Too many options to poll-ise. It's clocks-back heating-on time of year. What do you have yours set to?
Mine's 20 degrees C (about 68F), because that's room temeprature :nerd:
This means it only comes on for a few minutes a day this time of year. As the thermostat's in the living room, mid-winter I sometimes have to zap it up a few degress to get the rest of the flat warm before knocking it back.
Usually 72F. This time of year we need neither heat nor cooling, normally. But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
21 deg. C here. I'm considering resetting it to 22, though (I LIKE the warm, although in these energy conscious days I guess that makes me :menace:.)
I don't have one of those fangled new temperature control thingys here.
18-19C. I don't like it when it's too hot indoors.
Which is funny, because there's little I like more than a really sweltering summer day.
70 F. And I don't like people touching the thermostat.
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:00:49 AM
Which is funny, because there's little I like more than a really sweltering summer day.
Given where you live, that's like what.... 23C? :P
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 07:02:52 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:00:49 AM
Which is funny, because there's little I like more than a really sweltering summer day.
Given where you live, that's like what.... 23C? :P
Trondheim will get upwards of 30C in the sun on a good summer. Gulfstream ensures relative warmth.
Though realistically, 25C is generally a scorcher, yes.
I enjoyed Texas immensely when I was there.
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:06:33 AM
I enjoyed Texas immensely when I was there.
Where in Texas were you? Saying "I enjoyed Texas" generically is like me saying "I enjoyed Europe" ^_^
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 07:08:02 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:06:33 AM
I enjoyed Texas immensely when I was there.
Where in Texas were you? Saying "I enjoyed Texas" generically is like me saying "I enjoyed Europe" ^_^
A fair point.
I will have to get back to you on that as we swept through texas in a real hurry which was a damned shame.
Edit: Looking at a map, I believe we passed through Houston and San Antonio as we took a rather southern route before heading into New Mexico. I BELIEVE we stopped off in Juarez (edit #2 or actually el paso, we never went into mexico though we DID get stopped by immigration and had a hell of a time).
Yeah, my real point is that summer in Beaumont, Texas for example is drastically different than summer in El Paso.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 07:10:19 AM
Yeah, my real point is that summer in Beaumont, Texas for example is drastically different than summer in El Paso.
I got it. I just had to stop and think.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 06:41:05 AM
But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
EL NINO!
Or something.
27º C is cool enough for me during the summer. I rarely use heating during winter (though my PC is always on and temps outside don't get below 0º C that often).
Also, you know what else bugs the living shit out of me? Fucking tree huggers telling me to set the thermostat down. FUCK THE EARTH.
When I take my 6am piss, I want to be WARM.
Never lived anywhere where I've used heating. In cars just have used it for a few minutes in the morning to get it warmed up. Had to use it hotels in Europe in winter but don't know what settings.
With air con I keep it on the low 70s.
I set it to 20 C in the summer. It doesn't actually manage to ever cool the room down that far, so I just run it until I'm comfortable.
21 - 22 C in the winter. Don't have airco for the summer.
70 to 75, for all seasons.
I like the mid 60's Cause I'm fat. But jeez you Euros really do like the cold.
Heat is on 65-70 degrees F. Or about 20 C which is 68F. A/C I use window units and don't really have thermostats on for them, but I use them sparingly except in upstairs bedrooms where it gets a lot hotter.
12 C
Quote from: Agelastus on October 08, 2009, 06:49:23 AM
21 deg. C here. I'm considering resetting it to 22, though (I LIKE the warm, although in these energy conscious days I guess that makes me :menace:.)
I have joined the "put a jumper on" brigade, but that's mainly because energy costs are so frickin' high these days.
Heating is 23C in winter, when I have lived in hot countries the AC has been set to 21C.
Quote from: Brazen on October 08, 2009, 08:13:06 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 08, 2009, 06:49:23 AM
21 deg. C here. I'm considering resetting it to 22, though (I LIKE the warm, although in these energy conscious days I guess that makes me :menace:.)
I have joined the "put a jumper on" brigade, but that's mainly because energy costs are so frickin' high these days.
Actually, I'm not as evil as I make out. The thermostat that controls our system was installed in the hall, which I
knew from experience was the coldest room in the house (what with the front door and stairs being there etc.) I wasn't asked my opinion, of course...
Unfortunately, despite twenty years of experience, the empirical evidence of the last two years seems to prove that far from being the coldest, the hall is paradoxically the warmest area in the whole bloody house. One feels cold in every other room in the house before the bloody heating turns on with it set at 21! :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 06:41:05 AM
Usually 72F. This time of year we need neither heat nor cooling, normally. But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
Resisted temptation to crank the heat, so far. Seems to get just warm enough during the day to keep the upstairs fairly comfortable throughout the night, though we have a space heater in Tommy's room just to be on the safe side. I actually hope it gets a little colder so I have an excuse to make use of the fireplace :)
Anywho, for heat I keep the thermostat at 68, and for AC I keep it at 72.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 06:41:05 AM
Usually 72F. This time of year we need neither heat nor cooling, normally. But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
Have you got one of those weird Yanqui central air thingies? Otherwise I'd have thought you could just leave it on overnight and it won't switch on unless it goes under the thermostat setting.
