is 20 cold or is just me?

Question

Our place we rent from is heat included and the dang thing wont go past 20 c? or is f? I am in canada and I am constantly cold should it be warmer? cheapos i think the managment is. but i want others opinions on normal temp for winter in homes thanks

thanks everyone for all the info! it is very helpfull, we are off soon to buy new curtains as these are cheap ones and are very thin and some heaters. cant live like this anymore and managers say it is hot enough just cheap people thats all that wont make heat comfy oh well thanks again ev11

well we did stay in mexico from sept-november so i was used to a high temp for a while and than to come home here to snow and 0 and bellow otside does suck thanks cantex for great feedback

Answer 1

Hey, 20C should be OK. If you're cold, put on a sweater or coat.

Answer 2

As my name might suggest ... I'm familiar with temperatures in a few areas of the world!

Canadian thermometers (and heater controls) are in metric units. This means you're seeing 20 Celsius ... which equates to 68 F. This can seem pretty cold to someone from a warmer climate (liek southern states, or Africa, India, etc). However, it is a reasonable and, depending on who you listen to, optimal temperature to keep a home in winter.

Think about it ... water freezes solid at 0 C (32 F). If your coffee was freezing solid in the cup, the temperature might be 20 F! If it's still liquid, the temperature has to be 20 C!

The difficulty lies, as someone else has mentioned, in air circulation (both from room-to-room inside your apartment and from inside to outside through windows, etc). Several things can make life a little more comfortable for you...

- Get a good set of blinds/drapes to cover all that exposedd glass of your windows, particularly on the side the wind comes from most often. Also invest in a "do-it-yourself" sealing kit ... the stuff looks like a heavy sheet of Saran Wrap and provides an extra barrier when you fix it over the window glass area.

- Move in a small fan to direct air away from your heaters (I'm assuming you've got electric baseboard heaters ... most Canadian rental accommodations do!). This will also help move the heat away from those less-than-wonderfully-insulated walls, and bring it to where it's useful ... out in the middle of the room.

- Make sure you've got air moving from wherever your apartment thermostat is located to the other rooms ... you might get a small increase in overall heat if you focus a small fan DIRECTLY ONTO the thermostat, making it think it's slightly cooler than it really is. Keep the doors to rooms open ... allows movement and spread of heat - good thing, if all the heaters are in one area of the apartment.

- Finally ... wear a few extra layers (or simply heavier) clothing. It IS winter, you know! Most Canadians tend to wear sweaters and/or sweatshirts when around the home.

- If, after all this, you're still REALLY cold, get a small electric heater unit that you can plug in where you need it ... since you're in an apartment, I'd recommend against going for a gas heater, just from the possibility of problems.

Answer 3

20C is reckoned to be a comfortable indoor temperature. 20F is almost -7C so pretty chilly even for outside, not likely to be that. If your thermostat is set to 20C, and you still feel cold, then either the heating system is not producing enough heat to get the temperature up that high, or the thermostat is in an unusually warm site, like near a heater, and is turning the heating system off prematurely. Check whether the heating system is generating as much heat as it can. For example, if it's a boiler with hot water circulating through radiators, check the boiler thermostat setting, it may need increasing. If the thermostat is near a source of heat, see if you can reduce the effect, eg position a fan to blow the heat away from the thermostat.

Answer 4

Firstly I'd suggest get a thermometer and leave it around the different areas of the house- 20C could refer to only one area with the others cooler. If the system is designed to max out at 20C then any inefficiency or fault will have an effect.

On the whole 20C is perfectly comfortable- ideal in fact. 20C feels much colder in water than air- so maybe try a de-humidifier; which will remove water in the air making it feel warmer.

Answer 5

20 C is 70 degrees F. That is room temperature. Yes it is just you. If the heat works then it should be warmer than that but 20 C is not cold. It is just right. Now 20 F in your room IS cold.

Answer 6

20c is what, about 55f or 60f degrees? That is a little cool. I would be checking to see if I had any air leaks I could close up, but I am in the mid USA and on our coldest nights it only gets down to 10- 20f, so you can't go by me. I also live in a travel trailer and my heat is inclused as well. I heat with electric and on a really cold night it might get as low as 55f to 60f in my house, but I have not got much insulation.

Answer 7

Sometimes 20 is definetly NOT warm enough...it depends on how cold it is outside and how drafty it is...I have found that most rental properties i have be in, and still am in, quite drafty around the windows. I have socks and slippers and a sweater on almost all the time right now....its -30 to- 40 windchill outside right now and for the last few days...brrrr

Answer 8

Homes should definetely be warmer than both 20 C and F....
But besides that I doubt it would be 20 F. Talk to whoever is in charge of that.

Answer 9

do u mean 20 degrees F? like the normal 20? if so then yes, that IS cold. 20 degrees is cold.

Answer 10

20C is 68F ... and that is cool, not cold.

20F is BUTT cold.