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Originally Posted by bsloan1960
I'm a bit confused. We haven't moved to TV yet and we don't have central air in Mass., But if we put our heating system up to 77 degrees we would suffocate from the heat and the paint would blister on our walls. We set out thermostat to 68 and that is sometime too warm
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If you move here, your body may adjust to not spending months a year in cold temperatures. And plenty of people in Massachusetts have AC now. And telephones! Here, I have my heat around 72° in the winter and my AC at 74° to 76° in the summer, depending on what I’m doing and wearing, and use the ceiling fans as required. When the temp is 76°, I usually sleep without a top sheet or blanket. I used the heat for maybe three weeks in January.
Do what is comfortable for you. For me, 77° is too hot. 80° means the AC isn’t removing enough humidity, and mold may begin forming. A large percentage of us live in adequately insulated houses around 1200 sq ft, and 1600 is big. Heating them and cooling them is inherently less expensive than heating and cooling a 2400 sq ft average house in, say, Illinois. I might get a couple cooling bills slightly over $200 a month in late summer, and that is with 24/7 AC. I’m happy to pay $7 a day to stay cool.