What sort of heating and cooling do you have in your home?

I have heating (put more clothes on) and cooling (take more clothes off) lol.

Winter minimum temps might get too just below 0 C here and during summer the max temps can get to 45 C.

it's funny how we think of temperature as that's a very tiny range yet to us humans have a core body temp normally about 37 C.

Absolutely zero (kelvin) is -273.15 C. Water boils at sea level at 100 C. Lithium ion batteries go into thermal runaway between 200 and 250 C. Steel melts at around 1300 to 1500 C.

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zonavar68 · 56-60, M

Interesting to read all the variations! I guess (and this was partly my reason for asking) a lot comes down to the climate of where you live. I'm on the east coastal region of Australia about 150 km north of Sydney.

My house has a defective old reverse cycle AC that I basically no longer use and need to save about $2k to get it replaced. Otherwise it has no 'forced' heating or cooling, and cooling is basically by using natural airflow and letting sun in (or not) by opening/closing curtains/blinds, opening/closing windows/doors.

There is one ceiling fan in the loungeroom.

If it's too cold I put more clothes on. If it's too hot (and I'm home alone) I take more clothes off. I don't have any sort of romantic partner to worry about, and only my 7 yo daughter normally stays here half the time.

The house is a circa 1950's/60's timber frame fibro + fake weatherbod cladding place with a tiled roof I rented from 2018 and bought in 2023. Small and cosy with good underfloor airflow.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@zonavar68 But you do live in a climate friendly part of gods own country.. Most of the year, not too hot and not too cold.. (of course, we all have occasional days.)

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@whowasthatmaskedman Yes the climate here is quite 'temperate' and being close to the ocean means it's well-regulated and annoyingly (for the last few years) excessively wet.

Having said that, these older cheap housing dept houses are not really made to suit the Australian climate conditions as originally they were built with zero cooling and the only heating is an old brick open fireplace which I don't use as it's ironically a major fire risk! I have it blocked off with an old solar panel to limit airflow via the chimney.

I'm limited by what I could and can afford in terms of the property I own and what I can do with it. No real estate mogul here. 8-)