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Set a/c no cooler than 78* in daytime, and 82* at night....

Bwahahahaha! laugh

Maybe I'll listen to them more when they start paying my electric bill.... whistle



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How cool do you like to keep your house in the summer?

Energy Star, a joint federal program run by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, recommends keeping your house at 78 degrees—and that’s when you’re home.

It’s all subjective, of course, but does that seem a little on the warm side? If you think so, the recommendations don’t get much better.

If you’re not at home and have a programmable thermostat, the guidelines call for setting it at 85 degrees. At night, Energy Star recommends 82 degrees.

So to recap, Energy Star’s recommendations are as follows:

*78 degrees when you’re home
*85 degrees when you’re at work or away
*82 degrees when you’re sleeping


The Department of Energy says you’ll save about three percent on your utility bill for every degree you raise the set temperature on your thermostat during the summer.


https://fox59.com/2019/08/20/energy-star-wants-you-to-keep-your-home-at-78-degrees-in-the-summer/


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they must not like ac.i wouldn't even use it at those temps.

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How bout 72 day and night............works for me.

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They are fools, Typical dot gov.

It's a lot harder to cool than it is to heat, leaving your air at 76 day and night will use less electricity than moving it up and down and having to re-cool the house a couple of times a day.


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78 was the setting when we were young and just gettin by to save some on the power bill. 73 now...we do set them to 80 when we are gone for the weekend

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Originally Posted by 12344mag
They are fools, Typical dot gov.

It's a lot harder to cool than it is to heat, leaving your air at 76 day and night will use less electricity than moving it up and down and having to re-cool the house a couple of times a day.




There ya go!

'Tis much more efficient to maintain a cooler temp than to cool it down after it gets set on 85.


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If I can't see my breath and there's no frost on the windows, it's not set low enough.


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Unelected bureaucrats . . . 73 during the day, 77 at night.

In the winter I think the heat is 76 and 72 at night.

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Ours is at a constant 80... which is comfortable when it's 115 out like today.

Humidity is a big factor also in comfort level.

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Originally Posted by ShortMagFan
78 was the setting when we were young and just gettin by to save some on the power bill. 73 now...we do set them to 80 when we are gone for the weekend
Yup...


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No worries guys, I got enough carbon credits fer everyone here 😎


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I’ll guarantee their offices aren’t that hot...

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Originally Posted by 16bore
I’ll guarantee their offices aren’t that hot...


Exactly. And they don't live in small-footprint green houses, and they don't drive all-electric cars, and they don't dine at home on only vegetable products, and they don't stacation, and.....

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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer


Exactly. And they don't live in small-footprint green houses, and they don't drive all-electric cars, and they don't dine at home on only vegetable products, and they don't stacation, and.....


Do as we say not as we do.


And for what it is worth, we turn the air con on to 23 C in December and turn it off in April...and don't really care one iota what anyone says about it.


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72f day when Im not home, 70f after 5pm and 66f at night, how you can sleep when its warmer than 72 baffles me. Sometimes I get up and drop it down to 64f even...

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Please Sir, I want some more.

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Originally Posted by krupp

Please Sir, I want some more.


OH...that was neat !


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75/72 but with a window unit in the bedroom all summer.

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68 all year.


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Originally Posted by 16bore
I’ll guarantee their offices aren’t that hot...


May be if them offices are full of wimmens. You cannot satisfy them in an office setting. 1/2 are always cold, other half are always hot. Regardless of the time of year. They conspire with each other to make the HVAC and buildings supvr guys job a living nightmare of hell.


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