What temp do you keep your house?!?!

[DVCBELLE]

I am sitting here FREEZING - in a sweatshirt, long pants and with a blanket on b/c my DH turns the air down to 72 at night. When he isn't home we keep the air at 76 or 78 depending on how sunny it is. (more sun shining in - lower I turn it!)

Meanwhile - he is asleep in just a pair of pants and no blanket and complaining of being hot. I think the main problem is that they keep his office very cold and so he has adjusted his body heat to that and wants it cooler at home.

Does anyone else have a thermostat war?! What is the average temp you keep your house at? I try to tell him budget wise it is better for our air to be higher but no go.

 

[disneymom2003]

We have never kept the air on at night unless it is really, really hot. My husband used to turn the air on during the day if it got above 90 but realized he could live if it was a little warmer. He also realized the electric bill is much lower now. I am grateful because like you I would freeze. I do go through this at work though.

 

[MoniqueU]

79 when I dare to turn the air on. They raides our rates 30 percent last year and I got hit with 1070 dollar electric bill. 3300 sq foot house with a pool and 2 ac units. We hace ceiling fans in all bedrooms and our family room. My thermostat got up to 83 today downstairs and I don't dare turn it on. We switched to budget billing and pay 560 a nonth. I am terrified of using mor electricity then last year and getting hit with a huge overage anout. It routinely gets well over 100 here for a few months in the summer and even with dual pained tented windows we pay throgh the nose. I think we pay 19 cents per kw hour and my friend in alabama pays 8 cents. I may have my numgers wrong but I know we pay more then double what she pays.

 

[UCFALUM]

We're still chilly here but the thermostat is set at 62 and yes, it is freezing. The kids don't complain and if they do, throw on a sweatshirt. Our bill is already over $150 so I can't imagine what it would be if was set at 72. And yes, I take 5 minute showers and are thinking of getting a timer for everyone else!!

 

[MouseketeerOvaHere]

Ah, lovely GA humidity. We keep our around 73 until it is completely unbearable in July and August and then we crank it down just around 70 maybe 68. Luckily we have some large trees in the yard that help shade the house.

Ah, to live in the north again when all you have to do is open some windows. But then again there is that nasty white stuff called snow. Yuck!

 

[MouseketeerOvaHere]

We're still chilly here but the thermostat is set at 62 and yes, it is freezing. The kids don't complain and if they do, throw on a sweatshirt. Our bill is already over $150 so I can't imagine what it would be if was set at 72. And yes, I take 5 minute showers and are thinking of getting a timer for everyone else!!

It should be cheaper the higher you set the AC. That would mean it would have to be 72 in your home before the AC would kick on. 62 is really low but I guess it depends on what makes you comfortable. I would be a frozen at that temp.

 

[DVCBELLE]

I think she is talking heat and I am talking air!

In the winter - I like 72 and he likes 68 - this year to save money I bundled up! We budget bill and pay $250 a month but I would love to get it lower!!

We all have allergies so open windows don't work for us...I would pay in doctor visits what I would save on air!

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

DH and I kind of war over the thermostat. He keeps the heat at 70* all winter, but wants the AC on 74* in the summer. I would prefer it be at 70* year 'round. I am hot natured and he is cold.

to all who have those outrageous electric bills. We are lucky that ours never gets over $225 in the summer, even when we have a month of 100* days.

 

[ajk912]

We do 76 in the summer and 66 in the winter.

I have to have the AC on at night. That's the most important part of the day!!! I don't really care if the AC is on when we are bustling around and in and out the house all day. I just don't want to be hot when I am trying to sleep.

 

[MoniqueU]

I can't sleep because it is hot in here even with the fan going. I think I am going to break down and put it on.

 

[SandrA9810]

for some reason our new place doesn't seem to keep as cool as i would like. it turns on for like 5 minutes, then shuts off for five. At our last place our bill never went over a 120$. We've only been in this place a month. So we'll find out in a couple months what our average will be. Of course there is now 3 people living here, instead of two. And we were both working full time crazy hours at our last place. Now i'm home all the time.


right now our AC is set to 76. Kari has yet to instal our programmable thermostat. That's usually set to 80 during the day (because we were never home till night), and then 74 at night. I like it being cool enough to snuggle under the blanket. I hate waking up and tossing the covers on and off me. Of course our bedroom faces the east so it gets hot in the morning and i always wake up sweating.

 

[Skatermom23]

I always set the AC at 72.. I need to feel the cool air, especially at night!

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

In the summer we keep it a cool 68 degrees.

Winter around 72-74

 

[msmayor]

My kids and I have significant allergies in the spring, so keeping the air on 24hrs a day from about May 15th on is more about being able to breath than keeping cool.

But once it goes on, we have it set at 75 during the day and 78 at night. I pay my gas/electric together on a single bill on the budget plan with little adjustment at the end of the year, so to keep our house warm in winter/cool in summer runs us around $320 per month.

 

[disneynut67]

I am the crazy one in our house & cheap or should we say frugal? In the winter, the thermostat is set for 63 during the day & 57 at night. In the summer I won't put the air on unless it is above 87 degrees in the house. We fortunately have a full porch on the front of the house which keeps the front rooms cool and in the back have some great trees & a retractable awning if I get hot.

 

[BridgetBordeaux]

We like a cool house year round.

Winter: 66 during the day and 65 while sleeping

Summer 74 during the day and 73 at night

We replaced our AC's and furnaces in 2005 (we have 2 of each). Our peak bills hover at about 325 for gas/elec combined during the coldest/hottest months

 

[PinkRhombus]

68 or so in the winter.
73-74 in the summer.

We have a second central air unit that is for the upstairs only and it makes a HUGE difference and our bills are not more than anyone else we know. The downstairs unit runs less and we have a more even temperature throughout the house because we're not having to over compensate to cool the upstairs. In the spring and fall, when the downstairs really does not need it, we only run the upstairs unit as we always keep those windows closed because of the kids and cat.

 

[marius97]

My wife and I are in a non stop fight about the heat/air. I stay at home, so during the summer, I open all the windows and doors and get a nice cross breeze going through the house. The kids never complain about being hot. An hour before she comes home, I have to close everything up and turn the air on, otherwise, she won't be happy. Gotta keep momma happy. I put my foot down though and have the air at 78 when she is home though. That way if she is really hot, she has to get up and turn it down.

 

[wall*e2008]

I like it at 72 but DH would like it below 70. Right now it is at 71.

 

[SaraJayne]

In the winter, our heat is set at 68 and in the summer, the c/a is set at 75.

When it gets really hot outside (95+), the c/a gets bumped up to about 80.