Timeline for What's the maximum recommended temperature for your house while away?
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| Feb 7, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Most definitely use a dehumidifier, not A/C. That is, unless you have one of the new high-fancy systems that has a "dehumidify" setting, in which case the A/C sensors will run the system in a low-flow-rate mode to maximize moisture extraction at minimum power draw, ignoring house temperature. | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | gregmac | EcoBee has this as well: ecobee.com/2015/05/feature-friday-ac-overcool. It can also use a ventilator (eg whole house fan) to cool the house, depending on outside temperatures, which may also help. (No affiliation, just satisfied customer). | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 14:52 | comment | added | isherwood | nest.com/support/article/What-is-Cool-to-Dry | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 11:32 | answer | added | 410 gone | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 3:46 | comment | added | ctote | Basically, I'd like to set it at like 90+ during the summer months while I'm gone to work, and have it start cooling off an hour or so before I come home (it's much cooler in the evenings so the performance of cooling I think would be much better than a constant lower temperature through the afternoon) | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 3:44 | comment | added | ctote | Actually this would only be while I'm away at work - so maybe 10-12 hours a day most days. | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 3:13 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | So you're really just thinking of running the A/C to limit humidity, and using temperature as a surrogate for humidity? I'm not sure that would work. If you set the threshold to 85F, and you had 2 weeks of 70F and rain, the A/C might never run but the mold would bloom! Can you convince the Nest to run 30 minutes a day regardless? | |
| Feb 7, 2017 at 2:58 | history | asked | ctote | CC BY-SA 3.0 |