Proper home temperature
 

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.

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I'm with you, 70-72 degrees feels right...but I control the thermostat. I've heard 68 should be the target for energy savings, but feels chilly to me, in the meantime, have tried a sweater or jacket?

It has taken me years to convince my wife about the savings of dressing warmly around the house. The thermostat never goes over 67F & we usually keep it about 65F. I try not to turn on the heat unless there's at least 3 people home.

I have been setting the thermostat to about 66-68 in the evening, dropping to 63-65 over night while sleeping, and down to 62 or off during the day.

Put a sweater on and quit yer b!tchin'... :D

Seriously, if you're colder than everyone else, it could be that you have damp clothes on, or have extremely low body fat. I saw a body builder being interviewed on TV once who was shivering (at a competition... just after his "performance").

It was 70-something degrees in the building.

I like it about 75. Yes really.

It completely depends upon the weather. Right now we keep the heat at 67-69 depending upon the time of day. Or, if it warms up, we keep the AC at 73-75.

If I kept the house at 67 in Aug, it would be miserably cold. Now that the weather has cooled off, it's not bad.

In Aug, I keep the AC in the 75-77 range which keeps the downstairs about that temp, and the upstairs a degree or two warmer. If I put the heat on now and cranked it to 77, I wouldn't be able to sleep because it'd seem to warm.

It's all about what your body gets used to.

When I'm working, 72-73 is pretty nice.

If you want to set the thermostat, start paying the electric bill.

I like it at 70... but married a Oregon girl...

I use it as an excuse to get frisky "If you want it this darn cold you better keep me warm!

66 to 68 daytime, 58 at night

Exactly. That is what I tell my 83 y/o MIL who lives with me. I bought a locking thermostat because she'd run it up and the Winter and down in the Summer the minute we left for work and re-adjust before we got home. I guess she didn't think we looked at the electric and gas bills.

I run 66-68 in the Winter, down so low it won't kick in when we sleep. It may get to mid-50's in the middle of the night in the Winter, but the timer turns on 15 minutes before we get up in the AM. Summer 74-76 during the day, and off and the windows open at night. It may get to 102 during the day in the Summer but it almost always cools down outside to the low 70s at night.

In the winter, ours is set at 62-63. Sometimes 65 if we have a house full of people. In the summer the a/c is set between 75-78. I can't sleep this time of year if its set over 63.
I think my last PG&E bill was $54 bucks. :)

I'm comfy at 62 degrees.

Pretty much my range......

I have a set back thermostat now.... am thinking about getting a network thermostat so I can control it from an app ;)

Tim, I thought about that. Check the energy use from London and dial it back! No soup for you!

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

i keep the heat at 65-68 depending on time of day and AC at 76. I would love to run the heat up to at least 72 but i anint paying for that!! I could probably live without AC. My wife would love it 65 degrees year round, I would love it 78 year round!

68 works for me. We keep a fire built when it's extremely cold.

In summer, well.....upstairs 72 and downstairs 74.

You can get used to anything within about a 10 degree range...In the summer, I don't turn on air till it 75 or so....In the winter, down to low 60's b4 I turn on the heat.......Of course I cut the firewood, not the Princess. She likes it a little warmer....

Nighttime: Electric Blanket (2 controls) and heat at 57 or 58...

My favorite saying when she starts burning too much wood: "Hey, you think that stuff grows on Trees?"

70 degrees during the heating season while we are home 66 at night.
There is a point of diminishing returns when you consider the amount of heat energy to bring the home back up to daytime temperature after the night time setback. Think of heat energy being similar to a flywheel effect. You have spent good money to bring the wheel up to speed, letting it slow down (cool off) too much will cost you money to bring the flywheel (thermal mass of the building) back up to speed.
During the short cooling season here, the stat is set for 75 degrees while we are home.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

We run a humidifier as well.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

From a friends dad (said sternly) -

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

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.

68 daytime 62 night time