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Alaskaball ,
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Somewhere between 15 to 20 during summer and Somewhere north of 25 during winter for me.

Whooping_Seal ,
@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

OhTheMoose ,

65° while I sleep, 68°-70° while I’m home, off while I’m not

LovelyA72 ,
@LovelyA72@lemmy.ml avatar

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

CoriolisSTORM88 ,

Mine is set at 80 degrees during the summer. During the winter it is at 60 or maybe 65. I live in an over 100 year old dog trot style house in Alabama with only attic insulation and the original single pane double hung windows.

zeekaran ,

You don’t have to live like that.

CoriolisSTORM88 ,

Even this way, $200+ per month electricity and gas bills are normal. I am working on making some wooden storm windows that should help. Still iffy on spray foam insulation, I’ve heard of older homes having moisture problems afterwards.

LanyrdSkynrd ,

I don’t have AC and haven’t really needed it this year. I’m way north in New Hampshire.

We keep the heat at 63-65f(about 17c) in the winter, but occasionally go up to 67 when it’s warmer out and the furnace doesn’t have to work as hard to keep it there.

Legendsofanus ,
@Legendsofanus@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Not American. What’s a thermostat?

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

Only God knows

andrewta ,

It controls your furnace and air conditioner in your house

andrewta ,

Google search would have answered that.

It’s what controls the furnace or air conditioner in your house. That way you can control how hot or cold your house is.

yata ,

That depends. For example in a lot of Europe there aren’t any air conditioners in houses, so it only controls heating.

DirigibleProtein ,

The electronic thing on the wall that controls the temperature of your heater or air conditioner.

juliebean ,

older ones are often electrical, but not really electronic. they use a bimetal strip that bends due to changing temperatures, to complete a circuit at the point you set the slider. it’s actually a really fascinatingly simple bit of tech.

PsychedSy ,

Mine growing up used a bit of mercury in a sealed vial mounted to that bimetallic strip.

juliebean ,

any idea what the mercury was for? something about getting the heat in and out of the strip faster maybe?

metheos ,

The Mercury is in a glass tube with two wires and the tube is attached to the bimetallic strip in such a way that the motion of the Mercury due to gravity as the strip moves will close the circuit between the two wires. The Mercury is just being used a liquid conductor.

PsychedSy ,

Yeah, sorry. It was the switch! Two wires on one side. When the capsule tilts from the strip/coil it makes the electrical connection.

juliebean ,

that is fascinating, thank you and @metheos for the elaboration. quite clever.

Stuka ,

Thermostat isn’t an American term.

idunnololz ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

21C in the winter. 23C in the summer. Well at least these are the settings during the daytime. During sleeping hours they are set to 19C in the winter and 25C in the summer.

russjr08 ,
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70F (21C) during the summer time, and usually its off during the winter (we just have the windows open, and might briefly use a space heater if its really really cold).

In fall and spring it just heavily depends on the day and how it feels.

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

18 in summer or off and 22 or off in winter

bagend ,

Thermostats are bourgeois American imperialist decadence.

Dr_Cog ,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

What a sad life you must live

WoofWoof91 ,
@WoofWoof91@hexbear.net avatar

sadness is bourgeois decadence

Alaskaball ,
@Alaskaball@hexbear.net avatar

At least he isn’t using the Adorno standard

LesbianLiberty ,

Living, itself, has become identified as an imperialist amerikkkan bourgeois decadence

Tankiedesantski ,

This is a trap to identify the Fahrenheit users for future re-education, isn’t it?

charlytune , (edited )
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My heating is set at 21°C (70F) for daytimes and 16°C (61F) for the night time, so it doesn’t come on at all during summer, and a lot of spring (UK). During winter when it gets colder out (like below about 6°C/43F) I will usually need to whack it up by a couple of degrees, or give it a little extra blast in the morning to warm up. Its an old building (late 1800s) and my flat has external walls on three sides, and a cold empty basement below, so it can get quite cold when the outside temperature drops.

Edited to make it clear i mean my heating thermostat, because I realised most people here are talking about AC and that’s very rare in homes here.

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Hah, thermostat

I’m the top floor apartment

My AC is set to 70f, it’s currently 82f inside at about 0100.

My bedroom is 85f

If it could do the job I’d have it set to 75f and ideally keep it there but unfortunately I have to set it to 70 because the area near (like within a meter) the AC gets cold enough to get it to kick off any higher while the apartment cooks

uralsolo ,

75F basically all the time, cooling only no heating. I also always turn it off at night and open all the windows/vice versa in the morning to save energy. I’m not a dad but this is totally a dad thing that I started doing when I turned 30.

This is in the southwestern US.

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