Changing my perspective changed my HVAC cooling bill

When I walked into my house and the thermostat was set in the lower 80’s, it felt cool, crisp and comfortable to me

I guess I should have gone to the source right away. Instead, when I moved down here, I just went all out on the air conditioning as I really didn’t know what else to do. It was so hot and I was from the north where the summers could get hot but they never stayed hot. This place stays near a hundred degrees for like four months straight. So of course, the only thing I knew to do to manage was to crank the HVAC cooling. And it cost me a bunch of money for the first two years I was here. I mean a bunch of money. So last year, I finally went to a friend in the office who is a native of the region and asked him how he did HVAC cooling in his place. I told him what I was averaging on monthly HVAC cooling costs and he almost fainted. We chatted about it a bit and I realized that I was going about this air conditioning thing all wrong. For me, when the temperatures hit 75 or so, I flipped the thermostat over to HVAC cooling. That was my mistake. My local friend advised me that it’s best if I allow my body to acclimate to the heat during the spring. So that’s what I did last spring. Instead of cranking the air conditioning right away, I simply opened the windows and turned on fans. So by the time the real heat hit in June, I was sort of accustomed to the heat. When I walked into my house and the thermostat was set in the lower 80’s, it felt cool, crisp and comfortable to me. And believe me, I cut my HVAC cooling costs so dramatically that I took a really nice vacation in the fall.

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