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I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house’s HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There’s no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I’m about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There’s no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I’m about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I’m in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don’t use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they’re in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
Closing vents and doors helps.
You shouldn’t. Blocking vents is bad for your blower motor as your constricting the system and putting unwanted wear on the blower motor.
You can do it. But you may end up damaging your hvac system and wearing out some parts much faster then normal.
I have two types of vents:
- floor vents - to send central heat to all the rooms
- Ceiling vents - to send inside air outside
I can’t see any problem with closing one of those types of vent
Again you’re constraining your blower motor by doing so. It’s added wear and tear. It won’t break over night but you will require repairs faster then if you didn’t touch the vents.
Do want you want. It’s your property. But this is similar to someone constantly leaning on their breaks when they are driving.
I think you misread my comment. I wasn’t talking about closing vents attached to a blower
What other vents could you possibly be talking about if not hvac vents?
Window units are loud AF.
Running a dehumidifier has been the best thing I’ve ever done though. I believe I’m from a more humid environment though.
This is why water beds are amazing
Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.
Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can’t really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)
The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you’ll stay warm with a blanket
Sometimes I can’t take a bath cause the moving water makes my head spinny. I can’t imagine how bad the water bed would feel lol. I’d probably have mid night breaks for puking.
That’s a misconception for water beds.
High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress
The idea of the old crappy 70’s water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.
You aren’t laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.
It’s more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.
Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I’m displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn’t even feel it because the water underneath them doesn’t change.
Thing must weigh like a ton and that without the gut. How do they even assemble this stuff? And whole thing sounds like an accident waiting to happen
Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.
A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.
Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.
So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.
As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren’t going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.
Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it’s not going to leak until you put weight on it.
Don’t forget the forest fire smoke!
The worst is when the fan makes the sweat too cool so I throw my blanket on, only to sweat more, throw it off, and repeat the cycle.
I too struggled with finding bedding that was not too heavy, breathable, but warm. I picked up an alpaca wool blanket from eBay and use that with a top sheet and the ceiling fan. It’s pretty amazing.
What did the llama parent say on the first day of school?
Alpaca lunch for you
reasons #3742, #3755 and #6278 of why i hate summer.
man i wish it was summer already
I’m most cozy at an air temp of like 30°C :( It barely ever gets this hot here in Germany
easier to warm up than cool down imo
Clothes-wise sure, we put it 100W at rest, we need only capture that.
I really don’t get why you can still buy cooling-only air conditioners when any heat pump can work just as well in either direction
Every aircon should heat or cool the indoor space as required
Then it becomes easy to cool or warm at ~400% efficiency
As s far as window units go, one of the biggest losses is in insulation around the window.
Those that have window units do so because there’s really no alternative.
Would bi-directional window-mount ACs be effective heaters, given how much loss a window unit sees through drafts?
If it works for cooling there’s no reason it wouldn’t work for heating. If they need to stand in the air path for cooling they will need to stand in the air path for heat
bug repellent, my beloved
Makes sex worse.
You didn’t want to mate with that mantis anyway, trust me, bro. I’ve got your back.
I hate the heat so much.
You’re not going to like the future then
That seems to be true on many subjects these days…
I know 🥲
Opening the windows during sleep sucks in winter tho. That’s the only downgrade for me
Disagree! Sleeping with the windows cracked open in the winter is amazing.
When I was in high school my roommate insisted on opening the windows and putting a box fan in them, cranking it to full blast. We’d go to sleep fully dressed lol.
I hated it at first, but honestly, I kind of grew to love it.
Haha, I sleep in a hoodie and my wife is baffled by it, she’s a furnace and couldn’t possibly.
I really enjoy having that hood, feels like I’m strapping into sleep time.
in exchange for almost never running it during the day: i turn my A/C down to like 68 F overnight and sleep like a baby.
Use anything but Fahrenheit, please!
lol no, that’s the most american thing about me and i refuse.
i literally use metric for everything else in my day job and overall life; but for temperature, Fahrenheit makes more sense to me. 100 F? deadly. 70 F? great. 50 F? chilly. 0 F? deadly.
This. Fahrenheit is by far the better temperature scale for talking about environmental temps
F makes it easy to describe how people feel, C describes how water feels.
i like this
Lol it’s not, it’s just what you are used to
0-100F is a base 10 scale that has inherent advantages. It’s not just “what you’re used to” any more than you get used to base 10 anything, including all of the metric system. (Which should be redesigned around base 12, but that’s a whole different rant).
