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Me a french canadian from quebec almost paying noting for the electricity
The estimate from the province electricity provider (Hydro-Québec) is $2040 a year so 170 monthly
That was my thought, if it is 82 I'm not sleeping. I had to sleep about a month ago with no power and it was horrible. No fan, no CPAP, just fanning myself with a paper. Luckily I sleep in the basement so at least it wasn't 90.
Where in Texas? My electric company has this recommendation
“Set your thermostat at 68º to 70º during the day and 60º to 62º at night. Setting your thermostat back by 10º can save 15% on your heating costs.”
I've been trying 72 instead of my usual 71, and I always wake up in a puddle of rank BO sweat. How on earth is this possible? Not to be crass, but surely people sleeping at 82° are sleeping alone, right? Think about working up a sweat with a partner and then trying to go to sleep. I'm having trouble breathing just imagining it.
It's actually not that bad if you have two things going for you.
Low humidity.
And good airflow.
If you don't have both of those things then yes, it's absolutely miserable and I'm not getting any sleep.
That being said my AC is set to 68 at night.
From the US Midwest, I go between 24 and 20.
People tend to adapt to their climate over the years, so I’m always going to like it a little warmer than you. If I had to guess, this image is from Texas, where that’s still a bit warm as they’re trying to get people to save energy, but it shouldn’t be unbearable if you’re used to it
Just wondering, do you have ceiling fans / any circulation? I moved from the northeast at one point to a warm region and I now keep the thermostat about 7 degrees warmer, but the main difference is I have ceiling fans so it’s not nearly as noticeable.
Honestly, it can get pretty cold where I live and even during a snow storm the thermostat doesn’t usually go above 70° F (21.1° C). I’m not sure what this is.
Nah I live in Florida and it's hot as Satan's testicles outside and I work in construction even tho it's set to 68 normally it's 72-75 in the house, hottest part of the day it'll creep up to almost 80 in the house due to no shade in the area
I actually keep it around 69 in the summer as well. Especially at night, I can’t imagine the cretin who recommends keeping your space at fucking 82 when trying to sleep. Even in winter, where temps for me can hit -40
I’d die trying to sleep at 77. Just can’t do it. Even with just a thin sheet, I start to get night sweats at 70.
For me, colder the better. We keep it at 69 year around, but in the summer, only cool the bedrooms to save money on the electric bill. If I had it my way, we would keep the whole house about 65 in the winter.
Even when it’s colder than a witches titty in a brass bra outside. Mine never goes above 74* degrees unless my wife gets her chilly little hands on it. Probably post brass bra. I’ve heard sleeping in cooler air helps with sleep.
If you sleep with the thermostat set to 82 degrees, there is a better than good chance that you have a double digit amount of dead animals plastered behind the drywall in your basement.
82° whilst sleeping would be so uncomfortable! When it's 70° in my apartment, I start to sweat. I keep my temp at 65° and turn it off when I go to bed or leave for something.
AC units aren't generally designed to run for huge temperature differentials.
The HVAC guy looks in the ASHRAE book to see what the ambient temperature is supposed to be on a generally miserably hot day, and go from there.
So if for some reason, the climate jumps 15 degrees in a freak heat wave, the AC will not keep up and will freeze out.
Yeah let’s hold the ordinary citizens accountable for their thermostats instead of the billion dollar corporations that are doing way more to affect the climate and power grid
That's actually a false tip as it's easier for your AC to have 1 constant temp rather than to fluctuate.
Fluctuating the temp causes strain and increased power consumption on the AC when cooling down a building.
(Based on a 3 second Google search and some personal experience)
During a heatwave, that’s very dumb. If you start causing load shed, then congrats instead of living mildly uncomfortably at 78, you’ll be sweating at 98 degrees
Hell no. Some Airbnb tried this shit and we messaged the whole night to change it. I finally started pushing buttons to get it to work. It’s Florida cool that shit down.
I don't use AC (southern USA). Box fans all the way cuz. Saving the planet and keeping energy prices low for you! Plz don't Baker's Act me. LARPing as the 1920s
What the everloving unholy fuck?
25°C when you're home?
29°C when you're away?
27°C when you're sleeping?
Even in the winter, I normally have mine turned off.
Granted, our houses are built to keep the heat in, and between my pc and the xbox in the lounge, I usually have one, effectively, heat pump working at any given time when I'm home.
Doesn't usually drop below 16/17 in the winter with that; and even that's too warm sometimes.
And if your somewhere like, say, california: why do you even need central heating in the first place?
