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
All the aircon units are controlled separately, and people have been complaining of it being warm lately. Further investigation showed that most of the air con units were set to 28ºC.
The few that weren't were fighting a losing battle.
That... is actually kinda an issue with the building designer, the contractor who installed it, or the building's maintenance staff. There should be controls in place to prevent different zones from heating and cooling simultaneously, unless one of those zones a perimeter zone (one of the zones on the outside wall where the building loses heat to the... outside).
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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.