Edit: Context behind this question is because my parents always tell me to shut the windows all the way and I kinda feel like I’m suffocating… literally… (it’s Winter here)
Like I just struggle to breathe with windows closed…
So I’m just curious, how do y’all not suffocate while trying to keep house warm and spend less on heating?
I never open Windows regardless of season.
I like the fresh scent of Mint in my house instead.
fresh scent of Mint
Oh you…
xD this is the best Linux joke by far.
(You did make a Linux joke and it’s not a coincidence right?)
I have sensors that let me know when the outdoor temperature and humidity are both better than indoors so I can open the windows. Typically that’s an hour or two a day in the winter when the weather is nice, and most of the day in the summer.
When we taste the air is a bit a stale, we open the all the windows and sliding doors to exchange the air during all seasons.
I live in the Pacific Northwest, which means temperatures don’t fluctuate too much into extremes.
I personally like having the window cracked at night in the winter. I like to have fresh air, even if it’s cold. I feel sick if a room feels too stuffy.
Spring, summer, and fall the windows are definitely open at least at night if not during a larger part of the day. If it’s ~15-25C outside, I’ll usually have at least one window open. More likely two in the 20s. I just don’t tolerate heat well, so I will close my windows during the heat of the day when it approaches 30s.
Otherwise they’re only closed if outside is gross (smoke, people talking, hazy) or if I want total silence.
Honestly I’ve given up on trying to save on heating during the winter. Even with everything closed my house is drafty as fuck. I’ve got one whole room on the ground floor that was an addition built later and no one bothered to run ventilation into it, so it needs a space heater. Yeah it gets stuffy but I’d rather be warm.
Spring and summer are a different story. I love spring and summer air and I open everything.
Only close them if it’s raining
Where I live, there’s usually 3-4 months out of the year that it’s better to open the windows to let the air in than to use central air. Cheaper as well. In the winter we usually get a day or two where it’s warm enough to open up to let air circulate. But swamp ass summer and deep winter here suck eggs to be opening the windows.
I always have a window cracked open in my room, but SoCal coastal weather is best in the world year round. There are few locations with deep water upwelling AND onshore flow atmospheric patterns. Of those, there is only one other location, in Peru, where it is also a temperate desert.
My weather is the same but I live on the first floor on a very busy Los Angeles street, so opening the windows lets in too much unfiltered grit and smog. I do step out onto the balcony daily to care for my plants and feed the birds, so some air gets in then.
Northern part of a Nordic country: never during winter; never closed during summer, unless raining.
Paris here, we sleep usually windows (slightly) open, yes even now in winter
Windows open just a bit in winter is wonderful. Such good sleep!
The four days out of the year that it’s comfortable weather in Texas, I’ll open the window. But only with the screen still on, or mosquitoes get in.
Edit: “comfortable” = between 75-80°F
German here: yes. 24/7
LÜFTEN
Austrian here: STOSSLÜFTEN!
Live in a hot weather climate here in Tucson; windows are never open because of the effort required to open them shut them. The AC does its job just fine
Forced air furnace. Windows don’t open until summer.
Canada here. Winter never, unless we have a rare warm (above -10c/14f) day. Spring as often as I can if/when it’s nice enough outside. Summer usually open until the temps get around 27c/80f then closed and the air conditioner on.
I live in a roughly 100 yr old house though, so with all the cracks etc this place tends to self-ventilate anyway.
