Do you sleep with the AC on during the summer?

[dulcemariamar]

I have central air in my house but we never use it at night. We just keep the window on and put on the fan if it really hot.
Last night, it was horrible and I had to turn on the AC for the first time in years to be able to sleep at night.

Do you usually sleep with the AC on? Here a lot of people think the AC is the devil and they never sleep with it on at night.

Bonus Question: What temp. do you put it on during the day?

[dorothyinAus]

We don't have central air in my house, and we just got the A/C unit in our bedroom, so we have not. But I suspect come this summer, we will do what we have done in the winter. We have the heater on long enough to warm the room, then turn it off and go to sleep in the comfortable room. That's how we use the A/C in the main living room -- we cool the room, then turn off the A/C until the room gets too hot. If it's less than half an hour to cool the room down, we just leave the A/C on.

We keep the thermostat on the A/C/heater set at 23C/73F year-round. Neither one of us think it's a wise use of resources to heat the house to temperatures that would cause us to turn on the A/C in the summer.

[pittpurple]

Am amused at the idea of a/c in Scotland. It's been the coldest, rainiest, most ridiculous 'summer' I've ever experienced.

But in Pittsburgh, yes... we both need it cold to sleep and we had a window unit for the bedroom. I think we kept it at 72?

[jennybee1018]

We sleep with the A/C on all year round, but especially in the summer. In the ME, the majority of houses, apartments, buildings, malls etc are outfitted with central air.

Our thermostat is consistently set at 18C, all day and all night. It's not a pre-programmable one, so we do not have much of a choice!

[dulcemariamar]

I guess I have been trained to deal with the heat. We usually keep it at 29º. If we are really hot we might lower it to 27º for a bit.

Dorothy: We always try to cool the house before going to bed but it never last beyond an hour. Last night when I woke up at 3, it was 30ºC.

Pitt: I knowrain is not fun but at least you dont have the heat to worry about with the pregnancy.

[pittpurple]

[quote author=dulcemariamar board=int thread=33756 post=522241

Pitt: I knowrain is not fun but at least you dont have the heat to worry about with the pregnancy. [/quote]

I know, I have no idea how people manage it. I really struggled in Portugal - I think the head made my m/s worse? So I guess this 'summer' picked the right year for me but it's still a bit unrelenting!

[Deleted]

No, never. I'm not a fan of the A/C at all. During the day we turn it on sporadically if we hit the 100s but that's about it.

[aMrsin09]

The humidity here is so bad, we use the A/c and Heat primarily to dry the house out. I can not sleep on damp sheets with damp covers. Ewww.

We don;t have central A/c but we have a split system in the bedroom (that does most of the house too). We only set it for 2-3 degrees cooler/warmer than the current room temp and set the timer for about 2 hours.

[grosnl19]

Only if it is really hot and humid, which Barcelona is. We do every night and sometimes during the day. We don't have screens on any of our windows and get bit by Mosquitos if we have the windows open at night.

Qotd: During the day it is at 77 and 75 at night. Dh likes to cooler when he sleeps.

[frlcb]

I would die without our a/c. We keep it at 71 at night, and have our ceiling fan on.

[ktkl09]

In the US, yes. The low tonight is something like 95, so I think we might die without it. In Switzerland we don't have a/c. In the summer we leave the windows open and a fan on us. But it never gets too hot there.

[mrspurdy]

In Belize I would use the A/C to cool off the house and use ceiling fan in bedroom and that would be fine. Now that I am in SVG we use the split unit everynight in our room and it is set at 21C but we are in a wooden structure, 3 rows back off the ocean so there is very little breeze. We are also on the ground floor so that makes a difference.

[allibally]

Well I've managed the last two nights with just a fan. But last night it was damp and driving me crazy.

Usually we have the window unit on at night. Sometimes we put it on a timer. If I'm home I will have it on in the living room. It can't cool the living room much below 77. The bedroom at 71.

