That was my father back in the day LOL...........he would lose his **** if anyone of us touched the thermostat. We also had a volume on the TV limit when he went to bed, he would get up, turn it down where he wanted it which was just above a whisper, and we would have to all get really close to the behemoth Curtis Mathis TV/Stereo
Same with my Dad. He would always b**** about us turning it down and he would turn it back up. He’d also b**** about keeping the refrigerator door open while looking for something to eat and the lights being turned on/off too frequently. It was like a mini-war always.
Yep, this is me too except that I'm the one working from home. I usually get up around 6am to let the dogs out and I'll turn upstairs and downstairs thermostats up to 78. Upstairs air doesn't usually kick on until around 2-something and the downstairs never gets above 75. So the upstairs unit gets about an 8 hour break and the downstairs unit about 10. This is a lot easier for me to pull off now that the wife (teacher) and kids are back at school again and I don't have to listen to them complaining.
100%. unless you’re actually waiting until 9pm to crank it back down you probably aren’t saving much money and you’re burning up you’re a/c trying to cool it back off when you get home.
I have no shame at all saying I’m that guy now. You want to pay the bills and you can refrigerate the living room all you want.
That's fine but you didn't know my Dad. While he was a great man and a great Dad, he was a huge nag artist his whole parenting life. It was the price to be paid for being his son. It never stopped up until his mental faculties left him and then he was just a totally different person/personality altogether. Also, if he would have actually stocked food that kids wanted to eat, then I wouldn't have had to keep the refrigerator door open looking for something tolerable to eat. Any time he'd go to the store and I just wanted him to buy me some soda, it was a battle. Then, he'd come home with some store brand generic crap that was barely tolerable and many times never the brand I requested. And, it was always an exaggeration as to how long the refrigerator door was actually open for...like the sky was falling. To further my point, I once had to go see a psychologist because my Dad didn't like that I didn't do my homework on his time schedule. He was always saying "Do your homework!" constantly every night. I always got it done when I wanted to do it but he just couldn't contain himself. So, it was somehow my problem. He paid for those sessions. So, he can pay for a little cold air escaping the refrigerator.
I might be bias, but by all means the girls in my house live the high life. If my curmudgeon dad vibes are causing them stress them giggling at me is an odd way of showing it. Sounds like your dad was one where had to win the battles at all costs while I'm resigned to losing every battle, getting laughed at in a loving way, and then just having the girls roll their eyes at me when I whine and go on my soap box. What really has paid the price for these battles has been my liver.
I googled a couple of articles and they all had rates of savings somewhere between 0 and 11 percent. Also, all the articles were very clear: it depends on your units and your home for how much the savings might be (or not)
Almost all hotels set a lower limit for their AC units now. They also often have the AC turn off if you leave the room. Both of these settings can be changed if you get to the set up menu on most hotel room thermostats. On some thermostats, you just have to hold certain buttons down for a few seconds to bring up the menu and then navigate through the options (you can almost always google the manual for thermostat models). In some cases, however, it requires you to remove the front face plate (so I usually have some eyeglass screwdrivers with me anyways), and often you have to use a small pin or paperclip to hold down a reset button to get to the setting menu. You can almost always then turn off the motion detector setting for the room so it stays cool if you're out, and then you can also lower the lower level limit. Most hotels have 65 as the lower limit, but some are starting to have 68 as the lower limit. I can usually reset it to 60 and then ice out the room. Last but not least, many hotel thermostats have a "VIP" mode that over-rides all of these settings. Again, its usually something easy like figuring out which buttons to hold down from google on that model and then turning VIP mode on in the menu. I've yet to run across a thermostat in a hotel that did not have youtube videos to do all this or being able to find the instruction manual online.
lol My kids are grown and mostly out of the house. I am the teacher and my wife prefers it warmer than I do so she isn;t bothered that It is warm.
Even when I crank it down, it still runs intermittently. Don't most units do that automatically to keep it from running for hours on end and burning up?
If the system is running intermittently but not cooling all the way to the desired temperature, there are a couple of things that might be happening. 1. Your system may just be designed or the thermostat itself may be auto-shutting off the system after a certain amount of minutes. If you can adjust this, perhaps you can change it if you figure it out. 2. You most likely have a plenum coming off your AC unit in the attic (or wherever it is). The plenum is usually a pretty big duct box that other ducts connect to that direct the air around the house. You probably have several actually. The one that usually comes directly off the unit often has a temperature sensor inside of it. If the plenum gets too cold, it auto-shuts off the system to keep it from freezing. There could be a couple of issues here: you could have a faulty sensor/thermometer in the plenum causing it to shut off too much. You could also have too much air going into the plenum but not appropriately getting out via the ducts...you may need larger ducts or even a larger plenum if this is the case. Either way, an HVAC person would need to adjust the system to figure it out. 3. Your filters may be super dirty disrupting the system 4. You may need someone to check the freon, if its too low it may be turning the system on and off 5. The AC unit may be incorrectly sized for the space, this includes either too little or too much tonnage. You'd need an HVAC person to check and calculate 6. The thermostat itself may be on the fritz 7. You could have a problem with the circuit board or a faulty capacitor on the outside unit
