Poll: "Room temperature."

[Brutal Peanut]

It becomes extremely hot around here in the summer time (113F at least twice a week - 98F-105F the rest of the days) . I keep my thermostat at 78F to 80F, to keep the price as low as I can without having to turn it off completely. Though the bill is still too high for my tastes. I turn on fans and keep the windows open in the early morning to air the house out. I close them again the closer it gets to mid-day. I've also replaced blinds with 'black-out' curtains. I'm considering also dressing the rest of the windows in the house, besides the bedroom, in foil or at least a thick paper - at least in the summer time. Yes, it can become that uncomfortable, even with air conditioning.

In the winter, I don't even like to have it on unless we have an over-night guest in the house. Even if it's a 'record low' for us here I tell my husband to build a fire in the fireplace, cook a nice hot meal in the oven and to put some more layers of clothes on (even though he turns into a nudist when he gets home so ANY clothes really). I tell him those things, just like my Father used to tell me. Wise, wise man. XD

 

[dyre]

76 F is a pleasant temperature. Your options are way too low!

I'm convinced you either live somewhere warm year round, or are an at home nudist. There's no way I could come home dressed for fall/winter (read: pants and a sweater) and sit around in 76 degrees in my sweater.

I guess if you insist on dressing like an Eskimo at home, you'd need to keep the temp below 76

 

[Dags90]

I guess if you insist on dressing like an Eskimo at home, you'd need to keep the temp below 76

Do your friends wear T-shirts in the winter? Or do they all just strip down when they come over to visit? Seems a bit awkward.

 

[Zipa]

21 oc , the correct setting for room temperature according to the heating industry in which I work.

 

[Zeren]

I like to keep my house 70F to 75F.

 

[chadachada123]

It actually varies in my household depending on the time of year.

It's around 80 during the summer, and around 70 during the winter.

Between the two seasons, it mostly consists of me bitching about it being too hot or too cold based on what room temperature I was used to.

 

[C F]

Eh, it's sitting at 77°F at the moment, but I'll be comfortable up to around 85°.

 

[dyre]

I guess if you insist on dressing like an Eskimo at home, you'd need to keep the temp below 76

Do your friends wear T-shirts in the winter? Or do they all just strip down when they come over to visit? Seems a bit awkward.

I guess they wear more layers (coat over a sweatshirt over a long sleeve shirt) and strip them as necessary. Not too many people wear sweaters here, as far as I've noticed.

And I only have friends over like once per week anyway.

 

[chadachada123]

I guess if you insist on dressing like an Eskimo at home, you'd need to keep the temp below 76

Do your friends wear T-shirts in the winter? Or do they all just strip down when they come over to visit? Seems a bit awkward.

The latter, actually, is the norm in the US (or at least this part of the US, Michigan, where 1/3 of the year is absolutely freezing).

When a new guest comes in, it's customary to offer to take their coat or at least show them where coats are hung (or say that coats can go anywhere), especially in winter.

Around the house, it depends on the house, but normal attire is shirts or hoodies, never full coats and rarely jackets unless the heating is broke.

"Sweaters" (unhooded) are a relative rarity, as hoodies are far more comfortable and easy to remove if zippered.

I note that your profile lists you as American, which makes me wonder what state you're from and what kinds of winters you have. In Michigan, our winters are, well, pretty damn cold, to say the least. Any attire suitable for outdoors would be absolutely horrendous to wear indoors for any notable length of time when the average outdoor temperature is below freezing but indoor temperature always at least 65 (but generally around 70 in winter). Edit: But I, myself, tend to wear hoodies outdoors even while it's below freezing, and generally wear them indoors as well because I'm lazy.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Between 21C-23C is perfectly fine. Something that escapes my co workers. I'm convinced that if our office was located on the surface of the sun someone would complain about being cold.

 

[Dags90]

"Sweaters" (unhooded) are a relative rarity, as hoodies are far more comfortable and easy to remove if zippered.

I note that your profile lists you as American, which makes me wonder what state you're from and what kinds of winters you have.

New Jersey. We don't have the worst winters in the U.S. (that "honor" probably belongs to North Dakota or something), but they're wintery. Snow, cold weather, salt everywhere.

I like sweaters for the winter. My duffel coat has an attached hood, and having to deal with two hoods is super annoying. Lighter crew or V-neck sweaters can be worn with a collared shirt for extra layering toastiness. I suppose a cardigan would work, but I have a narrow frame and they'd make me look sorta shapeless.

 

[Smiley Face]

I have it at 72 - a little warmer than I'd necessarily consider normal room temperature, but that's so that I'm nice and warm if/when I head outside or someone opens a window, because it's getting chilly now.

 

[Tinygiant]

I'm a "cold" person. If I could afford it/didn't have to worry about roommates' comfort, I'd keep a thermostat around 65 (Fahrenheit. Kelvin would be funny) year-round.

Seeing as I can't afford it/need to think about roommates' comfort, I try to keep it around 67-70.

 

[game-lover]

I don't know. I mean, we don't have thermostats or anything in the house so it could be whatever.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Thermo-what?

I haven't named my blanket...

 

[Bestival]

Every year I play a little game called "don't use the heater till November", and I was doing pretty well this year. But then I got sick so atm its at 20C.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I live in Florida, so "room temperature" at my house is about 78 degrees in the day, and 76 at night. I am /very/ happy when the temperature outside drops below that, since it means I can open the windows and cool down instead of going around wearing nothing but a pair of shorts trying to stay comfortable.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

STP (standard ambient temperature and pressure) is I think 25*C at 100kPa.

No, STP is zero C and 100 kPa. Room temperature and pressure is defined as 20 C and 101.325 kPa

Sorry, all of the answers are wrong. SLC is 25C at 100kPa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temperature_and_pressure#Standard_laboratory_conditions].

Only in Australia, and nobody cares what they think.

I can only conclude that we have read different parts of the same Wikipedia article. "An unofficial, but commonly used, standard is standard ambient temperature and pressure (SATP) as a temperature of 298.15 K (25 °C, 77 °F) and an absolute pressure of 100 kPa (14.504 psi, 0.986 atm)". I already thought it was 25C because I was told that was standard room temperature in school.

Your stat is one line below "NIST uses a temperature of 20 °C (293.15 K, 68 °F) and an absolute pressure of 101.325 kPa (14.696 psi, 1 atm)".

However, right after that is "The International Standard Metric Conditions for natural gas and similar fluids are 288.15 K (59.00 °F; 15.00 °C) and 101.325 kPa.[2]"

So I suppose its pretty much a matter of preference.

 

[lacktheknack]

I prefer the 15 degree range (C). I'd sooner be too cold than too hot.