We have a programmable thermostat but no zones. chickenhat is always hot and I am always freezing nomatter how much we struggle for a compromise. I too revel in open windows when he's on vacation--in June or July.
Here's what we're using now.
Summer/AC When we are home and awake: 78 When we are at work: 80. When we are asleep: 79
Winter/heat when we are home and awake:71. When we are at work: 65 When we are asleep: 68.
When we go on vacation, we leave the house at the "away at work" temperature. There's only so extreme we want to make the changes, since the cats & hermit crabs have to live in here 24x7.
I don't know if we're saving anything, but we feel the difference when we're home on a weekday, and override the program.
We are not on any energy saver program.
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And year-round there is one more blanket on my side of the bed than on his. His side of the bed gets the blast from the vent. When I had my mastectomy we switched sides of the bed to make it easier for me to get in & out & get to the bathroom. All winter when the heat was going, it blew on me. Delicious. We switched back when AC season kicked in, and haven't switched again, but man that heat was nice. Maybe I should lobby for a seasonal swap.
The big old portland house would have drained our wallets if I kept it as warm as I would have liked. No AC - just old school temperature management, with hiding in the basement the hot hot days. In the winter, daytime temps (which were always the same since someone was almost always home and working) was 67 or 68. Night time, I like sleeping with heavy blankets and cool air (an excellent opportunity to save some dough), so I set the thermo way down to a point it rarely would come on in the night - 53. The weeks of ice storms were about the only times that happened. I always wondered about that calculating how many hours the heat was on using set back or not, but had no way to sort it out.
In Berkeley - we just turn the one wall built in on when it is chilly. And my room runs cold so there is one space heater in here. WHich I used only a few times. Not comparable to the CHicagoland concerns at all!
Our thermostat is programmable, but I never bothered to change it when it got warm this spring - we keep it overridden. During the summer I try to keep it at 72-74. Last winter I tried to keep it around 68. We have ceiling fans in the rooms upstairs and we keep them on all the time. I love having the windows open so whenever it's tolerable we do that instead of the ac/heat. When I leave the house (and John isn't home) I turn the temperature up/down a few degrees according to season - 75 or 76 in the summer and 65 or so in the winter. We have yet to go on vacation for more than a weekend since we moved in. In our old apartment we set it to 65/winter 75/summer or off entirely if it was mild out.
Our second floor (bedrooms) is an addition and has its own full sized furnace and ac, so we have 2 zones. Maug is home most of the time so we don't get to change the temperature downstairs, but we do change it upstairs. I love the programmable thermostats we have. I take full advantage of them
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I used to be hot all the time, so we kept the thermostat at 65 degrees (that is as low as the damn thing will go) 24/7/365 and poor Mark just suffered. Now I actually get cold on occasion, so we keep the thermostat at around 70-72 degrees 24/7/365. No newfangled programmable thingy, tho I have been able to program Mark to make sure that the place NEVER gets too warm... he knows what's good for him! Ha!!
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Here's what we're using now.
Summer/AC When we are home and awake: 78
When we are at work: 80.
When we are asleep: 79
Winter/heat when we are home and awake:71.
When we are at work: 65
When we are asleep: 68.
When we go on vacation, we leave the house at the "away at work" temperature. There's only so extreme we want to make the changes, since the cats & hermit crabs have to live in here 24x7.
I don't know if we're saving anything, but we feel the difference when we're home on a weekday, and override the program.
We are not on any energy saver program.
(Edited for completeness unachievable with my iPhone.)
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In Berkeley - we just turn the one wall built in on when it is chilly. And my room runs cold so there is one space heater in here. WHich I used only a few times. Not comparable to the CHicagoland concerns at all!
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During the summer I try to keep it at 72-74. Last winter I tried to keep it around 68. We have ceiling fans in the rooms upstairs and we keep them on all the time. I love having the windows open so whenever it's tolerable we do that instead of the ac/heat.
When I leave the house (and John isn't home) I turn the temperature up/down a few degrees according to season - 75 or 76 in the summer and 65 or so in the winter.
We have yet to go on vacation for more than a weekend since we moved in. In our old apartment we set it to 65/winter 75/summer or off entirely if it was mild out.
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I used to be hot all the time, so we kept the thermostat at 65 degrees (that is as low as the damn thing will go) 24/7/365 and poor Mark just suffered. Now I actually get cold on occasion, so we keep the thermostat at around 70-72 degrees 24/7/365. No newfangled programmable thingy, tho I have been able to program Mark to make sure that the place NEVER gets too warm... he knows what's good for him! Ha!!
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