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Is it cheaper and more energy efficient to keep my electric heat at a constant temperature?

Just wondering, seems it's winter and heating costs and energy usage tend to increase during these months. I find myself constantly adjusting the heat all day when I'm too warm or too cold. But is it cheaper and more energy efficient to keep the heat at a steady temperature and to decrease it when I'm not at home or at night?

This is a common confusion; I've often seen it stated that it is even -more- expensive to drop your home's temperature because the heater has to "work so hard" to warm it up again. But this is not correct.

Your home loses heat energy faster when the difference between inside and outside temperature is higher. So the closer to outside temp your home is, the slower it will lose heat. If you will be gone for extended periods, or sleeping under warm blankets, keeping the home temperature high during those times is unnecessarily wasteful.

Imagine a bucket, with a line of holes drilled on the side, going up the bucket. The fuller the bucket, the faster water leaks out the holes.

If you only need the bucket full at certain times, wouldn't you rather keep it low most times, so that it's only leaking out a few holes? Wouldn't keeping it full and leaking quickly all the time be wasteful? Does it really waste any more to fill it up only when you need it?

As for constantly adjusting the heat, you may want to consider a programmable thermostat if you don't have one, and possibly get one where you can adjust the "swing" value between the acceptable high & low points around the set temperature. Perhaps you are defeating the purpose of the thermostat by making overly large manual adjustments.

Or, that may be a sign of a drafty house that is difficult to keep at a constant comfortable temp.

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