Turn it down to 65 degrees?

Wizeguy

Wizeguy

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Anyone listen to that psychopath and turned their thermostat down to 65?
I have a non stop boiler (that I can't stand) set at 72 and my house is in the upper 60's... hate to see what would happen if I lower it?
 
Lol yeah it’s not happening here, I’m normally at 67 but this cold is brutal. It’s currently at 71 and staying there till Saturday.
 
My thermostat has been (and still is) set @ 63 degrees since
the furnace started in November.

Ya, its a little cool.
 
We do 66 all day and night....68 from 5pm to 9pm (my wife's peak complaint hours).. I think in the summer we aim for 75? 76?... We are usually the efficient house on our DTE bill... But it's just two adults and a dog... Our neighbors on the other hand are five adults in one house with a hot tub, three refrigerators, at least 5 big screen TVs so everybody has their own running and probably a few computers running... Their bill is quadruple what ours is... And I think at one point they were plugging in a hybrid car...lol when we're hanging out in our backyard I'll bring out the DTE bill and I'll go "those scoundrels they're getting me for 58 bucks this month".... I get a lot of middle fingers after that because their bill was $450....hahahahaha ...


Edit post: we are also in a 1938 house with original windows.... 80 year old windows....
 
They started by asking us to cut back because of electricity, now a fire so we gotta cut back on gas. Seems fishy to me.
 
I keep the Nest set at 67 when I'm home and 63 when at work. My office is at 70 and 60 when we close. Have a Nest there as well.
 
slow96hater said:
They started by asking us to cut back because of electricity, now a fire so we gotta cut back on gas. Seems fishy to me.
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There was a giant explosion at a Consumers compressor station in Armada yesterday and they lost a shit ton of gas as well as pressure. It's not fishy. :lol:

Of course I turned it down, it could cost others their lives if we dont.
 
I turned mine down but I think it is a ridiculous request. Once you hit the new setpoint, your furnace is just going to start cranking again. I am not sure the difference in the amount of gas you use when your house is 65 or 70 matters when it is -15 outside. I think whoever made that request doesn't understand basic concepts of heat transfer in your home. If we are 1% usage away from running out of natural gas, we are fucked whether we turn it down or not.

-Geoff
 
The only thing I can think being a benefit is that if your gas is off an hour, than you could save 4% of your usage for the day. But I think it is diminishing returns after that.

-Geoff
 
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When I got that text message that requested we turn our thermostat
down to 65 degrees, I laughed, not just because, as I said its already
at 63 degrees, but we use propane and only fill the 1000 gallon tank
once a year (summer)!
 
Consumers said they'll just cut the gas off temporarily to areas if they're in danger of not being able to make it until the station is repaired. They closed assembly plants today and I don't think the big three would have done that lightly.
 
Between 60 & 63% of all Consumers Energy natural gas used in the lower peninsula goes through the gas pressurization station that caught on fire. And the first plea to turn down the thermostat went out before the fire happened.
 
I read earlier where one article said we can turn it back up at midnight tonight, and one that said tomorrow at 12 noon.
 
Yeah, last night at midnight.

Consumers saw a 10% overall reduction in usage, so it helped. I know it's much to the dismay of the "experts" in this thread. :lol:
 
Yeah it seemed legit. I turned mine off for a few hours when I got home. House didn’t drop much.
 
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