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?
Not American so we turn the heat on when it’s cold and off when we’ve warmed up enough to save money.
78 is insane, only a few C off the highest temp ever recorded in my country.
Usually around 18-19, 15-16 overnight
I keep mine on 64F room temp and hover around that. I use fans in the heat and portable heaters in the cold. But I heard keep it just below 70 in the winter and just above 70 in the summer to have a better bill.
Ours is a variable speed compressor so during the summer, it is set to 76 during the day when my wife/kids are there and set to maintain humidity under 50% which allows overcooling by 2 degrees. We run at 70/69 at night because our youngest doesn’t sleep well with the fan running in our room so I have it cooler to keep from soaking the bed with sweat.
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.
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.
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
About 72 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 is fine if you aren’t moving around much. 74 otherwise.
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.
Nothing. My place is so well insulated (with triple glazing) that I don’t have to heat. Don’t have AC, but closing the blinds during the day keeps things cool enough.
Do you live in the UK?
Upstate NY - 64°F in the winter, no A/C ( just a half-assed whole house fan).
I knew upstate got cold but not that cold, damn
Off during the day and between 17 and 20 °C when sleeping depending on the season.
67-68f in the winter, 74 in the summer + fans to supplement when it gets really hot/muggy.
Neither are my ideal temperature, but it lowers the bills and helps reduce the harm done in terms of energy consumption
always in the 20-24.
68f in the winter, and N/A for the summer (dont have AC)
I set mine to 0π at night and in the summer, and 3/2π to 11/6π in the winter… the numbers have worn off and idk what the actual temp is, but I do know all of them are in Quadrant IV.
*I only open the window or curtains at night in the summer or maybe sometimes when it’s raining in the winter. I think my dream house is literally a cave.
I’m originally from Florida, so 78 is what I usually leave mine at during summer.
