What temp do you keep your house at?

Our house has THE worst insulation ever so we keep it at 80... and our electric bill is still nearly $200 during the summer (for a tiny 1000 sq. ft. house). :( It's not comfortable, but you do what you gotta do. :D And in the winter our heater is set to 62.
 
We have it set at 73-74 during the winter, and at 74 in the summer. We have central air and a 3 floor townhouse so we want all the floors at the same temp.
 
72 year round AND the ceiling fan and pedastal fan on in the summer...but that's Louisiana for ya...it's like Mississippi...the humidity will kill ya.
 
In winter, it is between 16 and 18 Celsius, 16 at night, 18 during the day. Ar night, I also shut my bedroom door and crack open my window. The ceiling fan is always on. I sleep so well all bundled up in the cold.

In summer, we don't have central air, but only a wall unit that runs almost all the time, with fans. :)
 
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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
Well, we don't have AC, but we haven't really needed it during the summer. It gets so cold here at night that we open all the windows and let it get cool in the house, then we shut them during the day. That coupled with the ceiling fans keeps it cool all day long.
 
rach3975 said:
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.
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We have a heat pump too and I HATE HATE HATE it. We had to have it serviced last summer and the guy who serviced it said he never understands why homes in the South have heat pumps installed..that it never gets cold enough here for the outside thermostat to recognize that it needs to blow HEAT..so when ours comes on it will blow warm air for about 5 minutes and then it clicks off and it feels like cool air blowing from then on. And it will run and run blowing that cooler air b/c it can never regulate itself or something. I HATE it. I want heat when I turn on the heat kwim? So we rarely use it at all downstairs and use our logs instead.
 
Out of frugality, we keep our house at 78 during the summer. On occasion we will bump it down to 76 or maaaaybe 75 when it's particularly humid, but no lower than that. We noticed sizeable differences in our electric bill when we dip below 77.

Growing up, my dad always kept our house at a frigid 65 degrees. When my parents divorced, my mom cranked the air up to cut costs and we became used to higher temperatures. DH had a similar experience so we've just stuck with it.
 
I live in Phoenix, and we set it at 79 during the day, 78/77 at night. If it goes above 115, it is 78 during the day and 77 at night. Again, this becomes a tense issue at our house sometimes too.
 
We are 68 in the winter...but my feet and hands freeze anyway. I hate being hot in the summer though...and I can't remember what we had the thermostat set to last summer...but I have no problem bumping it down when I get hot! hehe

And on heat pumps...I grew up with them in SC...not that we needed true heat much there. Here we have gas heat and it is so much warmer when the air comes out and makes the house feel really warm pretty quickly...but my problem with it is the dry, dry air in the house. I keep shocking my kids and even my laptop and when it gets shocked it crashes! LOL Anyone know of a good humidifier?
 
Summer- 78 during the day (with ceiling fans) and 75 at night. Compared to 98% humidity and over 100 degree temps 78 feels chilly.

Winter- 65 during the day (sometimes it gets bumped up if it is windy) and 68 at night.

We just got a new ac at the end of last summer so I am anxious to see if it reduces our summer electric bills.
 
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)
 
I HATE being hot - so like 74 in the summer (73 if I'm being naughty) and in the winter I'd let it get as cold as it'll get here in So Cal, but DH is worried about the kids, so he sets the heater to turn on if it gets colder than 65.
 
We don't turn our heater on at night but it rarely gets below 64 during the winter. I turn it up to 68 in the morning. Sometimes I'll crank it up to 70, but if I have to go get ready for work, that's too warm.

During the summer here, if I turn on the AC, it gets set at 78. I try not to run it all day, sometimes just in the afternoon till around bedtime, and we try to open up windows and sleep with no air on. Maybe 1 or 2 weeks during the summer, we have to run the AC all night, and that's only because it's humid and not cooling at night. That's one good thing about where I live in SoCal, it might get to 110 during the day, but cools off considerably at night, making for a comfy nights sleep! There are a few times I have to set it lower just to cool the house down...If I have to be at work in the evening, I like to crank the air on and cool it down so I can get ready. There is nothing worse than trying to blow dry and flat iron your hair while you're just standing there sweating!

Our electric bill is SO high. I try to be really careful. There are a few months where it gets over $500 a month....and that kills us!
 
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