If it's real HOT outside how COOL do you keep your house with AC of course?

We keep the AC at 72. I had it at 73 for a long time but bumped it down to 72 a month ago when I felt hot and haven't moved it

I grew up in SC without AC until we remodeled our house when was in middle school. WE slept with the windows and doors open and fan in the windows. My elem schools didn't have AC and most of my HS didn't have AC. I couldn't deal with it today. We've had our upstairs AC unit go out in the summer and it was miserable.
 
You're my kinda lady. All these people saying 76-78..why even bother lol.
When it is close to 100 degrees outside with an 80 degree dewpoint, a dry 76 feels downright chilly.

These last couple weeks when it has been so hot and humid outside, C/A is set at 76/77, depending on what I am doing in the house. If I'm cleaning and moving around a lot, it gets turned down a degree or two. We also have ceiling fans going all the time, which makes a difference.

It is set to 74 for sleeping.
 
This. Lol. I'm like, almost 80 degrees?! What's the point of an AC? :laughing: Very interesting. It gets bloody miserable down here in TN, with the 95+ days and humidity. Open windows means bugs and never ending waves of heat. If I wanted that, I'd just go outside :confused3

But apparently A LOT of people leave their thermostat at higher temps, so I dunno. Maybe it's us!! Haha
You don't have screens on your windows? :confused3
 
We keep ours set at 69 degrees all year round. AC this time of year, heat in the winter. We live in upstate NY and it's been warm here recently but never above 90 typically. I'm not a fan of opening the windows because it brings all the allergens that irritate us, as well as the humidity which we have a ton of here!
 

Ours is a constant 72F ish. Morning, noon, and night all year round; the beauty of Geotherm.

Edited: My husband informed me he has it set at 74F ish... Apparently, I'm colder these days.
 
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Mine stays at 70 or 71. Yesterday it was 100degrees in the shade, and my house gets warm spots. The back of my house that faces east is about 15 degrees warmer because of the sun. I have 2 huge bay windows, 1 is floor to celing high in my dining room and another large one in my kitchen. I just hung up thermal curtains in the dining room yesterday when I got home, and instantly it felt 10 degrees cooler. I loved having no curtains to cover my windows, but now I realize how much heat and air I must have been losing all this time. I just ordered thermal curtains for my kitchen, guess I have to sacrifice my view to save my energy bill lol.
 
74 in the summer. 72 in the winter, but I'm more likely to have a shirt and long pants on then. The office doesn't get as much air as the rest of the house, being at the far end from the A/C unit, so sometimes I'll turn on a fan.

I ought to check what the programming is for bedtime, but I think it's the same.
 
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DH is ALWAYS hot and we generally tussled about the temp. A few years ago a light bulb went off and I bought a small window a/c for our bedroom. Now I keep the main temp at about 74 but DH can turn our bedroom sub-arctic when he wants. Since I set the window a/c to energy saver during the day, our electric bill is a bit lower overall since I can keep the big one higher.
 
We have a one story house with three bedrooms and no central air. We do have two window units and fans and our thermostat has been between 73-75 degrees for the past few weeks. Very comfortable.
 
55 is my operating temperature, but my ac only goes down to 61, so I have to suffer a little. I actually run my ac all year long.

It's great in the winter though, I can open the windows and save on the electric bill.

The temperature is how I knew my wife was the perfect person for me. When her mother told me that she likes to keep her room cold enough for penguins to live in it, I knew she was my kind of woman.
 
What is this "air conditioning in houses" of which you speak? LOL, I don't know anyone up here who has air conditioning in their homes. Today it was 92F outside… you can imagine the special hell it was on the second floor at bedtime! Hot days are OK when it cools off (55-ish) overnight, but that hasn't happened in a couple of weeks. When it's 75F at 8am, you know it's gonna be an ugly day! We try to keep the curtains closed to keep the direct sun out, keep the windows open and hope for a cross-breeze, and run fans. Not too much more you can do.
 
73. Dh likes it at 74 or 75 to keep the cost down, but then he just goes to work or down the office in the basement, where it is always cool.
 
55 is my operating temperature, but my ac only goes down to 61, so I have to suffer a little. I actually run my ac all year long.

It's great in the winter though, I can open the windows and save on the electric bill.

The temperature is how I knew my wife was the perfect person for me. When her mother told me that she likes to keep her room cold enough for penguins to live in it, I knew she was my kind of woman.

60 is my bedroom sleeping temp. During the day I am fine with 68-70 in the rest of the house but when I go to sleep 60 is perfect! I love an ice cold room and sleeping under a comforter! Solar has REALLY helped with those electric bills!! In the winter I keep it 66-68.
 
I definitely like cooler temps when I sleep. It can be below freezing and I still open my bedroom window a crack!
 
Wow, can't believe how COLD you all keep your houses! Glad I don't live with any of you, lol!

I keep my A/C set at 82. I do NOT want to feel cold in the summertime!
 
Wow, can't believe how COLD you all keep your houses! Glad I don't live with any of you, lol!

I keep my A/C set at 82. I do NOT want to feel cold in the summertime!

OMG I would not be able to sleep - I would be miserable sitting in a house that was that hot.
 
We have ours programmed for 78 during the day and 76 at night. I usually end up bumping it down to 74-76 though. Our house (fortunately? Unfortunately?) doesn't get a ton of sun hitting it due to a lot of trees in the yard, so the AC doesn't have to work all that hard, plus we have ceiling fans in all the bedrooms.

I do wish we got more sunlight during the day, though. I'd pay some extra money on the power bill to not be so dark and gloomy all the time!
 












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