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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WHAT THE HELL IS A FARENHEIT 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Programmed for 19C during the day and ramping up to 21C at night.
16C flat at all other times.
I generally try for 18-19c in winter, and I usually see 24c in summer, though the AC can bring this down to about 21 most of the time. With the AC off, it’s more like 26-28.
I’d keep the windows open more, but climate change has been causing massive wildfires where the air is too unhealthy to breathe…
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.
No, Americans call those heat pumps, never heard the term reverse cycle air conditioners.
Re-read my comment :) I’m saying that Americans call them heat pumps while other countries call them reverse cycle air conditioners.
Edit: I reworded it, hopefully it’s clearer now!
It’s weird in the USA because everything is so expensive, and you can still get air conditioners that can’t also heat the house. Heat pumps are standard in many other countries. In Australia, pretty much all of our ACs are reverse cycle, and you can get a mini split for less than $1000 fully installed.
In US. I can go to the store and grab a mini split for under $750 and install it my self. People get AC without heat because you have to get an emergency heater with it in most parts of the country anyways. Gas is cheaper as a general rule so it’s far more cost effective to get AC with a gas furnace. Places in Cali and Texas we just put in cooling only because they don’t ever use heat. Heat pumps are more the norm nowadays here with hybrid heat so your emergency heat can still be gas. In those below freezing times
I’m having a cheap Gree Flexx installed at the moment, and even it can heat down to -22F (-30C). People use them in Canada without heat strips.
I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area so it doesn’t get too hot nor too cold here. Very rarely goes above 86F (30C) or below 41F (5C). Good weather for a heat pump. We did actually use the old furnace last winter - it got colder than usual.
I’ve got 11.2kW of solar panels too, so electricity is much cheaper than gas for me :)
Sure lots of heat pumps can “heat” that low, you’re not getting very much heat though. I’d be surprised if they don’t have some kind of supplemental heat source. I didn’t see any actual engineering documents to see what the outputs are at those ranges. To heat a space you should have output temps minimally in the low 90F range. Some of the heat pumps now are heating the refrigerant seperately in those low temp conditions. So kind of cheating.
You guys can control the temperature in the summer?
Right? I’m over here looking at my thermostat set to Off.
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Europe.
Winter 20C/70F, but we only heat the bedrooms or rooms we mostly stay in. Kitchen, etc. can go as low as 10C/50F
Summer: no heating/AC at all. Open a window when cold air is coming inside. Close the windows when hot air is coming in. It’s never gone above 35C/95F, and that’s during a heat wave. Usually it’s 25C/80F max.
Sometimes when it’s too cold. You wear a sweater and thick socks. Sometimes it’s hot. Fan or live with it. Adapt our schedules accordingly, perhaps do groceries when it’s super hot or go on an errand that requires the car a drive so we can cool down in the supermarket/AC.
It’s never gone above 35C/95F
I think I speak for 99% of the people here when I say “FUCK THAT”
The climate’s fucked and inflation is rampant.
You’re frankly better off getting used to the occasional hot day.
It’s hot, but you get used to it.
I’m going out my damn mind trying to work out what I should set it at. I’ve been obsessively adding more and more temperature and humidity sensors around my living space to work out exactly what my idiot brain thinks is comfortable.
I don’t understand why 23C/50% makes me feel like I’m in the fucking Amazon rainforest one day, but on another I feel like I’ve got ice forming on my damn face like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining.
I’m this close to buying a ZigBee rectal thermometer. Core body temperature has to be the missing piece. (I suppose any ZigBee environment sensor can be a rectal one if I bite down on something first).
(Oh and lux, I wonder if lux levels tricked my brain but that doesn’t seem to correlate either!)
Make sure you get one with a flared base.
83F day 78F night. These temps are mainly chosen to not give my AC a heart attack.
During the winter I’m pretty hands off and will let it get down to 20-30F and just layer up next to a small space heater.
20 - 30F?! You have no water pipes??
If it does get down below freezing it’s usually not for long. And once I’m up and moving and have a space heater on its probably in the 50s by the afternoon.
I live in an RV - you kind of just work with the weather you get.
Not American. What’s a thermostat?
The electronic thing on the wall that controls the temperature of your heater or air conditioner.
older ones are often electrical, but not really electronic. they use a bimetal strip that bends due to changing temperatures, to complete a circuit at the point you set the slider. it’s actually a really fascinatingly simple bit of tech.
Mine growing up used a bit of mercury in a sealed vial mounted to that bimetallic strip.
I don’t! My windows are open all year here in Chicago.
Even last week when we had the 3 days of 100+ heat? When it’s above 85, I have terrible air circulation in my place and need to turn the AC on.
I was uncomfortable last week: made due with box fans, drinking water, and cool as it would get (warm) showers.
Today was lovely though
