Australian rental homes colder and more damp than WHO safety standards
www.theguardian.com
Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds
  • @[email protected]English
    -4•1 year ago

    If I could afford to, my house would be colder than 18 C or 64.5 F. I have my thermostat set at 68 and is still hot AF in my bedroom and living room.

    Edit: I live in a place where the absolute lowest the temperature gets is 18-25 C, I used to live where the lowest it got was -51 C. Not everyone is acclimatized to that kind of cold, but I like it, especially when I’m sleeping.

    Edit 2: my most controversial comment is expressing my opinion to a bunch of freezing Aussies that I prefer to be cold. Make sure you waste more of your effort downvoting me, and less effort figuring out how to use space heaters, put plastic up on the outside and inside of your windows, and hang up blankets to keep warmth in your critical areas. Y’all wouldn’t have survived a Minnesota winter. Just be grateful they didn’t sentence your ancestors to exile in Canada I guess 🤷‍♂️

    • @FlexibleToastEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      Isn’t it winter in Australia right now? In the winter I do keep the thermostat at 65 and it drops to 55 at night…

      • Rusty Raven English
        2•1 year ago

        Then you would be warmer than most homes here. On average the homes they studied were over 18 degrees (64.4 F) for less than 5 hours a day (or closer to 2 hours in Tasmania) and dropped down to minimums of 7.4 (45 F).

        • @FlexibleToastEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Internal at 45F? That’s too cold even for me to be comfortable inside… And I rarely ever utter the words, “it’s too cold”.

      • AnonymousLlama
        1•1 year ago

        Several places get pretty cold. I wouldn’t say it’s a European cold, but most people here assume it’ll be a decent temperature so when it drops you really notice it

    • @coaxilEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Hey I’m Aussie and with you, I like what we call cold in Brisbane, middle of winter and I only wear shorts and t shirt, everyone else here is rugged up like it’s the Arctic, I would be happy if my place sat at 18 all day!

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        There’s literally MULTIPLE of us! /s

        Thanks for chiming in, I was beginning to think I was just a yeti in disguise or something 🥸