'I'll make your room a sauna': College student messes with thermostat, engages in petty back-and-forth with upstairs roommates

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 8, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

There is nothing like a feud between roommates over apartment temperature.

No matter what stage of life you're in, you may very well find yourself living with someone who has a very different conception of appropriate inside temperature than you do. For instance, I am someone who needs a strong A/C on at night, and this proves to be an issue whenever I have to stay with my parents. This is primarily because my mother is petrified of breaking the A/C, so she copes by never using it even if there's a heat wave. So I have lots of sympathy for this college student, who found himself in the middle of a thermostat war with his upstairs roommates.

Keep scrolling below for the full post and for the backlash in the comments section from people who were suggesting that this dude must be a nightmare to live with. Whose side are you on?

For more stories like this, check out this post about an insubordinate coworker.

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  • 01
    stelpro "It was wonderfully warm in my room from that point on and the upstairs guys cooked."
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    Can't compromise on temperature? Okay, I'll make your room a sauna!
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    I shared a c old college house with 8 guys. It had rooms tucked away everywhere including a converted walk-in closet and converted dining room. It had no insulation and the hvac was all messed up. In the
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    winter there was literally a 20 degree difference between the basement (where I slept) and the upstairs rooms. The "compromise" was to set the thermostat on the main floor at 70 so I'd be at 60 in the basement and the upstairs would be 80. I'd use a space heater and they would Crack the window.
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    Well, the upstairs guys kept getting fed up with the 80 degrees so they'd turn the thermostat all the way down in the middle of the night. I kept waking up in a 50 degree room.
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    My revenge: I wired a thermostat in parallel to the one on the main floor and put it in my room. I then set it to a cosy 75-80 degrees.
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    The guys kept messing with the main thermostat to no avail and were p at the "broken" furnace. It was wonderfully warm in my room from that point on and the upstairs guys cooked!
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    PunfullyObvious • 23h ago Going by your numbers, we could extrapolate to it having been 95-100degF ~ (36C) on the top floor... that's pretty extreme and I'd think a pretty $$$ heating bill
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    night-otter 19h ago . My college dorm had one thermostat per every 5 or so rooms. Our room had the thermostat. One weekend, it was a warm spring day, so my roommate opened the window. Then he left for the weekend. I was already gone for the weekend.
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    I returned on Sunday to be met by the other dorm residents, complaining about how hot their rooms were. The RAs were gone for the weekend too.
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  • 11
    I open my door to find a snow drift in our room. Friday warm, Sat & Sun snow, welcome to spring in Michigan.
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    pygame • 10h ago . maybe i'm crazy but 50 is way more doable than 80
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    Fluffy Tid ⚫8h ago When I was a kid our house had a thermostat that worked in reverse. That is, if the thermostat doesn't give a signal, the heater gets to work.
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    The thermostat got broken and for a week we lived in 1. And it cost a fortune
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    rant-guy ⚫2h ago Man imagine living with someone as s as you
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