Summer when overnight doesn't drop below 70F: 75F first and second floor, 80F on third floor
Summer when overnight drops below 70F: All window open.
Winter: 58F during the day when we're at work, 63F when we get home, 60F overnight.
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Keep in mind thermostats are generally not tightly calibrated devices. I prefer 71Β°F at home, but recently visited relatives and thought their mini-split was FREEZING at 29Β°C (84 F)
Also humidity plays a huge role.
Thermostats are bourgeois American imperialist decadence.
What a sad life you must live
Living, itself, has become identified as an imperialist amerikkkan bourgeois decadence
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75F basically all the time, cooling only no heating. I also always turn it off at night and open all the windows/vice versa in the morning to save energy. I'm not a dad but this is totally a dad thing that I started doing when I turned 30.
This is in the southwestern US.
In the winter, 68, 69 if I'm particularly cold, In the summer I don't turn on the AC unless I'm absolutely dying, and then it only goes to 77. I'm a lizard, I love the heat, but I also hate paying high gas bills.
We donβt have a thermostat. We have storage heaters and criminally insufficient insulation. Iβd like to keep the flat about 21C (69F), a little lower at night. I can only afford to keep the flat above 17C (62F). Cost of living crisis sucks.
I do 76F in the summer for AC and 68F in the winter for heating. Try to use minimal heating and air and still maintain a comfortable range. Can get expensive if working the system too hard. If it wasn't a matter of cost I'd leave it on 72F all the time.
Evaporative coolers are great if you live where you can use one, much cheaper to run and they can work pretty good as long as humidity isn't too high. I had one in a house I lived in before along with a regular AC system. It was a good to have and saved a lot on the electric bill. If it was dry enough out the AC unit was not needed.
Haven't used a heat pump before and don't know much about them. If they work as well and cost less to operate that would be a good option, but I wouldn't use one if it's a downgrade in performance. Rather pay for the comfort.
70F (21C) during the summer time, and usually its off during the winter (we just have the windows open, and might briefly use a space heater if its really really cold).
In fall and spring it just heavily depends on the day and how it feels.
18Β° in winter. 24Β° in summer.
However I would only put the heater or aircon on somewhere between 40-60 days a year and only for a couple hours. And often it's just to take the chill out of the house or cool the bedroom before bed. I have a modern well insulated house which is a rarity in Melbourne or Australia in general, houses/apartments are built like shit here.
Australia has some of the worst built houses in the western world, especially houses built in the 20th century. I think the average was 0.5 stars out of 10. Thankfully we have the most amount of solar of any country so we are offsetting the crappyness.
21 in summer, though it hardly ever kicks in with the awesome isolation we have.
23 in winter, cause I like it toasty.
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Only have heating, no AC. So 19C over the day and 16 at night for the winter
23.5 in day and 22.5 at night. For summer, at least. I realized too much AC really affects my joints. Too little is unbearable. Humans are a fickle bunch...
Might for 22.5 day 21.5 night for winter.
24.5Β°C
65F/19C. Fans in summer, sweaters in winter.
During AC season, 71 during the day, 68 at night. Geothermal FTW.
74F during the day, 72F at bed time.
70-74F during summer, 65-68F during winter.
We live in Seattle. There is no thermostat.
73 day, 70 night.
I prefer it a little cooler, but my apartment isn't insulated for shit so anything less and the ac basically never turns off.
Hasn't turned off a whole lot with heat waves lately.
My folks keep it at 79Β°F during the day and 72Β°F at night.
75 summer, 71 winter. Would love to conserve more but my body is a picky jerk.
WTF 70s? I'd be roasting.
69 is usually what I keep it at in my car.
My AC would have to be on 24/7 to be at 69.
Summer - cool to 76 around the house. 68 for sleeping.
Winter - warm to 70 around the house. 65 for sleeping, with a heavier comforter.
74 in the summer and 68 in the winter. Before I met my wife I would keep it at 60 in the winter but she wasn't having it lol (heating oil is expensive). I didn't have central air so my bedroom (window unit) I'd keep at 68-70.
76 in the summer and 68 in the winter
I live in a campervan and so have no temperature control in the traditional sense. Closest thing would be the Maxxfan with thermostatic fan control and it's set to 68F. As long as external temps are lower than internal temps it does a reasonable job.
77F normally
72 during the day and 68 at night.
19C in the winter, around 28C in the summer. It helps that in the winter I just keep a space heater near me (I get cold and turn it on at what a thermometer in my room calls 19C).