*seriously :)
Ok cool but can we talk about that picture or is it a painting of the family with giant feet? I need to see the whole thing so it can properly haunt my dreams. Seriously those are some fuckin stompers on them fuckers.
Me after moving into a house with a Nest thermostat. I could not figure why the temp kept going up.
Yeah but like, kids always be fucking with the thermostat… lowering that shit to 74 in the summer and raising it to 70 in the winter… I AM NOT MADE OF MONEY!!!
Cooling min is 78 Heating max is 68
If you have pets it may be wise to ignore the “When not home raise it 4-7 degrees in summer”
As a dad you will at some point spend way more of your time then you would like bitching about the thermostat
what kind of monster only cools to 74°?!
haha… I only cool to 78!
We do go a bit lower in the evenings during heatwaves though to help remove heat when it’s cooler outside than inside… but not a big enough difference for opening windows to help.
There’s a big difference in thermostats, 74 can be boiling hot in a building and cool in another. Especially if there are multiple floors.
Sounds like a skill issue on your end.
If your home is not comfortable for its inhabitants, that’s something to work on fixing, rather than coming down on your kids for the terrible crime of… being uncomfortable.
They didn’t design your home, or choose it. And they have no control besides maybe fans and the thermostat. You’re the one with the control, and the responsibility here.
In the winter you can bundle up or use space heaters, but in the summer, it’s not like people can take off their goddamn skin.
Get some box fans and strategically open windows at night to get cool air flow through your home or something. Close in the morning before things warm up. Window AC units or swamp coolers for especially hot rooms.
Get proper window treatments/coverings/tintings to control how much the sun heats up the home. Fix or replace your goddamn insulation. Use those plastic shrink wrap things to seal off drafty windows in the winter.
And actually measure the temp in various places around your home. I’ve seen temp differences of 8 degrees across the various rooms of my place, where the thermostat is in a reasonable range, but an upstairs room with like four windows is a fucking sweatbox.
Hell, my thermostat regularly reads even cooler than the immediately adjacent room because there’s open space behind the thermostat in the wall that connects lto the basement.
I’d be useless all summer if it was fucking 78 in my house the whole fucking time. 66-72 is my general range.
Most of all: Your kids aren’t responsible for your financial shitshow. You are.
I think you took a bit of a joke reply… incredibly seriously
That said 78 in summer at least in my home is pretty reasonable as my house is fairly modern and has two zones.
My main culprit for messing with the thermostat has a habit of leaving their bedroom door closed all the time which causes heat to build up in their room… AC on and door closed is ineffective at cooling a sealed room so the room stays hot no matter how low the AC is set.
