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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 20, 2012, 07:08:49 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018196139
Oh my.
hedgehog (28,323 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:10 PM
Northerners - how cold does it have to get before you break down and close the windows?
Blue_In_AK (35,252 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:24 PM
1. It's down into the 40s here at night,
But we still have some windows open. I like the fresh air.
hedgehog (28,323 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:26 PM
2. We have storm windows. Once they go up, the house is sealed until next Spring.
I feel cut off from the outdoors once the windows close, so I keep mine open if it's above 60 during the day!
fizzgig (16,146 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:30 PM
3. not quite a northerner but i would keep my windows cracked until it dropped below freezing if my husband let me have my way. my husband closes them up when it drops below 55-60 at night.
hedgehog (28,323 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:30 PM
4. My mother used to have her bedroom window cracked all winter!
I consider one of the pleasures in life to have the bedroom at 55-60 and twenty two blankets on the bed!
cyberswede (6,079 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:52 PM
9. Mine does that!
She's 82 and loves the fresh air.
geardaddy (12,771 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:32 PM
5. Usually around freezing.
Even then I might crack a window to get fresh air. Absolute temp when I close windows for good it below 10°F
HappyMe (6,135 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:39 PM
7. Below 40.
I would rather have fresh air, a quilt and my sweetie.
KamaAina (42,567 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:51 PM
8. In NYC? Probably 40 below.
At least in buildings that have steam heat. In such buildings, the heat is always cranked up well into the 80s for some reason known only to the FSM. Windows stay open year-round; fans have even been deployed in the frigid depths of January!
tjwmason (14,686 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:53 PM
10. Bedrooms should be cold
My bedroom window will be open when there's snow on the ground and it's below freezing day and night. I find a cold room helps me to sleep. If I have to sleep in a room with the window closed I always wake up with my head feeling like it's been stuffed with cotton wool.
Denninmi (3,652 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:01 PM
11. 40 to 45
Depends not just on temp,,but also wind and humidity.
applegrove (55,075 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:14 PM
12. I closed the windows last week.
zen_bohemian (369 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:34 PM
13. when it gets below 50 at night
Sometimes in the dead of winter I open the windows just for a few minutes if it's below freezing, trying to get some fresh air in the house.
bigwillq (58,809 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:40 PM
14. My fan is usually on through Dec
I like it cool at night.
I live with other people and we have electric heat. I haven't turn on the heat in my bedroom in 8 or 9 years.
hedgehog (28,323 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:40 PM
15. i have a window over my desk that opens to our covered porch.
i leave it open all summer, which allows the cats to come and go as they wish - there's a little cat door on the porch. I'm going to have to close that window tomorrow, so the cats will be confined to the cat door at the back of the house.
femmocrat (12,456 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:01 PM
16. Probably below 40 degrees. But I still have a fan blowing on me.
At school, I keep the windows open all winter. The rooms are over-heated and over-crowded. I tell the kids it's so the germs can get out.
The Velveteen Ocelot (32,407 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:04 PM
17. It got down to 40 last night so I closed the bathroom window.
I'm leaving the bedroom window open, though.
Chan790 (12,779 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:03 AM
18. I had an dorm in DC my first winter down here...
where my roommate and I didn't control the thermostat so we had to leave the windows open all winter because the university had set the temperature building-wide and we were on the top-floor in the middle. Everybody else had nice toasty dorms; we had a room where if we closed the window, the temperature shot up over 90'F in minutes.
Historic NY (17,865 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:32 AM
20. I just got up to close a couple its 45 here this am.
franksolich starts closing windows when the cats' teeth start to chatter and they huddle underneath the blankets in the bedroom. And finally I get them all shut about the time frost is coating the top of the burners on the natural gas stove.
<<likes fresh air.
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When heating cost you nothing.....open the windows.
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When heating cost you nothing.....open the windows.
Uh huh, that's what pisses me off.
Even during those various energy crises of years past, governmental buildings were always torridly hot, when taxpayers were sitting in 50-degree homes.
There should be a law that says governmental employees are not to enjoy any more comforts than the people paying their wages, i.e., the taxpayers.
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Uh huh, that's what pisses me off.
Even during those various energy crises of years past, governmental buildings were always torridly hot, when taxpayers were sitting in 50-degree homes.
There should be a law that says governmental employees are not to enjoy any more comforts than the people paying their wages, i.e., the taxpayers.
A parallel example is that during water shortages, the lawns of government buildings are kept lushly green, while the taxpayers are forced to live with dead lawns.
I noticed this during this past summer, the Great Barack Drought of '12. We ourselves never had a shortage of water--not enough people around to use it up--but big places such as Lincoln did. People were getting tickets into the hundreds of dollars, for running their lawn-sprinklers.....while the grounds surrounding governmental buildings were kept as green as the taxpayers' currency used to water them.
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90 degree weather here, steady wind coming from the SE, associated dirt from the field to the SE of us, and a myriad of insects at night.
We keep our windows closed.
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A parallel example is that during water shortages, the lawns of government buildings are kept lushly green, while the taxpayers are forced to live with dead lawns.
I noticed this during this past summer, the Great Barack Drought of '12. We ourselves never had a shortage of water--not enough people around to use it up--but big places such as Lincoln did. People were getting tickets into the hundreds of dollars, for running their lawn-sprinklers.....while the grounds surrounding governmental buildings were kept as green as the taxpayers' currency used to water them.
So you did notice that too.
First year we lived here we did have water restrictions, next year I took a page from Lady Birds book and bought bags of wild flowers. Come the ides of March I did not run about throwing he seeds in the air to land where the wind blew them, I invested in $60-70.00 of the plastic doodads to place around an English garden in the worse dry spots in the yard. The soil in my yard is horrid, no matter what kind of stuff put down on it, even grass and weeds have a problem growing.
English gardens are great, no weeding is called for and with the Oak Trees you never when a tree may begin to grow. We now have OakTrees growing amid the wild flowers and there is color all 3 seasons.
Far as cold bedrooms go, most every 3 years we have to replace the bedroom window stashing. I keep the door closed and the window open a few inches and the snow does come in as the rain and ice. I invested in a feather comforter so I am warm unless the temp. goes below -20. That and two cats and one small dog under the covers keep me warm better then the Hot brick grandma put in my bed in a farm house with no heating in the bed chambers.
Only thing I miss is awaking in a cold bedroom to the sound of steam heat radiators with air in the pipes clinking and banging away. Or even the sound of Grandpa in the cellar shaking down the embers of a coal furnice.
Sorry Kids these will never be part of your life, memories of a time long gone. But fear not, when you age the memories of your childhood will be totally foreign to your grandkids. I told a grand child I was almost 40 years old before I bought my first Microwave for home use. Cost was a factor.
Cold air to sleep and warm air to spend the day, heaven on earth.
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KamaAina (42,567 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:51 PM
8. In NYC? Probably 40 below.
At least in buildings that have steam heat. In such buildings, the heat is always cranked up well into the 80s for some reason known only to the FSM. Windows stay open year-round; fans have even been deployed in the frigid depths of January!
Gag, I would never live in NYC, the smell alone repulses me.
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It has been getting in the 40's at night here, and my windows are still open. My apartment gets stifling quickly if the windows aren't open.
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I never open windows.
Thermostats are more reliable for keeping it comfortable, and they help expand your carbon footprint.
People are going in and out the doors all the time, supplying more than enough "fresh air".
I guess "fresh air" is more important if you keep animals in the house.