(OK, I've done some more research since I started writing this; and although, on average, it never drops below zero, there is the exception of at higher altitudes, or being above 41°North in latitude where this occours. I looked into this after seeing several comments saying "this/they must be in/from california." [source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_California))
I'm a nerd so Monday - Friday it's set as 70 from midnight to 8am. 72 8am-4 pm. But 76 4-8pm because my rates TRIPLE during that block of time. And 72 8-midnight. This is because we have 3 separate energy prices per block of time.
And weekends it's one price all day so it's locked at 72.
But we have a separate AC in the bedroom for 68 sleeping.
California energy costs are insane. I can't even work in my upstairs office past about 2pm.
Our home doesn't have air conditioning yet. When the temps hit the mid to high 90's during the day, it'll usually be in the low 80's inside. We keep a dehumidifier running, set at 40%, and ceiling fans.
It's comfortable enough for us and reminds us of growing up. It wasn't until the 1990's that central heat and air became common down here.
Notice the layout. It looks like what a news channel uses.
Who watches TV news?
The elderly.
Who likes absurdly hot thermostat temperatures?
The elderly
That may "conserve energy" but it's also an efficient way to burn up your AC. Set it to a temp and just leave it. When you adjust it up and down like that, it has to work harder to cool the house down. The money you save on electricity, you'll spend on AC repairs.
70° is too hot when you’re home and active around the house.
65° is too hot when sleeping, much less 82°.
Why would you heat your house to 85° when you’re not even going to be there?
This is a prime example of companies not caring about the truth so long as they get money.
Because I'm a student that can barely afford electricity in the summer, my thermostat stays on 80 F. With a ceiling fan, and an stand oscillating fan, it's tolerable enough.
Thankfully where I live it always drops below 60 at night even when we have 100F temperatures during the day. At night I just open a couple windows and keep a fan on low.
When it's 100 plus outside here, our thermostat never dips below 85 before midnight, so the air is always running no matter how high we would set it, but we have it set at 68 regardless lol.
It depends where you live, and if it's central air or wall unit. I'm outside NYC and I keep central air at 78 no problem. 78 outside would be a nightmare, but a central system regulating down to 78 vs the 90-100 outside feels perfect.
I can't imagine that ringing true further south, especially in humid areas.
Why would you make it warmer when you’re away?? I was always taught to turn absolutely everything off when you leave the house, no one’s using it anyway?
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Yet somehow my power bill would still be $300 due to some random charges for... reasons, or something…
💯
300us.. is that per quarter?
Monthly.
Me a french canadian from quebec almost paying noting for the electricity The estimate from the province electricity provider (Hydro-Québec) is $2040 a year so 170 monthly
170 is...more than nothing?
Hahahaha oh you sweet summer child
Happened to me last winter during a freeze snap. Charged me $40 more dollars for having my heater on in a 2 bedroom apartment.
82 while sleeping? WHAT?
I would not be successfully sleeping in that.
That's like sleeping in a sauna. 😂
That was my thought, if it is 82 I'm not sleeping. I had to sleep about a month ago with no power and it was horrible. No fan, no CPAP, just fanning myself with a paper. Luckily I sleep in the basement so at least it wasn't 90.
This is FOR sure California.
In Texas they’re telling us to help out by just turning it off entirely. Mine will stay at 72 max.
Where in Texas? My electric company has this recommendation “Set your thermostat at 68º to 70º during the day and 60º to 62º at night. Setting your thermostat back by 10º can save 15% on your heating costs.”
South of SA. ‘Bout an hour out.
Oh Tejas
That’s weird. AEP doesn’t have any recommended temps to set it at so it must be your distributor recommendation not the provider.
That’s for heating. This is for cooling
This is regarding air conditioning, not heating
Who heats their house to 68°?
I...think a lot of people? Do you think that's high or low? But also: >Setting your thermostat back by 10º can save 15% on your **heating** costs.
For me that's low And I missed the heating part, that's my B
Whoah for real? That's wild, where are you from? I usually heat mine to 60 at night and 62-64 during the day.
Well here in Oklahoma when the heat currently is in the 95°+ 68° is pretty cold
Texas had a stupid, inefficient electric grid
Pretty sure you mean HAS :)
I would be dying of heatstroke if I tried sleeping in 82 degrees.
I've been trying 72 instead of my usual 71, and I always wake up in a puddle of rank BO sweat. How on earth is this possible? Not to be crass, but surely people sleeping at 82° are sleeping alone, right? Think about working up a sweat with a partner and then trying to go to sleep. I'm having trouble breathing just imagining it.
