What Temp Do You Keep Your AC Set On?
 

Heat never used to bother me too much.....until I had MS. The first summer after I was dx I was always hot....even with the AC set on 72. Seems each year I set it lower and lower. My family complains of being too cool. I tell them to go put on a pair of sweats.

What do you normally keep your AC set at during the summer?

72 and sometimes lower. When it reaches 76 in here then I seem to be non-functional. DW is always cold so she prepares for winter all the time.

I voted for 70, but it's usually lower. Heat absolutely drains me. I sure make the power company happy! In the winter, no heat on unless it drops into the 20s, which is unusual here.

I start at 72, I get hot and push it down, By end of day it's 68. I just can't handle heat, and if it's humid it goes down faster. If I'm in my pool in the shady part I'm cold when I come in, so back to 72, eventually 68.

Wow, you iceburg people! We keep ours at 74 and sometimes actually raise it up because it gets so cold in here. Maybe we have too good of an air conditioner! LOL The weird thing is Jim is always cold and only gets hot if outside in the sun or on humid days. On rare occasions he gets a hot flash and I crank the air down cooler but it's rare. If anything I am the one sweating thanks to menopause. LOL

Hot and dry weather?...don't even turn it on, we just open the windows.
Hot and humid weather?...as low as it will go...68

never had one - ceiling fans do the job here -

I try to keep mine at 72 but have been known to go down to 70 and even 68 in the dog days of August.

My late DH used to love it cold....so I got accustomed to it being about 65 degrees year round inside. His mother hated the cold and whenever he'd had enough of her visits he'd go turn down the AC to about 60 degrees! :p It worked every time!! She'd say "I don't know how you kids stand it so cold in here." We knew she was on her way out when she'd day that!! :D

LOL I sat here for a moment and needed to *think*.

70 degrees = 21C
72 degrees = 22C
74 degrees = 23C
76 degrees = 24C

I use mine sparingly even though we have like 6 months of summer here. It just costs too much to run these days. I try to have it on 24C/76F but sometimes I cheat and put it on 19C/66F when I'm really fed up with the heat and humidity. lol I put my feet in a bucket of water when I start to melt. Not a good look, but it works. :D

Hubby likes it cold. He is used to being in the gym with air going full blast. I keep it set at 80. Most days don't even turn it on. It's cooled off by the time he gets home, then I turn it on if needed. Unit doesn't have to work to hard to lower it just a few degrees.

Plus with the kids going down to the pool..coming in al hot, not a good idea to have it too cool. Too much of a change.

I do love the low electric bills. :wink:

From April through early June it is set at 75. By mid June through September it is usually down to 72. We have 7 ceiling fans throughout the house that pretty much run 24/7 year round. We just change the direction when switching from heating to cooling. We also run a dehumidifier in the bathroom to cut down on humidity in the house.

:Sob: I don't have an air conditioner. :Sob:

76 degrees for us, I supplement it with a fan as needed.

Actually this is the first one I've ever had in my entire life. It's in my bedroom too but I can't even sleep with it running.

You wouldn't need one for long down there would you? ;)

You must have a fireplace or heating though? brrrrrrrrr

Anne, did you go through that awful heat wave without an AC?? :eek:

I did Kitty, but as Lara so rightly said, the state I live in at the moment is much cooler than all the others here in Oz.

We had the gas man in today to replace the gas cylinders for our heater, but do you think the heater will work tonight, even with full gas cylinders?? :confused:
No way! :mad:

Oh well, looks like tomorrow we get the heater man out to check the heater.....

Our latest stimulus package won't last long the way we're going! :(

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BTW and totally off topic ...... I dyed my hair today.
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Does that mean I have to start a whole new thread??

Nah.......not unless you want to start a new thread about hair color! I colored my hair, too, but it was on Monday. :p

What color did you use? :D

Chestnut, which is a big change from blonde. What colour did you do?

I used the same old thing I've been using for years......Extra Light Beige Blonde. It's a shade or two lighter than my natural color. Plus I get the body and texture from the color that makes it more manageable.

OK. That's a pretty colour from your photos. I was going to go a darker blonde, but ended up doing something totally different.

All the gray has gone, so I feel younger if that helps. :)

Now I just have to think of some way that this relates to air conditioners. :D

Well, without AC I don't think I could have walked around the house for 30 minutes with my head wrapped in plastic!! :p

I'm so spoiled. :o I've become so accustomed to the AC that just the thought of not having it panics me! We never had it while I was growing up. We had an attic fan that kept a cool breeze blowing throughout the whole house. Of course, we had to keep our windows open. I don't remember the pollen bothering any of us back then. It seems worse now for some reason.

Some states in Oz get quite hot in the summer, and although we never had AC when we lived in those states, we always had ceiling fans. Now we don't need them! :(

We do have plenty of heating in this house though..... just nothing to cool us off.

78 degrees. I'll turn it down for a couple hours when the air has too much water in it.

Tom

Between 72 & 75. I turn it up a bit at night as once the sun sets it cools down outside quickly and it feels cooler inside.

I didn't get a vote as we keep ours on 80 or 82 degrees. We have a nice dry climate and a breeze nearly all the time so rarely use the ac even when temps are above 100.

We have no trees but somehow the house stays cool with just ceiling fans and a few floor fans so we are fortunate! :)

The desert cools at night so nice we can keep windows open to hear the coyotes sing!

We have ceiling fans in most every room, and open the windows alot, but once the temps outside hit close to 80, I become non functional, and MUST seek shelter or sit in someone's fridge. Mine is normally set on 72, but I will lower it to keep me blasted if I am having a tough day. Once it starts heading towards 75 and above outside, I seek shade, and cooler spots, once it hits 80 I am inside, and in the dark. After that, its all shades down, curtains closed, and AC blasting.