Eh mine is a bad habit picked up while in school and work for 10 years in the south sadly

Your home is poorly insulated. It can’t hold the heat that’s being pumped into it. The strong winds are making it impossible. My apartment has been fine this whole time because we have good insulation; albeit the heat had been kicking on nearly nonstop.

10.15%? That was a deal. We had 12% and were thrilled to get it after seeing rates as high as 18%.

Is it too cold? It is too cold outside? I think it might be too cold today.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkmrDvKPdps

Check the system. One of my zones was this cold this morning and there was a minor issue with where the thermostat connects electronically to the water regulation pipe near the furnace in my basement (a loose screw). Shouldn’t drop that low. My other zone was perfectly at the temp I set.

No it's not normal provided you have a functioning system right sized for your house and your house at least moderately insulated.

They're just normal double pane windows with the typical draft here and there, but they are pretty tight. No idea what brand.

Sitting at 73 degrees inside right now. I did wake up a bit early at 6 to feed the woodstove though.

Just leave it alone. It's not even that cold out.

It will be fine provided it is already in good shape mechanically.

I didn't have a garage the four years I lived in Alaska. No vehicle issues.

We did it, guys

It’s not extreme at all. It’s a function of the heat load of the home and the BTU per hour capacity of the heating system. The design day for the system is likely well over -13°, so the system struggles on these outlier days

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Yep, that was my plan-IF I have to use them LOL. Hoping I won't need to.

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Watch a few YouTube videos on how to do it. It's a good skill to have. Even if you never need to use it.

Thanks, I do have jumper cables and another car (in garage) but I've never used the cables. I'll wait until tomorrow and see what happens.

When it's 25° outside, and you're trying to heat the house to 65° you're trying to add 40° to the house. When it's -15° and you're trying to heat the house to 65°, you're trying to add 80° to the house.

So, it's normal for the furnace to need to work twice as hard on a day like this If your heating system would need to be working at greater than 50% capacity under more typical conditions, than it would be expected to struggle on a day like today.

Make sure your baseboard units are open if it is forced hot water. The metal angled piece can be rotated.

Yeah I mean I went to the basement and the heating unit is definitely giving off heat. I think it’s just that the slow heat coming out of the baseboards isn’t replenishing heat fast enough because we have bad windows that emit a lot of cold air lol

Stay warm

Systems aren’t designed with this temperature in mind. The heating load is typically designed around 0 degrees. Any colder and your system will struggle to keep up. As long as the pipes are still hot, it’s still functioning.

They are coming down, interest rates are in a weird spot right now. They are going up, then bleeding down. I hear people are getting in the 5's most recently. It will depend greatly on your circumstance of course. Hillsborough county, depending on where you land, can be expensive. But 400 is a good budget. I sent you a dm, we should chat.

I bought a battery charger back in the 1990s when batteries only lasted a couple of years. I've had Toyotas starting in 2000 and haven't needed it since then. I just replace the battery when recommended. I do recall the nuisance of calling AAA when the battery was dead and waiting 2 hours for service because a ton of other people had the same problem. Cars today are just so much more reliable than before.

It's getting up to 43 degrees tomorrow so you could just wait.

It's always good to have a friend with jumper cables if you get stuck.

I have to go to Boston today so I will definitely test things out but I'm going to wait until were in the positive temps.

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We have oil heating btw idk if that helps 😂

Yes this is normal. My house is only 4 years old. Very good insulation and a efficient heating system. I dropped to 56 as well. I live in the White Mountains and we were at -20 all night, plus house is very exposed to the wind.

Update; we’re at 0 now and temp is up to 64. My guess is that we could maintain 68 in the -5 range. This is with 30-40 mph gusts. Probably lower with no wind. Our heating systems are just not designed to handle -20 plus the wind.