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* WARNING! *
DON'T TURN YOUR THERMOSTAT DOWN TO 58'f or lower if it is ZerO Degrees outside!
Or at least investigate your own household needs before going that low.
While you save some pennies per hour, your wallboards and paint will crack, peel, and possibly fall over time with such major shifts in temperature and humidity. Plus, there is no tempering of sorts when you suddenly kick the heat up 10-20 degrees at one time when the rooms are so cold [with outside temps 20 or lower]
Materials require gradual adjusting. Now Plumbing, if you have basement with pipes, especially unheated, you risk a pipe break and severe water damage AND power loss if the water temps go below 30. Burst Pipes are NOT worth being THAT green!!! If you are going to risk it, please consider opening cupboard doors with pipes inside, let the faucet very slowly drip, and / or roll heating tape that plugs in around unheated pipes. If you can, check print or internet sources for safety and accuracy,
I think this author should have been MORE RESPONSIBLE in reporting the warnings!
So many article FORGET to warn of the pitfalls! )-:
Like Fake News, don't just leap to believe & do everything your told to!!!
Regardless of the source. (YES, THAT INCLUDES checking my CLAIMS TOO!).
IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION - ESPECIALLY DURING SEVERE WEATHER.
Please Be Careful.
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As for my message intensity, I am currently a victim of not fact-checking this topic and have thousands of dollars worth of wall/ ceiling damages not including the peeling segments of walls that I can repair myself. So this topic is quite personal to me and I may have come across a tad too strong. Thank you for your diplomacy, kindness, and grace.
My intensity may have come off a little too passionately and a little less kind than I would have liked.
I was speaking from personal experience and currently have thousands of dollars worth of wall / ceiling damage that I am untrained to repair nor afford to hire out/ replace. The damage took several years to notice but the peeling paint was the eye opener. My issues developed from
A.) Turning the heat down . . . turning it up too rapidly.
B.) Keeping the heat shut off / doors shut to unused rooms,
C.) Buying an ultra efficient furnace that sucks all the moisture out of the air & drains it away .
D.) Not knowing the importance of the costly "April Air" installation to replace the lost moisture.
E). Having an older house with original, less forgiving, wallboard & paint.
Luckily, I learned early on about freezing pipes and have had good luck thus far preventing them. Some of my loved ones have not been so lucky.
So, if you care to, help save the environment; save some money; but also use good judgement to save your home from damage and the fear & stress that it causes.
These unexpected pitfalls can happen to all kinds of people, like new home owners that had parents taking care of all these things, or people used to living in apartments that had "super's" keeping guard . . .
Neighbors, here in the east, that were on winter vacation hadn't planned for -20* degree windchill temps (or set the thermostat accordingly) when they left home and their finished basement was destroyed by burst pipes. Carpets, Paintings, Electronics and all.
~ Sometimes it's the littlest differences/ changes that can wreak havoc ~
(in MANY Aspects Of Life)
While it is nice to learn on our own, learning through others' headaches as a preventative can be a great thing sometimes.