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
By thermostat are we talking about heating? I’m cold-tolerant so I typically set mine to 15.5 C. If it gets any colder than that indoors it comes on
I have mine at 20~22°C. Not sure what that is in non-standard units… honestly I’d go lower, but then it becomes a hassle for other reasons
Double it and subtract one tenth of the doubled number then add 32. That makes your range 68-72.
And that’s a good range
Right now we’ve had ours off for about a week, the pollen isn’t great for the GF, but she was unhappy about our winter heating bill being so damn high due to drafts.
Generally we set ours to 72f, though.
I acclimate to to the heat. I’ve lived in the South with no AC at all; 80F with humidity control is cushy by comparison.
Summer: open windows until heat and/or humidity causes concern for my electronics.
Winter Day: 68F Winter Night: 58F
With humidity control is key. The reason we can’t set ours all the way to 80 is because the AC kicks on too infrequently to manage the humidity and I don’t feel like buying a bunch of dehumidifiers.
We go like 67 in the winter, 76 or so summer.
69 F
;)
72/65 in the winter 78/70 in the summer. I know we should keep it cooler in the winter, but I just really hate being cold.
Are these cool/heat numbers?
Day/night
I set it to 291k.
Not sure what that is in feet-degrees or miles or whatever you guys use in Murca.
There’s no such thing as a degree Kelvin. It’s just 291K.
Lol changed
That’s about 523.8 °R. I prefer 531.67 °R
HERETIC
Oh, my bad… I meant to say 0.19825 °N
Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K
292 kilo what?
Haha nice. Out-nerded again.
It’s always set at 19°C at night and 20°C for the day, all year long. But it’s only heating, there is no AC.
It gets over 110f so we keep it at 80 in the summer. We have double pane windows, a newer ac as well. Otherwise the power bill is over 1000 a month. Our bill in the winter is around 100ish and mostly gas. We keep the house at 60.
PGE is terrible. It’s a little more than 60c a kilowatt now…
No that’s not a typo on the prices.
Where are you?? I live in an old crappy insulated 4bed house in VEGAS and in the summer I pay like 300-350 for AC that I set and forget at 72°
Whats your kwh rate? Is it 60c or more? Cause thats the main cause. Theres a metric ton of solar being installed last year or so.
60c? You’ve gotta be talking about peak rates in like DTLA, surely?
You’re telling me your base rate is 60c/kwh?
NV Energy charges me 10c/kwh
Yep base starts at 60c. Last year it was at 50 but they increased it 4 times since then.
Holy crap buddy. Best wishes, that’s brutal.
Thanks friend.
The city itself is thinking of making making its own power company. We are having record number of businesses leave. So its a brutal time. It doesnt help with the whole tarrif situation and parts becoming hard to find (like solar/inverters/etc…).
I imagine a lot of residents are leaving too. I figured it was mostly real estate inflation but knowing that about the PG kwh price… that must also be a massive consideration
Yeah, that’s extremely similar to our situation. Luckily we have solar panels, so PGE doesn’t absolutely demolish our finances. We also try and open windows overnight when possible since it can be 20-30 degrees cooler.
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.