Beyond that, I find that 1 degree Celsius is too wide of a measurement for a lot of things, especially in the kitchen. My sous vide steaks get cooked at 130F, and that tends to be +/- 1F with the accuracy of the sous vide. If I said it’s at 54C +/- 1C, that’s not quite right. 54C is closer to 129F, so it’s almost outside the accuracy range already. Plus, that 1C of accuracy covers 2.2F, so the finish temperature could be anywhere from 126.8F to 132.2F. Way outside the range, the steak does come out different at those temperatures, and the lower end of that is potentially unsafe (though that’s a complicated topic, as well).
But then if I say 54.4C +/- 0.45C, now I have to use more numbers (since numbers with zeros at the end, as in the F example, are easier to remember) with more decimal places to get to the same thing. Dropping down to milligrade or whatever is now using a prefix that’s uncommon with this unit of measurement.
But then, I also want to use grams to measure everything out in the kitchen. Ounces and cups are crude for no real advantage.
Metric’s ability to convert between units easily isn’t particularly useful in the kitchen. Unless you’re doing some molecular gastronomy shit, that is.
Purity is not a virtue. Being able to use different measurement systems in different contexts is an advantage.
If it had advantages over being what one was used to, it would be more popular. It’s not, so it couldn’t be.
0-100F is not base 10 at all, it’s just what you grew up with. I grew with Celsius and I can easily feel the difference in a few degrees. TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?
Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C. Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that’s just being anal
I use F in the kitchen a lot because most of my appliances work in that and also because I basically learn to cook until I moved to the US, so again, what you are used to
TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Well this isn’t really an accurate comparison. If they know an exact temperature, they would say it in both measurements. But they don’t. So “in the 80s” is the perfect range. Preparing for 80 degrees is almost identical to how you would prepare for 89 degrees. There’s no metric equivalent. The “20s” is way too big of a range. 20 vs 29 is a huge difference. Also, with it being base 10, you don’t really need more information. 80 is 80% hot. Think of the hottest weather you’ve been in. 80 degrees is about 80% of that. And before you say “I’ve been in 115 degree weather”. Yeah, so have I, I lived in arizona, and 115 is honestly not too much different than 100. After 100 it doesn’t matter much. Same with below 0. But the 0-100 range, each degree matters quite a bit
0-100F is not base 10 at all,
Umm, yes, it is. Zero and a hundred, and convention is to break up temperatures like “it’s in the forties”. It’s all base 10.
TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Is it going to be 27C all day long? Is it going to be between 80 and 90 all day long? One is more likely than the other, and even if it’s 78 in the morning, that’s fine, doesn’t make much difference.
Here, C is overly precise for the task.
Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?
Because 130, a number with a zero at the end of it, is easier to deal with than 54.4.
This has an effect on UI, as well. Two buttons for going up or down. With F, you can do that in 1 or 0.5 degree increments. In C, it’d have to be 0.1, and you’re pressing it more to get to where you want.
Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C.
Which will be wrong. Steak turns out differently with slight changes in temperature around this level. European recipes will have to go to 54.4C.
Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that’s just being anal
No, it’s using sous vide properly. Precision is why you do it.
You expect us to not notice how you skipped over the entire 0-50 range there? “It’s just better for everyday temps” my ass.
Also 100F is not deadly if you got water and aren’t working hard, and neither is 0F if you got appropriate clothing.
And don’t get me started on how y’all pretend that measuring temperature has to be on this stupid ass scale “because it goes to a hundred where I live” but then y’all count your school grades (which are entieely made up and would cost literally nothing to change) to 3.8 or whatever the fuck.
The 4.0 grading scale is that much of a trigger for you? A,b,c,d,f->4,3,2,1,0 then average them.
sorry i live a happy well-rounded life and don’t know what any of this means.
527 °R
What spawn of Satan is R? I wish I never learned of this eldritch horror.
Freedom™ Kelvin 🦅
Ok I guess I asked for it
Me only being able to sleep while blasting the AC to the point where it’s cold enough that I need a blanket: Pathetic
I’m so cold all the time. I think there’s something wrong with me. I’m comfortable in the blazing heat when everyone else is complaining.
My blood pressure and heartrate are always low, so I suspect that may be related.
Yep, I have blood circulation issues (POTS) and I’m perpetually cold unless it’s 25+°C out then I’m thriving.
This is a comfortable temperature range for me as well. It feels physically painful for me to be cold.
It was a beautiful 3 chilly days over here, now we went back to our regular daily hell 🫠🫠🫠
i love wearing my slutty clothes tho
i see 20 year old gals bare legged in winter and wish i was that courageous with my sluttiness
Tougher than the troops!
