When do you usually turn on your heat?

Well, it's unusually cool here for this time of year (got down into the 30's here tonight) so I've had to turn on some heat-this new house I'm in is pretty well insulated (the damned thing's made out of concrete) so I just turn on the stove and it heats the whole house fine.

South Texas weather's so damned crazy, though-as long as the wind is blowing from the North (a minority of the time) it's cold, but when it starts blowing from the South, you may need the air conditioner. Last Christmas it snowed, but 3 days later we had to have the AC on so we didn't burn up! Just crazy....

 

the month don't have diddly to do with it. we switch the ac function off when the day temp stops going above 80 and the heat function on when the night temp starts falling below 55 or so. and if both temps would stay in between there for long enough we wouldn't have to use either at all.

and i have lived and gotten by where i didn't have either, but that was when i was a bit younger and had plenty of warm clothing.

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It's been awful cold at night here. Our outside bedroom walls have no insulation. Our place advertised free heat.
They should have fine print warning you to bring a space heater!

 

"Free heat" or "heat free"?

 

I'd go with the warm-socks-and-sweater alternative to using heat if I didn't live in Canada, it's cold here! This year our heat kicked in around end of October.

 

Yeah, a lovely thought, but some of us live where it is actually cold.

I turn it on if I deem it "too cold". My house is over 100 years old and it gets damn cold in here fast. We do have a thermostat that I program to go down at night.

 

Not so many toughnuts here then?


There's actually no heating source in my bedroom, and it bothered me when we first moved in...

But I'm still sleeping with the window open!

And I drink my first beverage sat up in bed bare-chested :chill:

 

yeah, I was gonna comment on the "you never need to turn on the heat" comment, but that got taken care of . but yeah, when you have to live in -30 Celsius at least, plus a fuckload of wind chill coming off the Atlantic, you tend to use your heat when you coming inside. humans a few thousand years ago died a lot faster, a lot more often, and generally lived a really really uncomfortable life compared to me and my heat... so i'm not about to stop appreciating that .

 

Exactly. If I'm forced to do completely without the heat, I'm gonna move to a tropical island (which I should have done a long time ago...)

 

which brings us back to the point that the one rational answer is completely missing from the options in the poll. that is: "WHEN IT GETS COLD"!

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whenever my nuts shrivel up to the point of being painful