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 keep mine on 64F room temp and hover around that. I use fans in the heat and portable heaters in the cold. But I heard keep it just below 70 in the winter and just above 70 in the summer to have a better bill.
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.
74F in the winter. In the summer I usually leave the A/C off and use fans, but if it gets above 90F I’ll let it run for a few hours before bed.
I seriously don’t understand how people farther north of me survive the cold. And I live in Atlanta, so there’s a lot of them.
Ours is a variable speed compressor so during the summer, it is set to 76 during the day when my wife/kids are there and set to maintain humidity under 50% which allows overcooling by 2 degrees. We run at 70/69 at night because our youngest doesn’t sleep well with the fan running in our room so I have it cooler to keep from soaking the bed with sweat.
I agree that 78°F is way too high to be a confortable sleeping temp, though being in a country where residential AC isn’t really a thing and inside temps at night often are higher than that in summer… you get used to it, it’ll just never be fun.
My ideal sleeping temp is like 15°C but even if I had AC that seems too wasteful so I’d probably settle for 18-20
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.
71 in winter
70 in summer
-40 so I don’t have to specify which temperature scale I’m using.
Usually around 18-19, 15-16 overnight
I only have heat. So in the winter I usually set it to 65°F, then my wife sets it to 68°F. Then she sets it to 70°F. Then she sets it to 72°F.
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.
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.
Humidity is a bitch 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.
As cold as the other people in the house will let me. I have rarely lived anywhere with functioning central heat and air (and have never liked it when I did), so generally I use window units and a cunningly devised system of curtains. I don’t care if a hallway or the bathroom gets hot, so long as the bedroom and kitchen stay cool, y’know?
In the winter I almost never use heating, except for a small space heater I just take room to room with me, and one that I run while in the shower.
