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?
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.
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.
-40 so I don’t have to specify which temperature scale I’m using.
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.
69 F
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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.
It depends on where you sleep. Basement vs upstairs can make a huge difference at the same thermostat setting. I keep mine set to be between 19°C and 25°C and don’t have trouble sleeping.
Speaking of which, anyone else use Home Assistant / Z-Wave?
72 F / 22 C in winter and 68 F / 20 C in summer. We live in a LEED Platinum building and the electric bill for our 2-bedroom apartment never goes above $50, so we set it to whatever is most comfortable.
23 all year round
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 keep it 68F(20c) downstairs, but the main house temp is regrettably 73F(22C) and I fight to keep it that low because the rest of the house is cold blooded.
I try to keep between 68 F and 72 F, but uh, the thermostat’s method of measuring the actual temperature in the apartment is completely, laughably busted, so… hot days it goes on 62, cold days it goes on 84.
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.
20.5 in winter and 21.5 in the summer.
Summer: 72-74 in the day, 68 for sleeping Winter: 65 in the day, 62 for sleeping. I love the cold
