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Jer

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Still going to suck regardless of how much snow we get, at least in terms of road travel between the winds and the temps.
I pay our snow removal guy $30 per trip, I want to see him earn it damnit.




Just joking… kinda:jimlad:
 

ClonesFTW

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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.
 
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enisthemenace

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There it is. My neighbor out yelling for the dog.

“STELLA. HERE!!”

Should I go tell this lady she better figure it out soon because if this **** happens tomorrow, Stella ain’t coming home?

Stella gonna be looking like a damn tauntaun by morning.
 

Jer

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I’m going to coin this event Snow Fizzle here in Waukee.
 

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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 feel like that ends up wasting more energy than keeping a steady temp but that’s just a gut feeling. It probably makes a bit of a difference in having a one stage vs two stage furnace as well.

My wife and I have the same argument about the garage. She always turns the temp way down but I feel like that let’s the concrete get cold and ends up making the heater run way more to catch back up. I like the garage at a nice 60+.
 

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I feel like that ends up wasting more energy than keeping a steady temp but that’s just a gut feeling. It probably makes a bit of a difference in having a one stage vs two stage furnace as well.

My wife and I have the same argument about the garage. She always turns the temp way down but I feel like that let’s the concrete get cold and ends up making the heater run way more to catch back up. I like the garage at a nice 60+.

Garage heater?

Well hello, Mr Rockefeller
 

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I feel like that ends up wasting more energy than keeping a steady temp but that’s just a gut feeling.

My wife and I have the same argument about the garage. She always turns the temp way down but I feel like that let’s the concrete get cold and ends up making the heater run way more to catch back up. I like the garage at a nice 60+.
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.
 

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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.

Ours is always at 66. Layer up if you can't handle it.
 
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