 I know who loves to have that temp….
It's actually not that bad if you have two things going for you. Low humidity. And good airflow. If you don't have both of those things then yes, it's absolutely miserable and I'm not getting any sleep. That being said my AC is set to 68 at night.
Thing is you need it colder when you are sleeping
They must mean with no blankets, a fan on and laying on a bag of Costco ice.
What are the Celsius equivalents? All three looks like pure hell to me
25.6° when home 29.4° when away 27.8° when sleeping
As a finn, all of these seem hellish like wtf. I've got 21 during summer and 18 during winter, that's optimal.
Most people dont have airconditioning here so I have it on whatever the sun thinks it should be.
That definitely wouldn’t work for me. That mean I’m at -11° in the winter and 37° in the summer 😅
From the US Midwest, I go between 24 and 20. People tend to adapt to their climate over the years, so I’m always going to like it a little warmer than you. If I had to guess, this image is from Texas, where that’s still a bit warm as they’re trying to get people to save energy, but it shouldn’t be unbearable if you’re used to it
I live in Texas. I will become a terrorist if I have to sleep in an room that’s 82° 73 during the day and 69 at night for me.
Just wondering, do you have ceiling fans / any circulation? I moved from the northeast at one point to a warm region and I now keep the thermostat about 7 degrees warmer, but the main difference is I have ceiling fans so it’s not nearly as noticeable.
Same man my room is in natural temp so 16 at winter and 32 at summer. Please help, I am melting.
In South Africa I set the AC to 22 when I'm home and off when I'm not...I assume this a thing to stave off the icey winter cold outside?
Honestly, it can get pretty cold where I live and even during a snow storm the thermostat doesn’t usually go above 70° F (21.1° C). I’m not sure what this is.
That is pure hell. I usually set temps between 19 and 21 depending on the season.
that's hell
Nightmare, we keep it 21 here at all times
21 the entire time or ill fucking kms 😂
68° year round
73 to chill, 70 to wind down, 68 to sleep.
I would be sweating through my shirt in your house.
Same
You should probably see a doctor about that.
Based
65° year round*
This is the correct answer.
bro what? you got penguins around or something?
Nah I live in Florida and it's hot as Satan's testicles outside and I work in construction even tho it's set to 68 normally it's 72-75 in the house, hottest part of the day it'll creep up to almost 80 in the house due to no shade in the area
Bro I feel you! Orlando and I keep it 69° (nice) year round. If I’m cold I put on some shorts, when I go to sleep, it’s perfect
NC here. People dealing with humidity will understand.
Oh ok😊
What I noticed is that keeping a constant temperature is cheaper then having it fluctuate
Right, bring it down and keep it down or my ac will run non-stop for an hour to get cool again
69
Nice
Lol I’m for real tho, 70 and I can feel the difference 68 and I have to have a blanket
I actually keep it around 69 in the summer as well. Especially at night, I can’t imagine the cretin who recommends keeping your space at fucking 82 when trying to sleep. Even in winter, where temps for me can hit -40
I run warm normally and 82 would never allow me to sleep. I’d be horrible to live with if that was normal climate conditions in the home.
Just got back from AC free France I’m going to have mine set on 68 until further notice
I'm a 79 at home, 83 away, 77 asleep I'm in Florida and frugal.
I’d die trying to sleep at 77. Just can’t do it. Even with just a thin sheet, I start to get night sweats at 70. For me, colder the better. We keep it at 69 year around, but in the summer, only cool the bedrooms to save money on the electric bill. If I had it my way, we would keep the whole house about 65 in the winter.
Even when it’s colder than a witches titty in a brass bra outside. Mine never goes above 74* degrees unless my wife gets her chilly little hands on it. Probably post brass bra. I’ve heard sleeping in cooler air helps with sleep.
I be sleepin at 69
I'm gonna go turn my thermostat down to 67⁰ just for having seen this.
Your house should be a consistent 69-73 maybe 74 or 75 when it’s hotter out but never higher
I guarantee Al Gore's doesn't look like this
I sleep with 62° and turn it to 68° for when I’m gone
If you sleep with the thermostat set to 82 degrees, there is a better than good chance that you have a double digit amount of dead animals plastered behind the drywall in your basement.
Depends where you’re living. When it’s 100 degrees outside and like 80% humidity, 80 and dry feels nice and cool.
I live in the south. It is always humid and there is nothing worse than swamp ass.
