Shut furnace down at night!

[S. Heisley]

SoPennRR wrote:

A year in my trailer I just decided to change something for just one night and won't do it again. I will set it on low but not off.

That's better.

I forgot that you had a thermostat.

[southpennrailroad]

SoPennRR wrote:

A year in my trailer I just decided to change something for just one night and won't do it again. I will set it on low but not off.

That's better.

I forgot that you had a thermostat.

I suppose you could just put an off/on switch but the cost of a thermostat is not that high and controlling it from less then two feet from my bed without getting out of the bed covers is priceless. Using a switch to turn it off & on would be a pain. My father was a truck driver and the hum of the engine always made me sleep when traveling with him. Noise does that. The loudness of the furnace turning on is no problem.

Like the people that strap their kids in cars seats to get the kids to sleep. What ever!

[pete42]

Russ I remember when I was in the Navy there was always a constant noise in our sleeping compartment.
The only time you noticed it was when it stopped, it would bring you out of a sound sleep,
same as the guard you were replacing would when he shined a flashlight in your face.
glad I did my service but wouldn't want to do it again.

[southpennrailroad]

SoPennRR wrote:

A year in my trailer I just decided to change something for just one night and won't do it again. I will set it on low but not off.

That's better.

I forgot that you had a thermostat.

That is one of the items I negotiated when I bought the furnace last year. I actually bought a more sophisticated one but it broke fast and I decided to buy a less complicated one but it is a Hunter. I felt that I needed one to be happier using the furnace.

[mikeschn]

Sometimes creature comforts are more important than the few cents you save by trying to be thrifty.

It sounds like your furnace is working out well for you.

Mike...

[caseydog]

What it comes down to is thermal mass. If your structure chills down too much, you not only have to heat the air, but have to fight the cold structure.

From a physics perspective, heat and cold are in a constant quest to equalize. So, if your structure is cold, your hot air is trying to equalize with the cold structure.

Finding the balance is the trick.

That's also why radiant heat is better than forced air heat.

Instead of turning the furnace off, try to find the right amount to turn the thermostat down, so that you save energy while you are under the blankets, but don't waste energy trying to heat up your structure.

Experiment. You'll find the balance.

CD

[southpennrailroad]

I have one of those thermostats which allow me to have the heat up high while during certain hours and it will raise the temps when I am in during the evening and during the night I have it shut low ( 58 ) and in the am when I get up it goes back up to a comfortable live in setting and one more to shut down to a away temp. It works But I also have an over ride button.
It was that that one night when it was cold that I just had shut it off and it happened to be cold enough to make the comment and note it on here.