[mrsukyankee]

When we were in Rehoboth, we had it on all the time. I love sleeping in a cold room, so we had AC on at 74F (so parents wouldn't get too cold) along with a fan. Here, we don't need it, nor do we have AC.

[anna7602]

We do not have AC in Paris. In NY, we've had an AC window unit in a few of our apartments (but not our most recent one). I never really liked sleeping with it on at night, except for when I was pregnant. I slept with the AC on into October when I was pregnant in NY.

[Cheesecake]

We don't have central air, just a single unit which we only use when it's crazy humid and hot (and only before bed to cool it down enough to fall asleep comfortably.) We didn't use it at all last summer and haven't yet this summer. Actually opening the skylight window on our top floor and some windows really pulls out the heat at night.

I Milan I've kept the AC on during the night once in a while, when the minimum temp was 25+ degrees. There's no way you'll get the house cooled off enough in that case. Not even with all the windows opened.

We usually keep the thermostat of the heater at 21 degrees during winter and only during hours we're home and awake. Once we go the bed we let it cool way down (it's set to 15, though it never cools off that much) then at alarm clock time it goes up to 18, down to 15 when we leave the house for work and up to 21 when we're home at night. If we'd ever get central AC installed, I'd probably set it in a similar fashion. It makes absolutely no sense to me to heat or cool a house that no-one is in. (I've had many many discussions with my dad about that, who'll keep his heater at his house on 74 (heating) or 69 (cooling) even if he's on vacation and no one will enter the house for a month. That's just insanity to me!)

[psyck]

I live in Texas, so yes!

[Deleted]

We don't have a/c either. I would love to need it even for just a week or two.

[clickerish]

We don't have a/c in Michigan except a window unit in the bedroom. When it gets really hot, we turn it on at night and close the door. And when I say really hot, I mean, we use it to lower the humidity (it's Michigan) and get temp down to 79-82.

This past week I have been in Spain without any air. It has been really hard to handle. In Barcelona, we spent the day at the beach and were all sleeping out on the terrace where there was some breeze. Here in Madrid, I have all the windows open and spent my entire day in the Museum which is climate controlled. I dislike a/c but unfortunately, my genetics forgot to program my body to regulate so I don't sweat much. I just pass out. That's not cool. So...if I can't be in a body of water, I use it.

[americaninoz]

yes - although at the moment it's the heat that we leave on all night
we try to keep the house heated to 18/20c during the night, a bit warmer during the day, and during the summer we put the AC on to bring it down to that sort of temp because dd only sleeps well when it's cool

[clogged]

Stateside, hell yeah. Our town hit triple digits day and night for months on end (as high as 140F). A/C was a requirement for survival.

Here? We don't have any. All I see in shops are swamp coolers (which I loathe), or those perma-mount a/c's that have units on your exterior walls. Which are banned by our CC&R's. But if we did have a/c it would be on all the time.

[Wanderista]

I tend to just sleep with a window open because I am on a quiet and shady street that gets breezes. I'm pretty good with hot weather (and even cold weather most of the time). We'll only turn on the AC if it's especially humid or stormy. We do use it during the day if at home. In Egypt, I needed the AC on at night though. The nights were really hot.

[azure]

We don't have ac here, we just use fans. In Vietnam we slept with it on, it was at 27c. I miss having it here, it's really hot in the summer.

[elenetxu]

We don't have AC here. Back in the US, my parents installed AC in my room last year because the fire alarm (linked to the house alarm) went off because it was so hot up there. Made me laugh, after so many years complaining that it was impossible to sleep in my room in the summer they put in AC when nobody sleeps there anymore.

When I lived with my parents I always had the fan on, which had more to do with not hearing coyotes than getting fresh air into the room.

[bail229]

Sometimes in the summer. our house usually stays pretty cool and we use a ceiling fan. Last summer we did a bit more often because I was pregnant and hot! We don't keep it on in the winter overnight but we do use a small heater in our room at night.