Nothing like a midday walk in a suit and tie in southern summer weather 🥴
Temp V
Yea .... I'm at 68° bro
78 80-82 74
72 all day.
I’m from Europe, will someone please tell me what the fuck is going on
I cannot sleep on freedom units.
Hahahaaaa for the first time in 4 years I have working ac and you can pry it from my cold clammy sleeping hands
82 when I'm sleeping? Sleeping? Laying in bed, soaked in sweat, didn't couldn't sleep. No thanks.
Why are y’all heating the house for your ghosts?
Had to convert to sensible scales.. 27°C while sleeping? I'd wake up drenched. NOPE.
My dad like’s to keep it at 80. 🤦
82° whilst sleeping would be so uncomfortable! When it's 70° in my apartment, I start to sweat. I keep my temp at 65° and turn it off when I go to bed or leave for something.
House is 70 to 72. I have an Eight Sleep that keeps the bed around 85.
This HAS to be California logic.
I like to sleep in the cold 84° is wild and I live in Florida
65
AC units aren't generally designed to run for huge temperature differentials. The HVAC guy looks in the ASHRAE book to see what the ambient temperature is supposed to be on a generally miserably hot day, and go from there. So if for some reason, the climate jumps 15 degrees in a freak heat wave, the AC will not keep up and will freeze out.
My house is at 68 lol. It's 101 outside where I live right now. 78 would kill me.
My room stays at 70. Because i like not sweating to death while i sleep.
A/C is a luxury
last time my thermostat was set to 78, I was down with the flu and felt like I was freezing
Can someone explain this in Celsius
Go ahead everybody, sleep at 82 degrees
78 F - 25.5 Celsius 82 F - 27.7 Celsius 85 F - 29.4 Celsius Now I get it. 29 C is raw. Ngl
I keep it 64 in the house. But I’m also that guy that wears shorts in 30 degree weather so 🤷♂️
Its forbidden to even go near thermostat in my house
How's about some fortune 500 companies do a little less polluting and the majority of us can keep cool with our AC?
74/75/76 otherwise go fuck yourselves... Not putting my Thermostat to 85 you crazy?!?!
I'm a little warmer blooded that a lot of guys I guess but that isn't happening. I like 71-72F for sleeping and like 73F during the day.
Yeah let’s hold the ordinary citizens accountable for their thermostats instead of the billion dollar corporations that are doing way more to affect the climate and power grid
I don’t have a/c
74 max, 75 and I'm a sweaty mess when I wake up.
That's actually a false tip as it's easier for your AC to have 1 constant temp rather than to fluctuate. Fluctuating the temp causes strain and increased power consumption on the AC when cooling down a building. (Based on a 3 second Google search and some personal experience)
70f while I sleep and all day, every day.
All of those are absurd, 68° all year around. Perrrrfect temp
Maybe for the winter time 🤣
During a heatwave, that’s very dumb. If you start causing load shed, then congrats instead of living mildly uncomfortably at 78, you’ll be sweating at 98 degrees
70 unless I take a trip somewhere. Then it’s 85.
20degrees Celsius. Because fuck freedom units
Did some European come up with this idea?
69°F
Hell no. Some Airbnb tried this shit and we messaged the whole night to change it. I finally started pushing buttons to get it to work. It’s Florida cool that shit down.
I’m fairly certain HVAC specialist would not approve of this
I don't use AC (southern USA). Box fans all the way cuz. Saving the planet and keeping energy prices low for you! Plz don't Baker's Act me. LARPing as the 1920s
What the everloving unholy fuck? 25°C when you're home? 29°C when you're away? 27°C when you're sleeping? Even in the winter, I normally have mine turned off. Granted, our houses are built to keep the heat in, and between my pc and the xbox in the lounge, I usually have one, effectively, heat pump working at any given time when I'm home. Doesn't usually drop below 16/17 in the winter with that; and even that's too warm sometimes. And if your somewhere like, say, california: why do you even need central heating in the first place? (OK, I've done some more research since I started writing this; and although, on average, it never drops below zero, there is the exception of at higher altitudes, or being above 41°North in latitude where this occours. I looked into this after seeing several comments saying "this/they must be in/from california." [source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_California))
68-72 depending on the time of year thanks. Screw being hot, I can’t sleep above 75 degrees
72 during the day 68 at night.
25 celsius is fine. Anything above that isn't.
Why put the heater higher when you’re away…?
anything over 40 is too hot, yall crazy.
I live in NY, set to a constant 62 lol and off while im at work
Can't sleep with anything higher than 64.
