Except for the few times I've caught DH bumping the air down... we've been business as usual - 75 while we're home, 73 at night, and 80 while we're at work. 80 is too hot to be comfortable while we're home. We are lucky that the house stays cool until 4 or 5pm. Then it can get brutal. We've had summer storms pop up between 3-5 the past 4 days and that keeps the air from running non-stop
Post by keweenawlove on Jul 6, 2012 8:46:36 GMT -5
DH is a wimp when it comes to this. Normally between 72 and 75 when we're home. Our basement stays significantly cooler than this so that's where we hang out at night.
80 durning the day when we're not home. Our dog has her favorite spot in the basement so she stays cool.
Post by fortmyersbride on Jul 6, 2012 8:57:07 GMT -5
DH sets it at 72 on the main floor during the day, I bump it up to 76 when he's not home. We can't leave it much warmer as the baby is home with the nanny on weekdays.
At night I turn the unit that covers the upstairs down to 68, but back up to 78 during the day as no one really hangs out in the bedrooms during the day.
74-75 for the main floor, and 77 for the upstairs. DH thinks 75 is too hot and since he works from home half the time, bumping it up higher during the day isn't an option. He'd set it for 64 if I'd let him!
We are so not MM on this. The days it's been hitting over 90 out, I've had it set at 75 upstairs (but I am working from home, on that floor, with a ceiling fan going). Other days I've got it at 70. We sleep with it at 65-ish. The downstairs is pretty much set at 73 all summer.
We make up for it somewhat in the winter when the upstairs heat doesn't ever go over 65 and downstairs is at 60 and we use the gas fireplace to warm up the living room when we're down there in the evenings.
70* at night while we sleep - mrBAMF just radiates heat while he sleeps. 80* when we leave for work during the day 75* - 73* while we're chilling during the afternoon evening hours
no idea since we have no thermostat or AC....though FI just was sweet enough to go buy a window unit. it's been sweltering in there during the afternoons, that's for sure
I'm convinced thermostat temps are somewhat arbitrary, like one persons house set to 78 might feel the same as mine set to 74. I think a lot of it depends on where your thermostat is in the house.
But anyway We set it to 75 during the day (I work from home mostly) and 71 at night. We both need a nice cool house for sleeping.
Ha! 71 is at the edge of uncomfortably warm for us. My mom keeps their house at 73 at night and both DH and I need to have ceiling fans at full blast and no covers to slept there (and we even usually sleep in separate rooms, so no additional body heat--and it's still too warm.
If left to DH, he'd keep the house at 60 all year round, 24 hours a day. And I'd sleep well and be sitting in front of the fire with a pile of blankets and kittens the rest of the time.
We're at 70 all year round. It's a little chilly for me, but it's a compromise. H would prefer it even cooler, he's like a...a...thing that has a really high body temperature. Whatever that might be.