Last Summer? Yeah love seeing 700+ mostly elderly and infirm people die, love that shit. /s

Actually you right, I kind of forgot about that part maybe not that hot but bring on the heat.

Ehhh I want some warm but anything over 25 degrees fucks me up. My old dog cant handle walks super hot either.

What’s been weird lately are these humid days..

Hardly ever get these kinda gross muggy days here that I can remember but there’s been quite a few this season

The weather station will say it is all La Niña's doing, but personally, I kind of attribute it more to the effects of climate change as a whole.

fukn sprinkler main line to valve box just broke randomly right as hot weather coming. RIP. Hope my fix does not involve digging.

So glad I installed my portable A/C before the heat this weekend. I've been basking in a cool condo the whole time. Didn't leave the house until 7pm yesterday, was beautiful once the sun started going down.

Slept in the basement. 21C Sat night, 23C last night. Have to turn on the AC today though since we need to work and our offices aren't in the basement.

used my ac for the first time yesterday, so nice. what do you guys set your temp at? I found 23.5C was pretty comfortable for me.

Usually 22 or 23.

22 at my place

Set the temp? I crank it as low as it can go and hope it can maintain 22-23 degrees

Isn’t that bad for the unit though? It can freeze up below 72f

It can only freeze up if there is less than 400cfm/ton, or undercharged
Or cheaper units with outdoor temps below x, usually 60f

A proper ac unit can run 24/7

23. Still figuring things out with my house as we're a long skinny house that's aligned east-west. In the morning my living room/kitchen faces the sun and can get quite warm while my bedroom faces west and stays cool and it flip flops late in the day. Keeping the living room at 23 means the rest of the house is a bit chilly.

Any folks run their AC via a Nest? I have a set of Nests for my heating and am thinking of putting in a Nest to handle my AC as well - just the basic model with a sensor to put in the living room.

Portable AC with a Nest?

I don't know any consumer portable AC's that have input contacts for control by conventional thermostats.

i just got the portable AC unit up on saturday. Running at 21 degrees all day without issue

Run my portable at the lowest setting - 17 degrees...what is all this 20+ BS? I can't feel that shit. But then I only run it a couple hours at a time at most.

Even when I'm visiting hot/humid Asia it's always defaulted to the lowest setting - 16 degrees.

Sorry, I got central air in my house so wondering how people manage that with the rest of their heating system.

Thought we only had ballers in this thread. KEKW

You can wire a single nest to control both heating and cooling.

Although if your AC system is one of the newer inverter variable speed compressor styles, best to just use the controller that came with the system.

Conventional T-stats (like the nest) are basically on/off, stage1/stage2 and can't take proper advantage of the variable speed functionality.

At 22 with our central air my wife was wearing a sweater in the house last year when we had that heat wave.

Who else with mid-efficiency furnaces is pondering their next HVAC purchases?

We've got both baseboard heating and ducting for a furnace in our home. Unfortunately, our baseboards are upstairs where it gets the hottest during heat waves. Our furnace is 26 years old and while we get it serviced each year, eventually it's going to go. With the way our house is laid out, a heat pump is not going to completely solve our cooling issues, but it will help a lot. I don't think we would ever invest in mini-splits for all of our bedrooms as an upgrade of that nature would probably cost tens of thousands of dollars when all said and done.

Governments are throwing money at people to switch over to electric heat pumps. Operating costs may be higher, but the capital cost incentives are pretty enticing for your typical cash-strapped family trying to juggle costs.

A high-efficiency furnace with A/C costs about 12-15K. Natural/renewable gas is going to become more expensive in the future with the planned increases to the carbon tax as well as potential changes to how FortisBC will spread the costs of their renewable natural gas supply across their customer base. I imagine that a high efficiency heat pump probably is about 15K, but government rebates could bring that cost down significantly. But, use of the heat pump and our baseboard heaters in the winter would definitely bring us into Tier 2 electricity rates considering the amount of windows (double-pane vinyl, 25 years old, no plans to replace in the immediate future) that we have.

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot out there in terms of analyses around long-term operating costs. Not an easy decision to be sure...

We are in tier 2 pricing half way through every month in the winter with 4 baseboard heaters (3 in wall heaters one traditional baseboard) and our radiant heating

In hindsight I 100% would have ripped out our relatively new gas furnace and figured out a dual zone system or even just forced my tenant to live within the temps we do lol. Electric heat is a HUGE portion of our cost of living, even if gas was to shoot up I think it would be cheaper

meanwhile in Shanghai, I'm outside riding my bike with my kid in 37 degree weather... I can't wait to get back to Van's 25 degree summers....

But being used to the 35+ heat for so long, 25 inside feels normal for me. It's really the humidity that kills

early july and it's 11C raining all day..

at least i didnt buy that bbq or hammock :lol