With my parents, each room has its own thermostat so you could set it to whatever you want for bedrooms and stuff. With my boyfriend we pretty much agree.
The rooms are all more or less independent in terms of temperature control here, but at the old place… well, I may or may not have taken the thermostat apart one day while I had the place to myself and made some adjustments such that their preferred setting aligned more with my preferred temperature.
I live with a pack of hot blooded people so in the summer months it stays relatively hot in the house where I often have to sit in my car with the a/c on to cool off else visit malls, movie houses and restaurants… In the winter months it sometimes get hot damn!! The courteousness of my family is to wear thin clothes all year round thus the constant heat wave.
While I live alone and (mostly) control the thermostat, I end up with my apartment being warmer than I’d like most of the time because in order for some of the other apartments in my building to be comfortable, my place (and a few others) end up having to be too warm.
We use a VR-500 Heat Control System to control the heat (single pipe steam) and hot water. The VR-500 monitors the temperature in six of the apartments, outdoors and in and around the boiler. It is Internet connected and gets weather predictions from the monitoring company and “learns” how the building reacts. Overall, it works quite well and I estimate we are saving at least $2k per year on our heating bills.
I live in a household of four, but the three cats don’t get to vote. When it’s cold, though, they tend to sleep on the bed with me because of the heated mattress pad. I suppose you can call this a ménage a cat!
@docflash I’ve got a few of these. Let’s you keep the heat set low without constantly being covered in cats. They still crawl under the covers at night though.
I was so glad to finally move out on my own. The rest of my family likes it far warmer at night than I do. I know when my siblings were little they tended to kick the covers off, so then they’d get cold. Now my parents like to keep the house around 78°F at night. It’s just impossible for me to sleep like that. I prefer to keep it cooler and bundle up under the covers. If there’s not a heavy enough cover or the ambient temperature is too warm I have a hard time sleeping. My brother lives with me now, but we’ve compromised at 74°F and I keep my fan on, which I guess is more energy efficient anyway, but a little noisier.
One of the best things is my nest and thus my ability to change the temp from bed. I tend to keep the house cold in winter and warm in summer. Right now temp set at 66 overnight. When getting up i will crank heat and then it will be warm for getting out of shower then chill back down when out of house ect.
I come from a long, honorable line of radiator sitters. The rest of us would turn the heat up, dad would turn it down. Then I lived in a house with 5 housemates. I bought a room heater and used it. Then I lived alone. King of the thermostat. Then I was the parent. King of the thermostat. Given a choice - 76-78 during the day winter or summer, in the 60’s at night. Of course for years I took people camping for a living, worked on boats. The only heat came from the sun while working. Range of temps I had to deal with: -60 to 108.
I am LMFAO at the people who are so proud of themselves for turning the heat DOWN to the 60s or 70s at night. I did not even know this was a thing. I’ll turn it UP to the low 60’s during the day. But why anyone would have the heat on at night, never mind set so high, i can’t even imagine.
@compunaut I don’t even know how to respond to this. The only way for pipes to freeze over one night is if you opened all the windows. And it was January
@unksol I do like them. They are similar to our old 7-day programmable thermostats, but more flexible - and no “AI”. I can adjust them from my car, while at work, or from in bed. I put one in last year, and liked it, so I replaced the second one this year. They were about $100 each.
We have a heat-only system, so you’re supposed to have a C wire, but I haven’t gotten around to adding that to the second thermostat. We’ll see how long the battery lasts once it’s cold and the heat runs more frequently.
I live alone, so I’m good with it. Usually anyone I’ve lived with or visits likes it colder, which I’m fine with. I just try to save money when I’m by myself. If I’m moving around a lot doing cleaning or what not, I’ll turn it colder.
During the “winter” I feel a little bad for my dog. She gets cold at night if I let the house dip into the mid to low 60s. (Not very often in Florida) I’ll put a blanket on her, but she eventually gets up and shifts it off. I’ve tried putting a dog jacket on her so it’ll stay put, but she’s not too fond of it. Maybe I’ll try a heating pad this winter, if it ever gets that cold.
