All night, my room will be stagnant and muggy.
I adore my roommates and I want to make that perfectly clear. Since we moved in together everything has been going great and I’m much happier than ever before. The only thing that has been somewhat complicated has been our housing set up. Because my roommates are dating each other, they reside on one side of the house and I am on the other. This gives us all a lot of privacy and independence which is great. Unfortunately, it causes some complications with our thermostat. The thermostat is located on one end of the home and it seems like all of our HVAC equipment is similarly imbalanced. My bedroom does not receive the same amount of fresh indoor air from the central heating and cooling system as their side of the house. Normally, I can make do by supplementing with standing fans for added circulation. The biggest problem is when the outside temperature dips at night, and roomies turn off the AC unit with the nearby thermostat. Meanwhile I am still expecting our central cooling system to operate. All night, my room will be stagnant and muggy. I’ll wake up sweaty and have no idea why the air temperature feels so awful. In the morning they always cheerfully told me that they were able to turn off the central cooling system and save us some energy. I’m glad that we’re being energy-conscious in our household, but I need to know when I can rely on the central cooling system versus opening my windows. Maybe this air quality debacle is less of a problem with them and a bigger issue with my ability to put two and two together.