1d ago

What ya nerds set your thermostats to?

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?

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I have mine at 20~22°C. Not sure what that is in non-standard units.. honestly I'd go lower, but then it becomes a hassle for other reasons
- Double it and subtract one tenth of the doubled number then add 32. That makes your range 68-72.
  
  And that’s a good range

I set it to 291k.
Not sure what that is in feet-degrees or miles or whatever you guys use in Murca.
- That's about 523.8 °R. I prefer 531.67 °R
  
  HERETIC
- 291 kilo what?
- Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K

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.

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

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.
- 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
- Sans humidity being like 85% its fine.... trying that when it's 85+ and humidity to match, you'll melt.

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.
- Y'all paying what rent should cost just to have electrons

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.

Summer: 72-74 in the day, 68 for sleeping Winter: 65 in the day, 62 for sleeping. I love the cold

Usually off, but if on 18°C (291.15K).

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°C min, 24.5°C max.
That's 68°F and 76°F in OrangeUnits.
But tbh,I don't have an AC at the moment,so the max. value is only achieved by automatic ventilation. But I has it on the same range when I was living in a country with AC.

Cool to 25, heat to 20 (Canberra, Australia)

always in the 20-24.

23 in a lot of the winter (though I think the thermostat is wrong since that gets us to 20.x or 21 according to actual thermometers in the room) and usually 26 in 'dry' mode in the summer. Right now, we're going for days without using them at all but, if not the heat, then the humidity will put an end to that by late May or early June.

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.

20.5 in winter and 21.5 in the summer.

21 during the day and at bedtime 15

Humidity is a removed here. AC keeps it at 70° F overnight and 72° F during the day. Heat won't cut on unless it's 62° F in the winter, and it runs only a couple of times over the entire season.

Off during the day and between 17 and 20 °C when sleeping depending on the season.

78 during the day is fine depending on the humidity. The real trick of AC is that it brings the humidity down so if it is like 90 out and the AC is running to hit 78 then it is fine. But if it's like 83 so the AC barely runs then 78 starts to feel sticky and unpleasant.
- Multi-stage equipment helps a ton. I hate how people tack mini-splits on their homes like AutoZone hood scoops, but their dehumidifier function is awesome in the shoulder seasons.
  
  I am seriously considering getting rid of central air and doing like a 5 zone mini split system, partially for this flexibility, but also to save space over the centralized air handler, which takes up a bunch of space in the basement of like to reclaim.

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.

About 72 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 is fine if you aren't moving around much. 74 otherwise.

I do 69 in winter because its close enough to what I want and funny. summer it depends on humidity. I often just keep it a bit below the temp outside because if you draw away humidity even low eighties is not bad.

My wife likes us to suffer....

70F, all year round. Cuz that's basically the perfect "room temperature."

72 in the winter, 69 in the summer

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.

23 all year round

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

71 in winter
70 in summer

69 F
;)

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.

72/65 in the winter 78/70 in the summer. I know we should keep it cooler in the winter, but I just really hate being cold.
- Are these cool/heat numbers?
  
  Day/night

During the cold season
20°C, 18°C at night and when away
During the warm season
23°C, 25°C when away

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

Heat to 69 in the winter, cool to 74-76 in the summer.

When I visit the US I find that I usually set it in the mid to high 60s for optimal comfort.

Here's January of this year. San Francisco, so pretty moderate weather --- typically don't run heat during the day, and low 60s at night (if at all) during the winter. Large temperature gradient throughout house, typically.
South facing windows gives kitchen and living room a greenhouse effect, particularly in the winter, hence the large daily temperature swings:

72°F in summer / 64°F in winter

80f / 26.6c

18 c - 23 c.

In summer it's off and in winter 20,5-21℃ at daytime and 17℃ at night.

17-20 C

63/77 all year.

Year long lowest possible to keep whatever fluids are in the radiators flowing. Not off but not too on either. And then open windows to regulate temperature.
My building is hot OK...

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.

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