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[quote=Anonymous]Our child has a medical condition that requires us to keep our home cool. Our home is rarely warmer than 68 pretty much year round. We have completely replaced and revamped our heating and cooling systems in our house and pretty much every room can be set to a different temperature. We added spray foam insulation and minisplits to each room on the second floor. We really only use them during the summer for cooling. We still aren’t using them in our bedrooms this winter and prefer a really cold room with down comforters instead at night. The last few nights we’ve been sleeping with our windows open. We have a combo of radiators and traditional a/c on the first floor. The new radiators each have a thermostat that can be adjusted separately and we can run heat and cooling at the same time on the first floor. During the summer when our au pair is cold, we can turn on the heat overall, but turn each individual radiator off except for the one in her room so that her room can be warmer than the rest of the house. We also renovated our house and added spray foam insulation on the second floor where our bedrooms are; we almost never turn on the heat up there during the winter. We don’t have a thermostat upstairs, but I would guess that it’s in the low 60s most of the time.

My husband is fully acclimated to the cold and thinks anything over 70 is unbearably hot and uncomfortable. I’m sometimes cold so I installed a gas fireplace in our living room which I will regularly use and will let it heat up to 72 if my daughter is okay. We turn it on for guests so it can be cozy for them.

Our electric bill was very high this summer when we were renovating our home and we had no insulation or cooling on our second flood. Running the a/c on the first floor cost $300/month. I expect it to be less next year. It was often $250 last year when we weren’t renovating but had subpar insulation. Our radiators are fueled by a gas combi system, and that’s about $40 during the winter. Before we replaced our radiators, our gas bill went as high as $160/month during the winter. [/quote]

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