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Yes it is. I used to ventillate my room in Uni when it was way past -20 C outside. As long as you have decent heating it is not a big deal if you do it periodic
by cfn 4y ago
Yes it is. I used to ventillate my room in Uni when it was way past -20 C outside. As long as you have decent heating it is not a big deal if you do it periodically.
- Tade0 4y agoProvided you live in a place where heating is generally clean. Over here it's 4°C at the time of writing and my air filter goes crazy if I open the window.
- ls15 4y agoAssuming that the air outside is fresh and not a thick mess of coal smoke like in many places.
- bobthepanda 4y agoEven wood stoves are bad for air quality here in the PNW.
- crazygringo 4y ago"Not a big deal"...? My electric bill would go up 4x if I was periodically ventilating my whole living space in the winter. Good lord. Are you going to pay that for me? I mean, I understand that at Uni, you probably weren't the one paying your heating bill, so you didn't have any responsibility for your actions. But in the real world, that's incredibly expensive, wasteful, and terrible for the environment (depending on your source of power). So, yes, it kind of is a "big deal". Even if you didn't realize it at Uni because you were burning through someone else's money.
- ac29 4y agoAnecdotal, but: I have found opening windows to be very effective at reducing C02 (as measured with a good sensor) and not very effective at changing the temperature even when it is significantly colder outside than inside. I live in a single family detached house, so I'm not just getting someone elses heat through the walls. My suspicion is that this has to do with the thermal mass of air versus the thermal mass of the rest of the house - bringing in ~10,000 cubic feet of fresh air with a fan doesnt take long and dramatically improves indoor air quality but doesnt change the temperature much.