As the daughter of a fat person who’s always cold and a fat person who’s always hot, I have to say, there you don’t go.
Sure, there are a lot of things involved. But BMI has to be one of them (and I’m not using BMI to say over-versus-underweight, but more in terms of weight per surface area of skin).
That depends: What’s the wind chill factor?
Good question. Most people assume that because it’s indoors, there’s no wind.
Ever sit under an a/c vent in a false ceiling? Those things can blow very cold air right across you.
Think we should be heating the air inside? I do too, but my office is next to the computer server room. While it doesn’t run off the same thermostat, it runs off the same a/c system and it tends to be filled with very dry, not-so-hot air.
Actually, that is quite a lot of clothing for a dog.
I have seen a lot of tenants with thermoters on their desk. And sometimes they agree with my thermoter, whick I check the calibration. That is why the facilities guy discarded your reading.
People will conplain that it is cold one day, and I will get a reading of 72 degrees. The next day I will get a complaint about it being hot and again I will get a reading of 72 degrees. It all depends on time of day, work activity, closes, and etc.
Now if I am answering a cold or hot call I check the temp with a rey teck and an electric thermoter. If I get a reading close to 72 degrees and the tenant still complains it is wrong I explain, “the building standard is 72 degrees and we are at that standard, I am sorry by there is nothing I can do.”
When I worked for a owner occupied building the standard was 68 to 78 degrees. A quick check on the BMS to see what is going on.
But you do let the tenant know what and why.
I call the battle between two people over the stat “thermostat wars”
There are two things I do not understand. 1. The person who can turn up the stat when they are cold can not turn it down when they become hot. and 2. The person who can turn down the stat when they are hot and not turn it up when they are cold. Why
Good term! My group moved from an actual building (that had thermostats in every office) to conjoined trailers (that had four thermostats for about 30 people) about a year ago. My cubicle was open to one of the thermostats. It was quite amusing that a woman would come by and turn the thermostat up, and about twenty minutes later a male would come turn it down. All. Day. Long.
They put a locking cover on them shortly after (the thermostats, not the men and women).
IME, it’s because somebody else turns it the opposite way first.
The worst part of thermostat wars is that it just leads to big temperature swings which make the other side right. Also it is a big waste of energy. The correct thing to do is set the temperature and leave it alone.
Most offices I have worked in were kept at around 75ºF (24ºC) which I find too hot while wearing a suit. I believe 70ºF (21ºC) would be much better but the women all complained. My view is that the preference should be given to the option which saves energy, i.e., the lower temperature in winter and the higher in summer.
My dad worked for a time in a long, skinny office, about 15 feet wide and 150 long, along one wall of the factory. The place had to be rewired and the two thermostats wound up in the center, about five feet apart. Within a day or two, one had the controller set to minimum, the other to maximum, but the max side was freezing, and the min side torrid. The a/c guy then discovered the thermostats were cross-wired – the left hand one controlled the righthand temp and vice-versa. That was quickly corrected, and covers applied.
Thermometers have to be calibrated. Some types of thermometers are less susceptible to error but they usually aren’t the type that is put in an electronic device. Mercury thermometers are great for accuracy, but nobody wants to use mercury anymore. Alcohol thermometers are also very good for accuracy, but they aren’t easy to put in compact electronic devices. Usually, the type of themometer included in small electronic devices may be very precise but not very accurate. If you were to calibrate these thermometers, they would be be accurate. Youre standard electronic thermometer doesn’t actually provide a mechanism to calibrate it. I wouldn’t trust any electronic thermometer that I didn’t calibrate myself.
That said, people have very different comfortable ranges and the range changes all of the time. As has been pointed out, people themselves are horrible judges of temperature.
I know you’ll just have to believe me, but the thermometer in my classroom thermostat will read 60F on just a brisk morning sometimes, when it has to be about 65 in the room because of the constantly running security camera computer. I think of that thing as just hopeless.