***Official 2022 Weather Thread***

[MeanDean]

How does everyone handle their thermostat in extreme cold like this? I typically drop mine to 58 while I'm at work and then fire it up about 30 minutes before I head home. I see mixed opinions on whether or not that is actually an efficient method to reduce cost.

Yes, that's a savings. The more the temperature difference between inside and outside the more you have to heat (or A/C) in the summer. Your furnace will run less during the day versus how hard it will work to bring it back up to temperature. This assumes you're gone for a while so the 58 degree setting is in place for a bit.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

How does everyone handle their thermostat in extreme cold like this? I typically drop mine to 58 while I'm at work and then fire it up about 30 minutes before I head home. I see mixed opinions on whether or not that is actually an efficient method to reduce cost.

I handle it in private.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Garage heater?

Well hello, Mr Rockefeller

I keep the garage at 45 usually, seems to be a good medium.

 

[AgronAlum]

Garage heater?

Well hello, Mr Rockefeller

250 bucks and an electrical panel in the garage? You too can live like a king.

 

[AgronAlum]

I Don’t want to start an endless debate on this, but that’s not how it works. I’ll try to simplify this as much as possible

Your house has a certain amount of “heat loss” or leakage. The greater the temperature difference between the outside and the inside (delta T in nerd terms..) the greater that leakage or heat loss becomes. So, as the two temperatures (inside and outside) get closer, your furnace has to run less to maintain that temperature.

So out of curiosity, how does a concrete floor holding temperature at a way higher rate than the rest of the house factor in? It’ll sit and radiate cold air for days if you let it cool down.

 

[enisthemenace]

250 bucks and an electrical panel in the garage? You too can live like a king.

I want one bad, but I’m not handy.

 

[BCClone]

250 bucks and an electrical panel in the garage? You too can live like a king.

Electrician panel in the garage. Okay mr Bezos, do whatever you want. I ran wiring from my basement panel up into my garage.

 

[Gunnerclone]

You freaking rubes. My garage is on the second floor of my 5 story house. Right next to the billiards lounge.

 

[3TrueFans]

Super powdery snow and more than I expected already, seems like it'll just blow around like crazy later.

 

[AgronAlum]

I want one bad, but I’m not handy.

It would take an electrician less than an hour if your main panel is in the garage. It takes me less than an hour (I’ve put in 3 or 4 for friends/family now) and I’m not an electrician.

 

[herbicide]

So out of curiosity, how does a concrete floor holding temperature at a way higher rate than the rest of the house factor in? It’ll sit and radiate cold air for days if you let it cool down.

Think of it as a reservoir. Whatever you take out you have to put back in. But the rules still apply, it just takes longer (more energy) to change temperatures; it also slows down the change in the room itself.

In simple terms in the big picture it doesn’t have a net effect on the heating bill; the temperature changes just take more time, both up and down.

 

[wxman1]

 

[wxman1]

 

[AirWalke]

My weather app is showing another round of snow due between midnight and 5am. Then the winds pick up.

Some of y’all need to calm down.

 

[FallOf81]

Worst of all combinations for grocery shopping. Pre major foodie holiday along with a blizzard. Local grocery store checkout line wrapped AROUND the interior. And it's a large store with many options locally.

 

[MLawrence]

My wife just got back from Hy-Vee, and apparently this was the egg section:

 

[Jer]

We’ve got like a quarter inch in Waukee.

 

[isufbcurt]

We’ve got like a quarter inch in Waukee.

That's what she said?

Couldn't resist

 

[CascadeClone]

The snow is sending for reinforcements? Screw rock salt, we need Patriots and HIMARS to deal with this,

 

[STLISU]

We’ve got like a quarter inch in Waukee.

Just under 4 inches in North Ames