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Thread Title: What temperature do you put your A/C at?
Poll Question: what is the temperature normally in your house?
I noticed multiple answers in the poll down to 50sF. I'm assuming thats not when the A/C goes on but even still surprised if thats the "normal" room temp. Glad I'm not the only one.
As far as me, A/C goes on as soon as inside hits 68. Stays on Full force when outside is above 85.
As far as normal room temp... what season? A range would be 53-65 but some nights I had it down to 47.
47f in side the house? I start to freeze at 75f the only reason I set the ac at 75 at night is because i'm under the covers. you would truely hate it in Miami then. here most restaurants and movie theters keep the a/c in the upper 70s which is perfect in my veiw ^^
I set it to 75 when I do turn it on but don't use it constantly all summer. On most summer days, sleeping with windows open and a fan on is good enough as our nights cool down very nicely. On hotter days (maybe 10-15 times during the summer), I close up the house and turn it on.
Actually no I wont not only would everybody be looking at me but it would be freezing. We have quite cool nights here sometimes in the summer like down to 2c.
It depends how big the veranda is. Summer nights can get cool here as well but I don't really notice it. Last summer saw a couple of nights down to 2C, but the temperature on the veranda still only got down to 12C
I bet that explains why I tolerate the heat so well.
I've spent summers with deficient air conditioning which couldn't keep the house below 80F, and I was just as sick in the heat then as I am now with full air conditioning. I'm glad if no air conditioning works for you and helps you tolerate the heat better, but don't imply that A/C is responsible for all or even most heat intolerance.
I just picked the top one, since I don't have AC. I figure 30C (86F) is probably what I'd keep the summer thermostat at if I lived in a real hot climate in a house with some sort of artificial cooling system (certainly no lower than 80F). But I would always have ceiling fans for the bedrooms (with or without AC).
Only older homes around here do not have central air. I'd say any homes built from around the 80's onward would have central air. Be highly unusual if it didn't. Older homes that have not converted to central air have window units. All central air homes have a thermostat that is set at a heating temp or cooling temp.
This shows how uncommon central A/C is in New England:
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Originally Posted by nei
Some might find this interesting. I looked up how common A/C is in different parts of the country. Found stats for 1980 and 2005.
For the Northeast 1980:
Central A/C: 9%
Room A/C: 36%
No A/C: 55%
For the Northeast 2005:
Central A/C: 29%
Room A/C: 52%
No A/C: 19%
For New England 2005:
Central A/C: 14%
Room A/C: 55%
No A/C: 30%
Central A/C hasn't caught much here. Here are the sources if you want to look at stats for other parts of the country:
Off topic for this thread (I'd need to dig for a heating thread), but this webpage shows northerners tend to set their heat colder than southerners. With Vermonters setting it to the coolest setting, living up to their thrifty reputation:
Interesting to what the difference with A/C would be. I suspect it would be smaller, as in the south some set the A/C to rather cold levels (< 68°F) to extinguish any feeling of heat while others who get used to the summer heat set it at rather warm level (close to 80°F). In Vermont, the latter type wouldn't use or probably have A/C (and central A/C ownership is probably lower than the New England average, maybe around 10%).
My aunt moved to a custom-built home in upstate NY and didn't add central A/C nor does she have a room A/C. Lives at 1400 feet, though.
My room temperature typically oscillates between 12°C (bedtime temp on chilly winter days) and 28°C (bedtime temp on warm summer days). On a normal year, the extremes are around 9°C and 31°C. I still don't have a fan, but it might help on these warm evenings.
If I had AC, I'd ideally set it to around 21°C, though I'd probably end up setting it to 25°C to save some bucks.
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I start to freeze at 75f
the only reason I set the ac at 75 at night is because i'm under the covers
. you would truely hate it in Miami then. here most restaurants and movie theters keep the a/c in the upper 70s which is perfect in my veiw ^^
