What temperature do you keep your house at on a cold day??

[jnieman]

What temperature do you keep your house at on a day like today? I tried the 74 like we had up North but that seems too cold. Not sure if it is because we had gas heat and here we have a heat pump? I nearly froze last night with the temp at 75.

[blueeagle65]

68 when the heat is on and 74 when the A/C is running.

[duhbear]

AC 74; don't know about heat, haven't turned it on yet.

[zcaveman]

75 - A/C and Heat.

Z

[champion6]

Heat on: 68 day, 65 night

A/C on: 78 day and night

[jnieman]

Maybe our floors are just cold from the laminate but that seems too cold for me.

[zcaveman]

Maybe our floors are just cold from the laminate but that seems too cold for me.

Set it at whatever YOU are comfortable with. That is my feeling.

I go visit some villagers and it is like a sauna and I cannot wait to leave. Others must think they are a doctors office or a restaurant and try to freeze me out.

Z

[ajbrown]

71 for heat
77 for AC

I almost never put heat on at night no matter the temperature. I get up in AM and set to 71.

The issue I have is that 'one of us' forgets the temperatures are different for heat and AC. I have come home twice on a hot day and thought what the :cold:. The house is on AC and the temp is 71.

For whatever reason 71 with the AC on feels much colder that 71 with heat on.

I know that makes no sense, but just how it feels to me... :shrug:

[TheVillageChicken]

It will vary from house to house based on not only the perception of the occupants, but also where the thermostat is located as that is the point where the Heating or Air Conditioning will be attempting to maintain the temperature at your setting. I lived in one home where the thermostat was on a wall that had the laundry room on the other side. While running the dryer, the A/C would freeze us out in the rest of the house...until I figured out what was happening. Since then, I have used a remotely controlled thermostat (Venstar) and now my system maintains temperature in whichever room I have the remote in.

[Barefoot]

I prefer 68 during the day, off at night, just a cosy duvet. My husband prefers 74 all the time.
It's a dilemma when one likes it cool and one likes it hot.

[CFrance]

Used to do 70 heat and 78 a/c in MI. Down here it's 73 heat and 76 to 78 a/c.

[MikeV]

73 heat and 78 A/C seems to work for us.

[Happydaz]

70 for heat, 78 AC day, 76 AC night.

[kcrazorbackfan]

68 when the heat is on and 74 when the A/C is running.

Same here.

[Spikearoni]

Does anyone know approximately how much of a savings I can expect utilizing gas heat instead of electric in a 1500 square foot home in TV?

[cquick]

in the summer we keep it at 78 in the daytime and 76 at night. in the winter we try not to turn on the heat.....but if it's below 72, we turn the furnace on to about 75 degrees in the daytime. We don't mind being cold at night.

[Vladimir]

The reason you feel cold with a heat pump whereas you were used to gas heat is that a heat pump gives you luke warm air. Gas heat gives you nice hot air for a shorter run time while a heat pump runs longer at luke warm air. Also in FL the heater does not run continuously like up north so you are not getting that nice hot gas air to warm you up.

[jblum315]

On a very chilly day like today I might turn the heat on at 72 for about an hour to take the chill off. The insulation is so good that the house will stay comfortable all day. I like it cool at night. I never put the AC lower than 72

[sunnyatlast]

What temperature do you keep your house at on a day like today? I tried the 74 like we had up North but that seems too cold. Not sure if it is because we had gas heat and here we have a heat pump? I nearly froze last night with the temp at 75.

Maybe the thermostat needs to be re-calibrated. I'd call the HVAC service group to have it checked for accuracy along with a seasonal checkup/tuneup.

Thermostat temperature calibration:
Thermostat Temperature Calibration | DoItYourself.com (http://www.doityourself.com/stry/thermostat-temperature-calibration#b)

[zcaveman]

Does anyone know approximately how much of a savings I can expect utilizing gas heat instead of electric in a 1500 square foot home in TV?

My house has a 1392 climate controlled area (Amarillo). Since I have gas I can only give you the gas numbers. In the non-cold months, my TECO bill is about $26 a month. In the cold months my bill is obviously higher. In 2012 it averaged $46 with a high month of $51. In 2013, it averaged $51 with a high of $74. In 2014, November was $43.

Now if you can get the numbers from a electric household, you can see the difference.

