Dad refuses to turn on heat in winter.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Thats like living outdoors but with extra steps
I feel like this will increase the risk of the pipes freezing.
yea that is def too cold.
Since I forgot to add context , I am 23 years old and pay my dad rent every month! We are in Georgia and facing a particularly cold winter ! Edit: since people keep saying this , my dad doesn’t want me to have a space heater in my room because it’s a fire hazard.
I’ve been homeless, living in a camper with a small personal heater that barely knocked the chill off on freezing night, for 2yrs and I’ve finally bought a home with heat and it’s been on 75 since I moved in last week.
The insurance requirement for a vacant building is 55°. Your Dad keeps your home colder than a vacant building. Actually, check your homeowners policy, I’d bet Dad is noncompliant with some policyholder requirements. You can’t willingly invite a loss, and that temperature in the winter is begging for frozen pipes. Wanting to save money on heating isn’t an excuse, it’s a great way to get your claim denied.
He’s courting burst pipes. My mom worked at a job that set the thermostat at 50F over the night/weekend, and one super cold morning they got there and the water line had burst.
Buy a good space heater. Maybe a few decent sweaters and thermal underwear. If you’re feeling particularly generous, leave a few taps running so the pipes don’t burst.
Put nursing home flyers on table.
My mom has hers set at 78 and I almost get heat stroke when I visit.
*Why do you need the heat on? I bought you a jacket 8 years ago!*
Is your dad Elsa
I hope he enjoys paying a plumber for busted pipes.
Definition of a cheap bastard. Tell him your not supposed to have to wear outside clothes when your inside your home
You pay rent? Turn that bitch on. I’d be damned if I’m freezing my ass of in a house that I’m paying to live in.
How’s the money situation?
I say this mostly unjokingly- but get a gaming PC? No space heaters, fine. But run Palworld or something else graphically resource heavy in a modern gaming rig will basically serve as a space heater (plus… ya know, gaming)
Print a perfectly sized photo of the screen and paste it onto the thermostat. Then adjust up 10-15 degrees. 😁
I grew up with parents like this. I turn the heat up to 72 during the cold snowy winter months. I’m an adult with a job. And then one day I will be dead…I’m going to be warm in the cold months.
Why even have the option for heat and not use it. My boomer parents hate being comfortable, I swear.
Burst pipes post in the near future
Someone I knew did something similar and learned they didn’t heat their home enough to prevent pipes from bursting (poor insulation and pipe placement for Midwest).it cost them about $25,000 and homeowners insurance fought them tooth and nail.
Turns out they probably needed to turn it up maybe 3-5 degrees more.
God speed.
54 degrees? Wtf sauna are you living in?!
Make sure he knows that if his pipes burst and he has tens of thousands in water damage, his insurance will refuse to pay him because he’s not keeping his house reasonably warm. They don’t pay you if you can’t be bothered to take care of your own property.
That’s heinous. I prefer 63-65 at night during the winter and 63 in the summer. Under 60 my nose starts hurt.
Also, not sure where OP lives but if they lose power and it’s freezing outside, they run the risk of their pipes bursting.
For normal people, it’s 12 celcius.
Put your foot down. Because you’re paying the rent and you’re also most likely gonna have to pay for the busted pipes. Which will happen eventually and I promise you, it will be a nightmare.
RIP your plumbing.
54º in the rest of the world
Celsius gang like ‘huh?’
Maybe needs to spend some money on insulation? Curtains something? Thats ridiculous.
Your dad’s gonna be dealing with frozen plumbing pretty soon.
Isn’t he concerned about his pipes freezing?
Sounds like a mould disaster waiting to happen
Nah this is too much. My dad keeps it at 69 F.