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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 18:04:55 GMT -5
What do you keep your thermostat set on? Heat 70 during day. 65 at night. AC 72-74 during day. 68 at night.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 1, 2021 18:07:18 GMT -5
We live in a one hundred five year old house with a forty year old furnace, so the thermostat is not always a reliable indicator as to how the house feels. I thought installing Nest thermostats would help with that, but no luck. So generally 66-72 while home and awake, 50 while away, and 65 while asleep.
And we have individual window a/c units, so it varies throughout the house.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 1, 2021 18:32:52 GMT -5
No such thing as a thermostat in my 42 year old house here in Arizona with a swamp cooler. Used to have an electric one attached on the outer hallway wall for the gas heater but it broke 4 years into use, so my uncle tells me.
Since not at home during the day I keep the heater and swamp cooler off during their respective seasons and turn them on when I get home for the night. I utilize a window air conditioner in the bedroom and usually on low set around 75 is fine. Except for July and August then the AC goes on high and down to 70 to combat the 110+ temperature.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 1, 2021 18:40:50 GMT -5
Unless it's less than about 20 degrees F outside I never have to turn the heat on. My house has excellent insulation and I would be perfectly happy if it never got about 50.
In the summer...as cool as I can get it without having central air. Which isn't cool enough.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 1, 2021 19:52:34 GMT -5
70 during the day and 65 at night. Individual AC units around the house during the summer.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 1, 2021 20:31:52 GMT -5
Winter: Heat is set at 69 during the day, 65 overnight and when we're out for the day.
Summer: AC is set at 78 during the day, 74 overnight. I just want the humidity out of the air, not necessarily to have the house cold (my wife couldn't stand it much below 75 during the day when she is awake). We have ceiling fans in every bedroom, and I have a floor fan that blows directly on me for overnight comfort.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2021 22:34:48 GMT -5
My wife is going through menopause (forever, it seems); so it is never above 64 and is quite often around 60. The cat and I huddle together for warmth, in the summer! He just looks at me and says, "Dude, I have a fur coat and I am cold!"
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 2, 2021 6:24:30 GMT -5
19 degrees (66 Fahrenheit and change) in winter; during the summer we switch the heating system off. No AC either, since at our latitude it's really not necessary.
I really enjoyed our fireplace this winter; every cold night was a good reason to *ahem* save on electricity! (Jokes aside, I was surprised by how efficient a wood burning stove can be at heating a house). Electricity is dirt cheap in Quebec (the state owns the power company), but... waste not, want not!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 2, 2021 23:19:14 GMT -5
My heat is on generally only when everyone is home, after work/school.. form like 5 PM until nowish.. usually around 60-65, and only in the living room/kitchen,.. both my wife and my kids cant' sleep with the heat on in the bedrooms directly. I shut it off when I go bed, or lower it to 50 to make sure nothing freezes. We leave the bathroom heat on overnight for warm shower prep. It generally stays off in the morning (though today I did put it on, since it was 20F with vicious winds outside.. the inside temp was 52).
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 3, 2021 0:47:14 GMT -5
A few years ago my wife came to the conclusion that the most costly part of heating the house was the initial startup of the furnace. So we have a programmable thermostat that is set to come on twice a day for an hour. In that hour the temperature will go up five or six degrees, and in between the temperature declines by five or six degrees. The standard advice to set the thermostat to a single temperature all day results in the system turning on and off and on and off all day, which costs more than our system, where it comes on only twice.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 3, 2021 11:39:45 GMT -5
Heat: 65 during the day, though I often bump it up manually to 67 or 68. 62 at night.
Cool: 70 I think.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 3, 2021 11:47:59 GMT -5
19 degrees (66 Fahrenheit and change) in winter; during the summer we switch the heating system off. No AC either, since at our latitude it's really not necessary. I really enjoyed our fireplace this winter; every cold night was a good reason to *ahem* save on electricity! (Jokes aside, I was surprised by how efficient a wood burning stove can be at heating a house). Electricity is dirt cheap in Quebec (the state owns the power company), but... waste not, want not! We heat primarily with wood, too. I've removed nearly all the baseboard electric heaters that we had to by regulation install as the back-up when we built the house nigh on 40 years ago. Never even turn on the others. No real idea what the actual temperature is. All I know is that it's warm in here when it needs to be, from mid/late-October till about mid-April/ early May, thanks to the stove. (We rarely have anything resembling a full-blown spring here. The switch usually gets flipped around Memorial Day, when we usually start to get temperatures in the 70s.) |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 3, 2021 13:15:30 GMT -5
We mainly use wood, too, in a big tile stove that's more than sufficient for our rather small house. When we added a small front room a little over a decade ago, we installed underfloor heating just in case. It's set to 18 or 19 degrees C (can't even recall) and it only ever comes on when some Nordic or Siberian weather front moves in (that only happened a few times this winter). The best way to tell if it has kicked in is when I come downstairs in the morning and see one or more of our cats stretched out sleeping on the bare floor tiles.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 5, 2021 21:14:11 GMT -5
Lots of central air cooling with electric Heat Pumps here in the south, due mainly to hot summers and mild (by Yankee standards) winters.
This is the configuration we have. I keep the thermostat set on 73 in the summer and 67 in the winter. But then again we also have a natural gas-log fireplace, and ceiling fans in many rooms, and that keeps the heating bill way down in the winter. The ceiling fans also keep the A/C from running non-stop in the summer.
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