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What temperature do you keep your thermostat at? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by sudoroot@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have your windows open in winter in Chicago? In a single family home your pipes would or rather could freeze in winter. In an apartment depending on how warm the neighbors get their place and heart can radiate through walls that might work. In the summer though Damn that would get warm.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do! I am on the first floor of the building and get direct sunlight between 4 and 5pm from May to July. This keeps the place cooler in the summer, it's like a cave. Then in the winter, my unit sits on top of the boiler room for the building so I have heated floors. It's really not so bad and a feature of my exact unit.

Last week with the 100+ was hard