I regularly thought it was an urban myth that if you set your temperature control to 68 degrees while in the Wintertide months that your gas furnace would run at optimal efficiency.

I don’t recognize where I originally heard this, but it was something that I caught myself residing by although I didn’t have any proof to back this theory up.

For a long time I felt entirely guilty about turning the temperature past 68 degrees because in our mind, I would be wasting money. I also anxious that I would be hurting our gas furnace because it would be running aggressively to heat our house, and during our last HVAC tune up though, I decided to ask the HVAC professional if setting our temperature control to 68 degrees while in the Wintertide was entirely best. I was entirely scared about asking him because I didn’t want him to know less of me, especially if I was believing something that wasn’t true, then however, the HVAC professional told myself and others that the lower I set our temperature control the better. This was for obvious reasons because the lower the temperature, the less hard our gas furnace would have to run in order to hot our entire house. He said that most people commanded 68 degrees because it was the average temperature that most homeowners thought was hot plus wasn’t deemed as “too cold.” Running our gas furnace at 68 degrees instead of 68 degrees wasn’t going to cause the gas furnace to stop laboring, even though it entirely wasn’t going to run as efficiently as if it were set to 68 degrees.
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