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Those who live in >90°F / 32°C areas, what do you keep your AC set to?
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DarknessTear
Banned
I can't breathe in the heat so I make my family suffer with 71-72.
This, minus the water spray bottle. Even a window AC unit usually uses ~1600 watts while a fan is only 70-90 watts.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
68 degrees. Occasionally 65.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Alabama
68-70 average.
Back around my college days it was set at 65 year around.
68-70 average.
Back around my college days it was set at 65 year around.
Pretty similar climates, last summer the air condition broke. A week without AC in July, I hated life
nabe_shogun
Member
I live in Arizona, and the house is set to 77°F (25°C). I've also been using the A/C on the house since about mid April.
Nostremitus
Member
22 to 26, short bursts so it's not on constantly.
cartographer
Member
76-78 most of the time. If it's too muggy then lower, especially at night.
It's about 95 degrees here now and will only get hotter. So yeah, AC is a must, and I just spent 5k on a new one last year. The energy savings should pay for itself over the next 5 years, it's that much of an improvement.
Anyway, my settings:
At night: 74 but with a ceiling fan on in my bedroom.
During the day: Off if I'm out of the house, 78 if I'm home
If I'm away for days / weeks: 82 - I was told by a workman not to let the temperature stay above this for the sake of my walls / furniture
Nothing brings me back to my childhood more powerfully than a couple of days without AC. It's worth it for that reason, and to remember what 'normal life' as a kid used to be. I'm fucking softer as an adult than I was as a child, jesus.
Anyway, my settings:
At night: 74 but with a ceiling fan on in my bedroom.
During the day: Off if I'm out of the house, 78 if I'm home
If I'm away for days / weeks: 82 - I was told by a workman not to let the temperature stay above this for the sake of my walls / furniture
Nothing brings me back to my childhood more powerfully than a couple of days without AC. It's worth it for that reason, and to remember what 'normal life' as a kid used to be. I'm fucking softer as an adult than I was as a child, jesus.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
Fuck 32c every day would be hell. I start sweating like crazy when it's 20c...T-shirt weather for me is anything above zero.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
That's both extremes? Here we drop to -10F in the winter and have at least one week where it's 110 in the summer.
nabe_shogun
Member
I would freeze to death wearing a t-shirt in 0°C, lol. I'll usually wear a light hoodie until it gets to about 75° (24°C). Then long sleeves until about 90°F
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Fixed.
I don't know how you folks on the eastern half of the state where it gets really humid do it. Do you all just never wear jeans/pants during the day?
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
72 Degrees here in Florida. Like, if I actually lived in a State that gets a dry heat, I could see myself putting it a little higher, but Florida is too fucking humid for me to try that, or to go without. Crank it up to 85 when I'm out of my Apartment.
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Dreadnought
Member
Georgia. Have it set to 65F/18C
Chezzymann
Member
70 degrees 24/7 in houston from may to september. I know its environmentally unfriendly but its insanely hot here and I'm not fond of coming home to a 90 degree house and waiting for it to cool down. Also we have a dog
This right here. In Georgia.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yeah I bought a fan cause last week it's just too hot. That shit stays on full blast all day.
South Florida and we run it around 70' but if there's a nice breeze we open up the windows. I would like it a little cooler but my wife is anti-AC.She gets mad if I leave it on anything below 70' over night.
Growing up my dad had the AC on arctic blast everyday even in winter. I hated it.
Growing up my dad had the AC on arctic blast everyday even in winter. I hated it.
megarockexe
Member
At this smoldering 90°+ weather, the best we got is a fan here. I wish I could have the luxury of a real AC at home. I'm always sweaty and sticky and nights are awful.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I always find these threads meaningless. Not all thermostats are the same, not all houses are built the same, and not all thermostats are placed in the correct sections of the house.
I've been to houses that have it set to 69, and it's adequate and comfortable. I've been to houses where 74 is chilly. I have a new house (Central FL) and it's always set to 77-78 when we're home. 79-80 when we are not.
And I have a thermometer gauge that reads it correctly in numerous rooms, especially at the thermostat location. In other houses, the readings are all over the place (poor HVAC vent balance) and often times the thermostat is in a warmer part of the house, so the AC constantly runs and thus is required to be kept at lower levels. So my 77 could be another person's 73 - huge difference, and also a huge difference in electric bills.
Basically, these threads are meaningless, but fun.
I've been to houses that have it set to 69, and it's adequate and comfortable. I've been to houses where 74 is chilly. I have a new house (Central FL) and it's always set to 77-78 when we're home. 79-80 when we are not.
And I have a thermometer gauge that reads it correctly in numerous rooms, especially at the thermostat location. In other houses, the readings are all over the place (poor HVAC vent balance) and often times the thermostat is in a warmer part of the house, so the AC constantly runs and thus is required to be kept at lower levels. So my 77 could be another person's 73 - huge difference, and also a huge difference in electric bills.
Basically, these threads are meaningless, but fun.
Same.
As a kid i once spent a week in Jacksonville Fl, we had to sleep on a screen in porch in a house with no AC. Between the heat and the water bugs shaming into the screen like B-52s, it a wonder i didn't go insane.
Escape Goat
Member
Im in Dallas and I have the windows open all day. Feels good man.