Did you put your heat on yet?

I am debating on whether or not should put the heat on in our new house. We arent living there yet, just doing the renovations, but I have seen in the early morning the temperature has been under 40 degrees. Do you think I should turn it on yet or wait?
Scott

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I am going to try to hold out to Nov. 1 for heat..but I do have a small space heater in the room I am in.

Scott - just make sure your heat is set somewhere in the 50's so that your pipes don't freeze!!

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OUr heat is set to go on automatically when it falls below a certain temp. When I woke up this morning, it was on!! I left it though bc it was a little cold in the house. We are getting a brand new hot water heater installed on Wed too!

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ours is on..just turned it on a few days ago to get the chill out of the air..

dont want to know what our oil bill is going to be this year!

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Yup, ours is on low, it's freezing in the house. but if you're not living there, then I wouldn't turn it on yet.

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Anyone else......

I don't know what to do....

I have to get the burner serviced, but they arent coming till the end of november to do that......

Scott

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i would wait if i were you..just put it on when you go over if you are cold but dont leave it on if you are not there..
Can you leave it set at maybe 65 in case it does get too cold?

I dont think the pipes will freeze just yet

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What set the thermostat? The heat wont go on unless I put on the burner though....

If we were living there, I would have the burner on for hot water but we arent living there so we have no need for the hot water right now.....

Scott

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Nope my husband calls me the Ice Queen!!

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I actually put the heat on today at 830am for the first time
I was freezing

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I agree with the post to just keep it in the 50's to keep your pipes from freezing. If we hit a cold snap in the next month - it would be better to be safe than sorry :) Probably low 50's you'd be fine - esp if you don't have many drafts, etc in the house you'd hardly use much.

Maybe ask your burner company (or Realtor if they already know you are keeping the house vacant for a while, and feel funny telling a company you may be unfamiliar with) for any other suggestions? We asked our realtor a lot of stupid questions when we moved and they were very helpful.

Good Luck!

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We broke down last night. We went to the poconos this weekend and froze are arses off. When we came home we didnt want to put on the heat (basically cause im cheap) so we started a fire. But then we went up to bed and I was frozen so we had to put it on

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We are going to hold out for as long as possible. I have been lighting LOTS of candles to give us some heat.

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ours still isn't on

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we put ours on yesterday morning. We woke up freezing, so we put it on to take the chill out.

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I think im going to put it on and leave it between 50 and 54 degrees. I have to get my oil company over anyway, I think there may be something wrong with the boiler.....

They are coming november 30th to do a tune up but I think that I need them to come sooner, and bleed the system amongst other things
Scott

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We are still holding out!

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scott...im in the same boat as u...still working on the house, havent moved in yet. we havent turned on the heat yet.... going to prob 2 days b4 we move in... no need if we're not living there...just dressing warm when we come there to work

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The thing is that I don't want to have frozen pipes or pipes that burst. I had that problem when I lived at my parents house. All of our pipes burst. The boiler was on the outside of the house, in an uninsulated room. Well we had water everywhere...I know that probably wont happen, but I dont want to take any chances, you know
Scott

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Ours is on.

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we have not had the heat on as of yet...

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I have to admit that ours is on...I bought a programmable thermostat and set it at 55 during the nite and 63 during the day and it went on last nite

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We didn't put it on yet but its freezing up here so we may have to break down soon.

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WE put it on. The nursery was cold at night so we did this week.