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re: Your home thermostat: On/Off/High/Low when you’re gone?
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:37 am to finchmeister08
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:37 am to finchmeister08
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If I leave the air off while I’m at work and at night when I don’t need the a/c, I can have a $60-$90 power bill. What am I doing wrong?
Downsize to a 54ft single wide, and have a blue kiddy pool out back.
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Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:38 am to finchmeister08
We bought a Honeywell and we set schedules where the air gets colder at night and then bumps up as we leave for work. Then an hour before we get home it starts getting cooler and it's cool when we get home. The Honeywell was like $175-$200 for the thermostat. Well worth it. I can control it via app also.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:39 am to lsunurse
New house, new neighborhood so no trees to provide shade, in Houston. It's humid as frick here.
I program mine to be 73 when I'm home, 72 when we go to sleep, and 76 when we're away during the day. My wife complains ab out being cold. Just last night she brought it up again. I said I'm not sweating in my own gotdamn house, especially when I'm trying to sleep.
At least we have the benefits of new construction practices like double pain windows, insulation, and radiant barrier in the attic. Although the 11 foot ceilings probably offset those efficiencies some.
I program mine to be 73 when I'm home, 72 when we go to sleep, and 76 when we're away during the day. My wife complains ab out being cold. Just last night she brought it up again. I said I'm not sweating in my own gotdamn house, especially when I'm trying to sleep.
At least we have the benefits of new construction practices like double pain windows, insulation, and radiant barrier in the attic. Although the 11 foot ceilings probably offset those efficiencies some.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:49 am to finchmeister08
82 when I leave and 80 when I get home
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:55 am to finchmeister08
AC is on 72 when gone, 70 when home, 67 when asleep.
In the winter, we leave the heat on 67ish all day.
In the winter, we leave the heat on 67ish all day.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 8:55 am to Broke
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We bought a Honeywell and we set schedules where the air gets colder at night and then bumps up as we leave for work. Then an hour before we get home it starts getting cooler and it's cool when we get home. The Honeywell was like $175-$200 for the thermostat. Well worth it. I can control it via app also.
Easy to install?
I think we might get one.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:04 am to finchmeister08
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If I leave the air off while I’m at work and at night when I don’t need the a/c, I can have a $60-$90 power bill.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:12 am to finchmeister08
Vacation - 82
Work - 78
Home - 72-74
Sleep - 70
Winter - 66
I used to turn it off for vacation, but the house would feel sticky and humid for longer than I liked when coming home.
Work - 78
Home - 72-74
Sleep - 70
Winter - 66
I used to turn it off for vacation, but the house would feel sticky and humid for longer than I liked when coming home.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:14 am to finchmeister08
If we're just gone for the day or a few hours I turn it off. It we're gone for longer than that I keep it at about 80.
I really want a nest, but I live in an old arse apartment with a thermostat from the 90's.
I really want a nest, but I live in an old arse apartment with a thermostat from the 90's.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:17 am to finchmeister08
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Nah, baw. I’m complaining about the $100-$125 power bill.
Then you’d shite your pants if you had to pay about $200+ a month like I do. And that’s with two new high efficiency central air units, new windows, and fresh insulation.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:20 am to Darth_Vader
How difficult was it to install those programmable thermostats? I know they are easy to mount, but is there a lot of wire connections to make and keep ordered?
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:21 am to ibldprplgld
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Home - 72-74
Sleep - 70
These are miserable conditions to me
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:24 am to finchmeister08
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Whether I have it set to 75 or 80 doesn’t matter.
Yours goes that high?
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:24 am to cgrand
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82 when I leave and 80 when I get home
You can not be serious.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:26 am to Festus
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How difficult was it to install those programmable thermostats? I know they are easy to mount, but is there a lot of wire connections to make and keep ordered?
My heating and cooling guy installed them when they put in the new heat pumps. We have one for the downstairs unit and another for upstairs.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:27 am to Festus
SUPER simple.
Literally 4 or 5 wires that already have specific places to go.
Literally 4 or 5 wires that already have specific places to go.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:32 am to CootKilla
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Just put a sprinkler on your roof with a timer to go off every 2 hours during the day and your house will be cool no matter what you do with your a/c.
Yeah, but does the water bill offset the electric bill?
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:32 am to finchmeister08
Mine is undersized for my house. I have virtually no shade.
I leave mine at 73 when not home and 70 when home.
If I turn it off during the hottest days, it won't catch up until around 7pm.
I leave mine at 73 when not home and 70 when home.
If I turn it off during the hottest days, it won't catch up until around 7pm.
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:33 am to finchmeister08
house is set to 69deg during day when not home. 64deg when i am home
Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:34 am to CaptainsWafer
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SUPER simple.
Literally 4 or 5 wires that already have specific places to go.
Until your dumb arse drops them back into the wall and has to get a mechanic's grabber tool and an endoscope to fish them back out of the wall.
Ask me how I know.
This post was edited on 6/13/18 at 9:41 am
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