What is The Hottest Temperature You Can Stand in Your Home?

Giantsfan1954 said:
May I ask is it a hormonal thing with you?
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It sure is. At this stage of my treatment for prostrate cancer I get powerful hormone shots every six months that take my PSA and my T level down to zero. The specific version of prostrate cancer that I have is a very vigorous, dangerous one that feeds on PSA.
I have virtually all of the symptoms that women experience during menopause. As a 77 year old man, it is a real eye opener. I get my last shot in early Sept and it will take my body about 10 months before I start producing male T hormones again. In the meantime, I am pretty "harmless", .... but alive.
 
This house is the first time I've had central air conditioning, or any AC at all for that matter. I hate being hot and always have. I''m thankful though that we never have a problem with humidity.

I do like fresh air from open doors and the use of ceiling fans though. Both doors open give us nice circulation until it finally gets too hot inside and outside. Too hot inside for me is 78 and that's when I flip on the AC to take it down to 74.
I dread when we have periods of the Santa Ana devil winds because they are like a blow torch and the house must be closed up 24/7.
That's when I'm most grateful for central AC.
 
Camper6 said:
Quick conversion estimate for Celsius to Fahrenheit. That you can do in your head.

Take the C and multiply by two and add 30.
Not one hundred accurate conversion but close enough.
18 x 2=36 +30= 66F

When it comes to temperature can anyone feel one or two degrees different than actual?

I like warm temperatures so I'm still comfortable at 85 or so. I don't have air conditioning. Just a ceiling and window fan.
Winter for me is an exercise in survival tactics. Low humidity. Always cold unless I get the humidity up.
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Thanks for this, Camper!
 
We have 2 zone AC. For the main parts of the house, daytime AC is set at 78, but I sometimes don't turn it on until it gets into the mid-80s in the house. During winter the heat goes on 65.

When it's warm we set the bedroom air at 76, along with a ceiling fan on low. There's also a second fan that blows directly on me (hubs doesn't love too much moving air). Bedroom heat is also set at 65 during winter.
 
asp3 said:
It only occasionally gets hot enough and stays hot enough for the house to be uncomfortable. Most evenings it starts getting down into the 70's by about 6 or 7 so we can open up the house and cool it down before going to bed.

However there are nights like last night were hit was still in the 80's outside at 9 PM so the house was probably 85-90 by the time we went to bed. We definitely used the bedroom AC last night.

Also most mornings it's in the 60's but this morning it only got down to 72 so the house is still rather warm. It's supposed to hit somewhere around 101 today. I'm not looking forward to it.
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None of the homes we ever owned in the Bay Area had air conditioning-we had a total of 7 homes between San Bruno south to Woodside. Not very common to need it,thanks to that lovely Bay Area fog! Now we are in Lake County and need it for sure. Supposed to be 108 today-and possibly even hotter tomorrow!
 
Hubby was just telling me last night that one of his co-workers said they keep their a/c on 24/7. I can`t even imagine what their electric bill must look like. We never leave it on overnight.We do sleep with the windows open and have a door out to the side yard,so this past (hot) week we have been sleeping with the door open.We are going to put a security screen on it once we close escrow (in the next couple of weeks) but don`t want to do it til we actually own the place. So the other night,hubby was soundly sleeping and I was awake listening to a bat screeching outside the door.I finally got up and shut it because I kept picturing it flying in and landing on my head lol. Think I`m gonna pick up one of those screen thingys you can put up-I think it velcros on.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Hubby was just telling me last night that one of his co-workers said they keep their a/c on 24/7. I can`t even imagine what their electric bill must look like. We never leave it on overnight.We do sleep with the windows open and have a door out to the side yard,so this past (hot) week we have been sleeping with the door open.We are going to put a security screen on it once we close escrow (in the next couple of weeks) but don`t want to do it til we actually own the place. So the other night,hubby was soundly sleeping and I was awake listening to a bat screeching outside the door.I finally got up and shut it because I kept picturing it flying in and landing on my head lol. Think I`m gonna pick up one of those screen thingys you can put up-I think it velcros on.
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I should mention the security screen we are going to install is not for security from humans,but to make sure we don`t have raccoons,coyotes or mountain lions enter our bedroom.Oh,and now bats....🦇🦇🦇
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
I should mention the security screen we are going to install is not for security from humans,but to make sure we don`t have raccoons,coyotes or mountain lions enter our bedroom.Oh,and now bats....🦇🦇🦇
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I keep mine on 72 degrees all summer. My electricity bill for this past month was $65.00.
 
mlh said:
I keep mine on 72 degrees all summer. My electricity bill for this past month was $65.00.
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That's not a bad bill for having the temp at 72--I had mine at 74 and my bill last month was 72.00
 

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