My husband and I have different ideas of what we each consider comfortable.
He likes fresh, warm temperatures and sunshine and I prefer good climate control.
He’s always wanting to open the windows to “let in fresh air”. I prefer cool conditioned air set at about seventy-two degrees. We have learned to compromise. We live in a subtropical climate, with short, mild winters and warm springs and autumns. Summers are brutal and humidity stays high all year round. My husband and I have agreed that if it is forecast to be under eighty five degrees outside as a high for that day, we turn off the air conditioning and open up the house. We have plenty of shade and fans and as long as we aren’t doing anything too strenuous, it’s not that uncomfortable really. The exception to this little agreement is if the humidity goes over seventy-five percent. Even if the temperature is seventy-five or eighty, the house can be closed up and the air conditioning can go on if the humidity is over seventy-five percent. We are used to humidity and can tolerate it high, but seventy five percent humidity would make anyone uncomfortable. I’m just grateful that nobody in the house has allergies. We already have a whole house air purification system attached to our heating and cooling systems and if someone in the house had allergies, we would have to run the air conditioning all spring and fall too. And we would have to get the UV light air purification system because it kills mold that can cause allergy symptoms.