You turn your heat on when it gets cold, hope this helps

You must be awfully fun on a long drive.

Need a chart on when to light the wood stove.

Mine goes on when the temp drops below 60 in the house.

Mine went on early this year. One of those days that was cold and rainy and I worked outside and was soaked when I came in. I cranked the pellet stove to like 90 and took the chill out of the house and out of my bones pretty quick.

Something tells me it's going to be nessisary on Sunday night.

The question was about New England. While I live in NH I'll jump in. South central and we have not turned it on yet. It hasn't been a problem with the exceptionally mild weather but I do expect next week might do it. One son is rooting for Thanksgiving and I would be fine with that but the other one is already sort of miserable. I'll go with under 60.

If the sun is out, we won't have to. We have good southern exposure. But if it's going to be cloudy, then we'll probably have to turn on the heat.

At $5.60 a gallon maybe -20

Below 55 during the day and night. Below 57 mornings and evenings. It’s too chilly 😿💕❄️

I still have windows open.

Make sure you buy the properly rated sleeping bags tho.

Me, with my thermostat set at 63° reading these comments like the sock monkey

Set to 50 and wrapped the windows. Good enough.

Yeah but at least the heat is on

When you are cold enough to feel you want the heat on.

That's okay. I'll be driving with the guy with the flowchart. More fun.

I'll be referring to the flowchart.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-to-turn-your-heat-on-in-new-england-a-decision-guide

Goodluck, I’m not the idiot that had to ask when to turn the heat on

Don't forget to periodically announce to friends and strangers that you still haven't turned your heat on, despite it being date/temperature.

I didn't ask when to turn the heat on. So far, there are 43 downvoting idiots, including you, who missed the joke.

The only right answer

I light up the wood stove when it gets below 60 indoors. It usually just stays on until spring after that. If I have to be away, a propane heater keeps pipes from freezing at around 50 - 55 F.

I would not be happy without the wood - especially during power outages when nothing works in January.

No one liking your joke does not equate to people not getting it. We got it, it was bad.

Your reaction to this is funnier than the link. Ya'll actually seriously think somebody is asking when to turn the heat on..... all because you don't know how to read a reddit post....

Says the dude going off because no one liked his jokes. lol

Northern VT here - lit the woodstove twice but haven’t turned the heat on…yet. Soon though I think!

63 is common too

This should have been in the flowchart. Best answer yet.

"Sets heat to 65?" What heaven is that!

My "Do not touch that thermostat, 62 degrees is warm enough" mother would hate that.

There's really only 1 month of the year we don't have a fire: July. Every other month has at least a day or 2 of running the stove.

And it doesn't matter since fuel will never be too expensive to run the chainsaw. Firewood literally grows on tree.

Flowchart is simple: house too warn? no -> light up the stove.

I set the thermostat to 70 and don’t touch it until the end of winter.

One son is already freezing and the other is defiant. No way, Thanksgiving at least, maybe Christmas. They are in their forties and it is my house so basically whenever I feel cold. Suddenly this week it is twenties at night and low forties in the day. This is as it should be but I live in New Hampshire and I will have heat...eventually.

For the last 4 years, I've had to light the woodstove on the 4th of July. Just saying.

my ac is running at this very moment

Just set the thermostat to 60. Problem solved.

Or date someone who is perpetually cold, set the thermostat to 60, and have them adjust it to 71.

Either one will keep your pipes from freezing, really.

I love how the internet has become this source of weird insecurity for people. "Hmm. When should I turn my heat on? I mean, I feel a little cold, but... I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there are lots of important rules about when to turn my heat on!"

Nah homie, it's OK to just turn it on whenever you get cold. If it's warmer than it needs to be, turn it down a bit. Find what works. It's just a thermostat lol.

lmao I straight up belly laughed at his reply dude.

it's heat. you turn it on when you're cold. he fucking nailed it lol

am i cold? => turn heat up

I mean, that's one way to launch your fireworks.

lol whenever I go to someone's place and they have their thermostat set to 70 I feel like I'm in a sauna. Sneaking into the bathroom to crack the window and cool off lol. It's not like I keep my place super cold either, I keep it at like 65, but for some reason 70 degrees in winter just fucks my body up lol.

Ah so you've met my neighbors!

I haven't turned my furnace on since aught eight!/s

Amen. The only thing I’m not typical “dad” about. My entire 20’s the house didn’t go above 62. No more.

Turn it on at 33 degrees so your pipes don't freeze. Other than that its cheaper to burn your furniture this year.

except you did it that one cold september morning but you were just testing the heat to make sure it worked....

32°

We locked in at $2.79 and turned the heat on when it hit 58 in the house, and since then it's been on and off several times because of the roller coaster temps. Hilltop Energy for the win!

Whenever I please, because my heap pump runs on pennies and clouds.

Are you talking about the daily high or the daily low?

You turn your heat on when it’s time to scrape that wallpaper.

Has your neighbor lit their woodstove?

Yes? Go ahead. No? No.

The hardier the neighbor is, the more self sufficient, the gruffer their demeanor, etc etc, the quicker they are to light the wood stove when it gets chilly. It’s an inverse relationship.

If everyone did that - no one would light a stove.

Thanks for trying to bring some San Francisco culture with you but The only metric natives use is when my girl says it’s cold and then glares at me.

VT set a high temperature record, for nov 12, at 3:30 AM. 70 degrees. Per the NW weather center

The heat comes on when I’m in uncomfortable, not some arbitrary date or temperature.

What’s a thermostat?

That's going to depend how high oil goes!

When did you lock that price in?

Hilltop's co-op plans open on I think it was July 1st.