What do you set your thermostat on?

[AstroManLuca]

No central air. I just open the windows in the evening and close them in the morning in summer. Got fans running nonstop while I'm home if it's too hot, and there's a window unit we can fire up if that's not enough. We try to avoid that, though, because they're really wasteful.

In winter, I have the thermostat programmed to switch between 67 when we're at home and 60 overnight and when we're at work.

 

[Linflas]

2 zone FTW.

Our system has dampers that can opened and closed to regulate the amount of air delivered to the bedroom level, and 2 sections of the main level.

 

[BoomerD]

winter...69
summer...77

right now...off.

 

[ahenkel]

68 year round.

 

[Exterous]

Yea you need to close the vents downstairs a little and full open on the 2nd floor in the winter. Then reverse in winter.

Even if you got a bigger unit it would still do the same thing unless you moved the thermostat every season change.

Hence the rebalancing right? Maybe that wasn't the proper term but that is exactly what I had planned to do. My concern is that I am running out of good options of vents to close (all the ones I closed last summer are already closed and the air still isn't moving as well as it did last year) and all the upstairs ones are already open

 

[Vette73]

Hence the rebalancing right? Maybe that wasn't the proper term but that is exactly what I had planned to do. My concern is that I am running out of good options of vents to close (all the ones I closed last summer are already closed and the air still isn't moving as well as it did last year) and all the upstairs ones are already open

Could have leaks in your duct work and/or soemthing clogged.

Take the register faces off and shine a light in all of them. Vacuum anything you see and keep moving toward the air handler till you see where the flow is at.

 

[classy]

Winter 71-72
Summer 77

 

[Anubis]

72 AC
68 Heat

basically this

 

[KaOTiK]

Summer 78

It sounds high, but when it is in the mid to high 90s outside, going into a house around 80 feels so good.

Winter I don't use the heat unless it is going to be extremely cold and I'll set it to the mid 60s for that night.

 

[Jeff7]

Winter 77.
Summer 74.

I like it warm in the winter. And the air is much dryer, so the temperature can be notched up a bit. I also have a reasonably small main room I'm in most of the time.
In summer, it gets set down a bit from summer, as the humidity is a lot higher, so that's what feels about right.

 

[Aikouka]

I usually set my AC to 70-72, but I think it's set to 74 right now to assist more in electricity conservation (last I heard, we were still being asked to be conscious of it because of our weak transmission lines). I usually have to set my AC this low to keep my upstairs cooler... any higher and I'll be roasting.

In the winter, I set my heat to 65-68.

EDIT:

Yea you need to close the vents downstairs a little and full open on the 2nd floor in the winter. Then reverse in winter.

That's what I have to do in my townhouse apartment to keep the upstairs moderately cool. I think I have all vents closed downstairs but one. It's actually kind of interesting feeling the staunch temperature difference when I walk up the stairs .

 

[actuarial]

I would set it to 19 in the winter and 23 in the summer, but our heating/cooling costs are not very high so I set it to 21 in both seasons.

19 at night during the winter though, as I love to sleep in the cold.