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AC electric bills, are nothing like UK winter heating bill...

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How cold does it get in the UK and what do people use to heat their houses?


I am in Canada and a/c uses way more electricity then our electric baseboard heaters do, we use about double the electricity on an average summer day vs an average winter day.

We hover around 5-7C during the winter months during the day, with a few weeks into the negatives usually, and 0 to -2 or -3 on average night.

Just curious as there seems to be a bit of a debate of which costs more..lol

Our electric rates are so low that our bill in summer is still only around 40 per month, vs 30 per month in winter.



What kind of pet is this that needs such cool temps?


LA like most of Southern California has micro-climates so the averages reported may not be the same as where you end up living, could be cooler or warmer depending where you are in the area.

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As originally stated "22c is only 71.6F, which is pretty cool to keep your home at 24/7."

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Commonly either oil or gas using radiators. Heat pumps are available, but I've never known anyone with one.

In the South East it can get to -10c at a push, but it's the damn wind that makes it feel so much colder than it is.

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If you're basing that on winter heating thermostat temperatures then you're going to have quite a shock there too. For mysterious reasons, while 22°C feels toasty warm in winter, it is the temperature of a fairly aggressively cooled house in summer IME.

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Ours is set to 22°C. Easier to obtain here, of course, than in LA but it's as warm as I would want the place to be.

Besides... a certain Bulldog likes it this way. :)

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71.5 F degrees is not low? I live in the high heat of Arizona. My AC is on 24/7 about 8 months a year. I usually keep the house set at 78. If I'm doing housework, or just feeling extra hot, I'll set it down to 76. Even I think 71 is getting too cold for inside the house (although I love outdoor temps like that)!

Rene

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My car is set to 66 ;)

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I set my room AC to 62 when sleeping. The car is set to 16c (sorry, refuse to use F in my car, just too much of a head ****).

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Your car has a temperature setting? :huh:

My vehicles all just have a dial with red and blue wedges. From April to October we have the controls permanently set at the wide end of the blue wedge, except when Mrs P has it set to the "Max AC" position/button! :lol:

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Well, yeah. Climate control is a wonderful thing.

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:nod: Colder is better when sleeping.

My car has F as a default and, like the clock 6 months of the year, I'm too lazy to even care about trying to change it. :D

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Interesting. I actually turn the house temp higher at night... so if it was 76 during the day, I'll make it 78 at night. I figure I'm asleep, and it's cooler outside, so don't need to be even cooler at night.

Rene

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When I lived in Phoenix I tried once to get my apartment to 70. Wasn't possible. Ran non stop but never got below 73.

74 is about as cool as the air conditioning can get the apartment living room/kitchen. But it's not central air, out door temp of 31 ish.

Car isn't fancy enough for temp control. Just has low med and high fan option or 1 2 3 4.

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Be aware that one of California's many ongoing crises is a shortage of (reasonably priced) electricity and that, in an effort to encourage people to keep their usage to a minimum it is common to have a "tiered" pricing structure where the cost can increase very rapidly when your consumption exceeds some pretty miserly levels.

I don't think that Los Angeles is quite as bad as this but, where I am in Northern California, I regularly get into the "tier 3" rates (27 cents per KWH, as opposed to the baseline rate of about 16 cents per KWH) and I don't even *have* air conditioning ...