Darkside wrote:
Hatchetman wrote:
what about winter?
68 and 8 to 10 degrees lower when you're not home. They have this to say...
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You can save as much as 10% a year on heating and cooling by simply turning your thermostat back 7°-10°F for 8 hours a day from its normal setting.
which as far as I know is nothing more than an ancient old wives tale. I could get further into this but I'll save you the boredom. The punchline is that they're wrong.
Nah, it's simple. The cold radiating from the walls, floors, and ceilings doesn't dissipate immediately just because the furnace kicks on.
Well technically it's the heat from the home migrating into cold walls and so on but you're right otherwise.