I forgot to say Fiona that our electricity bill is about half the price in Summer even when using the air as the reverse cycle heating seems to cost alot more in Winter.
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I forgot to say Fiona that our electricity bill is about half the price in Summer even when using the air as the reverse cycle heating seems to cost alot more in Winter.
When it's about 30degrees here. We live in a top floor unit and we get full sun all day and we have big double glass doors on both sides of the house so it's full sun, from sun up to sun set, and it gets really hot up here. I can feel the heat increase as I come up the stairs! When the sun goes down I usually turn it off and open the big double glass doors to catch the breeze. Cuase we are up the top, we can catch even the slightest breezes.
Me - over about 32 degrees. DH - humid days over about 27 degrees. I have it set to 27 or 28 degrees, DH sets it to 24 & I have to put a cardiagan on! Except on the hottest nights if DH has the a/c on in the bedroom I sleep in DS's room - I'd rather be warm sleeping rather than cold especially at the moment as I have a cold and the cold a/c makes my sinuses hurt. I'm a tight @rse too so I'd rather not have it on - I turn it on more for DS than me.
we have evap it is so much nicer IMO as you dont get really really cold - it just takes the edge off and better on the cash side of things too, although on a really hot/dry/still day it can suck!
I would be happy with a cieling fan but DH wont let me buy one
We use our air-con not so much for the heat, but the humidity. I prefer not to use airconditioning (mostly on principle), but don't handle excessive and constant heat and humidity very well. Our flat doesn't have very good air-flow either, so if there is a breeze we don't get it. All the fans do is move hot, wet air around.
We have a dehumidifying setting on our aircon which is much more efficient than the normal cool setting, and I have it set at its highest temperature; 26 degrees, so it runs at optimum efficiency. I only have it on in the living space, and open up the bedrooms before we go to bed to cool them off a bit. I usually turn it off when Euan is asleep during the day or if I find that it is getting too cool, and we don't have it on overnight. And we get around the flat in next to no clothes (undies only usually) which also helps.
Well, I'm sitting here with a cardigan on and DP has cracked the sads because I won't let him put the AC on. He's like a kid with a brand new toy!
:rofl: fion- men and their toys!! My dh had a bit of a huff last night because I made him turn ours off- it was almost cooler outside than in, for pity's sake...
Thats blokes for you!
I don't go on the temp.. if I am hot and sticky I turn it on.. some days I try hold off for a while but generally it is on in time for lunch and midday rest. I then turn it off when I am cooking dinner and we use ot overnight cus a certain little Princess seems to get hot overnight and sleeps bad.. worth it putting it on if she sleeps even if we all feel a little cold lol..