I'm a nerd so Monday - Friday it's set as 70 from midnight to 8am. 72 8am-4 pm. But 76 4-8pm because my rates TRIPLE during that block of time. And 72 8-midnight. This is because we have 3 separate energy prices per block of time. And weekends it's one price all day so it's locked at 72. But we have a separate AC in the bedroom for 68 sleeping. California energy costs are insane. I can't even work in my upstairs office past about 2pm.
68 steady. Fuck the heat.
Anything over 60 and I die.
I have my thermostat set at 58. Of course I don't have an air conditioner. When it gets really hot I move down to the air mattress in my basement.
I get overheated trying to sleep above 70. Don't care what anyone tells me, I pay for my utilities and I'll be keeping my thermostat at 65 at night.
64 or its fucking trash
Our home doesn't have air conditioning yet. When the temps hit the mid to high 90's during the day, it'll usually be in the low 80's inside. We keep a dehumidifier running, set at 40%, and ceiling fans. It's comfortable enough for us and reminds us of growing up. It wasn't until the 1990's that central heat and air became common down here.
freedom units
Notice the layout. It looks like what a news channel uses. Who watches TV news? The elderly. Who likes absurdly hot thermostat temperatures? The elderly
78 while you’re home, are they insane. I can’t sleep when it’s above 74
That may "conserve energy" but it's also an efficient way to burn up your AC. Set it to a temp and just leave it. When you adjust it up and down like that, it has to work harder to cool the house down. The money you save on electricity, you'll spend on AC repairs.
Who turns the temperature UP to sleep?!
70° is too hot when you’re home and active around the house. 65° is too hot when sleeping, much less 82°. Why would you heat your house to 85° when you’re not even going to be there? This is a prime example of companies not caring about the truth so long as they get money.
These are all 10° too hot.
whole thread of pussies here LMAO
Me in the UK: "Why are they heating their homes when they're not at ho.... Ohhhhhhh"
I keep my temp at 65 F
Jut set my house on fire why don't you....
74°, coldest 72°
68!!!!
Bro sleeping in 82 degrees is like a rotisserie chicken
Never under 70
How can you sleep at 82?
77 degrees full time in Florida with fan on at night.
79 all day in the summer, and off at night once it cools down outside.
can someone convert those units to units that make sense?
Wait, are you not home while you're sleeping?
69 or 70 (Nebraska)
Because I'm a student that can barely afford electricity in the summer, my thermostat stays on 80 F. With a ceiling fan, and an stand oscillating fan, it's tolerable enough.
67 summer. Heat at 62 in the winter.
74 all day
Thankfully where I live it always drops below 60 at night even when we have 100F temperatures during the day. At night I just open a couple windows and keep a fan on low.
When it's 100 plus outside here, our thermostat never dips below 85 before midnight, so the air is always running no matter how high we would set it, but we have it set at 68 regardless lol.
Tea drinker here, what's this in ºc?
69 F not joking
Thank God I live off grid and control my own power production.
But we should all have electric cars. Makes sense
Everything's jacked up ten degrees freedomheit wtf Edit: I sleep at 68 or 9. Forgot about the question lol
Depends on where you are. In a dry climate like Arizona, 78 is comfortable. In the Midwest, it would have to be around 70 to feel the same.
So may I ask, is California consuming more power than it can make?
who the hell sleeps at 82 that would be unbearable 😂
68-70 F
62 while sleeping 69 while home Off when I’m away
18C / 64F
I got mine at 75 
It depends where you live, and if it's central air or wall unit. I'm outside NYC and I keep central air at 78 no problem. 78 outside would be a nightmare, but a central system regulating down to 78 vs the 90-100 outside feels perfect. I can't imagine that ringing true further south, especially in humid areas.
Sleeping at 82°? That sounds like a great way to sweat through your pillow and have nightmares all night.
Why would you make it warmer when you’re away?? I was always taught to turn absolutely everything off when you leave the house, no one’s using it anyway?
Who in the FUCK is keeping their thermostat anywhere above 72°
65
82 while sleeping is nuts
Bro... electric cars running off of wind power is the future...
72 is room temp... 69 for the bed 😉
68
70° and don’t touch it. Heat is 68° in the winter
Imagine if they had built power plants instead of listening to environmentalists.
70 in the winter, and 60 in the summer... granted the ac blower freezes below 70 in the summer and it becomes a sauna...
Lol I "raise" it to 74 and it's still too hot.
50 for sleeping and at home
Naww 70 when home, 69 sleeping and 83 when I'm away.
Why would one have the thermostat on while being away?