@Pantheist I’ve never seen her do that. She’ll drag blankets or towels around to make another makeshift bed, but she’d be shivering laying on top of a blanket sometimes. I don’t know if she’s just never gotten cold enough to figure it out.
I’m thinking instead of using some kind of heating blanket that I’d be worried about, maybe I should make a tent frame type thing over her bed area. That should trap some of her body heat in, while she can still get up and turn around without throwing anything off.
@RiotDemon Sounds like a good idea, especially if you make it so there’s a bit hanging down near the entrance so she can get in and it still will trap heat.
She rages if it’s too hot. It is better too wear layers than to incur her wrath
The recent election is easier to come to terms with than setting the thermostat in this house.
Recently, upon returning from a Scout weekend campout:
Son: Why did the thermostat go to college?
Me: I don’t know.
Son: To get a higher degree.
@Pavlov well apparently our thermostat dropped out in the 8th grade.
I live by myself so it is not an issue, but at work it seems like it is a constant discussion.
With my parents, each room has its own thermostat so you could set it to whatever you want for bedrooms and stuff. With my boyfriend we pretty much agree.
Is it above freezing? Then it might be too warm.
The rooms are all more or less independent in terms of temperature control here, but at the old place… well, I may or may not have taken the thermostat apart one day while I had the place to myself and made some adjustments such that their preferred setting aligned more with my preferred temperature.
I live alone, so I rule the temperature settings in my little world.
Whatever. I’m right. I win.
(Ok not always. Even when completely solitary.)
/giphy solitary
I live with a pack of hot blooded people so in the summer months it stays relatively hot in the house where I often have to sit in my car with the a/c on to cool off else visit malls, movie houses and restaurants… In the winter months it sometimes get hot damn!! The courteousness of my family is to wear thin clothes all year round thus the constant heat wave.
While I live alone and (mostly) control the thermostat, I end up with my apartment being warmer than I’d like most of the time because in order for some of the other apartments in my building to be comfortable, my place (and a few others) end up having to be too warm.
We use a VR-500 Heat Control System to control the heat (single pipe steam) and hot water. The VR-500 monitors the temperature in six of the apartments, outdoors and in and around the boiler. It is Internet connected and gets weather predictions from the monitoring company and “learns” how the building reacts. Overall, it works quite well and I estimate we are saving at least $2k per year on our heating bills.
I live in a household of four, but the three cats don’t get to vote. When it’s cold, though, they tend to sleep on the bed with me because of the heated mattress pad. I suppose you can call this a ménage a cat!
@docflash I’ve got a few of these. Let’s you keep the heat set low without constantly being covered in cats. They still crawl under the covers at night though.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00403MXBC/ref=twister_B00451AMQ2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
@unksol …as if being covered in cats is a BAD thing!
@docflash it’s hard to type with them on you when you work from home. It’s cute. But causes problems
I was so glad to finally move out on my own. The rest of my family likes it far warmer at night than I do. I know when my siblings were little they tended to kick the covers off, so then they’d get cold. Now my parents like to keep the house around 78°F at night. It’s just impossible for me to sleep like that. I prefer to keep it cooler and bundle up under the covers. If there’s not a heavy enough cover or the ambient temperature is too warm I have a hard time sleeping. My brother lives with me now, but we’ve compromised at 74°F and I keep my fan on, which I guess is more energy efficient anyway, but a little noisier.
One of the best things is my nest and thus my ability to change the temp from bed. I tend to keep the house cold in winter and warm in summer. Right now temp set at 66 overnight. When getting up i will crank heat and then it will be warm for getting out of shower then chill back down when out of house ect.
@CaptAmehrican And I’m sure the Chinese government loves your Nest too; At least the spammers of the world do…
Well, when you live alone, one person is in charge. My internal thermostat is bipolar, though!
Because I’m in charge. Period. And I live alone.
