So I tend to be a total thermostat hawk.
It’s the truth and as much as I pretend I’m not, I so am.
But keeping that thermostat discipline saves us a ton of money on HVAC cooling. Where we live, there isn’t all that much worry when it comes HVAC heating needs. The heat pump might come on a handful of times all winter. This region has a cooling need far more than it has a heating need. That said, the HVAC cooling in this region just isn’t cheap at all. Thus, I’m tough about the thermostat staying no more than 15 degrees cooler than the outside temperature during the peak heating hours. But the good part of this thermostat patrol is the fact that I use the savings to help pay for our accommodations when we go on vacation. The big vacation for us right now is at the end of the summer. We go away to the beach for 2 glorious weeks. And we stay in a vacation home that we rent. This place is just the best. It’s a five minute walk to the beach but it also comes with state of the art HVAC technology. That’s a big deal for me because our beach vacation is the one time a year that I go hog wild when it comes to thermostat setting. And with the zone controlled HVAC, I have a thermostat in my bedroom. My poor wife has to bring pajamas because I crank the air conditioning down so low. But I love to get my money’s worth out of the air conditioning for those two weeks a year when I’m not paying the tab.