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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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[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] dumptruckdan@artemis.camp 3 points 2 years ago

75 summer, 71 winter. Would love to conserve more but my body is a picky jerk.

[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I program mine to run less when we're not home. On top of that I set a "super cool" routine on weekends when it's going to be hot outside.

You see, the a/c is most efficient when it's cooler already. So in the last hour of darkness in the summer I set it to run down to 68 or so. Then it doesn't have to run as long to do that. Then it doesn't have to run again for several hours as the temperature is set back to 72.

I also clean the outside coils annually and put up a sun sail so that the outside unit is shaded all day. This has helped save a lot of money along with the thermostat programming.

[–] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I usually do 19C in the winter, and 24C in the summer, my parents do 22C (72F?) year around

[–] p_diablo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Our heater is set to 60F in the winter.

If i want it warmer than that (usually) it's up to me to keep the wood stove fired and fed!

[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Conyak@lemmy.tf 3 points 2 years ago

72 during the day and 68 at night.

[–] Poseidon2023@artemis.camp 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

68F-72F in summer 66ish in the winter. In live in the South East United States and humidity is a bitch

[–] Poseidon2023@artemis.camp 2 points 2 years ago

With ceiling fans on in every room

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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The simplified version

Summer: Day: 76°F (24°C), Night: 73°F (22°C)

Winter: Day: 78°F (25°C), Night: 73°F (22°C)

[–] LovelyA72@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

70F set it and forget about it until i woke up freezing at the middle of a night.

[–] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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 2 years ago

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

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[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

There is no one right temperature — it depends on the humidity. In the winter I often have heat at 71. In the summer 68.

[–] ptman@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

75 in the summer and 68 in the winter

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

76F in the summer, 72F during the day in the winter, 68F at night in the winter.

[–] Torty@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years 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

[–] MisterChief@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

Winter 70-72 all the time.

[–] penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm in Denver Summer: 80° in the day, 70° at night Winter: 73° in the day, 63° at night

[–] krellor@kbin.social 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Usually 72° F / 22.22°C. But my wife likes to turn it down on the really hot days were the AC doesn’t quite keep up. I try to explain the AC is running all out, turning it down does not help. And we certainly do not have one of the high end units that can throttle, it is either on or off.

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[–] craigevil@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stays on 73F year round , AC and heat. Average bill runs around $80.

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[–] Zaros@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] 2d@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

That sounds awesome!

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