What temp do you keep your house at?

[iJenny]

During the summertime when you're home, what temperature do you keep your thermostat at?

I was reading about this and every site I looked at said to keep it at 78*. I don't know about ya'll, but if my house was 78* all day long I'd KILL myself!

So I'm just curious... what temp do you keep your thermostat at during the summer?

[Darcy Baldwin]

79 - seriously. We have too much heat too long....couldn't afford the bills if we kept it comfortable all the time LOL


and we keep it at about 65 during the winter.

[nikkiARNGwife]

We keep it at about 72 but if I get hot I have no problem bumping it down and at night it goes down to about 65...can't sleep hot no way..but you know we're in Mississippi..the humidity kills.

[emmasmommy]

we keep ours at 71 in the winter and 77 in the summer

[rachaelsscraps]

68 in the winter & 72 in the summer

[lovely1m]

I don't have central air, but I let that baby run until I am comfortable. No point in being hot in your own home, but I don't live down south either.

[Kiki]

Hubby bought one of those great little programmable air conditioners last summer. Insisted he wanted the place at 68 all summer.

Our electricity bill payments doubled.

[nikkiARNGwife]

When I was growing up, my parents turned off the central air completely at night in the summertime...it was MISERY...I vowed I would be comfortable at night when I grew up no matter what lol. I understand why they did it..but I hated it just the same lol. You just can't NOT have a/c in the South..even at night. lol

[DawnMarch]

Electric here is so expensive in the summer. We keep ours at 80, but occasionally bump it down a bit to 79 or 78 if we can't take it anymore!

[Darcy Baldwin]

We just use a fan in each of our rooms (just the 2) at night in the summer..so that we're not cooling off the whole house at night when no one is up.

[nun69]

ummmm...doesn't matter...we do NOT have central air in the PNW...so whatever the temp outside, that is what the temp inside is!

[jessica31876]

probably 78 to 80. A little cooler at night. We could not afford it if it was any lower because we have like nine months out of the year where we run the AC

[ryliesmom]

About 72. It's just too sticky hot here for it to be set any warmer. I try to keep it at 68 in the winter, but I still freeze most of the time.

[MamaBee]

Summer... that is a a fight with my hubby. When it's really humid, then the air goes on and the house sits at 72ish... if hubby had his way, air would be on all the time from June through Aug... but I don't like air, it causes sinus problems for me and I love to have the windows open and house smelling fresh... I love heat and being warm!

So... that brings Winter... I love it warm so the house is 71... and I'm still bundled up on the sofa with a thick wool quilt. Hubby would like it 65 at night... but kiddo kicks off the blankets and his bedroom is on the Northwest corner of the house... the coldest area.

[Tracyfish]

We're in humidity central here in Florida and we keep it at 78...I can't stand a high bill.
At night we turn our master bedroom unit down to 74, but the other ones stay at 78.

Winter time we freeze...we keep them at 63 downstairs and then L.J.'s room upstairs we have at 68 so he won't be too cold at night.

[jessica31876]

Oh gosh Rebecca we have our air on sometimes in December and January. Typically I dont run it everyday until April but it does not go off everyday until November sometimes December. I need to move away from Florida because I HATE the hot humid mugginess that is the south

[tuneskids]

Originally Posted by nun69

ummmm...doesn't matter...we do NOT have central air in the PNW...so whatever the temp outside, that is what the temp inside is!

yup, we are the same here, no A/C. We keep the house shut up during the day on the side(s) where the sun is, open everything wide up as soon as the sun goes down to allow the breeze to flow through. Amazingly though, our house stays really cool in the summer, even during the day. Which is weird with no insulation in the house, but whatever works. lol

We keep the heat at 72 in the winter.

[mrs_jb]

My thermostat stays around 72, summer or winter.

[Nettio]

Originally Posted by iJenny

During the summertime when you're home, what temperature do you keep your thermostat at?

I was reading about this and every site I looked at said to keep it at 78*. I don't know about ya'll, but if my house was 78* all day long I'd KILL myself!

