This Heat and Your Air Conditioning

[JustBonee]

Central A/C, plus a roll-around unit that will cool a room if needed for an emergency.

 

[Disgustedman]

I use my vehicle ac when driving. Otherwise I have two recharable fans for nighttime sleeping.

 

[MarkinPhx]

I have the A/C running at 76° from mid May until around mid October. I also have a ceiling fan in my living room and bedroom that I run when I am in one of those rooms.

 

[Rich]

When you list "wall units" in the survey do you mean the mini split systems? Like this -

 

[Imogene]

Central air — set at 76 to save $$$ and wear on the HVAC unit.

If I could afford to, the AC would be set at 65-68.

That said, I know it’s miserable outside when I walk into 76 degrees of AC and it feels like the freezer for two minutes.

 

[Naturally]

Heat Pump ... Summer, keep thermostat set to 79. Winter, 73-77 depending how I feel and are dressed.
I deal with heat A LOT better than cold

 

[Lilac]

Central air. We also use our ceiling fans all year to stir the air around as well, one in the bedroom & the living room. Fans are clockwise turning in summer & counter clockwise for winter. We also have several tower fans that are in reserve if we need them.

 

[seadoug]

Two central A/C units... one for upstairs and one for downstairs. Upstairs is set at 78, and since heat rises to the top it is always going. Downstairs set at 77 and is rarely on until late in the day. Ceiling fans everywhere, always on. I'm a wimp when it comes to heat. We reach the 100s in August and only drop into the 80s at night.

 

[againstthegrain]

Just had a flashback to when I was a kid. Step father read that the best way to deal with heat was to allow a fan to suck the air out of the house. He set a floor fan in front of the screen door. Honestly, it did sweet nothing. At night, he’d push the little lock on the screen door so everything was safe. Have to wonder about his lack of common sense.

I used this method when I was kid sleeping in basically a hot attic. The fan, a box fan, needs to be set if front of a window exhausting the hot air. Another window needs to be open so that a draught is created btwn the 2 so cool night air is drawn in to replace the hot exhausted air.

Putting the fan in front of a door obviously didn't work, since the cool air just got pushed back outside as quick as it came in.

I use the same system in my truck camper which has two roof mounted fans. One on exhaust pulling air out and the other on intake, replacing the hot air w cooler air.

 

[LoveTulips]

In Montreal, we had central AC when I lived at home with my parents, now we have a window unit as we are in BC in a condo. But we only bought it about 3 - 4 years ago, didn't used to be so hot in BC.

 

[Wombat]

I don't have A/C but my house was built in the 1920s. I have roof insulation the government paid for so it is OK in summer but if it gets too hot I take a book to the shopping mall and sit in their armchairs and enjoy their A/C (its only a 150 metres away).

The downside of the roof insulation is that in winter the house doesn't heat up when the sun hits the tin roof like it used to so I have to use my fan heater a few times on really cold days. This has been very cold start to winter one night it got down to nearly freezing but daytime is usually in the mid/high teens or low 20s so not too bad, lovely out in the garden in the sun.

 

[dusty]

I have a tiny 1 bedroom apt and use a stand alone window AC. I have it in the LR and it cools the entire apt very well. I have baseboard electric heat for winter. I am ok with this arrangement but I would like a little mre sp footage. It has been very hot here in central NYS and humid.

 

[Jules]

When you list "wall units" in the survey do you mean the mini split systems? Like this -

Yes, those. I don’t know much about those.

We also use our ceiling fans all year to stir the air around as well,

Those are a great idea. I love a light breeze.

 

[Fritz]

I have central air. I usually leave it on 76 when I go to work and then work it back down to 70 when I get home. I have fans running too. I can't stand the heat in the summer anymore.

 

[Veronica]

No central air since I have hot water heat with big old fashioned radiators.
I have a window unit for the bedroom side and a Ptac unit for the other side. And fans.

 

[Tommy]

I don't have much of a problem with heat but can't tolerate high humidity. Last summer was dry. This year has been extremely rainy and humid, so the central air has been our dehumidifier.

 

[Oldeagle66]

I took my window AC unit out recently. I just had it in for a few days during the heat wave and used it about two hours a day, the hottest parts of the day. A fan is okay with me.