I voted for 20C, unfortunately Eryl would have voted for 25C+. Even worse, she refuses to get the idea of thermostats. She when she decides she is cold she will wind the thermostat up to 28C

If we're ignoring practicality as well as cost, I'd set the living areas at 20C and bedrooms at 15C.

Peter

I voted 73/23. But this changes more an average. I like to have it colder at night and warmer during the day.

I put 18 degrees, but we try not to use heating at all. We haven't used it since March, and we still have windows open most nights, even through the winter. Now that Lexie is 2 we aren't likely to use it again unless it gets extremely cold, but it doesn't really get cold enough in this country.

To be honest this country is too hot for me at the best of times, but Claire likes it a bit warmer than I do, so what can you do.

I think all women are the same way. They seem to have this notion that if they turn the temperature up higher that it will get to the temperature that they want faster.

Usually between 70-72 (21-22) for me, depending on my level of activity. Maybe a bit cooler at night.

Although, after being here in Belize with no A/C for the last month, I think 80 would feel pretty darn good.

I voted for 70, but actually I'd put it at 69. Not sure why you didn't just include temps 69, and 71, since that's the prime range, IMO.

Like others here, my wife would probably vote for about 75, but that's one of the concessions she made for me when we got married. It's pretty much the most important factor in my being comfortable, so it's really nice of her to do. We keep blankets by the couch downstairs

The battle I constantly face is that it's impossible to regulate the temperature in our small, two-story apartment. The bottom floor is this large, open floor plan room, and the top is two bedrooms and two baths. In the summer I shut off all the vents on the bottom floor and open all the ones on the top, and in the winter it's reversed. But it's still always hotter upstairs, and I can't seem to do anything about it. It's particularly bad in the winter, when I have to resort to cracking a window (which I hate, environmentally speaking). Any ideas? I think part of the problem is that in order to cut costs, there's only one set of ducts running through the ceiling of the bottom level/floor of the top level.

Sorry to add to the thread discussion, but I'd also be fascinated to hear the terminology people use in this area.

Example: when it's hot outside and you want to ask someone to make it colder, what do you folks say? It's funny to me that I've heard people say "Turn the AC up" and "Turn the AC down."

It seemed easier just to use integral Celsius temps. It's not like a single Fahrenheit degree either way is a huge difference, and I didn't feel like dealing with fractional degrees.

I always have to qualify or explicitly say "temperature" instead of "AC", or solicit a qualification, usually along the lines of "do you want it hotter or colder?".

I do as well, but mostly to avoid this exact confusion.


I would definitely disagree that a single degree doesn't make a difference, but I guess I understand why you simplified it. Some people's thermostats might not even give that much accuracy, but I had to replace ours so it's digital now. I hadn't thought about that in my first post.

I keep the thermostat set on 78F, so I voted 79F. During the last few weeks, my AC was having 'issues' (which resulted in the central AC not working at all for a week and moderately for two additional weeks). After the house was up over 100F for a few days, the first time it dropped down to 88F it felt incredible.

Oh, thats why my mum does that!

Ditto. The way I put it, if she gets cold, she can use a blanket, or put on more clothes, but if I get too hot, at some point, the only option I have left is to sit around naked. She opted for the blankets by the couch.

So, the logical extension is that if she gets too hot she'll take off her clothes, too?

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I prefer the house around 70F. Guys, just wait for that wonderful stage in your life when the wife hits menopause. Our house now fluctuates between 65 and 75, depending on her mood or flashes. We typically keep it at 65 and I'm happy, except for the power bill part.

Oh, and I JUST got power back, so I'll be moving back home from city hall today. YAY!

Yay! Just in time for Ike! :/

Tell me. We aren't even moving everything back home. Just clothes, food, etc.