We have been setting the downstairs at 73 day and 71 night and the upstairs at 74 day and 72 night....

I am just curious what others do. Our last electric bill was 160ish....

 

I usually just leave it at 74.

 

66 during the day. I'm tired of sweating my balls off this summer. I've been doing a lot of work outside this summer and want to feel like I'm walking into a freezer when I go into the house.

At night, we usually have it turned up to around 68-70 to begin with, and end up switching it off after a few hours and turning a fan on.

Electric bill, schmelectric bill...

 

67-68ºF evening/morning/night
69ºF in daytime

only a single thermostat system with said thermostat on the bottom floor

 

76 day, 74 night.

 

76 home, 82 away...

 

80 home 85 away
Good insulation makes a ton of difference along with fans

 

75 home (morning/evening); 80 away (day)

 

Air ?? I just put in my window unit last week for the first time since I owned the house...

You guys are all pussies

 

I would die if I left in on 75 plus. I like it set on 64 in the winter. Not because I am cheap, I am just so damn hot all the time.



Greenie - I got your pussy, come to middle TN for a week, you will love the AC!!!!! Let's talk about heating.....

 

71 at night, 76 during the day (unless I'm working around the house, then 71), 80 when I'm not home (saves alot, unit hardly runs this way). All of my rooms have ceiling fans.

 

62 night, 68 day... last bill was $218

 

75 when I'm home, 80 when I'm not. Last months electric bill was $475.

 

 

475???????? WTF?

 

Costs $$$ to cool down 2200 sq. ft. 40 degrees from the outside temp.

 

( I really miss AC )

 

We know how them "old" bones and joints need hot temperatures to stay flexible and acheless..

 

I agree, but that is alot. We are in 3200 sq ft and have been in the mid 90's all month.

 

It is a lot, and its higher than usual, but it has been 115+ here. House isn't really insulated very well I don't think. Also four peoples laundry and all that adds up.

 

my house is 1800 sq ft....i got ceiling fans going everywhere and keep the air around 80....cool enough for me.

 

My wife likes it cool enough at night, when she's not working now, for my nuts to be the size of peas.

When she's working at night, I turn the air on to 72 and I'm very comfortable. I don't know why her internal temperature is higher than mine.

We just recieved our first full month's bill and it was "only" $199. I thought it would be in the $400 range, so I'm relatively happy. I hope in the fall we can put in some ceiling fans and not have to use the air as much.

 

I should be fine with the heating this year since I replaced the boiler. Seriously, next house I buy will have central air...

 

Man, I am only 27, what does a boiler do again?











j/k

 

74 day/night

 

74 day and nite

 

75 during the days and 77 at night. It's a lot better now that the central air works the way it was supposed too. I have no clue what out electricity bill will be since this is our first month there.

 

79 day or night.

 

67 day and night for the theater and kitchen.
I have a portable unit which sucks compared to the window one. I keep it at 61 and the room never gets cooler than 74.
I'm about 800 sq ft and electric is included in my monthly.

 

78 day & night, but if I'm doing any work around the house it's 76 temporarily.

 

Are we in good shape (insulation-wise) if we can afford to keep it higher? Night or day we're set at 78 in our 1979 home of about 1600 sf. However, eletric was about $475 last month. Crazy Texas heat!!! If I keep it at 77, it gets a little chilly at night. If it's 200 degrees outside, sometimes the air can be set at 77-78 but the temp still reads 80 since the unit can't keep up.

 

78 during the day, 75 at night, last bill was $395.

before my daughter was born, my wife worked during the day and the thermostat was set to 85 during the day. a typical late summer bill from 2 or 3 years ago would have just hit $200 for 2,300 and two stories.

we are looking at possibly having the system zoned - the single 5 ton unit we have is more than sufficient to cool the house, but with 2 floors and an east-west facing, we have significant temperature differentials in the various rooms. adding solar screens to the house helped somewhat, but we really need zoning and/or double pane windows to really make a difference.

 

Copy/Paste from a reply in another topic...

We have programmable thermostats for both zones, as well as fans everywhere. I have the thermostats programmed so they compliment each other. The upper floor comes on first and cools off that floor as well as the open areas below... then about 30 minutes before bed time, the lower floor kicks in and cools that floor and our bedroom (we have a master down), and the upper floor shuts off. The thermostats also have this cool feature called auto-recover. Basically I have them all set at certain temps and times to come on/off for the different settings (Wake, Leave, Arrive, Sleep). We leave the A/C off during the day and I don't have it set to come on until about 8:45pm or so... however, with the auto-recover, once the temp hits a certain degree, the thermostat will kick on the A/C early so it gradually reduces the house temp to my level instead of clicking on at 8:45pm and working very hard. It's an awesome feature and I've got the house cooling (and heating for that matter) down to a science. I'm not sure what our electric bill is yet for this past month, however, the previous month was $184, and the heat has not let up, so I expect this month to be around $200. Not too bad when you consider that we have two outdoor fountains, the uplights on the house, plus the pool running 10 hours a day as well as the A/C to cool the entire house (about 4500 sq ft)...

FYI, not mentioned in that reply are the settings. 86 degrees during the day, 78 in the evening and at night.

FYI #2, we got our bill for last month... $218. Still not bad considering how hot it has been (heat indexes have been close to or over 100 since June and it only cooled off weekend), how much square footage we have to cool, and all of the other electrical items listed in my reply in addition to the standard stuff (2 fridges plus other applicances, washer/dryer, plasma and DLP tv's, etc.).

 

74 - 24/7

 

72 at night and the morning....and 80 during the day (except for the weekend, then its 73 all day saturday and sunday)

 

I keep my wake/leave/arrive/sleep each within a degree or two from each other...precisely to avoid the more extreme of home heating or cooling. I find that the system works better that way with less temperature lag/inertia between time periods. I used to have it vary by like 5-7 degrees, but was less happy with that set up.



For any of you that keep the thermostat above 72 ("ideal room temp")...what benefit are you getting from leaving your A/C on? Why bother? Dehumidification?

If I wanted the inside temp in the 70s, I'd turn the unit off and live on fans alone. IMHO, etc

 

78, and I turn it off completely when I leave the house. Last month my bill was $150, the highest its ever been.

 

Depends where you live. In NC, during the day with the A/C off our house can get up to 84-86 degrees. When the A/C kicks on and cools the house to 78, the house gets nice and cold. We then maintain that temp throughout the night until the next morning, and continue the cycle. While 78 may sound high, it's very, very comfortable. In fact, the system is so effecient that you can sleep under the covers at night and still be comfortable. And it's not just me, when we have guests, I can see them make faces when I tell them what the thermostat was set at... but after their first night here they come down and say, I didn't believe you, but last night I was actually a little cold.

Having an effecient system that's great on cooling and keeps the energy bill way down is a beautiful thing. Having a well insulated house adds to that beauty.

 

81 away
76-78 home

My townhouse is end-of-group with southern exposure so it's in the sun all day, so if I tried to keep the temp lower, it wouldn't even catch up.

 

I wouldn't call 'nice and cold' and 'very, very comfortable' at 78ºF a testament to efficiency...I'd call it an inaccurate thermometer or a hypothyroid family and friends.

Maybe a better question to ask is what the actual temperature of the house (bedroom, family room, etc...) rather then what the thermostat is set at.