[HPFGU-OTChatter] 68 degrees "nice and warm"? Was: "Nice and" expression question.

[Sheryll Townsend]

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 Carol responds:
> 
> I was thinking of the temperature of the house itself. I
> have electric
> heating, and the furnace (or air conditioning, depending on
> whether
> the thermostat is set to Heat or Cool) kicks on when the
> house reaches
> that temperature. I'd *like* to keep it at 72 degrees
> F, which
> corresponds to 22.22 degrees Celsius, but I usually settle
> for 68
> (that's 20 degress C.) in winter and maybe 76 in summer
> (24.44 C.) to
> save money. Right now, I have the thermostat turned off and
> it's about
> 66 degrees in the apartment (18.9 C.). I'm still in my
> robe and
> slippers, with jeans under the nightie and warm socks under
> the
> slippers (oh, the advantages of working at home!), so
> I'm not cold
> enough to turn the heat on--yet. 
> 
> If I set the thermostat at 68 C. (154.4 F.), I would die!
> Actually, it
> only goes up to 96 F. (35.55 C.), and no one in their right
> mind would
> set it that high. (My water heater, OTOH, is probably set
> to about 125
> F or 51.7 C.--I don't know because there's a metal
> plate covering the
> thermostat and I'm not about to take it off--but
> it's not used to heat
> the house!)
> 
> Carol, who still thinks that a 68-degree (F.) house is
> something less
> than cozy ("nice and warm")
> 
Sheryll:

I live in a drafty old house. In the infinite wisdom (note sarcasm) of the person who built this house, the thermostat is in the kitchen. In order to keep the rest of the house at a temperature that won't freeze your bare toes we keep the thermostat set at 74 F. Sometimes higher if the temp outside is going down below -30 C. Yes, serious temperature confusion at our place. The thermostat in in F and we're a country that uses Celsius. *sigh* 

On the flip side, we don't have air conditioning. It gets mighty hot in here when there's a heatwave outside. The worst I've seen it get is a three day stretch a couple summers ago when it was 94 F in the house. Not terribly conducive to a good night's sleep! Or anything else, for that matter. 

Sheryll, who lives in flannel jammies and warm slippers all winter if she doesn't have to go out


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