I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while. I saw a comment a month or so ago. Person said they keep their thermostat at like 65 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 seems fucking insane to me. That’s too damn hot for inside. How do you sleep at 78 degrees?
Are they a lizard person or am I a baby?
Edit 1: I love all the comments on this! Never thought this post would create such discussion. Looking at the comments vs upvotes it honestly seems 50/50ish that 78 is hot for the indoors. Can lemmy do polls?
If I’m paying the bills the AC is set to 72 in the summer and the heat is set to 66 in the winter.
If I’m not paying the bills the AC is set to 66 when it’s hot and the heat is set to 72 when it’s cold.
64/78 year round. Occasionally knock it down to 74 in the summer when it’s going to be really hot and the AC unit may not keep up.The house retains heat too well and bakes in the evening sun.
Usually around 18-19, 15-16 overnight
Grew up in a house with no AC in the summer. Would easily hit high 80s inside during the day and hover in the lower 80s or high 70s at night.
You learn how to deal with it. Use fans to bring cooler air in at night. Close up windows and curtains (especially south-facing blinds) during the day. Hydrate frequently. At night, strip down as far as comfortable, use just a sheet instead of a blanket, and have a fan to circulate air. AC is a relatively new invention, people have been living longer in hotter areas without it. 78 degrees should literally be “no sweat”.
Yes, 65F for the winter or lower, I hate the heater, and yes, 78F in summer, the heat pump struggles and it’s plenty cool enough, feels cool compared to outside.
ETA I grew up in Florida without air conditioning. No central air until I was 24, sometimes window units. And at school no air conditioning till 7th grade and they kept it fucking FREEZING in that school so you would be going always from hot outside to so cold inside, it was worse than none.
People absolutely can adapt to the humidity and heat but buildings do not, they hold up so much better with the central air drying them out.
Heat to 69 in the winter, cool to 74-76 in the summer.
72°F in summer / 64°F in winter
23-25 in the winter (depends on humidity), switched off in the summer.
Here’s January of this year. San Francisco, so pretty moderate weather — typically don’t run heat during the day, and low 60s at night (if at all) during the winter. Large temperature gradient throughout house, typically.
South facing windows gives kitchen and living room a greenhouse effect, particularly in the winter, hence the large daily temperature swings:
21 during the day and at bedtime 15
I agree that 78°F is way too high to be a confortable sleeping temp, though being in a country where residential AC isn’t really a thing and inside temps at night often are higher than that in summer… you get used to it, it’ll just never be fun.
My ideal sleeping temp is like 15°C but even if I had AC that seems too wasteful so I’d probably settle for 18-20
I live in California’s San Joaquin valley. It gets hot in the summer. PG&E bill is high as hell. Having your place cooler than 78F is a total luxury. In my place keeping it at 78F would mean a couple $600 bills. I have since gotten solar but I’ve heard PG&E increased their prices twice since then. And they want to increase it even more.
On the other hand some places like Sacramento used to have super cheap rates and people could crank their ACs on.
I did some experimenting - I can’t sleep above 67 at most, 65 comfortably.
Anything above 68 is too hot generally indoors and I begin to lose the ability to focus.
I don’t have AC but my house is from the 1860s when people had fires running pretty much nonstop so is designed to keep cool, so even when it’s 80+ outdoors the indoor temperature rarely goes above 70
AC only goes on when it’s 90 out. Used it 5 times last year. People can adapt. It’s like cutting sugar from your diet.
Sans humidity being like 85% its fine… trying that when it’s 85+ and humidity to match, you’ll melt.
How is it like cutting sugar from your diet
It’s the same thing in that both cutting sugar from your diet and living inside a 90°F/32°C box both take all possibility of joy out of your life
That really depends on the humidity. I can take a desert 90F or even 100F all day without AC without issue but 80F temps with a 70F dew point absolutely kills me. I lived in my area without AC for years. I never got used to it, I just stopped functioning when it got hot and muggy.
-40 so I don’t have to specify which temperature scale I’m using.
