My H doesnt turn up the heat unitl the first real snowfall so I feel your pain and your cold. Layer up and by the electric portable heaters taht can travel w you whereever you are. Stay warm:)

you guys should go to the part of the house he's in an crowd him.

That guy needs to grow up! Priorities eh?

ask how much money he has for Dr bills when the kids get sick. i agree if he doesn't turn up the heat , turn on the electric (heaters)

get warm!

Invest in a timer thermostat. It goes to a livable setting when people are home, and you set it a certain time to a low setting when no one is there. Its automatic after that. You can have it kick to the higher setting half hour before you get home.

I think sitting around in a cold house with my coat on only makes me a more bitter person. It isn't a fun situation.

My furnace wasn't working for a long time. My stbx claimed that he knew what is wrong. He would come over and mess around with it and it would work just long enough for him to get out of the door.

I was finally at the end of my rope earlier this week (after the house didn't get above 60 degrees for over three weeks) and asked that he call the furnace guy that he called in the past to see if he could take a look at it. Well, he gave the furnace guy my cell phone number to have him contact me to figure it out.

The guy called and he diagnosed what was wrong over the phone and explained to me why it wasn't working. I ended up opening the furnace up and fixing it myself!!!

I know it doesn't really help you with your situation, but I just had to share. It was a very liberating moment to realize that I can make it on my own.

He sounds like what is referred to as a heat monger. I would turn it up when he was not looking because his priorities are definitely not in order.

I am in CT and it is friggin COLD here. My x used to do the same stuff as yours, and use the money to buy booze. He would shut the furnace off at night when we went to bed when it was really cold, and I could see my breath when I got up in the morning. Get some of those little cube space heaters for the bedrooms, and maybe one for the living area, They help quite a bit to warm it up. I did eventually leave, but it wasn't the heat thing that made me leave, altho the time he fixed the furnace so I couldn't get hot water to take a shower had something to do with it!

Ok...I'm not being sarcastic...really I'm not. Many Many years ago when my former husband was in the Navy...we lived in beautiful housing on base. The base housing office decided that we were all too stupid to select a reasonable heat/ac setting for ourselves and installed radio controlled devices outside our townhouses.

We get a bad bad heat spell and the AC is just not kicking, I remind my ex about the radio controlled device. Duh..not a wise move on my part. At the time my ex had a broken leg and was miserable in a cast. He hobbles out to the garage...grabs one of the kids baseball bats....he swings like Babe Ruth...the AC kicks just fine. Two days later housing mantainence is at our door 'what do you know about his broken device' they say. Ex shows them his cast and says "do I look like I've been running around lately?". informs them since our yard is the largest all the kids in area play here, who knows. New device installed..hour later...Babe Ruth is at it again..this goes on a few times housing office gives up. No device is reinstalled. Come winter a new device is installed and wouldn't you know it..we have the coldest winter on record..and Babe Ruth is still the sultan of swat!

Well, for me 60 is an ok temp but if you guys are cold and his excuse is money, yet he has money for other things, I smell a rat. Can you just control the temp yourself?

LOL Courier, I believe you! I lived in base housing in MI. Military was too cheap to insulate the 1940's O housing. During the winters would have 3" of ice on the INSIDE of the window sills! THese houses had the small baseboard heaters, half of which didn't work. One nite h had duty and my son adjusted the thermostat and flames & smoke shot out. I quickly shut off thermostat, called H to find out what to do. Next thing I know all these guys in silver suits swinging axes were coming thru my door. I explained what happened and one dufus asks which thermostat (each room had one) and I point to it & suggest he not turn it on. Of course he does. Flames & smoke shoot out and he jumps back (the big weenie). The next day they say it will be a week before housing can send someone out. This pissed H off to no end. He ripped thermostat out of kitchen (we never turned heat on in there) and swapped it w/burnt out one. When housing finally gets around to us, they are pissed b/c he fixed it! They have the nerve to bill us for both thermostats!!!

sounds like my ex he has money for drugs and dont care i dont have heat for his kid

UGH.. set the thermastat to wherever you need it to be.

He definately has priority issues.

It's been friggin cold in Vermont too. I hate to think of this year's oil bill too but I'm not going to freeze. If your house has several zones, warm up the parts of the house you use the most. Thermostat timers are great too.

It's winter, it's cold, you need heat....