This semester, I have a new apartment mate. She prefers to keep the thermostat at around 75 when sleeping which I find to be absolutly horrible. I inevitably wake up every night sweating, march into the livingroom, and turn it back down to around 67. She then wakes up cold, marches into the livingroom, and turns it back up to 75. This sometimes happens several times in one night.
I tried sleeping with the window cracked, but it’s now going down into the single digits at night and it gets very cold in here.
I came home yesterday to find the thermostat turned up to :eek: 80 degrees:eek: . I spoke to new roomie about it and she said that she had a few friends over who were cold, so she turned it up. Sure, our livingroom is a tad drafty, but 80 degrees?!?!
The irony in all this is that the boyfriend of one apartment mate last semester had a nasty habit of coming to visit his girlfriend after being at the gym and putting the air conditioner on and setting it to 60 degrees or below when it was only 30 degrees out.
What to do? What to do? I know this seems like a silly thing to be so worried over, but I’m sitting here right now sweating as I’m wrting this.
We live in an apartment owned by our college. We pay one flat fee at the beginning of the semester and then everything is covered. This includes electcity, heat, cable - yes, cable - and water…all the good stuff that I’d have to pay separately for if I lived off campus.
I had an ongoing battle with a roomate over this very issue. I like it at 19 which I understand is freakishly cold for some people (sorry for the Canadian temperatures; it’s around 66 farenheight), she kept it at 23 (73) which was for her a compromise from her preferred 25 (77!!!). I was willing to go to 21(70). She actually told me that it was a law that landlords had to keep their tenants at 23 degrees. Which for me was unbearable, I hate sweating in my house in the winter ! The argument raged, but I still believe I’m in the right:
if you’re uncomfortably cold, you can put on a sweater. If I’m uncomfortably hot, I can do nothing. Opening a window in February is just dumb.
central heating is not healthy: it dries out skin and mucus membranes, leading to sore throats and over-use of moisturizer
25 degrees is freakish. I cannot live like that !
Think of what the carbon emissions do for global warming! I know not everyone is an eco-freak like me but please, use a little common sense.
Every night we had a little routine. Before bed I would set the thermostat at 21 degrees (note: hotter than I would have liked). She would sneak down and change it to 23 degrees, not realizing that my bed was on the other side of the wall from the thermostat, and I heard her changing it. I would change it back to 21 after she went to bed. And so on, and so on.
Until one day a furnace man came to fix something and I asked him ‘What’s the temperature that most people keep their furnaces at?’
‘21’, he said.
The roommate flipped that I had asked him (“How dare you question me?” - there was more going on than the furnace, to be sure) but it ended the arguments.
And now I am married to an African, spending his first winter in Canada. It’s all begun again ! ARGHHHH !!! He wears three pairs of pants and eight socks and he’s still freezing when the heater is on full. I give up. I will sweat. But I don’t have to be happy about it. :mad:
Damn, 80 degrees! I wish it was 80 degrees in MY house! Shit, I’m cold when it’s 80 degres. I’m one of those people that is perpetually cold. And my grandparents were born and raised in Ireland. I should be adapted to cold, go figure.
We have no control over the temperature in our apartment. The entire building is set at 25degC, and it gets VERY warm in here. 90% of the time, we leave a window or 2 craked (I always open 2 before leaving for school). Opening the windows in the livingroom slightly helps a lot, though, and so it isn’t really a problem for either of us.
On a slightly sadistic note, I found out today that the buiding into which my evil-ex-housmate-from-hell and his scumb*tch girlfriend moved last November has been without heating since sometime yesterday. Although I feel bad for all the other tenants of the builiding, I couldn’t help but smile at the misery of those two wretched people
I think that may be our solution. I prefer the temp to be around 65, she prefers around 75. I’ve been trying to keep it around 70 and it seems to have stayed there…for now at least.
Tell her to get another blanket or some flannel sheets. 75 at night is WAY out of line, and just wait until she gets her own place some day and has to pay for heat. She will learn the value of a nice sweater very quickly, I assure you.
- and water…all the good stuff that I’d have to pay separately for if I lived off campus.