These postings may be more geared for the southwest desert area, but can be extrapolated to other areas of the country.
The temperatures here have been consistantly over 100. F for the past week. If you want to save a little money on your A/C bills, try this: Don’t adjust your thermostat more than 2 or 3 degrees. Use the night time temps to help cool your house by lowering your thermostat to it’s lowest point that you are comfortable with, and raise the temperature during the day to the highest comfortable temp, keeping it within a 2-3 degree range. For example. I keep my house between 74 and 77 degrees. At night before I go to bed, I lower the thermostat to 74. When I wake up, I move the temperature up to 77 degrees.
When you cool (or heat ) your house, you not only are cooling the air temperature, but everthing in the house as well, such as the flooring, furniture, appliances, etc., If you raise the temp way up in the house while you are gone to work, your have to cool everything in the house when you get home, using more energy. Try it out for a month, and compare the savings! You’ll be surpised!
You don’t need a pricey programmable thermostat to do this either.
Save money, and save energy!
Posted by tlcpro 