My place is above a couple who apparantly are always cold. I never turn the heat higher than 65 unless it is a Laramie deep freeze night.
Quote from: derspiess on October 08, 2009, 08:41:01 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 06:41:05 AM
Usually 72F. This time of year we need neither heat nor cooling, normally. But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
Resisted temptation to crank the heat, so far. Seems to get just warm enough during the day to keep the upstairs fairly comfortable throughout the night, though we have a space heater in Tommy's room just to be on the safe side. I actually hope it gets a little colder so I have an excuse to make use of the fireplace :)
Anywho, for heat I keep the thermostat at 68, and for AC I keep it at 72.
This pretty much exactly describes how I do it. In winter, i keep it warm enough that a sweatshirt or sweater is comfortable, and in summer cool enough that, with all the ceiling fans on, I am cool enough. So far, have not turned on heat since mid-April.
18-19 C.
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:09:10 AM
Edit: Looking at a map, I believe we passed through Houston and San Antonio as we took a rather southern route before heading into New Mexico. I BELIEVE we stopped off in Juarez (edit #2 or actually el paso, we never went into mexico though we DID get stopped by immigration and had a hell of a time).
Juarez used to be a great place to go but thanks to the drug war it is one of the most dangerous places in the world right now. Bizarrely El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States and they are right beside each other.
Quote from: Valmy on October 08, 2009, 08:52:51 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 07:09:10 AM
Edit: Looking at a map, I believe we passed through Houston and San Antonio as we took a rather southern route before heading into New Mexico. I BELIEVE we stopped off in Juarez (edit #2 or actually el paso, we never went into mexico though we DID get stopped by immigration and had a hell of a time).
Juarez used to be a great place to go but thanks to the drug war it is one of the most dangerous places in the world right now. Bizarrely El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States and they are right beside each other.
Whitey can do law and order.
Quote from: Brazen on October 08, 2009, 08:45:31 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 06:41:05 AM
Usually 72F. This time of year we need neither heat nor cooling, normally. But this has been an unusually cold year so we actually have the heat on late at night sometimes now. :(
Have you got one of those weird Yanqui central air thingies? Otherwise I'd have thought you could just leave it on overnight and it won't switch on unless it goes under the thermostat setting.
I have a multistage heat pump that provides central heating and cooling, yes.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 07:10:19 AM
Yeah, my real point is that summer in Beaumont, Texas for example is drastically different than summer in El Paso.
A wet heat vs. a dry heat?
Not all that drastic.
Now winter, is probably rather different. San Angelo (Not El Paso, but still very much west Texas) was butt-cold in the winter.
:huh: In my experience a humid summer feels drastically different from a dry one. Beaumont is in like the bayou country, right? I'm sure the summer is like New Orleans.
Depending on humidity (I'm just this side of having asthma), I usually set heating to 68-70 and air conditioning to 72-74.
My AC is set at 75°F for most of the year. Houston doesn't see much temperature variation.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 09:17:30 AM
:huh: In my experience a humid summer feels drastically different from a dry one. Beaumont is in like the bayou country, right? I'm sure the summer is like New Orleans.
Maybe it's just me. To me, when it gets to 90's and up, it's just "fucking hot". ;)
It's snowing outside. I won't turn the heat on.
68 to 70, of course the last week it finally died <_< , good thing weather has been ok and all the windows are open and the ceiling fans circulate the air good enough, which we do at this time of year anyway.
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2009, 09:47:29 AM
It's snowing outside. I won't turn the heat on.
Here too.
And since I don't live in an apartment I had to turn the heat on awhile ago. I keep the thermostat at 17-18C.
Quote from: Valmy on October 08, 2009, 08:52:51 AM
Bizarrely El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States and they are right beside each other.
Thanks to the Minutemen :P
http://www.txminuteman.org/
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 08, 2009, 09:11:25 AM
A wet heat vs. a dry heat?
Not all that drastic.
:huh: Humidity = the devil.
I set the heat for 64 in the winter and the A/C for 67 in the summer. If it feels cool in the winter than I just use my wood stove to heat up the family room.
Disco.
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
Eh. 72 or 73 in the summer, off or in the high 60s-low 70s in the winter.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 08, 2009, 02:43:17 PM
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
Given where you live, do you often *need* to turn the heat on?
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 05:18:07 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 08, 2009, 02:43:17 PM
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
Given where you live, do you often *need* to turn the heat on?
Speaking from somewhat further south, usually in December through February. Not to avoid death, of course, but to avoid discomfort.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 08, 2009, 02:43:17 PM
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
I was about to yell at Ide and call him a liar but then I realized I posted this! Oops.
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 05:18:07 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 08, 2009, 02:43:17 PM
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
Given where you live, do you often *need* to turn the heat on?
Yeah. It gets pretty cold here, like below 20 C. It even snows! :w00t:
Quote from: Caliga on October 08, 2009, 05:18:07 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 08, 2009, 02:43:17 PM
I think I like it at about 65 F. I hate heat. I rarely use it in the winter.
Given where you live, do you often *need* to turn the heat on?
I do.
Quote from: Korea on October 08, 2009, 08:57:40 PM
Yeah. It gets pretty cold here, like below 20 C. It even snows! :w00t:
What part of SC do you live in again? Like Spartanburg?
The idea of heating or a/c here in SF is foreign to me.