Hot or Cold?

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:52 am

At our Up North villa, during the winter months my Wife & I play the "turn-the-heat thermostat dial game"! She is always cold at 70 to 72 degrees where I like it set, and She turns it up to 75 to 78. Eventually I turn it back down!

Conversly, at our Southern villa where it is always hot/humid, She likes the A/C set on 68 to 70, and I like it on 75 to 78. (Go figure)

"HOT or COLD", how to others handle it without quibbling? :wah:

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:34 am

I like the thermostat set on 67 degrees at my winter villa. I turn the thermostat off at my summer villa, which is actually the same place as my winter villa. :wah:

I read once that 67 degrees kills germs that spread cold and flu, so I keep it set at that. I get sick once a year for 2-3 days, so I guess it works (?)

My cat would prefer it on 80 degrees, but we compromise. I fluff a pillow in the corner of the couch for her, throw a blanket on it, and she tucks herself in. I wear a sweater, and slippers around the house to keep warm.

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:52 pm

A Karenina wrote:

I like the thermostat set on 67 degrees at my winter villa. I turn the thermostat off at my summer villa, which is actually the same place as my winter villa. :wah:

I read once that 67 degrees kills germs that spread cold and flu, so I keep it set at that. I get sick once a year for 2-3 days, so I guess it works (?)

My cat would prefer it on 80 degrees, but we compromise. I fluff a pillow in the corner of the couch for her, throw a blanket on it, and she tucks herself in. I wear a sweater, and slippers around the house to keep warm.

Sounds like you have good plan working for you! Good for you!!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:21 pm

89% of the time it's hot as blazes down here, so i like it set on "meat locker". when my honey came over from England on his last trip he turned the AC off inadvertantly, and we almost had our first row (they have no AC over there and it was freezing him)...well he says he was never so scared in his life and he will never do that again! must have been the gun.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:21 pm

I read somewhere once (sorry can't quote!!) that 72 is optimum temp for

human comfort.

My husband and I usually keep the heat down to 68 during the day and off

at night just because of the expense. In the summer if/when it gets hot

he boils and I just come alive... I was raised in the middle of the great

Sacramento Valley and am used to and LOVE heat. We do try to use fans

in the summer placed strategically and it almost always gets cool enough

here at night to sleep.

Sometimes being cold can be a symptom of a thyroid problem or anemia,

and being too hot can be hormonal changes in older women.

:-6

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:25 pm

Thermostat games are always the norm in business offices. The guys wearing suits are almost always warmer than the females wearing short sleeved blouses etc. Up and down all day long, untill finally, building maintainence set the sucker on 70 and locked the thermostat so no one could mess with it. I have always maintained that it's easier to put on a sweater or jacket to stay warm, than stripping off your clothes to get cool.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:14 am

cars wrote: At our Up North villa, during the winter months my Wife & I play the "turn-the-heat thermostat dial game"! She is always cold at 70 to 72 degrees where I like it set, and She turns it up to 75 to 78. Eventually I turn it back down!

Conversly, at our Southern villa where it is always hot/humid, She likes the A/C set on 68 to 70, and I like it on 75 to 78. (Go figure)

IMO 70+ is a bit too warm indoors.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:35 am

posted by ladycop

(they have no AC over there and it was freezing him)...

Not so we call them windows

greydeadhead · Post by **greydeadhead** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:21 am

Well.. during the winter when it gets chilly (15-25 below) 65, maybe 68 during the day.. anything warmer than 60 at nite is too uncomfortable for sleeping. During the summer, just open all the windows. Guess I must be coldblooded or something. When it gets up above 75-80, I start melting...especially if the humidity is up there too....