Z

[golf2140]

Does anyone know approximately how much of a savings I can expect utilizing gas heat instead of electric in a 1500 square foot home in TV?

I have found that our electric is cheaper. We went from a stick built gas to a block home. The block home is much larger, but cheaper with the heat pump.

[George Bieniaszek]

Usually heat at 70
AC 78-80

[Spikearoni]

Thank you so much

[Walter123]

I keep mine at room temperature.

[Barefoot]

On a very chilly day like today I might turn the heat on at 72 for about an hour to take the chill off. The insulation is so good that the house will stay comfortable all day. I like it cool at night.
That is exactly what we do. And we're not around in the summer, so our humidistat makes the decisions.

I keep mine at room temperature.
Oh Walter. :girlneener:

[llaran]

Heat pumps act differently - google how the heat pump works for better info

[jnieman]

Over the last few days we have kept it at 75 which seems comfortable. In the summer we keep the A/C on 77 day and 78 at night.

This morning it was 71 when I woke up and I turned it on emergency heat for about 20 minutes then back to the heat pump set on 75. That warmed the house up toasty and I haven't heard the furnace on all day.

It was just 37 degrees outside this morning.

[tuccillo]

It depends on the price of a therm of natural gas, the price of a kwh of electricity, the efficiency of the gas furnace, and the efficiency of the heatpump. I am assuming you are talking about a heatpump when you say "electric". We can make a few assumptions:

1) $0.14 per kwh (assuming fees, fuel charges, taxes, etc.)
2) Heatpump efficiency of 3. This is the COP or the "leverage" that a heatpump provides.
3) 80% efficiciency gas furnace
4) Same ductwork is used.
5) I don't know what a therm of natural gas cost

Therefore, a heatpump will provide 10,236 BTUs per kwh or 73,114 BTUs per dollar.

A therm of of natural gas is 100,000 BTUs. Assuming an 80% efficiency gas furnace, if a therm of natural gas is less than $0.91 then a gas furnace would be cheaper to run than a heatpump. When looking at the price of natural gas, be sure to include all fees, taxes, etc. In other words, take the total bill and divide by the number of therms used.

I have ignored any differences in the cost to buy the equipment. A heatpump is an AC that can run in reverse and the incremental cost of a heatpump over an AC is pretty small. A more efficient gas furnace would change the numbers - there are 96% gas furnaces available. This is rough estimate.

Does anyone know approximately how much of a savings I can expect utilizing gas heat instead of electric in a 1500 square foot home in TV?

[jnieman]

We have a 1500 square foot home and our electric bill was $120 this month. That is the lowest it has been and usually runs around $150. The highest is during the hottest months at $179. We have a hot tub which costs $10 per month to run. Our home is all electric.

[Villages PL]

It's a waste of time to ask how others set their thermostat because everyone is different based on their percentage of body fat. Also, hypothyroidism may be a factor for some people.

[dotti105]

Temp perception is an issue too.

It is very humid here, as we all know, but that makes the colder temps seem colder than the same temp would "feel" in a less humid environment.

Growing up in Fl, we felt we needed sweaters and jackets in the winter with temps in the 50's. After moving to Utah we found that 50's were shirt sleeve weather.

Now back in Fl. we feel the need for warmer clothes at higher temps than out west where it is very dry. 50 degrees does not equal 50 degrees if the humidity is vastly different.

The increased humidity will make you feel chilled to the bone!

[dotti105]

Gracie,
You are catching a lot of flack here!
I, for one, love you posts!!
XXOO

[CFrance]

It's a waste of time to ask how others set their thermostat because everyone is different based on their percentage of body fat. Also, hypothyroidism may be a factor for some people.
Off topic, of course. OP is trying to find out why the same temp feels colder down here than with gas heat up north. Same person, same body weight, just a comparison of heating systems or the same temps in different parts of the country. OP's BMI has nothing to do with it.

[Spikearoni]

I wondered about gas vs electric because in TV ads for real estate, realtors emphasize as a positive quality, when a home is heated with gas. I therefore surmised that it must be more cost efficient but I am not familiar with the actual percentage saved. I also recall a thread in which someone asked why anyone would buy a resale home instead of a new one, and one of the answers was that the new ones do not have gas.

