is it more efficient to turn off your heat or to turn it down when going to sleep/leaving your home for long periods of time?
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Depends on how long you are going to leave it off.
If you shut it off just long enough to get it as cold as it will go, then turn it back on, it will use more energy to heat it back up again vs. having left it on and let it stay warm. If it will get cold and leave it cold, then you will be saving energy.
But also, there are reasons you should not let your house get too cold. So it may do harm to other things if it gets too cold in your house.
Plants could die, pets could suffer. And if it gets below freezing, all sorts of bad stuff can happen in your house.
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