S.C. appropriate setting.I stay at 72 F all year when I'm home or not.
I manged to use over 1mwh last bill. Because I work shift work I spend more time at home than if I worked a standard 9-5 so I would have days where I had the AC on pretty much all day, especially when we were getting a heat wave. Some days hit over 30C outside.
Some of you guys need to invest in a smart thermostat or switch off your AC when you're not home. You're not getting any benefits from leaving it on, but you're spiking your electric bill and exacerbating waste.
Confirmed.82F for sleeping? Let me count the ways they can get fucked. 74F during the day and 66F for sleeping. Every ounce of fuel we don't use ourselves will just get used by some future asshat. My electric bills aren't too bad. The trick is to not buy a big house.
I thought about getting one but don't really see the need. My wife and dog are home most of the time so the thermostat is set at 74 F 24/7 all summer long. In the winter, it switches to 70 F 24/7.Some of you guys need to invest in a smart thermostat or switch off your AC when you're not home. You're not getting any benefits from leaving it on, but you're spiking your electric bill and exacerbating waste.
so let the house get to 90 then have the AC run from 5pm until 2am cooling the house? those are peak hours for power billing.
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your house probably won't get up to 90 if you turn off the AC during the day, unless you live in phoenix maybe. i'm in houston. i turned it off last week when electricity went up over $1/kWh (peaked at $9!) and when i got home it had only gone up 3 or 4 degrees above where it was when i turned it off.
trying to maintain a constant temp while you're not home is using more electricity than turning it off and then cooling when you're there.
and lol at anything after 6 being peak rates. you're getting reamed.
I used 149 KWH last month, according to DTE Energy. That's maybe a little low but pretty normal. But this month it was frickin 477 KWH. I got my bill and it was like $80 and I was like wtf, did I forget last months and this is two months? Nope. I have a feeling it was due more to my parents visiting and my mom insisting the AC is always running because anything over 70 degrees F to her is "burning hot." I just let it go. But if it was just me, it would not be running constantly. I run it for like 30 mins after work, then shut it off, then run it just before bed to cool it down a bit again. Temp stays between 71-74.Maybe people should post how many kilowatt hours they consume?
Lots of simple things can be done to keep a house cool during the day without AC too, such as shutting shades/curtains in windows that get direct sun and keeping windows shut during the hottest points of the day.your house probably won't get up to 90 if you turn off the AC during the day, unless you live in phoenix maybe. i'm in houston. i turned it off last week when electricity went up over $1/kWh (peaked at $9!) and when i got home it had only gone up 3 or 4 degrees above where it was when i turned it off.
trying to maintain a constant temp while you're not home is using more electricity than turning it off and then cooling when you're there.
and lol at anything after 6 being peak rates. you're getting reamed.
how long was the AC out?my house is weird, yes it will get over 90 in the heat of summer, my AC has gone out and it was hell, so yea been there and got the tee-shirt.. but in the winter my house stays pretty warm and my furnace does not run much even in the bitter cold January's we get. when speaking with a few of my neighbors we compare utility bills and they are shocked how little my gas bill is i the winter.