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Old 02-22-2015, 07:08 PM
 
Location: MD's Eastern Shore
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What do you set it at in the summer?
78 usually. I also don't cook as much in the summer. In the winter it's been too cold to leave the house much so I use the oven a good bit.
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Old 02-22-2015, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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78 usually. I also don't cook as much in the summer. In the winter it's been too cold to leave the house much so I use the oven a good bit.
At my last place I kept it at 77, and my bills during the summer ran about 40 dollars, but I had trees blocking the sun on my north side and living on the ground floor helped out quite a bit but that was in Pennsylvania.
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Old 02-23-2015, 06:18 AM
 
Location: Upper Marlboro
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78 usually. I also don't cook as much in the summer. In the winter it's been too cold to leave the house much so I use the oven a good bit.
We live in a late 70's rancher in OC as well but our delmarva power has been much higher, almost $200 last two billing cycles. Our house is cheap to heat or cool until it gets below freezing. Then it gets really expensive really quick.
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Old 02-24-2015, 05:15 PM
 
Location: PROUD Son of the South in Maryland
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Ours is projected to be close to 700 and we just got new windows, roof and HVAC. This freak cold is going to ruin us financially....
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Old 02-24-2015, 05:41 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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Ours is projected to be close to 700 and we just got new windows, roof and HVAC. This freak cold is going to ruin us financially....
Do you have a two story house?

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Old 02-24-2015, 09:22 PM
 
Location: PROUD Son of the South in Maryland
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Do you have a two story house?
We have a 3 story townhome. ~1500sqft with a 2.5 ton heat pump. We have been having to keep the heat at 65 to avoid aux heat.
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Old 02-25-2015, 07:49 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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We have a 3 story townhome. ~1500sqft with a 2.5 ton heat pump. We have been having to keep the heat at 65 to avoid aux heat.
Ouch
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Old 02-26-2015, 06:23 AM
 
Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
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I'm not sold on heat pumps for Maryland's climate. Just too many days where the aux is forced to kick in. In an ideal world I would have a heat pump and a backup, maybe propane, to kick in when it gets below freezing. If nothing else I would consider a wood stove if you have the room, anything to avoid a $700 monthly bill
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Old 02-26-2015, 07:45 AM
 
Location: PROUD Son of the South in Maryland
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I'm not sold on heat pumps for Maryland's climate. Just too many days where the aux is forced to kick in. In an ideal world I would have a heat pump and a backup, maybe propane, to kick in when it gets below freezing. If nothing else I would consider a wood stove if you have the room, anything to avoid a $700 monthly bill
Up until this winter and the few days last winter even our crappy old hvac that was smaller then what we should have had literally NEVER went to aux heat. When we have a normal winter heat pumps are fine for maryland east of Frederick. West of that may be a different issue.
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Old 02-26-2015, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
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Up until this winter and the few days last winter even our crappy old hvac that was smaller then what we should have had literally NEVER went to aux heat. When we have a normal winter heat pumps are fine for maryland east of Frederick. West of that may be a different issue.

According to this link the Aux heat kicks in at 40 degrees. But I'm thinking that maybe also means the home setting is high.

On the Level: Why your heat pump uses its auxiliary heat function - capitalgazette.com


The average temps in Baltimore are as follows:

November: H 56 L 37
December: H 45 L 28
January: H 41 L 24
February: H 45 L 27
March: H 54 L 34

Baltimore MD Average Temperatures by Month - Current Results

Seems to be that's a whole lot of days and nearly every night when temps fall below 40. I have read other reports that said below 30 degrees so I'm really not sure which is accurate. But even at 30 degrees it sure looks like just about every night for 3 months will require Aux heat.

Am I wrong here? I honestly don't know
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