What's your home thermostat set at?

[FlyingScot]

Yikes, there must be something really wrong with your home's design!"

No it's just old and the main living area is on the west side of the house so it takes a beating from the sun. It didn't use to get that hot until the city cut down my beautiful, non-infected ash tree that did an awesome job providing shade. Also, the days that it got that warm it was >100 degrees outside.

[skhill]

No it's just old and the main living area is on the west side of the house so it takes a beating from the sun. It didn't use to get that hot until the city cut down my beautiful, non-infected ash tree that did an awesome job providing shade. Also, the days that it got that warm it was >100 degrees outside.

I don't have AC either, and this summer was worse than before. The house just to the west was torn down in the spring; when it was there my house was well-shaded from the afternoon sun, but not any more. I never hit 98, at least not downstairs, though!

[jessmarimba]

My upstairs gets wicked hot in the summer. I think partly because it was designed to be warmer in the winter and partly because someone built a wall in the middle of the room. The east and west walls are half window, which add radiant heat in the winter and should allow a nice cross-breeze in the summer (especially combined with the dormer windows on the south side). But the wall blocks the breeze, now all it does it slam the bedroom door shut. Downstairs stays tolerable because the east wall is now a laundry room and the west wall windows are covered by the porch.

[maillotpois]

59 during the day if we're not home and also at night for sleeping. 62 or 63 when I am working at home if I get so cold I can't stand it anymore. 67 at night when we are home having dinner,etc.