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?
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
I open at least one door so that my cat , bitches can watch “Bird TV” through the screen door, usually in the mornings while the outside temperature is nice.
I unfortunately live in Texas, so we’ll reach fusion temps outside in April or May.
Yes, my cat’s name is , bitches.
Must be weird to be calling for your cat if they ever escape 👀
Antarctican lumberjack, don’t open the windows or doors in winter, check out the window in summer if any trees have sprouted (none so far).
During winter, having them open for any significant time would risk plumbing freezing. During summer, it’s usually a matter of opening them at night so the coolness lasts through the day.
In the winter I have no control over the heat. My radiator has a direct line to the pits of hell. So the windows are open all winter long. They are open in the spring and fall as long as the temp inside will be comfortable. Closed in the summer because AC.
I open the windows during winter even when it’s like -30c, at some point the air gets stale and circulation is needed. The stuffy air also makes my headspace feel weird, like something is irritating me but I can’t tell what it is.
Then at some point I open the windows, I also run a huge fan to circulate air around.
German here: yes. 24/7
Austrian here: STOSSLÜFTEN!
My building is on an old chiller system, so my AC is off ~5 months out of the year. My windows are open the entire time, and I usually have fans set up too to try and keep things cool.
When my AC is on, absolutely never. It is hot here like 7 months out of the year.
I rarely ever open windows unless someone asks me to. I get a lot of complaints during the summer of how hot it is indoors, but I adore the heat.
I adore the heat
Satan is that you?
I’ve been called a great many things over the millenia and that is one yes
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!
A lot less than I want and need to. My social anxiety is ridiculous with small stuff like this, just opening the windows easily gives me anxiety because I hear people outside. It sucks but I often manage to do it for a while before I have visitors, just so the air fresher.
Whenever it’s vomfy
Spain, in winter at least 15 minutes in the morning after waking up and 15 minutes in the evening. In Summer I try not to open the windows during the day only at night because I will be naked alive otherwise
Better than being naked dead I guess.
Autocorrect from burned alive, naked alive is already the reality in summer lol
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.
Daily, all year roun,for a short time.
Let me introduce you to Stoßlüften.
Stoßlüften!!
(aside from rooms having ac, those don’t need it)
As a foreigner living in Germany, I just knew this would be the main response. Germans LOVE to air out rooms
This foreigner made a video out of their experience
(I was looking for a different one I thought they made, but this is where I ended up.)
Stale air contains high levels of CO₂, which can make you feel tired
Oh… no wonder why my circadian rhythm is fucked up… I feel so tired in the day and now its 1AM and I’m wide awake… 🫠
isnt also the lack of sunlight too during winter makes you depressed, less VITAMIN D more depression.
Lpt: if your residence has central heating/ac and was made within the last 50 years then your house is probably getting sufficient airflow.
Central heating, no AC.
Heat is not carried by air, but by those pipes with hot water running to radiators… so I don’t know if there’s any airflow.
Built before 1978, might have lead paint under there… but it was painted over once before we moved in so its probably lead safe(? I hope lol, i’d be lame to lose a few iq points to something stupid like lead)
Ah, then no forced air through ventilation ducts to move air around.
My current house doesn’t have vents either, but I have fans that move air around the important bits that get occupied the most. With my dogs needing to go out, and work, the doors are open enough, and there’s enough leakage to not worry about co2 levels. Except my wife sometimes trips the sensor in the hallway when she takes a long bath while burning multiple candles…
How old is stoßlüften? I know people that are always opening windows and telling their kids to go outside to “blow the stink off” and while they have german ancestry it would be from over a hundred years ago.
I try to open my bedroom window as little as possible because the air outside is usually poor quality and I have an active air filter monitoring my room and removing crud from it. I LOVE living in a car centric city in a country who’s government has been partly captured by oil companies and dealerships at all levels.
I like to think the plants I have in my room help with the CO₂, but I don’t feel they make that much of a difference.
same here. you probably need alot of plants to make a difference, or larger ones. monstera, dracaena, rubber tree fig
Sadly my upstairs and downstairs neighbours are chain smokers. They close their windows and the balcony doors and I get all the (pot) smoke. Why does Germany have so many smokers?
Neat, that was a fun read! I’ll have to try it!
Dies ist der einzigste Weg.
This is the only way
Wenn schon, dann auch the onliest way.
