Its been nice this week, with lows dipping into the 40's and 50's. The only problem is that my grandmother expects the heat to run all night if it gets below 60.
First of all, this house was built in 1961 and still has the original windows. They're quite leaky. Her bedroom is on the north side of the house, and the thermostat is on the south side of the house, in a room full of windows that absorb heat like woah, plus its near the kiitche and living room where everything is going on.. She also has a door in her bathroom that goes out to the pool. The door is metal--wonderful heat/cold conductor.
In the summer, she has her air vents closed so she doesn't "freeze to death from the cold blasts of air." This past summer, being REALLY hot, her bedroom was getting up to around 100 degrees (no joke). So the cold comes through, cools her room to about 80, and she freezes. She was even coming out and complaining about the cold rushing under her door. Her door has a draft stoppe thing on the bottom of it that is flush with the floor. There is NO air getting under that thing.
If I get that weird when I'm 90, somebody please smack me in the head.
First of all, this house was built in 1961 and still has the original windows. They're quite leaky. Her bedroom is on the north side of the house, and the thermostat is on the south side of the house, in a room full of windows that absorb heat like woah, plus its near the kiitche and living room where everything is going on.. She also has a door in her bathroom that goes out to the pool. The door is metal--wonderful heat/cold conductor.
In the summer, she has her air vents closed so she doesn't "freeze to death from the cold blasts of air." This past summer, being REALLY hot, her bedroom was getting up to around 100 degrees (no joke). So the cold comes through, cools her room to about 80, and she freezes. She was even coming out and complaining about the cold rushing under her door. Her door has a draft stoppe thing on the bottom of it that is flush with the floor. There is NO air getting under that thing.
If I get that weird when I'm 90, somebody please smack me in the head.
lostjohny:
old people rule. they don't care what people may say about whatever is on their minds, they just seem to blurt it out. i had a place in indianapolis once that was built in the 30's. it was so old the morter was turning to dust. and cold? my electric bills in the winter were astronomical, heat got out between the bricks it seemed like.
nori:
nah, I am just cheap period hahahahha!! tell gramma to stick a sock in it or just put a ac / heat unit for her bedroom. problem solved!