[joldnol]

67 heat....78 ac

[TrudyM]

We have moved a lot. The houses that were in warm climates were colder in the winter with the same thermostat setting. The HAV guy told me it is because the systems are ducted for AC with the registers run in the ceiling and that the air especially with high ceilings doesn't get down to were you are sitting because hot air rises. It goes down to were the thermostat is about five feet off the floor and turns off the unit.
I didn't do it, ( because we were only going to be there two years) but he suggested running a duct down the wall and putting a low register behind were we sit at night or installing a fan in the duct right above us that would blow the air down. I was afraid the fan idea would be noisy.

[TomOB]

Heat 68
AC 78

[tomwed]

short answer 70 heat 78 ac
questions
1] I only use 1 side of my house so I closed the vents on the other side and closed the pocket door. This shouldn't be a problem, should it?
2] Should I turn on my ceiling fans? Should they rotate to blow the air down or pull the air up?
3] I also like the MBR cooler and don't care about how warm the laundry room is too. I wonder what would happen if I closed those vents too.

[jnieman]

short answer 70 heat 78 ac
questions
1] I only use 1 side of my house so I closed the vents on the other side and closed the pocket door. This shouldn't be a problem, should it?
2] Should I turn on my ceiling fans? Should they rotate to blow the air down or pull the air up?
3] I also like the MBR cooler and don't care about how warm the laundry room is too. I wonder what would happen if I closed those vents too.

I do know that if you have clothing in the closet and there is no air circulation in the room the clothes will start to smell musty. We didn't have the air conditioning on much for the past month or so and I noticed that the clothes in my master closet were starting to smell stale. I put a fan in there to move the air around.

[tomwed]

I do know that if you have clothing in the closet and there is no air circulation in the room the clothes will start to smell musty. We didn't have the air conditioning on much for the past month or so and I noticed that the clothes in my master closet were starting to smell stale. I put a fan in there to move the air around.
I got lucky. My style house has a vent in the MBR closet. There are no clothes in the other closets.

[Chatbrat]

Heat--72-day. 69 night

A/C---74-day,69 night

[KayakerNC]

I prefer 68 during the day, off at night, just a cosy duvet. My husband prefers 74 all the time.
It's a dilemma when one likes it cool and one likes it hot.

My DW has what she calls "personal summers", so she is more comfortable at cooler temps.
But generally, we keep the heat set at 68 and the cool setting at 74.

[Villages PL]

Off topic, of course. OP is trying to find out why the same temp feels colder down here than with gas heat up north. Same person, same body weight, just a comparison of heating systems or the same temps in different parts of the country. OP's BMI has nothing to do with it.

The opening question was: "What temp do you keep your house at on a day like today?"

To ask that question means it would be a different person and different body weight.

And people are answering as follows:

Tomwed: 70 heat, 78 ac

TomOB: Heat 68, AC 78

joldnol: 67 heat.....78 ac

[tomwed]

short answer 70 heat 78 ac
questions
1] I only use 1 side of my house so I closed the vents on the other side and closed the pocket door. This shouldn't be a problem, should it?
2] Should I turn on my ceiling fans? Should they rotate to blow the air down or pull the air up?
3] I also like the MBR cooler and don't care about how warm the laundry room is too. I wonder what would happen if I closed those vents too.

During winter heating, to help move warm air that is trapped on the ceiling, blades should turn 'forward' in a clockwise motion. This movement will push up the air and pull the warm trapped air down the sides of the room improving heat distribution.

During hot summer weather, to help produce a comfortable breeze or 'windchill' that cools the skin, blades should rotate in a 'reverse' counter-clockwise motion. The air movement has the same comfortable effect as when you fan yourself with a magazine to get relief from hot, stifling air.

9 unintended consequences of closing vents
Let me now summarize the problems I've described above that can result from closing vents in your home. The first thing that happens is the air pressure in the duct system increases, which may give rise to these negative consequences:

Increased duct leakage
Lower air flow with PSC blowers
Increased energy use with ECM blowers
Comfort problems because of low air flow
Frozen air conditioner coil
Dead compressor
Cracked heat exchanger, with the potential for getting carbon monoxide in your home
Increased infiltration/exfiltration due to unbalanced leakage , as I described last week
Condensation and mold growth in winter due to lower surface temperatures in rooms with closed vents
You're not guaranteed to get all the problems that apply to your system, but why take the chance.


so i just went back and opened all my vents again.

