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Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?

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[-] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Summer - cool to 76 around the house. 68 for sleeping.

Winter - warm to 70 around the house. 65 for sleeping, with a heavier comforter.

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

21oC in winter, off in summer. I ain't going to waste energy when you can just close the window if you are cold.

I don't have aircon either, not that I would be able to afford it even if I did have it.

Oh and the thermostat lies anyway and is actually just on or off so. 30 minutes in the morning and 1 hour in the evening. Well except last winter where I decided food was more important than warmth and just turned it on when necissary to keep the place habitable.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I have an evaporative cooler it really doesn't have temperature control. It is kind of whatever the outside temperature is -20f degrees with 75% humidity.

[-] Koraboros@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

77F normally

[-] nowrongnotes@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Summer time - 75F during the day, 72F at night. Winter time - 68F during the day, 62F at night.

I live in the Midwest US

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently set to 67F (19.4C) for heating, and I don't have air conditioning but would probably keep it around 76F (24C).The weather here is mild enough that we usually don't need AC in summer.

We're starting to have more and more hot days during summer though, so I'm getting the gas furnace replaced with a heat pump HVAC (which is the term Americans use for a reverse cycle air conditioner) this week. The furnace is 22 years old so it was due for a replacement anyways. I had an 11.2kW solar system installed earlier this year, so I'm trying to move away from gas appliances.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

We're in Canada so we use Celsius but I'll convert for our farenheit friends:

23C/73.4F most of the time we try to keep the heat/AC off in spring/fall when it makes sense to do so.... We seem to generate a lot of heat inside (we have a lot of computers in the house) so it has to be quite a bit cooler outside to justify opening windows. something like 16C/60F, then between the heat from everything inside and the cold outside, we tend to keep rather comfortable.

My last place was an apartment and we didn't have control over the heating. Whenever it was on, we were cooking, so we left all the windows open all winter (the super knew about the situation and recommended we do this). The valves for the baseboard heaters were extremely old, didn't have knobs, and the super said he could try to adjust them, but there's a decent chance that they could snap and flood the apartment. Nobody wanted that, so we just left the windows open. For summer, I only turned on our AC at the apartment after the haters shut off. I wasn't going to pay to run AC to cool the place down while they were actively heating it up.... I'm glad we don't live there anymore because of that, though, everything else about the place was stellar. The landlord tried to get the owner to Green light the replacement of the valves while the system was not in use (namely in summer when they turned it off) since it would be easy to drain the system and do the work, but they didn't, so year after year, Windows open in winter. It kinda sucked, but we did what we had to. I installed a netatmo temperature system and at times in the dead of winter with all the windows open, the inside temps would read in excess of 30C/86F which wasn't fun. Hanging around in boxers with all the windows open in the dead of winter, and still sweating by doing nothing at all, wasn't great.

My new place has it's problems with airflow, but it's much better overall.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I live in a campervan and so have no temperature control in the traditional sense. Closest thing would be the Maxxfan with thermostatic fan control and it's set to 68F. As long as external temps are lower than internal temps it does a reasonable job.

[-] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

My folks keep it at 79°F during the day and 72°F at night.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't! My windows are open all year here in Chicago.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You have your windows open in winter in Chicago? In a single family home your pipes would or rather could freeze in winter. In an apartment depending on how warm the neighbors get their place and heart can radiate through walls that might work. In the summer though Damn that would get warm.

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[-] Zaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I like to keep my home at 16°C (60.8°F) when possible. Summers are hell.

[-] 2d@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.relay.fm/cortex/145

In which CGPGrey discusses ordering parts to replace inside of hotel A/Cs so that he set the room temp to 16º. Quite chilly, btw, why do you need that??

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[-] Today@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds awesome!

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

68-75. This means if it's between those numbers, the HVAC doesn't turn on.

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[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

In winter I light the fire, in summer I open the windows, the temperature range goes from chilly to toasty. I don't have exact numbers on that.

[-] ptman@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Minimum, but it still doesn't get below 23C in the winter

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For A/C I like it warmer than most office buildings, around 27°C/81°F, which means it's usually off outside of summer heat waves. My current place in Vancouver has no A/C.

Winter the heater's usually at 21°C/70°F.

[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

27?! I would actually die. We keep ours at 19.

[-] MisterChief@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Cincinnati. 66 at night 70 during the day during the summer, sometimes 72.

Winter 70-72 all the time.

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

75 in the summer and 68 in the winter

[-] krellor@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just moved into a house with ac for the first time and it is well insulated and lots of shade from trees. At night before bed I set it to 68, and in the morning I set it to 74. Even when we had 100 degree days it never got above 73 inside, so basically I only run the AC at night.

25.5 C (78F) in the summer, 21 C (71F) in the winter

[-] Torty@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

In the summer 78F during the day but I spend most of that time in the basement because that's where my office is and 68F at night to sleep.

During the winter 68F all day err' day

[-] OhTheMoose@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

65° while I sleep, 68°-70° while I'm home, off while I'm not

[-] CoriolisSTORM88@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

You don't have to live like that.

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