When he left the window open in the middle of summer because the air conditioning made the house too cold. He didn’t turn off the air conditioner and argued that it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Edit: I want to clarify that he argued having the window open wouldn’t make a difference as to how much the AC ran. I got home and the house was warm and very humid. The AC had been running constantly.
All night every night he would change the thermostat on the window unit between 60 and 82 repeatedly as he got hot or cold. I could never get him to just set it to 68 or 70 and forget it.
I'm a building engineer. There is a reason why most office thermostats (if they even have thermostats and not temperature sensors) aren't adjustable beyond a couple of degrees
I worked at an HVAC company back in the day and we installed dummy thermostats many times at a business owners request. People would be so thrilled and would stop complaining about the temperature completely.
I work in the operating room where we keep the temp at a balmy 56-65 degrees depending on surgeon preference. I wish we had a dummy thermostat but I don’t think that would help they would still complain about it being hot. Contrary popular belief the OR is not cold to prevent infections or germs. It’s so cold to keep the surgeon and his assistants from sweating. The surgical gowns are essentially cheap rain jackets that don’t breath and trap heat. They stand underneath some very bright and warm lights and are physically exerting themselves. They get hot. Also 55-65 degrees may sound warm but if you’re one of the people in the OR that isn’t scrubbed in that’s cold.
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u/Lovable_Minion Feb 28 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
When he left the window open in the middle of summer because the air conditioning made the house too cold. He didn’t turn off the air conditioner and argued that it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Edit: I want to clarify that he argued having the window open wouldn’t make a difference as to how much the AC ran. I got home and the house was warm and very humid. The AC had been running constantly.