Floridians~What temp is your heat set to?

[dolphinrescuegirl]

We have ours set at 78 but it's set at that temp year-round. I love the summer!

 

[LargoLori]

70, but I'm still cold.

Same here.

 

[cheermom1]

WOW I have ours set at 74 I couldn't imagine it being any colder really this is a little too cold I wish it was 78 but dh won't let me..

 

[LisaR]

Ours is 72 but our thermostat is weird here. We keep our AC at 79 during the day and 77 at bedtime. When we lived up north, I would have died of heat if our air was 79. I also would have roasted with our heat at 72. We kept that at around 68. I think our system here is just messed up. We were up north a few weeks ago and we kept the heat at 68 again. Doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Kies99]

Sorry...Yankee here. Funny to see how high most people are setting them at.

 

[RadioNate]

Sorry...Yankee here. Funny to see how high most people are setting them at.

you can laugh all you want but you have to understand that there are difference in heating systems and construction that make things very different.

Heat pumps don't generate heat. They are air conditioners running in reverse. Furnace systems actually generate heat and push it through the house. Heat pumps don't. It works fine until about 35 degrees when it becomes very inefficient. At 25 degrees it pretty much stops working. They aren't designed to heat in temperatures that low.

People talked about the lack of insulation. My house doesn't have any on the lower floor. The cinder block design is to keep cool air in. It will always feel cooler and damper than a wood framed houses.

It is easy to think that the numbers mean the same thing but they don't.

Air heated to 70 degrees pumping though your house is going to feel different that trying to remove all the air cooler than 70 degrees in the house.

 

[swandiverpatt]

We've had it as high as 74 and keep it around 72. DH may turn it off during the day, I don't know.

We're in a house that has two master suite wings on opposite sides of the house. Ours is the furthest from the source of heat, so I swear it's 10 degrees hotter in the summer and now I'm finding it's about 10 degrees colder. Not bad for sleeping in, but terrible to have to get up way early in the a.m. and shower!!

We also notice a lot of coldness around the windows -- we are a single story cinder block home with mainly tile floors, so it *is* chilly!

 

[wendy46001]

ours stays around 70 put it down to 68 last night because it kept kicking on and waking DH up ...of course when we get home from work we tend to kick it up to 74 for an hour or so...

 

[Plannin'Shannon]

you can laugh all you want but you have to understand that there are difference in heating systems and construction that make things very different.

Heat pumps don't generate heat. They are air conditioners running in reverse. Furnace systems actually generate heat and push it through the house. Heat pumps don't. It works fine until about 35 degrees when it becomes very inefficient. At 25 degrees it pretty much stops working. They aren't designed to heat in temperatures that low.

People talked about the lack of insulation. My house doesn't have any on the lower floor. The cinder block design is to keep cool air in. It will always feel cooler and damper than a wood framed houses.

It is easy to think that the numbers mean the same thing but they don't.

Air heated to 70 degrees pumping though your house is going to feel different that trying to remove all the air cooler than 70 degrees in the house.

Thank you!

 

[hippiemama76]

Venice here (but I'm a Gainesville girl at heart!). We put it at 68 during the night and 72 during the day. Definitely wasteful, but we are helping HippieBabe to learn about the potty, so it's easier to have her nakey on the bottom.

 

[cruisnfamily]

you can laugh all you want but you have to understand that there are difference in heating systems and construction that make things very different.

Heat pumps don't generate heat. They are air conditioners running in reverse. Furnace systems actually generate heat and push it through the house. Heat pumps don't. It works fine until about 35 degrees when it becomes very inefficient. At 25 degrees it pretty much stops working. They aren't designed to heat in temperatures that low.

People talked about the lack of insulation. My house doesn't have any on the lower floor. The cinder block design is to keep cool air in. It will always feel cooler and damper than a wood framed houses.

It is easy to think that the numbers mean the same thing but they don't.

Air heated to 70 degrees pumping though your house is going to feel different that trying to remove all the air cooler than 70 degrees in the house.

Thanks for that explanation!

I don't have a heat pump (at least I don't think I do, would I know if I had one???) just plain old electric heat which is horribly inefficient and expensive.

It was pretty warm today I dont' think it has kicked on yet tonight. (set at 68)