Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?
I keep it the same year round, about 71F during the day and 68F at night.
Same here!
Minimum, but it still doesn’t get below 23C in the winter
72 daytime 68 nighttime.
Europe.
Winter 20C/70F, but we only heat the bedrooms or rooms we mostly stay in. Kitchen, etc. can go as low as 10C/50F
Summer: no heating/AC at all. Open a window when cold air is coming inside. Close the windows when hot air is coming in. It’s never gone above 35C/95F, and that’s during a heat wave. Usually it’s 25C/80F max.
Sometimes when it’s too cold. You wear a sweater and thick socks. Sometimes it’s hot. Fan or live with it. Adapt our schedules accordingly, perhaps do groceries when it’s super hot or go on an errand that requires the car a drive so we can cool down in the supermarket/AC.
It’s never gone above 35C/95F
I think I speak for 99% of the people here when I say “FUCK THAT”
That happens quite often for me inside, it really sucks. Not much I can do about it though.
I think I misunderstood him. I assumed he meant that the inside of his house was 95, but I think he meant that the outside was 95. Still anything over 80 indoors I can’t handle.
Edit: nope just read his other reply and it was 95 inside. Again, fuck that.
Yeah, it sucks. AC is very uncommon in residential housing so there is not much you can do, especially if you’re like me with a hot computer in the house. Without a computer it’s still way to hot but it’s better.
Optimally you open your windows but you might not always want to do that, since there are quite a few insects outside. During night the mosquitos are fucking everywhere, so leaving a window open is possible, but it’s risky.
The climate’s fucked and inflation is rampant.
You’re frankly better off getting used to the occasional hot day.
It’s hot, but you get used to it.
It’s hot, but you get used to it
I’m not sure it will stay true in Europe. I think we might start to see more and more deadly heatwave, with temperatures to high to get used to it.
My view change on AC because of that, I used to think it was a luxury but it might become a necessity.
On the other hand fans can greatly improve the “efficiency” of AC, I’m comfortably sleeping with a fan and the AC thermostat setup at 28°C.
Ah. But that 35C was when it was above 40C. It was already extreme for northern europe.
If we ever head towards 50C, I suspect I’ll be dead before then, there’s always the basement. That’s ten or more degrees less than under the roof.
As climate change accelerates, and energy prices increase, we’ll have to adapt. Because when the power increasingly goes out, or when you end up paying hundreds per month on electricity, you’re fucked in a poorly insulated house even with AC.
It’s not environmentally friendly, it’s increasingly unaffordable, and it’s not sustainable on a societal level.
Some of us do enjoy hot weather. I hardly ever use my air conditioner.
Off.
Type error: null is not a number.I don’t live somewhere that it gets to 0°C / 32°F, although it can get close in the middle of the night in winter, so I don’t need to worry about the cold killing me.
Electricity is expensive though. I just dress in layers and use blankets or a hot water bottle when it’s cold. When it’s hot I might turn on the aircon to get myself to “not miserable”, but that usually only happens a few weeks a year. I try to acclimate to whatever the outdoor temperature is.
I also keep my windows open all year. The idea of keeping an entire house (not my small city shoebox, that is at least insulated by other shoeboxes) at a constant temperature year-round is sort of weird to me. Most people I know will use the aircon or heater at home maybe half the time, they’re nowhere near as avoidant of using them as I am.
I just find it hard to justify the expense, both financially and environmentally, unless I’m truly miserable and not just slightly uncomfortable.
Our heater is set to 60F in the winter.
If i want it warmer than that (usually) it’s up to me to keep the wood stove fired and fed!
I let visitors change it at will, but I always keep it above the minimum temperature for water to evaporate as a temperature reference.
Mine is set at 80 degrees during the summer. During the winter it is at 60 or maybe 65. I live in an over 100 year old dog trot style house in Alabama with only attic insulation and the original single pane double hung windows.
You don’t have to live like that.
Even this way, $200+ per month electricity and gas bills are normal. I am working on making some wooden storm windows that should help. Still iffy on spray foam insulation, I’ve heard of older homes having moisture problems afterwards.
Usually 72° F / 22.22°C. But my wife likes to turn it down on the really hot days were the AC doesn’t quite keep up. I try to explain the AC is running all out, turning it down does not help. And we certainly do not have one of the high end units that can throttle, it is either on or off.
At some point it will freeze up, stop working, and you can say “see?!” while it thaws. But no one will acknowledge you were correct and tried to warn them. But you’ll know.
Dude I even have graphs that show when it ices up and stops working. No one will listen.
Chiming in to say comparing thermostat settings between houses is comparing apples to oranges. Your AC is only “on” or “off,” changing the thermostat setting only changes how much time it’s on vs how much time it’s off.
On a 100° day, the HVAC in a well-insulated house with double paned windows and solid weatherization is going to be able to maintain 77° with little effort, where a poorly insulated, leaky house may struggle to even reach 77° with the HVAC running continuously. These two houses may have their thermostats set the same but their internal temperatures and energy usage will be different, maybe even radically different
86F/30C. Turn on the fan and it’s cool
You actually have your thermostat set to 86, or are you joking?
When it’s 40℃ outside, I set my AC to around 30 too.
that’s reasonable.
That’s more of an “always on” type setting though, isn’t it?
Actually no. When it’s that hot, I leave it on from afternoon / evening till before sleep. It was a couple of hours.
Eh not thermostat, I use AC and it only cools down, no heating. And setting it to 30 actually makes it cooler than 30
74 in the summer and 68 in the winter. Before I met my wife I would keep it at 60 in the winter but she wasn’t having it lol (heating oil is expensive). I didn’t have central air so my bedroom (window unit) I’d keep at 68-70.
on winters, I don’t go above 20°C. on summers, I completely turn off the heater and even cut the gas, have all the two windows fully open for the rest of the season. I have an AC system installed, tho it’s really old and consumes too much power for my likings. In my country they fucking rob people with electricity/gas bills, it’s the fetish of our president. Also the AC unit is in a wrong place and haven’t even cleaned it in years, so… it’s just decoration at this point.
my luck is that I have neighbors on two sides and under me (I’m at first floor) so I don’t really need to crank up the heater, because I’m already surrounded by heated homes. since my home is small, heating with gas is extra cheap for me.
I’m from Europe.
68-75. This means if it’s between those numbers, the HVAC doesn’t turn on.
72 during the day and 68 at night.
