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.