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73 summer, 68 winter.
What AC? Not everyone finds it necessary.
72 Summer 65 Winter
In the summer, we keep out clothing to a minimum with about 8 open windows circulating a breeze using 6 fans and DQ for extreme days while the winters months are set to 1 kitchen electric oven on with the door half open and using up to 3 kerosene heaters on really cold days. We mostly use electric blankets with no heat on.
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74 summer, 68 Winter
As cold as possible in summer. As warm as a heat pump can get in the winter.
74 summer...71 winter
Keeping it at 78 in the summer and 68 in the winter. Otherwise, my electric bill/gas bill is harder to keep
up with payment wise. Delmarva Power is just like Comcast.....thieves!
75 during the day, and after 8 pm 68 at night.
77 summer or whatever it takes to get the humidity down in summer, and the wood stove burns all winter to keep it 60 to 85.
75 day/72 night
77 - 78 summer, 68 - 72 winter
74 in summer otherwise some household members have heat related illness. 68 in the winter though unless it gets really cold the wood stove keeps it around 80 in the living room (where the stove is) and cooler in the bedrooms. Temperature is adjusted in the winter by opening/closing the doors.
78 and 79 you might as well not even have it on. 73 is what ours is set on.
6:42 AM, like living dangerously? 3 kerosene heaters???
Heat about 69 downstairs, 65 upstairs. AC 75 downstairs and 80 upstairs during the day and around 76 at night. The AC doesn't use much electric. Bill's only been around $300 the past few months and this is an almost 5000 sq ft home. We're home all day and the house is all electric. It's the heat that runs the bill up to about $700 a few months in the winter.
8:24 nothing "dangerous" about them if you use your brain and keep them maintained.
75 summer, 72 winter
Since I pay the bill, the temp that makes me most comfortable. Then when I hear Delmarva Power asking for folks to cut back to conserve, I crank it lower.
Again, I pay the bill and its not my fault that Delmarva Power chooses to keep profits over building better and more power stations. Believe me, I understand capitalism, but don't fool me by telling me to conserve AT MY EXPENSE!
8:52 Don't forget that the majority of people are clueless and have gotten so far from common sense and the real way people lived 30-40 years ago. Very few homes had AC in the 60's-70's.
75-AC 67-propane. My Delmarva bills are not high winter or summer,
Summer: 72 when we are awake/home, 76 when we are asleep/away. Winter: 66 when we are awake/home, 60 when we are asleep/away. We have a newly built home with dual 18 SEER AC units and dual 97% AFE 2 stg propane furnaces. Along with the furnaces we have a tankless water heater and range that runs on propane. Yearly we go through $800-1000 in propane and our average electric bill between winter and summer months is about $100 (ChopTank).
Summer daytime 78 with ceiling fan off or 79 with fan on. Nighttime and during cooking 77. Winter time 70. Don't worry about the cost just the temps we feel comfortable at. Keep the car at 74 year round.
summer time same as outside winter try to keep it above 55
Well if you keep it too cold in the summer, you don't even get to wear your summer clothes. Just keep the winter ones out year round!
am i the only one that uses electric space heaters in every room of my house? we don't have enough money to pay for good air, so we use those $20 boxes in every room for heat as we need them. Our electric bills is around $550 in the winter. During the summer, we leave the windows open until early in the morning, when we shut them to keep the cool in, but afternoon, it is unbearable again so we open them back up and turn fans on. Our summer bills are about $400 a month. Spring and fall are the best months at times when we use neither and have a monthly bill around $280.
1:44 how many sq.ft. and how many stories is your house?
@1:44 - Those "cheap" $20 space heaters aren't cheap. I spend about $250 on natural gas in the coldest cold of winter. And my older home is well short of today's insulation standards. You'd probably be better with a pellet stove, natural gas, propane, or even heating oil if you can afford to install it.
My family is really bad about the thermostat. People would get home and mess with the temp and never dial it back when they left or got comfortable again. In this spring, I paid a whopping $10 each for 3 programmable thermostats and installed them.
In the summer, the daytime temp is 84. I'd go higher, but 86 is when the dog gets hot, avoiding naps in the sunbeams and she pants while on the cold floor. About 4pm, the program changes and it gets to 75 by the time people get home about 5:45 or so. The AC runs so little now...basically just a little during the day, solid from 4 - 6 or 7, and frequently until 9 or 10. Hardly ever until 10 or so. Saturday and Sunday I still run the same schedule, but somebody'll change the thermostat if they're actually home in the afternoon or whenever it gets too hot or humid. If we leave the house by noon, we still enjoy the cost savings of the higher temp setting.
In the winter, the daytime temp is 60, with 65 as the evening temp. I might drop the daytime temp this winter to save a little more money. But I was home a lot during the winter and even 60 was uncomfortable for me.
According to the government, programmable thermostats can save about $200/yr. They're easy to install, and they can be purchased very inexpensively. I wish that I knew how easy the job was and how much I could save years ago. I would have done the job on every house I rented just for my own financial benefit.
3:12, it's 1,250 sq.ft on 1 floor with no attic access and is completely sealed around the base of the house, but there is hardly any insulation from it's being built assembled in the 1960's. The radiant heat from the sunshine through our living room wall is immense most days, but the 6 of us don't have much money with my wife working minimum wage job for 3 years now and i'm a disabled american veteran that's currently unemployed and our 4 kids are in still in school.
We thought you were just nudists. Thanks for the explanation.
- Your Neighbors
Last year kept the thermostat 70 - 72. This year it is on 75 - 77. No difference in electric bill. Now when you get bill the days on reading is so jumbled with reading 28 days 1 month, 33 days next month, 31 days next month. Why can they not read the meter on the same day every month? I do have a programmable thermostat and it does not save me a penny. DPL is just another corporate racket raking in profits for themselves and crying for more.
73 Summer 68 Winter
76.
Summer at a cool 68
winter at tropical 75
I pay the bill, I set the temp
I used to work housekeeping at a hotel in OC and was always amazed at the wide variance in temps that people would keep their rooms. Some wouldn't even run the AC in the middle of summer and their rooms would be in the 80's others would complain because they couldn't get the temp below 65 in the summer. Others would have the AC on full blast with the balcony doors and windows open. In the winter some guests would have their rooms in the high 80's and complain about being cold others you could walk in the room and see you breath.
74-75.
77 Summer 62 winter We don't turn anything on until we have to.
75 summer 68 winter
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