You can have it! *shoos it toward you* Meanwhile, send me that +86°, because that's really just perfect as far as I'm concerned. When I lived in my native desert, I was happily active outside into the 90-110°F weather; dry heat is hardly heat at all to me. The highest temp on record happened when I was there - still unbroken, though I think it's been tied once or twice since - and it was 122°F. So 86 is nothing! :D
Slush and ice is the worst, isn't it? At least snow is pretty, and dry is convenient for getting around! Slushy stuff just hangs around getting muckier and freezing over into a slick killer shell at night. Blegh!
The biggest problem with my house is that there aren't enough return registers for the heating downstairs (there's... one), so the heat doesn't circulate efficiently and it exacerbates the usual problem of all the heat wanting to go upstairs.
I only have two doors (front and back), so I don't think they're big contributors to heat loss. But I don't actually have any curtains at this time! There are blinds in the front windows and shutter-blinds on the back windows. The shutter-blinds at the least would have to come down before I could put up any kind of curtain, and that's a project for spring...
I guess another problem is that I don't have a fireplace screen for the fireplace, and therefore don't use it (it needs a screen that's large enough to completely block the opening, and stable enough that my cats can't get past it). But it's not like I would leave the fireplace going overnight/when I'm away at work, so it's not really helpful for two-thirds of the day anyway.
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Slush and ice is the worst, isn't it? At least snow is pretty, and dry is convenient for getting around! Slushy stuff just hangs around getting muckier and freezing over into a slick killer shell at night. Blegh!
The biggest problem with my house is that there aren't enough return registers for the heating downstairs (there's... one), so the heat doesn't circulate efficiently and it exacerbates the usual problem of all the heat wanting to go upstairs.
I only have two doors (front and back), so I don't think they're big contributors to heat loss. But I don't actually have any curtains at this time! There are blinds in the front windows and shutter-blinds on the back windows. The shutter-blinds at the least would have to come down before I could put up any kind of curtain, and that's a project for spring...
I guess another problem is that I don't have a fireplace screen for the fireplace, and therefore don't use it (it needs a screen that's large enough to completely block the opening, and stable enough that my cats can't get past it). But it's not like I would leave the fireplace going overnight/when I'm away at work, so it's not really helpful for two-thirds of the day anyway.