Preparation for high temps???

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by spyfferoni

I am dreading our next electic bill!!! I've even been conservative and kept the thermostat around 80, and it still seems like it is running all of the time. Atleast here it cools down nicely at night we usually get dowm to atleast 68 at night, so our AC isn't running constantly all night long. I remember Vegas a couple of summers ago. We were walking the strip in the middle of the night and it was still in the high 90s. I keep saying to myself---it could be much worse! Atleast we have dry heat. I hate the heavy feeling of the heat we experienced last summer in Puerto Rico. It could be only in the 80s and I was dripping with sweat---then when you take a shower it feels like you never completely dry of, and then my in-laws are so used to the heat that they don't have AC, nor do they ever plan on getting it, so I told my DH the next time we visit we are buying an AC unit for them, so we don't feel like we are melting the time we are staying with them. Its hard on my kids---they don't feel like eating, and get heat rashes.

Some random comments. Feel free to ignore.

Have an A/C repair guy out and make sure your Freon is topped off.

If you buy your parents an A/C unit, make sure it's a 220 volt unit. The 110 volt units use something like 3x as much electricity for less cooling.