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Post by Georgina on Oct 30, 2009 1:49:13 GMT -5
What do you consider comfortable room temperature? If you use AC during the summer, what do you keep it at? If you use heat during the winter, what number is your thermostat at?
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Post by wheelspinner on Oct 30, 2009 5:08:14 GMT -5
We seem to hover around 20C most of the year.
On Black Saturday we had 50 people around for my wife's birthday. The temperature inside got up to 27C. We were pretty proud of that, since it was 47C outside and we'd had the AC and every fan we owned going flat out since breakfast time. That's the highest we've ever had it.
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Post by MacBeth on Oct 30, 2009 6:55:02 GMT -5
We do not have AC, no real need for it (with the occasional exceptional summer day), but the fans and good window and large trees placement seem to handle that pretty well.
We keep the heat in the lower 60s F when we are up and in the upper 50s at night (the blankets and lava-like body heat of 4 dachshunds make that a little warm sometimes). We do increase the heat more when the in-laws are over, but since siding the house a couple of years back, we have been able to lower the heat setting a great deal.
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Post by Peltigera on Oct 30, 2009 11:09:26 GMT -5
We have AC in our office and it is set at 20C - it never reaches that temperature as the office contains three computers, three or more people and the hot water boiler for the building. We occasionally get it down to 22C. The factory is just too hot. Comes from frying several tons of food each hour - then the hot fried food is moved around the factory for packing.
At home we have no need for AC. The heating is set at about 22C or 23C - Bestbeloved doesn't like wearing too much in the house. I frequently sit in a room with the door closed and the window open. My comfortable temperature is around 15 - 18C.
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Post by Georgina on Oct 30, 2009 14:51:00 GMT -5
That seems to be a consistent debate between the sexes, is it not, Peltigera? Right up until hot flashes start, then it's a whole new ballgame. I was confused because I generally have thermostats that have a Celsius read-out and, in my new place, it shows the temperature in Fahrenheit. Likely there's a button I can press, somewhere, that will change the read-out to something that makes sense to me, but meantime, without my default of 20C, I wasn't sure what to do. Then I became curious about what other people's choices are.
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Post by Peltigera on Oct 31, 2009 16:00:14 GMT -5
Hot Flashes? Not any more, thank God. I can well remember watching TV with my coat on and Bestbeloved suggesting we open the window to "let the heat out"!
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Post by MacBeth on Nov 1, 2009 7:52:31 GMT -5
I don't miss those at all, but I did enjoy the magnet that one of my staffers gave me that said "Those aren't hot flashes, they are power surges" ;D
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Post by Georgina on Nov 1, 2009 11:38:36 GMT -5
A woman who worked with a friend of mine would shout, "Tropical moment!" and dash outside into the snow. I've discovered that a little plastic patch takes care of a myriad of issues, including that weirdo memory loss thing and that I Think I May Really Hurt Someone Today thing. My office mantra now with grouchy people is, "If you don't knock that off, I'm going to slap a patch on your ass." ;D Those hot surges (because "flash" suggests they're quick") are pretty darn brutal. Especially when they happen at work and the 20-year-olds laugh at you. None of that helped my room temperature, though. I've found, on average, that of couples, men prefer lower room temperatures than women so there's a constant fight over the thermostat. Another of the joys of living alone.
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Post by Calluna on Nov 17, 2009 2:33:08 GMT -5
I like being warm, so in the summer, won't turn on A/C until the temp tops 80. I hardly ever turned on A/C this summer, the ceiling fans were enough to keep me comfortable. When I do turn it on, it depends on if I have fans or not. With fans on and the air moving, I can set it warmer, around 78 or 80 and be comfy. If I don't have fans, and the air gets still, then I need it down a lot lower, around 72 or 73.
For heat, I've been keeping it set around 68 during the daytime (though once in a while I crank it up to 71 or 72 when I feel chilled...usually just first thing in the morning somewhere between the coffee pot and shower), and 65 for sleeping at night. I can't go any lower than that without being unable to sleep from frozen toes. It's cooler on my lower level where my TV is, but I have a big comforter on the sofa there, and sometimes even get too warm under that. If it starts getting too chilly, I just run a little space heater to take the chill off the room rather than heating the whole house.
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