[OhioBuckeye]

Set it as low or high as you want, you pay the bills at your house!

[MrFlorida]

Personal preference, set it to where you feel comfortable.

[mrf0151]

4 zone system here. Temps will vary depending on use in specific area of our home. Lowest temp is at in the bedroom at night 72 as we like to sleep cool.

[kendi]

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

I know what you’re saying. Heat set at 77 up North is very hot. We never go above 70 and often not even that.

Ac set at 77 is comfortable both here and up north. Can’t explain why, but you’ll catch on once you get used to having the ac.

[Ohiogirl]

To the original poster: be grateful both you and your wife have similar internal thermostats!

[maistocars]

74 by day and 73 at night - anything higher and the humidity will go up close to or beyond 60%.

[clossonjunk]

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

I was born in Ohio, but lived in Florida since 1972. I keep waiting for the day that I get used to hot humid weather, lol. We keep AC at 76 during the day to keep hubby happy and 67 at night to keep me happy. I have always needed cooler air to sleep well. In my opinion, 77-80 is definitely warm inside a house, though compared to outside heat of 90-100 it's better. When I visit friends who keep their house warmer like this, I must always wear thin clothes and drink cold drinks.

[nhtexasrn]

Originally Posted by bsloan1960

I understand the need for AC. My question is why 77- as I said if we set our heat up north at 77 that would not cool at all- it would feel like being in a furnace.

We set our thermostat to "cool only" in summer. When the thermostat is set at 77, the heater doesn't come on! It just tells the AC not to come on until the temperature in the house reaches 77. It seldom if ever does! Sometimes 77 is too warm for us and we turn it down some, but I have to have at least 73 to sleep.

[banjobob]

80degrees with fans running very comfortable , humidity level kept low at that setting with humidistat

[ahrens fox]

That is going to be a bit pricey. we are from Maine and set our summer temperature at 78 and 24/7 fans (5 of them)

[La lamy]

I'm at 75. It's turned off at night, with bedroom ceiling fan on.

[New Englander]

I like the warm. From now until summer is over thermostat is set at 81 day and night.

[vickiwi]

Originally Posted by banjobob

80degrees with fans running very comfortable , humidity level kept low at that setting with humidistat

Do most AC systems there have Humidistats?

[bobmarc]

Been here for 17 years and found AC settings have decreased as years pass. At first we had it on 78 during day...and gradually we have settled on 76 daytime. Night we stay ay 78 with fans going. I think new thermostats might affect the ACTUAL number degrees set on.

[Nana2Teddy]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

Where do you set your thermostat for your AC on warm days ??

The wife find we both like 77 degrees night and day with our ceiling fans
running during the day in the living area, and in the bedroom at night.

Reading through the comments I can see I’m the odd duck here. Our thermostat is set at 72 degrees 24/7. Humidity is set to 50%. I need to keep the humidity down because I’m new to humidity, and am not adapted to it yet because we moved from a desert climate. Hubs just defers to me as he’s okay with whatever I need it to be. I also run our fans on low when we’re home, including at night in the bedroom. If a cold spell hits I do crank up the temp a bit so the air won’t run, but the heat rarely runs unless we get the temps we had at Christmas. Even with this 72 set point our SECO bill was only $80 this past month.