<p>A Chocolate room?? Please tell us more! What do you make with chocolate??? Yummmm!!!</p>
<p>We keep it at about 68 in the summer and 65 in the winter. We freeze year round.</p>
<p>I actually have to wear gloves at the computer in the winter because my hands freeze so much that my arthritis aches and I can’t type.</p>
<p>Winter – Off during the day when no one’s home, 70 in the evening, 65 overnight.</p>
<p>Summer – Off during the day when no one’s home, 80 in the evening, 76 overnight if it hasn’t cooled down. But if we’re having a heat wave, we leave it at 84 during the day, otherwise it takes all night to cool the place down.</p>
<p>68 winter, 72 summer. That is what we set it to.</p>
<p>But it seems that our heater/ac have decided we need to be tougher than that. It often feels like 50 in our bedroom in winter and 80 in the summer.</p>
<p>My ex, an energy conservation guy, talked about ambient temperature. If you’re sitting by an uninsulated wall, with extremely cold or hot air outside, you’re going to react to that radiating cold or hot object, regardless of thermostat setting. The air con or furnace may be chugging along, trying to maintain a thermostat setting, but the comfort level is often decreased with poor insulation, leaky windows, etc. </p>
<p>Well insulated older house here, and it is cozy in our cold winters, despite big rooms. Arising time, 67 degrees, 62 during the day, 4 PM, up to 68, 10 PM 57. Occasionally chilly in the evenings, I have been known to over ride the auto set on the thermostat to increase it a degree or two in the evenings, despite turtlenecks and sweaters. My Phoenix childhood did not prepare me for Midwest winters!</p>
<p>Summers, ceiling and window fans. No duct work means air con is not easy to install. Would prefer to not pay for it either.</p>
<p>68 daytime in winter, 60 night time (have programmable digital thermostats), but with a lot of thermal gain from east and south-facing clerestories. Open floor plan with partial walls plus 18 foot ceilings means 68 can be chilly on cloudy days when I have been known to nudge up the thermostat to 72 for a couple of hours to take off the chill in the morning. </p>
<p>Summer–have evaporative cooling (aka swamp coolers), basically giant humidifiers. Either the AC is on or off. No temperature control possible. I do close all the insulated blinds on the clerestories to help control the heat gain and 4 years ago replaced the old windows with high quality low-e double panes --which reduced the daytime temps in the high ceilinged central living area (where all the clerestories are) about 4-6° in the summer when the blinds are open. I also use floor & ceiling fans to improve air movement/cooling in all rooms.</p>
<p>We have programmable thermostats. In the winter we keep the heat programmed at 58 during the night and sleep under a down blanket. It is programmed to kick up to 65 degrees 15 minutes before we get up. It goes back to 58 when we leave for work and then back to 65 degrees 15 minutes before I get home. During the months that require a.c., we program it at 76 when we’re home and 80 when we’re at work. Occasionally, when I’m zipping around the house cleaning, I will turn it down to 73. I’d like it to be cooler than that but I don’t like the amount the electric company wants.</p>
<p>Winter 70-71 and that is wearing a sweater. Anything lower and my fingers turn blue. Much lower than that at night and I am fine with that - we also have a programmable thermostat. I am comfortable in some homes that are set to somewhat lower temps, though. Maybe it’s the ambient temp great lakes mom describes, the way the house is situated and its exposure. At least I am consistent - it’s been in the 90s the past few days and I barely need any AC at all ( set it to 78 and am not even warm). H occasionally turns it down to 74 to get rid of some humidity and then I freeze!</p>
<p>Let’s see…we got a programmablle thermostat about a year ago, but I only use 2 settings - night and day. Winter we keep it at 68 during day and 60 at night. We’re still experimenting with summer. Its in the 90s this week and we have kept the thermostat at 76 for day and night. But I was getting hot last night, even with a ceiling fan, so I may turn it down to around 74 and see how I do. (We can’t vary the temp much during the day because we both work at home)</p>
<p>Winter - 71 when we are occupying a floor, 65 at night. Programmable thermostats change the temp multiple times each day at different times on each floor based on usage patterns.</p>
<p>I should note that I spend most of my time in the computer room, which typically has 3+ computers running. That room gets above 71 in the winter due to the heat from the computers, which suits me just fine.</p>
<p>For A/C we use room air conditioners, which only run when we are in that room. I have no idea what temperature they cool to, the controls are primitive.</p>