[looneycat]

What temperature do you keep your house at on a day like today? I tried the 74 like we had up North but that seems too cold. Not sure if it is because we had gas heat and here we have a heat pump? I nearly froze last night with the temp at 75.

nobody has an answer for you, don't you know when you are comfortable???

[jojo]

I do find interesting to see how we compare with others. We tend to need more warmth in the winter - 76 to 78 and not so cool in the summer - 78 to 79.

[dbussone]

70 & 78. And I use the fans as directed.

[tomwed]

The opening question was: "What temp do you keep your house at on a day like today?"

To ask that question means it would be a different person and different body weight.

And people are answering as follows:
Does TOTV give away prizes if you find other people's mistakes?
Or do people volunteer to help out of the goodness of their heart?

[dbussone]

Does TOTV give away prizes if you find other people's mistakes?

Or do people volunteer to help out of the goodness of their heart?


Both. We do it to keep certain people busy.

[CFrance]

The opening question was: "What temp do you keep your house at on a day like today?"

To ask that question means it would be a different person and different body weight.

And people are answering as follows:

I respectfully disagree. In fact, baloney. This is not about body fat. It's about... well, see above.

[dbussone]

I respectfully disagree. In fact, baloney. This is not about body fat. It's about... well, see above.


Ouch...

[CFrance]

Ouch...
Sorry. I just get weary sometimes.

But no worries... just turn on your internet fireplace. I can feel the warmth.

[dbussone]

Sorry. I just get weary sometimes.



But no worries... just turn on your internet fireplace. I can feel the warmth.


Oh.....thanks for the fire. I suspect there will be fire in another response.

[CFrance]

Oh.....thanks for the fire. I suspect there will be fire in another response.
:icon_wink:

[LuisCortez]

I set my window ac to 75 degree (+-), http://www.bestsellingreviews.com/Electronic/Window-Air-Conditioner/

[mfp509]

72 for heat - day or night because my bedroom is colder than the rest of the house. 78 for A/C

[Gerald]

What temperature do you keep your house at on a day like today? I tried the 74 like we had up North but that seems too cold. Not sure if it is because we had gas heat and here we have a heat pump? I nearly froze last night with the temp at 75.

I didn't know we had heat and AC in the houses.

[Sandtrap328]

Hi.

I desperately need a air conditioner for the summer. I am searching for the best brand of window air conditioner in the market. Could you please give some advice.

Thanks!

Sorry, but window air conditioners are not allowed in The Villages. Check your deed restrictions and covenants you signed when you bought.

[Barefoot]

I desperately need a air conditioner for the summer. I am searching for the best brand of window air conditioner in the market.
Sorry, but window air conditioners are not allowed in The Villages. Check your deed restrictions and covenants you signed when you bought.

ST, perhaps Luis doesn't own a home in The Villages, or live here. Many posters don't.
I think he is just looking for recommendations for the best brand of window air conditioner.
Luis, maybe check the ratings on amazon.com :024:

[Miles42]

Same as on a warm day.

[Halibut]

If you're looking for outliers, we've never used the furnace and keep the A/C at a bracing 69. Bring your jacket if you visit!

[Topspinmo]

I keep mine at room temperature.

I take that at 68 to 77 degrees, unless you are mechanic:1rotfl: in that case room temperature would the the same temperature of two pieces of metal you are trying to assemble. Otherwise the torque settings of the assembled parts could be over or under torqued:coolsmiley:

[Dynsol]

What temperature do you keep your house at on a day like today? I tried the 74 like we had up North but that seems too cold. Not sure if it is because we had gas heat and here we have a heat pump? I nearly froze last night with the temp at 75.

What ever I feel comfortable in.!

[pbkmaine]

I'm perfectly comfortable at 65. I just wear a fleece and my UGG boots. That's from my years in Maine.

[JAV0108]

Hot summer days my ac is on 80, anything lower freezes me out. I just try to keep the humidity out, and in the winter when I need the heat I have it timed to go on at 5:30 a.m. and run until the house is about 73 or 74. Then it doesn't run the rest of the day. In the evenings if we are chilly we have an electric fireplace which puts out just the right amount of heat for TV watching.

[BoydBurton]

I have a dehumidifier. Works perfectly. I am living in a place where humidity remains always high . Generally, humidity climbs from 70% to 95% . After running dehumidifier relative humidity remains 50%, which is much proficient.
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