Proper home temperature

[HardDrive]

68 works for me. Wife likes it warmer. My wife's from India, so I think about 92 is comfy for her. We bought a nice gas fire place. It gets business into June around here.

[carreradpt]

Summertime it is set between 69 and 72. In the winter, it is off. Didn't use the heat at all last year. Only used the AC for maybe a week since 1 Oct. Of course Jun till then it is on 24/7.

[campbellcj]

Fall/winter between 68-72. I used to program it lower, 62-64 at night but now we're older and have young kids so we are wimpier with temps. Summer can be very hot here so we set it 76-78 and the dual units can barely (or cannot) maintain that sometimes while the sun is up.

[A930Rocket]

I'd keep it at 65* year round if I could afford it. My wife would like 75* year round. I tell her I can't take off any more clothes, but she can wear more. It falls on deaf ears...

[Tobra]

In the summer, not cool enough, in the winter too cold.





That is what my wife says anyway.

One advantage of this area is that it is subject to a phenomenon known as a "delta breeze" in the summer. In the evenings, there is almost invariably a cool breeze, so you can open your windows and cool the house off fairly fast.

My parent's have an item called a whole house fan. It is mounted in about the same amount of space as a set of those stairs you pull down to get to an attic. It has two speeds, pretty fast and you better set your coffee on the newspaper level breeze. You open the windows and it pulls air into the house blows it up into the attic, out the soffet vents. They have a bunch of shade trees around the house. Mom gets up early anyway, so in the summer, she gets up, opens some windows and turns on the fan. You can drop the temp of the house 20 degrees in 2 minutes.

I don't know how much it drops the temperature of the air in the attic. It gets mighty hot up there, especially when it is triple digits outside. When our air conditioner quit one fine August day on Lake Conroe, it got up to 105 in the house, 120 up there where those guys were working. It was never the heat there though, it was the humidity.

[stomachmonkey]

Summer we keep the house set to 80 during the day. When it's 105 outside 80 feels downright chilly.

[BE911SC]

Weekdays between 6 and 8 a.m. I run ours at 68. Programmed to drop to 62 until 4 p.m. and then run at 68 from 4 until 9:30 p.m. Drops to 62 all night. Weekends it's programmed to drop to 66 during the day, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

We wear light sweaters in the house in cold weather and 68 on the thermostat. If I come in from raking leaves or hanging Xmas lights then 68 feels Florida-hot until I cool down. 68 was what my dad ran our heater at in California (east bay) when I was a kid so 68 is what I run today.

Keep your heater filters clean/changed and have a heater guy take a look once a year about a month before the cold weather comes.

[widgeon13]

We run a humidifier as well.

[VincentVega]

63 during the winter, 65-66 when I have company. I was at a friends where it was ~70 and I was sweating. If I'm a little chilly I put on a long sleeve shirt.

[azasadny]

68-70 during the day, 63 at night, during the winter, can't remember the summer settings right now...

[Taz's Master]

If it gets too hot, I open a window.

Wood heat certainly has its drawbacks, but it isn't without benefits. And passive solar, a cold, clear, bright winter day can make the stove go out.

No AC, so we get what we get in the summer.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by TimT

There are a few thermostat that can be added to your home network.. you can access via pc or wireless apps...

I love the idea of remote home automation.... but am nervous that someone will eff with me and turn my heat off LOL

Home Depot sells them now. These: RADIO THERMOSTAT » WiFi Thermostats

[Crowbob]

A set back thermostat works best when the hi-lo temps are within 10 degrees. Mine comes on about an hour before rising in the AM to heat up the bathrooms to 70, back down to 60 during the day, back up around 4 PM until 10 PM repeat. Weekends are a different story.

[Scuba Steve]

70 in winter / 75-76 in summer. My wife is unhappy in winter and I'm unhappy in summer. Fair enough, I guess.

[1990C4S]

65 when I'm home and awake, which is not many hours. 50 to 55 at night.

Summer is immaterial, if it's hot I turn on my window AC in my bedroom.

My heating bill is minuscule. My house is 50 about 22 hours per day.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by thinkfloyd14

I like 71-72 degrees, but my dad insists on 68 while my mom would want it below that with the windows open.

im freezing my ass off over here.

help

My German wife (ex now) wanted to sleep every night with the window wide open. We went skiing in the Alps and I put a stop to that right away once it got -10...

Many Europeans feel that you have to have "fresh air" to sleep properly. I feel that nice air in the range of high 60's to low 70's makes me sleep just fine!

My house is 68 at night, and 72 during the day. Summers the A/C is 78, no cooler or we freeze.

[red-beard]

Here in Houston: 75 during the day, 72 at night. Winter: 72 during the day, "off=60 F" at night.

When I lived in Western Mass: 65 during waking hours downstairs, all other times 50F. Upstairs, 50F unless the step daughter was around. It never really dropped to 50F but I didn't want it dropping below that. I also used to run a wood stove because wood was CHEAP. Even with Fuel Oil at "only" $1.25/gallon, wood was still cheaper. I cannot imagine the price to heat my old house with the price of fuel now! We would go through about 225 gallons in 3 weeks, in February.

[red911sc]

From a friends dad (said sternly) -

If your cold put clothes on. If your hot take clothes off.

[Embraer]

for 5 months this summer/fall, i lived in an 18 foot 5th wheel RV parked on a dry lake bed in the mojave. during the daytime, the inside of my RV was regularly 130 degrees and above. obviously no airconditioning...just a fan. it was a dry heat, though. at night time it would get down in the 50's or 60's, so it was nice to sleep in.

[targa911S]

68 daytime 62 night time