It's summer here in the Mid-Atlantic and it's swampy as all get-out. My husband had decreed that our thermostat must remain at 78F, day and night. I. Am. Dying. I will admit, I have a little extra insulation and I think he has negative body fat at this point, but I am constantly in agony (I also have a medical condition that makes me sensitive to heat), and most nights it takes a good 30 minutes, a fan, and a dose of sleeping meds to overcome the discomfort of the temperature and humidity. The pets are miserable too: the dog has stopped sleeping with us and the cat sleeps on the tile bathroom floor. My question is this: in a 650 sq ft apartment, how much difference can 2 degrees REALLY have on the electric bill? My husband says that it needs to stay set at 78 to save money (even though we're by no means living paycheck-to-paycheck or anything), and that setting it to 76, even just when we're home or just overnight, would cause our bill to be crazy high. I would do an experiment to see what happens to our bill for a month if we changed it, but if I even think about changing the thermostat he reminds me to leave it where it is without me even getting up to go look at it. We live in a very new building that's eco/energy-efficient certified and all that, they keep our units in pristine condition, and the apartment is well-insulated (we didn't turn our heat in once during the winter, even when it got down to single digits, and we were comfortable the whole season). Is 2 degrees for 8 hours a day really going to have a tremendous impact on our electric bill? Or is he being needlessly penny-pinchy?
Submitted August 19, 2017 at 12:27AM by Eeveemae http://ift.tt/2vR4hve
