what temp is it in the room your are in? And outside?

[cavemanmoron]

67f inside, the furnace just kicked on, a balmy 24f and cloudy outside at 3:30pm Eastern time.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Midday update

69°F within this one room
56°F out thurr in the open airs

Great thing about this thread is that it demands constant updating.

 

[bruceb]

Currently 42°F outside and 72°F inside

 

[lxskllr]

Got home. and the temp was 55, 24 outside. I dropped the thermostat to 51, and lit a fire.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Got home. and the temp was 55, 24 outside. I dropped the thermostat to 51, and lit a fire.

Is the fire contained, or does the man with the red truck and red hat need to come for a visit?

 

[lxskllr]

Is the fire contained, or does the man with the red truck and red hat need to come for a visit?

It's contained; for now...

I cleaned the chimney this year, and it looks like I need to replace some stove pipe. It's going through a lined flue, so it isn't a huge deal, but it isn't right either. I'll try to get to it next fall before it gets cold.

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's contained; for now...

I cleaned the chimney this year, and it looks like I need to replace some stove pipe. It's going through a lined flue, so it isn't a huge deal, but it isn't right either. I'll try to get to it next fall before it gets cold.

Excellent, you do not want to do what my handle suggests even as an accident!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Excellent, you do not want to do what my handle suggests even as an accident!

or die from CO

 

[lxskllr]

or die from CO

That's what the cats are for. They're my fuzzy little canaries. Problem is it'll be hard to tell when they die. They're already like semi fixed furniture. I have to keep a close eye on the food bowl :^P

 

[snoopy7548]

68F inside, 23F outside. Woke up to 11F outside this morning! Perfect snowboarding weather, but the local mountain was blowing snow on all the trails so my goggles kept icing up.

 

[Red Squirrel]

-17C (feels like -27) and inside here at work it's 21C. 15C at my house.

Finished my shed for the season, quite happy as it was not really fun working in the cold. But honestly not that bad, it's just that it's tedious to work with gloves on and I feel like a robot just generally moving around with the coat etc. Beard helped keep me warm though.

 

[Chaotic42]

27F outside, 70F inside. Hopefully I'm almost over this cold, because I've stopped getting hot for 10 minutes then cold for 10 minutes...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Was curious to see how low the house temp would drop during my 12h night shift given it's half decent cold out. My cat probably will want to kill me when I get home.

Living Room: 10.625°C (=)
Hallway: 13.5°C (=)
Server Room: 14.75°C (=)
HVAC Return: 12°C (=)
HVAC Supply: 12.0625°C (=)
Outside: -19.3125°C (+)
Delta Temp: 0.0625°C


Living room area is the coldest part of the house all the time, it's the most inefficiently insulated part of the house. Kitchen is bad too, it's just on the other side but same level. When I redid patio door I opened up part of the wall around and found that they never taped the vapour barrier anywhere. I eventually want to remove the fireplace, and also add a door that goes to the garage - both on same wall. So I think at one point I will just completely redo that entire wall and install a proper vapour barrier with proper tape. Kitchen side would be harder to do, but might do it eventually too.

 

[Murloc]

today the weather has gotten much better again so the room overheated because of the sunshine

inside: 24°C (usually 19-21°C)

outside: 5°C

squirrel how do you even live in such cold temperatures, do you have a wool blanket on you every time you sit?

 

[Number1]

23c indoor, -5.4c outdoor. Coldest day of this season so far. That would be 73.4f indoor, 22.28f outdoor for my friends south of the border.

 

[Number1]

Was curious to see how low the house temp would drop during my 12h night shift given it's half decent cold out. My cat probably will want to kill me when I get home.

Living Room: 10.625°C (=)
Hallway: 13.5°C (=)
Server Room: 14.75°C (=)
HVAC Return: 12°C (=)
HVAC Supply: 12.0625°C (=)
Outside: -19.3125°C (+)
Delta Temp: 0.0625°C


Living room area is the coldest part of the house all the time, it's the most inefficiently insulated part of the house. Kitchen is bad too, it's just on the other side but same level. When I redid patio door I opened up part of the wall around and found that they never taped the vapour barrier anywhere. I eventually want to remove the fireplace, and also add a door that goes to the garage - both on same wall. So I think at one point I will just completely redo that entire wall and install a proper vapour barrier with proper tape. Kitchen side would be harder to do, but might do it eventually too.

Well as long as the pipes don't freeze you're OK but ya, 10C in the kitchen is pushing it. No wonder I move back to Sydney, NS.... LOL -5 C here this morning and we think we're FREEZING BRRRRR.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha yeah I don't risk going lower than 10 as it's probably colder under the kitchen sink. Oddly most of the basement is always a few degrees warmer than the living room and kitchen area so not too worried there. The lowest I've ever let it go was like 5ish and it's when I was loading lumber from outside to the basement so I just left the door open the whole time. Door open for an hour or so will drop the temp pretty fast.

 

[Chaotic42]

Haha yeah I don't risk going lower than 10 as it's probably colder under the kitchen sink. Oddly most of the basement is always a few degrees warmer than the living room and kitchen area so not too worried there. The lowest I've ever let it go was like 5ish and it's when I was loading lumber from outside to the basement so I just left the door open the whole time. Door open for an hour or so will drop the temp pretty fast.

The coldest I've ever done work in was -25F (-31.7C). I was outside in jeans and a coat loading up my car to move from Indiana to Mississippi. My 1991 Ford Festiva was so weak that I was literally in Tennessee (about 200 miles down the road), before my windshield was free of ice.

I don't know how the hell it got that cold in southern Indiana, but it was rough. Now I'm cold if the windchill is below 60F.

 

[Mayne]

don't fuck around with a regular chimney...that shit will get you killed. make sure those dampers are open. never ever burn garbage or cook in a chimney. it will clog it up and you die.

 

[Number1]

Bean living in NS for 15 years. Bringing lumber from outside is a thing of the past for us. Heat pumps...... YES SIR!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mayne]

im just saying mofo...don't fuck around man.

 

[Chaotic42]

So it was 27F last night, got up to around 70 today, and it's going to be cold and rainy tomorrow. St. Louis weather is nutso.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bean living in NS for 15 years. Bringing lumber from outside is a thing of the past for us. Heat pumps...... YES SIR!!!!!!!!!!

I actually would love a wood stove but I don't really have a practical place for one. If ever I build a house I want to make sure to incorporate one in as secondary heat. A nice high efficiency one that has it's own combustion intake and tons of brick/stone work to store the heat. They also make hybrid wood/gas furnaces, those are interesting too, but I would want the wood stove right in the living room. I technically could in my current house as I do have a fireplace that I could put an insert in, but its in a bad spot and just in the way so I want to remove it.

 

[TennesseeTony]

36F (2.2C) outside, 77F (25C) inside. I heat the entire home via Distributed Computing (intelligent heat?). TeAm AnandTech is having the annual Folding@Home contest this month and on into January. If you need a bit more heat in your room, that's one way to do it.

 

[ultimatebob]

It's in the high 20's (F) around here right now, and about 68 (F) in the room I'm in. It's heated by a oil fired boiler and some electric space heaters.