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Heating and Cooling (43 percent of your home energy use)
Set the the thermostat as low as comfortable in winter (68 degrees) and as high as comfortable in summer (78 degrees). You should save $185 each year!We live in an ancient apartment complex in N. Arlington – and by ancient I mean it was built in 1968. The building has central heating and cooling, so it’s either one or the other, whatever the apartment complex decides. (I believe there are actual laws about when to switch from cooling to heating and vice versa. Oct. 15 through May 1 is heating, I think.) Anyway, in the winter, the elderly in this apartment building must crank their heat up high enough that the ambient heat generated is so powerful that Jonny and I practically never put on our heat. The only time we do is when it’s below freezing outside and the temperature drops below 65 inside, and we have to heat up the one room where we keep our fragile, little love bird. Problem for us is, even though we rarely turn on the heat – maybe like three times each year – we still have to pay for everyone else’s use of heat. The system is something like: the building pays for 40 percent of the bill and residents have to split the rest based on apartment square footage. Bah! Such a scam. We’re paying over $100/month for the damn heating, and yet, we NEVER use it.В The summer is another story. Jonny can’t stand being hot (I can handle it during the day, but I like to be cool going to sleep). Because of the general hotness of this apartment, if it’s 70 degrees outside it’s about 90 inside. In fact, right now it’s 54 degrees outside and – wait let me check – 75 degrees in here. В And I have the window wide open! Crazy, right? So, we pretty much blast the AC all summer. We don’t keep it at 78, we keep it at 72-3 degrees. I’m sorry, Planet. Please forgive me.
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