Temperature of your thermostat?

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 06-14-2006, 08:24 PM

I don't like the a/c, I find it really annoying not to be able to go outside because it feels too hot! I love warm weather, so I don't mind to much although if it were up to Eric we would have it on all summer. Luckily, it costs money so it stays off unless it gets above 90 for a few days in which case I turn it on for the pets.

This past winter our heating bill was atrocious so we had the heat on at 61-64 degrees which is waaaaayyyy to cold. (I piled on sweaters and my big fuzzy robe, plus warm slippers). I would like it around 70-72, but it's too expensive!

**gemini9961** · 06-14-2006, 09:33 PM

We keep the A/C at 74 all the time. Anything less I get too cold, anything more I get too hot. I think we keep the heat at about 68-70.

**gini** · 06-14-2006, 10:39 PM

In all of these years in my old home I only had gravity heat until last November.

With the new a/c and heat and a programmable thermostat - I have been pretty cautious.

Someone who "knows" told me that it is better to turn the a/c on only when you feel you need it because it is far more efficient that way than leaving it on the timer.

I am waiting for my first electric bill to come in to see what damage I have caused.

However, my winter gas bill WENT DOWN................YAY! Nothing ever goes down does it? At least if it involves money it doesn't.

**jazzcat** · 06-14-2006, 11:15 PM

The AC is set on 76 and 77 but that isn't the temp in the house most times. Our thermostat is in a "dead spot" in the hall where it's always warm and even though it may be set on 77 sometimes it will run and run before it thinks it has cooled off enough. Meantime the rest of the house might get as cold as upper 60s while the thermostat in the dead spot thinks it's just 76. We finally put a ceiling fan in the hallway and keep it running and that seems to help correct the problem. We've probably paid 100 times over what it would cost to have an electrician move the thermostat in wasted AC.

**Glacier** · 06-15-2006, 01:11 AM

We have neither central air or air conditioning. A/C would just be silly! We have a propane furnace that we could use for heat, but propane heat is nasty. The furnace is set to kick in only if the pipes are in danger of freezing in the winter. We heat with a wood stove.

**catnapper** · 06-15-2006, 07:20 AM

In the winter we keep it at 62 degrees. I think it feels nice in here. I like the air cooler.

The summer we keep the window AC units at 68-70 because they need to cool 2 or 3 rooms from one unit. I'm quite happy with that because the one that cools the kitchen, my office, and the livingroom happen to be a few feet away from my desk and its nice and chilly in here!

**Craftlady** · 06-15-2006, 07:28 AM

70-72 normally with a/c
74 if it's running little more than we want it too.
Depends on temperature outside and humidity.
Our a/c does not do upstairs well at all (our finished attic) so that area does not get used from June until September. The duct work was not put in properly and it's too expensive to have it fixed. Heat works great up their in winter because "heat rises". I would put a small window a/c unit up there but hubby does not agree with that suggestion.