One book suggested that 65 might be harder to achieve in warmer months and maybe 70 would be better. Pardon while I guffaw for all Floridians. Even up north we never dropped the heat below 68 at night. (except when I was ridiculously poor, and then it was 58 with a brief glorious rise to 65 for my bath!)
Here it's about 70 for heat in really cold weather and 74 or 75 for ac at night in the summer. I'm curious. What do you find comfortable and pocket book friendly for where you live?
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I have a wonky thyroid too, so I like things on the warm side. Summer in my part of the world is 35-40ishC (95-105F). We don't have air-conditioning in our home, so when we get three weeks of 38 in a row, I don't love it. My IDEAL temp is about 28-32 (82-90F), but I don;t complain about summer, because winter here goes for eight months and it's 5-15 in the day (40-60F) and -3 to zero (26-32F) overnight - which is WAY off the hovering-around-30-degrees that my body would prefer.
Luckily we have a great wood heater that runs pretty much non stop from April to November, and that stops me from becoming an icicle. It goes out overnight, though, and the house is COLD when we get up in the morning (10C/50F). I know the Canadians are probably laughing at me, but hey, you guys live in central heating. Try living in a wooden house with a tin roof and not much insulation to speak of, with no thermostat-controlled heat. THEN see how you like it!
Before we had kids, we turned it down to a shocking 55 at night in the winter! Now that we have small people to worry about, we keep it at 65 during the day and 62 at night. Last summer, we didn't have ac, so we just suffered. :)
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I laugh because I live in virtually the same climate, yet we never set the heat above 64 or the a/c below 80. It's just too damn expensive! Believe me, I'm boiling hot in the summer. I get angry because my sleep is poor with it so hot in the house. But we truly cannot afford to turn it down. With the heater, I'd just as soon put on another blanket and snuggle up. if we didn't have kids, we'd probably never turn the heat on all year.
We keep the house at 68 when we are air conditioning because I have tested it extensively and if I go up to 69 or 70, Matt gets whiny because he's too hot. In the winter, we keep the heat set at 66 because I get whiny if it goes down to 65. (And sometimes, during the day, I turn it up to 69 because I am cold.) I'd keep it a little warmer all the time, if I didn't live with Matt who is always hot, and if I weren't so cheap in the winter.
We turn the heat on at 71 - at night only, if we have to have the heat on during the day, which doesn't happen often, it's at 68 just cus we can bundle up easier. As far as A/C goes, it's a pretty steady 74... sometimes if I have a chill it goes up 1 or 2.
Our heat in the winter is at 68, and the air conditioning is 70 in the summer. :-D
I'm in FL too and in our "winter" we don't even turn the heat on at all. We just bundle up at night and it never seems to get cooler than 60ish. In the warmer months at night I set the air on 70 and when DH gets home and puts it to 67, during the day it's on 75-77 range. I'm ALWAYS cold so I wear a sweater at home year round.
Thanks for the input guys! I totally understand ph, and I have lived near ca and in northern states and am still a wimp.
I agree with you maresi that it's too expensive. We would keep it higher during the day, but the pets can't handle it. Weve been pretty lucky price wise at those temps.
C - at 70 we'd be paying around $300/ mo for electric!
We're lucky to have natural gas for heat. Cheaper. And we drop in the low 50s in here wo heat during the coldest times. Bad insulation I guess. Windows are def sucky. I guess at freezing tho you can't expect too much.
here in deep east texas, we keep the a/c at 79 in the summer during the day, and 74 at night. anything cooler than that and it is just way too expensive. my husband would actually never turn on the a/c if it were up to him (he has no internal furnace. none.). in the winter we only need the heat for maybe a month or so, and not consistently then, either. usually we keep it around 68. right now we are in that glorious season when we need neither.
Prior to kids, we kept it at 65 in the winter (we both worked, and when we were home we just bundled up), and 78 in the summer. Now that we have kids, we set it at 68 in the winter (plus I'm home all day and I don't like to freeze) and 75 in the summer.
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