Fighting over the house thermostat..do you?

[getut]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The wife gets used to wearing her warm clothes all winter, and I am very comfortable in that range. )</font>

I'm hot blooded but my wife like most women aren't. She gets cold but I am rather comfortable most of the time even though especially in the winter I keep it pretty cold. As I said, 69 daytime and 63 nighttime. I have found that keeping the house colder reduces colds and flu and you have less temperature shock if go outside and come back in.

I hate going to work and everyone keeps it so hot I have to wear short sleeves in the winter time to stay cool and then end up putting on and taking off a jacket 15 times a day for trips out to the manufacturing area. I'd much rather keep it cold and just wear a nice comfortable sweater with undershirt all the time and be done with it.

 

[DHennet]

We don't use AC in the summer, so that's not an issue. In the winter it's 69 in the day and 67 at night.

 

[ByronBob]

I have found that keeping the house colder reduces colds and flu and you have less temperature shock if go outside and come back in.

This is just folklore. When it's 10 below outside and your on the tractor plowing snow. 62,65,68 whatever just feels great regardless if your flesh is frozen to the seat. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[getut]

Folklore if you're up north, truth in the south. What is this 10 below concept? It is foreign to me. It doesn't even get that cold in my freezer. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Snow? You actually have to plow that 1-2" of white stuff that falls ever year? WOW. hehehe

 

[GerardC]

<font color="blue"> You actually have to plow that 1-2" of white stuff that falls ever year? WOW. hehehe </font>

You guys down in NC close TWO days before you get a dusting!!!, (my brother lives there). And as for you guys driving in it.... hehehe! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sigarms]

In the defense of southerners /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Used to live outside of Watertown, N.Y, Maine and pretty much anywhere else above the Mason Dixon line.

No matter where you go, north or south, people are idiots driving.

I68 outside of Morgantown W.V, theres always a toyota 4wd in a ditch during a snowstorm out by Coopers Rock.

A guy up in Syracuse once made the comment to me how well his jeep handles on ice! (and this guy was a flyboy!).

People with 4wd don't consider stopping /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Heck, one time driving on I80 in Pa during a snow storm to my parents, I was driving at 45mph in 4wd in the right lane (this was around midnight). People in subcompact cars would go "flying" by me having to be going at least 65mph. Needless to say, 10 minutes after they passed me, they were in a ditch.

Now, yes, you get a couple of inches here in N.C, and things do come to a standstill, but you have to remember, they really don't have much snow removing equipment down here. If it snows and stays cold (which it rarely does), you can have 2" of snow on the road for over a week!

I still think that most people who get into accidents "down south" are relocated yankees trying to show the southerners how to drive in snow!

Try Idaho or Montana in the Winter. Easterners are as clueless as southerners (no fighting words intended!)

Now, not to hijack a thread...there are t-stats available that have a "lockout" on them without having to use a "lockbox", and there are t-stats that you can actually "change" the temp display so the person looking at it is "deceived" as to what the actual temp. is.

Worse case scenerio you can always run mulitple t-stats and zone the system if there is a "huge" tep. differential in various parts of the house.

 

[frank_f15]

we don't have central air but we do have a window a/c in computer room, which when i am in there is cranked up(cold) also have one in the bedroom which is also cranked up witha fan running also(we like it that way) during the winter the heat during the day is a 67 and at night 58. But when guest come or the kids form PHOENIX and LAS VEGAS we do have to turn it up a bit , then we roast

 

[GerardC]

<font color="blue"> People with 4wd don't consider stopping /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif</font>

That's exactly it. Momentum is rather easy to achieve, the problem lies in slowing/stopping.

<font color="blue"> ...there are t-stats available that have a "lockout" on them without having to use a "lockbox" </font>

That is what I have.

 

[Alan L.]

Summer time we set the thermostat on about 70-71 during the day, and 65 at night, plus we run a fan in the bedroom 12 months a year. I woke sweating the other night and found that I had forgotten to crank it down, it was set on 68.

Anytime we go visit anybody I hate it, because I absolutely cannot sleep unless its cool, and I mean below 70. Even 68 is not cool enough, but if its 75 forget it, I'll be up all night.

I like covers and if its too hot you can't use the covers.

In the winter we usually just set the A/C on 65 and let it run til it gets that cool, then let it cool down as much as it wants to. Sometimes I get up and its 55 or so in the house. Then we will crank up the heat pump to get it back up to 62 or so.

If it is getting really cold and windy outside so that its already 65 in the house when we go to bed, I'll set the thermostat on about 58 so the heat will come on if it gets below that.

My wife is the same way, in fact she likes it colder during the day than I do.

I can work in the heat all day long, but when I'm in the house relaxing I like it cool.

Right now at midnight its 78 outside and 70 right here by my chair. I will crank it 65 when I go to bed.

Before we moved to our current living quarters, we had a bedroom only unit (2 zones in the house) and we set it on 60 every night. Since I only have one zone now, we have gotten used it the 5 degrees difference since when we have visitors they freeze to death. When my wife's dad comes to see us, we just close the vent off in their bedroom and they are fine. When we go to his house, I very much enjoy the company, but the sleeping conditions are miserable for me - hot.

 

[Sigarms]

One other option other than a window unit for A/C is a "ductless split mini system".

Instead of mounting a unit through the window, you have two units for one system. You mount the indoor unit usually on the wall (they also have ceiling recessed, floor mounted and ceiling mounted units available), then you run your lineset out to your outdoor unit (unit wiht the compressor).

A couple of advantages. 1. Nicer looking, nothing sticking out of the house 2.don't have to remover either unit 3.higher heating/cooling capacities (some units over 40k btus) 4.most come with remote control so you don't have to "reach up" on the wall to control unit.

Biggest advantage though is if you need to heat/cool an area that does not have an exterior wall (a place where to actually put a window unit in).

Also have "dual systems" which lets you use two or three indoor units to one outdoor unit (meaning you can cool multiple rooms with "one system").