Our house doesn't stay absolutely constant all over all the time. Our bedrooms are couple degrees cooler for sleeping...
Yeah, normally our bedrooms are a little cooler also if the doors are closed (no return air in them and they all have one or two outside walls). If the doors are left open the temperature will equalize with the rest of the house. A little cooler for sleeping is more comfortable, and I accomplished that with a programmable thermostat... but bedrooms into the 50's by morning would not be acceptable in my house. Not to mention the amount of time and wood consumed for temperature recovery in the house.
The thermostat drops to 67° at night, which puts the bedrooms right around 65-66° if the door is closed... the thermostat jumps back up to 70° at 5:30 AM, which means the closed bedrooms are around 68-69° when the family starts rollin' out. My daughter doesn't like her bedroom quite as cool for sleeping, she leaves her door open most of the time. If the bedrooms dropped into the 50's they wouldn't crawl out from under those blankets until noon
...what is comfortable is largely a function of expectations and what you are used to.
Hmmmm...... maybe.
Most everyone I know living in this modern age (in my universe) expect their home to be climate controlled... i.e., relatively constant temperature and humidity throughout the home, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, season-to-season. That's what most everyone I know (in my universe) is used to, and find the most comfortable. Personally, I don't see any reason there should be a compromise when heating with wood... wood is just another heating fuel, and there's all sorts of wood fired appliances in this day and age that provide an uncompromising solution. In my mind a free standing stove (for whole home and/or primary heat) is a step back in time...
Yeah, I know... bias ply tires are a step back also.
But here's the thing...
The tires (on my pickup) may be a step back, but the pickup ain't... it's a "modern" vehicle, I have the advantages of the modern comforts and conveniences associated with it.
Well, my heating with wood fuel may be a step back, but the appliance ain't... it's a "modern" appliance, I have the advantages of the modern comforts and conveniences associated with it.
The reality is... it's only natural to have the "
expectation" of those modern comforts and conveniences in the year 2015... at least it is for the people who live in my universe.
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and only 68,000 miles.
