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 set it to 291K.
Not sure what that is in feet-degrees or miles or whatever you guys use in Murca.
Edit: changed to CAPITAL K, you nerds.
Edit 2: removed the degree symbol!
That’s about 523.8 °R. I prefer 531.67 °R
HERETIC
Oh, my bad… I meant to say 0.19825 °N
291 kilo what?
Haha nice. Out-nerded again.
There’s no such thing as a degree Kelvin. It’s just 291K.
Lol changed
Excellent. I’m making my high school physics teacher proud.
Cheap Canadian here…
18C in cold months and down to 15C at night.
Warm months I have central air but don’t turn it on and just live with whatever the temp is.
Dry climates will let you set the temp higher in the summer since your body will cool better.
I have solar/battery and heat pumps so I set my temp to whatever makes my SO happy.
-40 so I don’t have to specify which temperature scale I’m using.
Short answer:
- 80 in summer
- 60 in winter
Long answer: It gets over 110f so we keep it at 80 in the summer. We have double pane windows, a newer ac as well. Somewhat new insulation. 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.
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.
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
Y’all paying what rent should cost just to have electrons
69F (20.5C) year-round. Just for the memes.
It started out as ha-ha-funny-number because my college roommates kept setting the thermostat there to be funny but then it just become a comfortable temperature to exist at
Summer: 72-74 in the day, 68 for sleeping Winter: 65 in the day, 62 for sleeping. I love the cold
Summer: 77-78 during the day, 75 at night.
Winter: 70
(Not so) pro tip: Buy a stand or desk fan. What actually makes 77 feel hot is because there’s no breeze. 77 in itself is not hot. What you need is air circulation. Keeping it at 77 with a fan to get a breeze going is comfortable enough. Your electric bill will also be lower.
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
20.5 in winter and 21.5 in the summer.
always in the 20-24.
About 72 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 is fine if you aren’t moving around much. 74 otherwise.
68, but now the weathers nice enough that I don’t need to use it
23-25 in the winter (depends on humidity), switched off in the summer.
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.
