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?

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    It gets over 110f so we keep it at 80 in the summer. We have double pane windows, a newer ac as well. 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.

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      1 month ago

      Where are you?? I live in an old crappy insulated 4bed house in VEGAS and in the summer I pay like 300-350 for AC that I set and forget at 72°

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        1 month ago

        Whats your kwh rate? Is it 60c or more? Cause thats the main cause. Theres a metric ton of solar being installed last year or so.

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          1 month ago

          60c? You’ve gotta be talking about peak rates in like DTLA, surely?

          You’re telling me your base rate is 60c/kwh?

          NV Energy charges me 10c/kwh

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                1 month ago

                Thanks friend.

                The city itself is thinking of making making its own power company. We are having record number of businesses leave. So its a brutal time. It doesnt help with the whole tarrif situation and parts becoming hard to find (like solar/inverters/etc…).

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                  1 month ago

                  I imagine a lot of residents are leaving too. I figured it was mostly real estate inflation but knowing that about the PG kwh price… that must also be a massive consideration

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      1 month ago

      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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    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

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

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

    During the warm season
    23°C, 25°C when away

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        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.