A digital thermostat is a good idea. I've been thinking about it for a while, actually - our current thermostat is so innaccurate it's laughable. Basically, we choose between less than 20 degrees, 20 right on, and more than 20 degrees. Since ideal indoor temperature is about 21 degrees, that is not precise enough for me.
We do close curtains and blinds.
We have eighty-year-old vents made of iron that take up about a foot of wall space each. There aren't very many of them, but that's okay because we only have six rooms. The vent that heats the kitchen is the same one that heats the dining room, because the iron grate is double-sided, letting air into both rooms from the same vent. I'm not sure if it's possible to close them, but I'll take a look.
Wouldn't we end up cooking if we turned off the vent in the dining room where the thermostat was, thereby letting it get colder? I mean, the thermostat would pick up that the house was colder and start pumping more heat, which would go upstairs where the vents were open. The dining room would continue cold because the vents there were closed, and the upstairs would continue to get warmer and warmer. Just a thought.
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We do close curtains and blinds.
We have eighty-year-old vents made of iron that take up about a foot of wall space each. There aren't very many of them, but that's okay because we only have six rooms. The vent that heats the kitchen is the same one that heats the dining room, because the iron grate is double-sided, letting air into both rooms from the same vent. I'm not sure if it's possible to close them, but I'll take a look.
Wouldn't we end up cooking if we turned off the vent in the dining room where the thermostat was, thereby letting it get colder? I mean, the thermostat would pick up that the house was colder and start pumping more heat, which would go upstairs where the vents were open. The dining room would continue cold because the vents there were closed, and the upstairs would continue to get warmer and warmer. Just a thought.