You work in an airconditioned office. The thermostat for the airconditioner is set to 23.5C. The thermometer gauge says that it is currently 24.2C. Do you:
A) Ignore it;
B) Close the door to the stairwell that all the cold air is escaping down;
C) Set the thermostat to 21C so that it gets colder. After all, it should go down to 21.7C, right?
Airconditioners these days seem to have higher and higher “hysteresis”, so they are always swinging hot to cold, yet maintaining the average.
I remember reading a study done that showed that humans were much more tolerable of high temperature and humidity variations when they were near open windows, with occasional breezes. In a sterile aircon office environment, even a small degree variation was enough to cause discomfort.
So perhaps the answer is open a window, if you can ! Or perhaps smaller offices. Who knows.
always switch to a laptop, put a pringles can wifi on your building and go and work at the regatta ! (everytime you break a build, have to chug a beer etc).
Cold air escaping? Where to? It’s currently 2 degrees outside, where I am at the moment.
Unless you are somewhere in Australia or New Zealand, you picked the wrong time to post this…
This was posted on in September, Tony. And yes, I’m in Australia.