… soooo aloooooone…
@PocketBrain
All by yourself?
I come from a long, honorable line of radiator sitters. The rest of us would turn the heat up, dad would turn it down. Then I lived in a house with 5 housemates. I bought a room heater and used it. Then I lived alone. King of the thermostat. Then I was the parent. King of the thermostat. Given a choice - 76-78 during the day winter or summer, in the 60’s at night. Of course for years I took people camping for a living, worked on boats. The only heat came from the sun while working. Range of temps I had to deal with: -60 to 108.
When you live alone, you can sit around in your underwear and set the thermostat to whatever you want.
I am LMFAO at the people who are so proud of themselves for turning the heat DOWN to the 60s or 70s at night. I did not even know this was a thing. I’ll turn it UP to the low 60’s during the day. But why anyone would have the heat on at night, never mind set so high, i can’t even imagine.
@unksol Pipes might freeze at night. This is a thing
@compunaut I don’t even know how to respond to this. The only way for pipes to freeze over one night is if you opened all the windows. And it was January
We both agreed to have it warmer in the evenings than we used to. So now it goes up to 64° from 3pm till 8:45pm.
@sligett sensi. Nice
@unksol I do like them. They are similar to our old 7-day programmable thermostats, but more flexible - and no “AI”. I can adjust them from my car, while at work, or from in bed. I put one in last year, and liked it, so I replaced the second one this year. They were about $100 each.
We have a heat-only system, so you’re supposed to have a C wire, but I haven’t gotten around to adding that to the second thermostat. We’ll see how long the battery lasts once it’s cold and the heat runs more frequently.
Enough that there’s a lockbox installed over the thermostat. Well, at least there was until she found the hammer. Now there’s just a lockbox frame.
@JerseyFrank
Surprised the lockbox frame is still intact.
/giphy lockbox
@f00l You’ve misunderstood what the hammer was to used for.
@JerseyFrank
I understood. Giphy might have misunderstood. But Giphy is still funny.
(Woulda used power tools myself )
@f00l No, no, no… the hammer was wielded as both a tool and a weapon.
@JerseyFrank
Exactly.
My apartment building has centralized steam heat. We can’t control the temperature, so why argue with each other? We have a super to yell at.
/video
for us it’s 62 in the day during the winter, 50 at night. We like snuggle weather. During the summer we agree it’s too fucking hot.
If I’m moving around I’m ok at whatever temp. If sitting still it’s hard to stay warm with the thermo set too low.
I dunno how to get self better acclimated.
Can deal with heat if have fan and not dehydrated.
There is only a little Discord over the thermostat in our house.
I live alone, so I’m good with it. Usually anyone I’ve lived with or visits likes it colder, which I’m fine with. I just try to save money when I’m by myself. If I’m moving around a lot doing cleaning or what not, I’ll turn it colder.
During the “winter” I feel a little bad for my dog. She gets cold at night if I let the house dip into the mid to low 60s. (Not very often in Florida) I’ll put a blanket on her, but she eventually gets up and shifts it off. I’ve tried putting a dog jacket on her so it’ll stay put, but she’s not too fond of it. Maybe I’ll try a heating pad this winter, if it ever gets that cold.
@RiotDemon She won’t just nose her way under a blanket you put near where she sleeps?
@Pantheist I’ve never seen her do that. She’ll drag blankets or towels around to make another makeshift bed, but she’d be shivering laying on top of a blanket sometimes. I don’t know if she’s just never gotten cold enough to figure it out.
I’m thinking instead of using some kind of heating blanket that I’d be worried about, maybe I should make a tent frame type thing over her bed area. That should trap some of her body heat in, while she can still get up and turn around without throwing anything off.
@RiotDemon Sounds like a good idea, especially if you make it so there’s a bit hanging down near the entrance so she can get in and it still will trap heat.
There’s no discord at all my wife pays the electric and gas bill.
@cranky1950 Same at our house: What’s hers is hers and what’s mine is… also hers.