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Old 12-30-2014, 03:18 AM
 
Location: Saskatoon
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Currently at my grandparents' house in eastern France, with snow on the ground and below-freezing temperatures for the past several days. The entire house is quite chilly and my room on the top floor can't be more than 15°C, maybe even down to around 10°C at night. Can't wait to get back to my 25°C apartment in Vancouver this weekend
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Old 12-30-2014, 07:50 AM
 
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15 degrees in my heated room.

8 degrees in the unheated next room.
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Old 12-31-2014, 09:57 AM
 
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16.4 degrees in my heated room at the moment.

My second bedroom went down to 7.4 degrees last night, a record low since I've been here. It was about that in the kitchen, bathroom, lounge.
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Old 12-31-2014, 10:51 AM
 
Location: Yorkshire, England
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16.4 degrees in my heated room at the moment.

My second bedroom went down to 7.4 degrees last night, a record low since I've been here. It was about that in the kitchen, bathroom, lounge.
How is your place always so cold? Is there really nothing you can do to insulate it (draught excluders, plastic sheeting on the windows, etc)?
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Old 12-31-2014, 11:09 AM
 
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Taped up the windows already. All our buildings are made out of solid stone, no wall cavities, no insulation in the 300 year old building and no plans by the landlord to install it. You warm one room and leave the others cold unless you are a millionaire and can afford to heat the whole thing. This building like most here will get an F energy efficiency rating. Just the way it is here.

My rent is £300 a month for a two bedroom 600sq/ft flat but the building is 300 yr old and in original condition, it is still a good deal. You just pay more on heat.

My house up on corbar road was no different. Even after double glaze window and insulation. Got down to 6 degrees afew times in there. In fact it was down to 4 degrees in March/April 2013.
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Old 01-01-2015, 03:46 AM
 
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Its cooler than usual in the airport. About 20-21 C I guess. Usually 24-26 C. Maybe the goal to follow international standards. I like the cool more.
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Its cooler than usual in the airport. About 20-21 C I guess. Usually 24-26 C. Maybe the goal to follow international standards. I like the cool more.
Part of Honolulu's airport is open air, so it's whatever temperature it is outside.
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Old 01-01-2015, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Taped up the windows already. All our buildings are made out of solid stone, no wall cavities, no insulation in the 300 year old building and no plans by the landlord to install it. You warm one room and leave the others cold unless you are a millionaire and can afford to heat the whole thing. This building like most here will get an F energy efficiency rating. Just the way it is here.

My rent is £300 a month for a two bedroom 600sq/ft flat but the building is 300 yr old and in original condition, it is still a good deal. You just pay more on heat.

My house up on corbar road was no different. Even after double glaze window and insulation. Got down to 6 degrees afew times in there. In fact it was down to 4 degrees in March/April 2013.
And no gas furnace, I take it? Even by US standards, electric heat is horribly expensive - I'd be heating room-by-room too if I didn't have gas.

As for my preferred room temp, I like it at 60 (15 C) at night, and I never run the heat more than 64 in the daytime (18 C) - any higher than that, I start to feel discomfort from being "too hot" although it really isn't. Will I be able to achieve the ultimate challenge of keeping my monthly heating bill below $100 this winter? I'm sure as hell gonna try...lol.
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Old 01-01-2015, 05:05 PM
 
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We have a few hours every AM and PM of radiator heat from one radiator in the hall but it doesn't make a lot of difference in the middle of winter.
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Old 01-22-2015, 03:00 AM
 
Location: Viseu, Portugal 510 masl
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My bedroom was at 10.1ºC this morning when I woke up, now I'm in my living room where it's 14.6ºC, 2 meters away from the fireplace.

My house is always below 20ºC, even in the peak of summer heatwaves, because it's made of granite, it's not unusual to have 4ºC in the garage.
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