What temp do you keep your house?!?!

[The Moonk's Mom]

We keep ours at 78-79...depends on how humid it is and how hard I am cleaning house! In the winter we keep it about 68...mainly for the kids...I could go colder and so could DH. I grew up with wood heat and no AC so my bedroom was always a little cooler in the winter and I would die in the summer...so any cooling is a big deal to me! I just like to pull the moisture out of the air more than anything.

 

[toledo13]

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.

Overnight, we have it set at 84, which is really high, I know. But we do sleep with the overhead fan on. If we CAN open the windows, we do. During the day when we're not home, it's in the 80's, and when I get home I set it to 76. We're generally good for the rest of the evening.

 

[HM]

Air conditioning at 79 (use overhead fans for sleeping more comfortably)
Heating at 68

 

[NikiM20]

We keep our a/c below 70 , i think its on 69 now. The heater hardly ever comes on in our house. I am hot natured and so is DH so it has to get really cold to turn the heat on.

 

[FoundMyPrince]

79 in the summer; 69 in the winter

 

[Shelli_5]

I keep the thermostat set at 72 year round. It's the one thing that I'm not willing to negotiate!

 

[brekin67]

We keep it at 69. Children and Husband will be hurt if they touch that thing.
I like it nice and cool.

 

[JandJ]

DH's office, in an effort to cut costs and go more "green" set the A/C to 78 and everyone complained - everyone except DH because we never go colder than 78 at home so he was used to it If I'm home and not cleaning or doing anything strenuous I'll sometimes set it at 80 and I'm happy with that but DH thinks that's too hot.

In the winter, usually 66-68 during the day, but at night I'll set it to 62-64 because we sleep with an electric blanket that has individual controls so we can set our own temperature. That blanket has saved us so much in utility costs, not to mention fewer arguments! We'll have to revisit that when we adopt; we obviously cannot keep the house that cold with a baby.

 

[delmar411]

we keep it at 68* all year round, heat or a/c. This year though my personal temp has been very wrong and one moment I'll be sweating and insisting it is hotter in here then it is while the kids are bundled up under teh blankets and then next I'll be turning off the a/c completely and letting it get up into the high 70's in the house before I notice it's too hot.

Anyway we have low gas/electric rates here and even when we were in a house 2x this size with bad air flow our max total for both was never more than $250/mth. Right now with the a/c going as much as possible we're just around $100-$150 for both.

 

[Nik's Mom]

We set it at 67 in the winter and 75 in summer. The humidity can get bad here in Kansas, so the air ends up running almost all summer.

 

[kingcrab]

it differs by season

A/C season: 76 during the day, 72 at night

Heat season: 68 during the day, 64 at night

 

[SandrA9810]

thinking of how hot it is here in Florida, it shocks me to think of people leaving their AC in the 60's. My grandmother would never let me turn down the ac, and I had the computer in my room, and since my room was the last on the vents it never felt like air would get into my room. It didn't help that I liked to keep my door closed either.

Did you know it can cost an average of 6% for each degree you change it?


The funny thing, down here, every one has AC, but when I visited northern manitoba, canada no one has an AC unit. And it in the winter time they kept thier house at about 60* which really felt warm compared to the below 30-40 average outside. (Which is the time that I visited) Of course it did a number on me when I returned to Miami and thought it was hot outside at 50* and every one was in jackets.

 

[tlinus]

For us the ac runs from late april thru october.....dang allergies and asthma

This past winter I started keeping the heat lower (we have baseboard hot water heat - natural gas) 63-65 during the day, 67-69 at night. NOt once did anyone think of putting it over 70.

Right now the house is set to 77 during the day while no one is home but the pooch and 71-73 at night. Going to try to keep it that way. Gas/electric rates are really wacky here.

 

[Chicago526]

Our central AC has been broken since we moved in almost 4 years ago. We're concentrating on other home improvement projects so have been getting by on window ac's. We only have two, one in my home office (I work from home FT and if nothing else, I need to keep the computer and office equipment cool) and one in our bed room so we can sleep. In the family room, we just use a box fan, just keeping the air moving is usuall good enough to keep things comfortable while watching TV at night, and I can always retreat to the office and surf the web if it's too hot out.

Since they are window units, we really dont' set them to a specific temp, we just run them until we're comfortable and turn them off until we get warm again. Our highest electric bill last year was just over $100, so whatever we're doing must be working!

Winter time I keep it at 62 day and night and have a space heater in my office.

 

[KristiMc]

In the winter 68 during the day, 65 at night
In the summer 73

 

[DVCBELLE]

Wow - so many answers! Sounds like I am not the only one with thermostat issues! Maybe I should buy him a fan for next to the bed and then he would be cooler at night and I could keep the air up higher.

Someone told me that if you turn your air up and down that your unit has to work harder to cool the house and you don't save on the bill and that you should stay at the same temp all the time - anyone know if this is true?

 

[Colleen27]

I keep the heat at 68* most of the time, though I turn it up a little just before the kids get out of bed in the morning. We've never had central air and in Michigan don't feel like we need it, but we do sometimes run a window air conditioner in our bedroom if it is 90+ or very humid outside because DH has a hard time sleeping if it is hot or sticky.

 

[Shyvioletisme]

I keep the A/C at around 81/82 during the day and we turn it down to 78/79 at night..I'd love to keep it cooler, but we just can't afford to..

the heat runs at around 60 during the winter...I refuse to run it warmer as the warm keeps me up at night. 60 is just enough that we can cover up and layer up and not freeze.

 

[locolala]

We keep it about the same year round, somewhere in the low 70's. We keep a fan in the bedroom because the vent in there doesn't work too well and the windows are ancient and let out a ton of heat/AC. We'll replace them before we PCS, but for now we don't have the time or energy.

 

[punkin]

Everyone in my neighborhood has their AC running, but I am sitting here with open windows and some ceiling fans in a second floor bedroom while my thermometer reads a comfortable 77 degrees. The first floor is probably even cooler than that. I just don't get running AC in this gorgeous weather.