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The temperature of the house is not uniform - areas are colder than others. But when you heat up to 68F - then the really cold areas of the house stay (usually
by lucidguppy 5y ago
The temperature of the house is not uniform - areas are colder than others. But when you heat up to 68F - then the really cold areas of the house stay (usually) above freezing. If you let the house drop to 60-55 F - there's no guarantee that the colder parts of your walls and pipes freeze.
- sigstoat 5y agoquite. a house i occasionally looked after suffered some pipe damage because somebody else thought setting the thermostat to 50F would suffice to keep the pipes from freezing in the depths of winter. they were not right enough.
- wolverine876 5y agoMaybe in your house, but the temperature here drops into the 50s at night (or when we're on vacation) regularly in the winter, and zero issues or signs of anything freezing. When we're not using it, we set the thermostat at 10C / 50F. > If you let the house drop to 60-55 F - there's no guarantee that the colder parts of your walls and pipes freeze. That sounds like pretty high variation? ~25-30 deg F?
- lucidguppy 5y agoIf the people building the house run the cold water pipes through the outside walls then yeah - you have to worry about temperatures there too. You only have to freeze your pipes once...
- wolverine876 5y ago> If the people building the house run the cold water pipes through the outside walls Holy cow - you have to heat the entire house to warm the exterior walls enough - in winter! - that the pipes don't freeze. Ouch.