Where do you keep the thermostat in the summer.

[Squatch]

At our house, it's a constant battle between my wife and me: she likes it at a balmy 79 degrees, I tend more toward the lower 70's. We usually settle around 74.

[redqueen]

1. 76-78, but a little lower at bedtime n/t

[unpossibles]

2. I keep it at "OFF" because it just runs the heater n/t

[tk2kewl]

3. same place as in the winter....

in the hallway between the bedroom and the bathroom

[Nickster]

7. Wahhh, wahhh, wahhhhhhhh. :-) LoL

[lizziegrace]

15. On the dining room wall

;)

[LaraMN]

4. I just turn it all the way down.

No a/c, so no reason to set anything.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Have to keep it between 72 and 76.

The MS makes me INCREDIBLY susceptible to heat. When it gets above that, I literally can't function. Thought processes interrupted, I start trembling and my legs don't want to work.

[FloridaJudy]

19. Same here

I don't have MS, but I'm on a medication that makes me very ill if I get overheated: nauseated, weak and dizzy.

Fortunately, my AC must be efficient as hell. My electric/gas/water bills still run less than $100. I don't know how I'll cope with the increases I know are just around the corner.

[evlbstrd]

6. No AC. nt

[LanternWaste]

8. 85 when I'm gone and 75 when I'm home...

85 during the day when I'm at the office and I turn it down to 75 when I get home. Since my apartment is older with some pretty good insulation, even in TX it's quite as bad as it sounds...

[dysfunctional press]

9. on the wall...same as the rest of the year.

but i keep the temperature set at 74.

i should add- we just bought this house, and it's the first one i've had with central air.

[Greyskye]

10. 78-80 is very comfortable

Especially with ceiling fans in most rooms. Otherwise I'd have to keep it lower. And if the humidity was higher, I'd probably drop the set point a few more degrees.

We turn it off when we're not home.

[bigwillq]

11. Ours has been around 72

The bad thing is, there is always someone home at my house at all times of the day...I don't work until second shift, so we leave the AC on during the day and then the parents and sister come home from work around 5:30, so then they keep it on for them.

If no one was home during the day, I am sure we would keep it around 78-80 until we got home.

[hfojvt]

12. I said >80

I have no central AC, but my target temperature is 80. If it goes above that I will turn on another window unit or turn one up from low to high.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. It stays on the wall in the same place it always is. No reason to move it. Why?

Interesting question.

[ChoralScholar]

14. Okay... listen

I'm fat, and I like it cool. Plus, my house is apparently very efficient, or else this would bankrupt me.

I set my air at 68. I've yet to see an electric bill over 80 dollars.

I really don't care if it costs me 200 dollars a month, I'm going to stay cool.

So there.

:D

[GOPisEvil]

16. 79, but I also run ceiling fans.

[NaturalHigh]

17. 70-72 on the central air.

I also have a window unit in the bedroom and drop it down to arctic levels if I'm sleeping during the day.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Where it always is, on the family room wall.

[Adsos Letter]

21. ...rimshot from the band, if you please....

:rofl:

Say...does your dad know what you're doing with his computer...or are you doing it from under your covers?

:D

[KitchenWitch]

36. Let's just say, I know how to cover my tracks!

:rofl:

[Adsos Letter]

20. 76-78 during the time when someone is home...

but we just open the front and back doors after sundown and let the breeze do its thing (except on those summer nights when it never gets below *85...

:D

[mike_c]

22. OFF....

Today's high temp probably didn't break 70 F. My thermostat turns on the furnace and nothing else.

[SeattleGirl]

23. No A/C, which I really could have used the past few days.

Instead, I use fans.

[Rosemary2205]

24. 79-81 summer w/ceiling fans 60-63 winter. -- Georgia.

Out of financial necessity.

[pokerfan]

25. It's at 50 but it doesn't do anything

No AC.

[leftofthedial]

26. on the wall

in the hall

[krispos42]

28. Dammit! You beat me!

:rofl:


It was the FIRST thing that popped into my head!!!!!!!!! :-)

[conscious evolution]

29. LOL Same here!!

Same place I keep it in winter.On a wall in the hall.

[MilesColtrane]

27. Other

I have window units with not thermostat.

When it's like today (105 heat index) one or both run constantly. Bills are high, but I'm paying for the equivalent of my power consumption to be wind generated.

[riona]

30. 81-82

80 if I'm doing heavy housework.

[Katina]

31. 74-76 daytime

but at night, I have to lower the temp to 71-72 to cool off the upstairs. This is an improvement since we installed an automatic attic venting fan.

[SmokingJacket]

32. If I had it, probably about 80.

Whenever I feel uncomfortably hot in my house, I look at the thermometer and it's at 80. But what's wrong with a little discomfort now and then?? It adds variety to life, and you appreciate the sunny cool days so much more if you've been sweltering. So no plans for AC here. Plus, it just heats up the outside.

Now, if I lived in the desert, I'd be singing a different song....

[slj0101]

33. On my wall, silly! Dar-har!!! I'm teh funny11!!!

[stuntcat]

34. 79 and ceiling fans

.

[In_The_Wind]

35. Somewhere around 77 to 78 unless I'm working around the house.

If I'm cleaning I might turn it down a few degrees.
If it's under 85 I try to open all of the windows when there is a breeze instead of cooling with the central AC.

[The Straight Story]

37. We have no thermostat at all in our house

Live in Bakersfield, have two wall heating units (like my ass is ever gonna use em) and no AC.

[Tektonik]

38. The AC stays off

I live in SD (University City area), and it's hard to justify to ever use the AC rather than leaving my windows open and just using the ceiling fan once in a while when it gets stuffy.

[AlCzervik]

39. on the wall but i'm crazy like that.

:+