The inside of buildings should be kept around 80°F during the summer. amirite?

You want to live in a terrarium

by Anonymous 8 months ago

My apartment gets hotter than 80 in the summer... but I don't have ac. It's fine though like I don't find it to be that bad

by Anonymous 8 months ago

OP has no idea what real cold is like

by Virginie68 8 months ago

I live in the midwest, it can get into the negatives during the polar vortex here.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Yeah, I'm in Canada and we had days last year that dropped to -50⁰C.

by Bitter-Bumblebee 8 months ago

That's clearly insane.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Why are you cold in a 70-72 degree room?

by Anonymous 8 months ago

And yet in the winter buildings are sauna temperatures.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I hate this way more than buildings being too cold in the summer. Full disclosure: I fat.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

as someone who lives in a humid climate? NO

by erdmanmustafa 8 months ago

How about 80 but dehumidified? I am with OP here, the shock of going from humid heat to a relatively chilly indoors can't really be good for us.

by jgrant 8 months ago

I hate when AC is too cold. It sucks to have to bring a sweater around with you in the summer. But I set mine to 78, which is warm for most people. I think 80 might be too much for me

by Anonymous 8 months ago

20c or 68 in freedom units. I'm a human not a lizard.

by Mental-Bass-9995 8 months ago

Goddamn! Maybe if you work outside in the desert or something. That would suck for sleep

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Nah, I live in South Florida 80°F is way too hot. It's super humid and you're sweating 30 seconds after you walk outside 9/10 months out of the year. So no, way too hot

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Singapore air conditioning is insanely cold and outside is death hot. It's why I never visit.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

That's not a bad idea so that people start acclimatizing to higher temps They're comming anyway

by Linwood66 8 months ago

I disagree, I enjoy going into cold buildings to cool off during summer.

by No_Signature3020 8 months ago

80 F might be high, but 76 F - 78 F might be feasible for office buildings. All those indoor spaces cooling to 72 F has always seemed wasteful.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

All those indoor spaces cooling to 72 F has always seemed wasteful. wasteful?

by Recent_Proof5338 8 months ago

Wasteful in terms of energy consumption. There's a significant fuel savings in raising an indoor temperature setting from 72 F to 75 F or 76 F. Minor changes in apparel can make most people just about as comfortable either way. And as OP remarks, that different makes it less jarring to head outdoors.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

i have an ac unit and 2 tower fans running in my room right now. currently 60°f in here. they'll be on through winter

by Recent_Proof5338 8 months ago

That's not entirely true. Most commercial buildings operate with a centralized air conditioner and individual zone boxes with either electric or hot water re-heat. The target temp out of the HVAC unit is usually around 52* - 55* and the air needs to be heated back up to get back into the 70s. Sometimes, this can be accomplished by simply mixing air from the return plenum, but once you start to get your setpoint too much higher than the discharge air you need the re-heat and will ultimately use more energy.

by shane 8 months ago

Yes I agree. Hot to cold to hot to cold all day. It's horrible. Why must we live this way. It's exhausting.

by Dangerous_Touch_4906 8 months ago

That's India climate. Not okay for the rest of us. 😅

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Time to get used to it. I say this to myself as much as you. I hate the heat but goddamn if it don't just keep getting hotter and hotter with each passing year. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Room temperature for many of us is 72 Fahrenheit or 22 Celcius.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

That's what I prefer too but I can't maintain that in my rental home with no central ac in the summer and that's just going to get harder and harder to do. I'm trying to find other ways of staying cool as the summers get hotter and hotter in my region which has traditional been so mild most homes don't have ac.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Im in europe and my apartment is about 80 degrees in the summer, usually warmer than that

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I'd be dead. 😅 But I was also in skates as soon as I could walk, so my perception might be a tad biased. 😅

by Anonymous 8 months ago

no. too hot

by Recent_Proof5338 8 months ago

Let's go for 95 I want yall office mfs to feel how us who actually work feel lol

by Anonymous 8 months ago