Yes see but that 78 doesn't account for just how intense the sun is here in Colorado. 78 here is like 88 everywhere else. Our house came pre-wired for AC but we decided to wait to put in an actual unit since the highs here were only supposed in the low 80s and that's totally reasonable coming from CA but ummm yeah, I about died the first two summers here. This will be the first summer we have AC and you can bet I'll be using it. I get cold easily so I don't know what I'll run it on but I wouldn't be surprised if it was at 75 or lower, haha.

[kresta]

69 is our night-time temp. Usu. a few degrees higher during the day - 74-ish?

[junebug]

summertime i try to keep it around 72. but Indiana can get some hot humid summers so sometimes i crank that baby to below 70!

now in the winter, its at around 73 when its really cold. this house is drafty. i like to be warm. though sometimes at night i turn it down to 67 cause DH is like a space heater, then Aidan is usually on the other side of me. so i get hot, lol. but then in the morning it goes back up again cause the floor is cold!

[sprauncey1]

Originally Posted by kresta

69 is our night-time temp. Usu. a few degrees higher during the day - 74-ish?

Ditto! Seriously...cannot stand the heat here and we PAY for it, but both of us are miserable when we are hot! So we pay pay pay! 78 would just make me grumpy all day!

[MissKim]

In the summer, it's on 82ish. We have a ceiling fan in the living room in addition to a regular stand fan. Everyone has the stand fans in bedrooms. At night, I turn it down closer to 75. I'd prefer it be even colder, but if it runs too long at night then I start thinking about our bill, so I turn it back up.

In the winter, usually 62-63 at night, and 68-70 when we're home. It's on 70 right now, and I have my legs wrapped in a wool blanket. Kids have slippers and blankets. Our bill is probably not high compared to others, but I hate paying a lot for it.

[Julie Billingsley]

We have a programmable thermostat, so in the summer I have the A/C turn on when it is hotter than 77 and the heat come on if it gets colder than 68. If I get hot and it's lower than 77 I just use a fan, that's cheaper for us than using the A/C for the whole house.

[ColleenSwerb]

We're at 73 in the summer, 70 in the winter. Any higher and Jordan complains about it being too hot, any colder and I complain that I can't feel my toes. We have the ceiling fans in the house running whenever we are home in the summer. It goes off at night and during the day while we're at work (well, goes up to like 85 in summer and down to 60 in winter).

[Stacey42]

We keep ours at about 77-80 in the summer depending on humidity. We have an underground house and it traps humidity so the a/c works as a dehumidifier. We have ceiling fans but the do nothing for the humidity. They are nice when the humidity is low though

The winter is 70-73 depending on the winds. There is a lot of glass in our house & even the double pane stuff passes a chill through when it's 20 degrees and 20MPH winds.

[AmyM]

65-70 depending on the weather, can't seem to find that perfect number in between. Occassionally at night it will get bumped up some, but we've had the coldest winter of my lifetime this year. Never seen anything like this in eastern NC. In the summer is when we splurge, all of us are hot natured. It stays around 70, sometimes lower. Can't take the heat!

[rach3975]

I don't know if it's due to the type of heat, or the insulation, or what, but houses set at the same temp can feel very different. My parents' house is heated with a furnace, and it's comfortable at 65 to 67, way too hot at 70. We have a heat pump, and if the temp goes down to 65 we're freezing and have to put coats on.

[MandaT]

it seriously depends on the day...we try to open it up at night & close it down before daylight, & keep as much direct sun out as possible (although that makes me CRAZY, a high power bill makes me crazier) we usually get a nice evening breeze, & that helps --so summer anywhere from 72-80*

--normally winter 71*, sometimes higher or lower, depending on how much is going on inside, if I'm cooking a lot or cleaning, then definately lower...if it's a lazy winter day, up to 73 (never higher than that though).

[Sharon Kay]

72 during the day time in the winter ... 69 at night ...

75 during the day in the summer ... 72 at night (sometimes lower...tend to have nightmares if we're too hot)