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I see there is no legal MAXimum temperature but this is extremely uncomfortable. I have two fans moving hot air around and feel a bit headachy and sick.
It's an interesting H&S/DSE conundrum.
I'm finding frequent breaks and cold drinks are helping me, if not productivity
Any reason you cant take yourself away? Either just for regular breaks or somewhere else to work?
There may be no stated max temp, but your employer still has health and safety obligations! Heat stress is a real thing, if you were doing manual labour then the environment should be monitored using a wet-bulb globe temperature instrument, (WBGT) and appropriate work/rest regime as a minimum implemented.
However, if you do complain to your employer about the temperatures at your home office. the answer might be for you to resume commuting to the air-conditioned office, so be careful what you wish for!
29 here. Going to move to the front of the house soon where it's a bit cooler. Just don't have a desk.
Roll on Autumn!
Roll on Autumn!
To be fair, the forecasts suggest we only need to wait till the weekend.
Though I'll take the heat compared to what the jet stream has thrown at Germany
Room temperature is around 27 today.
I'm wearing swim shorts and light shirt, sat on a plastic chair in the shed. When the heat gets a bit much, I go and lie in the paddling pool for a bit, still dressed. Light towel off so I'm not actually dripping, then sit in cool, damp clothes until they dry off, then repeat. Working well so far!
Run your wrists under the cold tap.
Or turn on the air conditioner for the first time this year. My loft office is 34C.
ned - that doesn't sound too practical for me!
tthew - an excellent point - TY
32.1 here, not too bad with a fan going. 11% relative humidity helps.
In my old classroom, peak of summer heatwave a few years ago with 34 sweaty teenagers we measured the temp at 36 degrees. It was unbearable. To be fair, it was the most docile they had been throughout the year. Most poorly designed school. They only had aircon in one of the buildings...guess where the headteachers office was?! He also insisted on male staff wearing their suit jackets around the school in that heat as he once worked in Dubai for a year and still wore a full suit throughout.
Luckily, now my home office is OK, 22 degrees.
Temperature is still a bit low for me considering where I came from the normal daily outside temperature is 32c to 34c. Room temperature is around 30c.
It's almost as though UK residents are designed for 15 to 16 degrees C all year round.
I'm sat in a part of our house that doesn't get sun directly and has a double open door to the garden. About 25 where I am now with lovely occasional breeze.
Trouble is, this is my personal laptop in the kitchen. Work one needs extra screens, work crap and other mess that really isn't suited to anywhere other than its own room.
As a result, it is in the top spare bedroom. When I left it with both large windows wide open, it was 32 degrees. Have a fan to move the air a bit and a huge 20" fan for the turbo that is also in the same room - but that is a tad loud for work.
Seem to be wearing shorts all year round now since lockdown started last March. So much so that 'long' trousers feel awkward now. Shorts and a tee are ok in the 'office' up to about 34 degrees, as long as I don't move much.
MTFU and get a proper job.
Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
No malice intended btw. 😉
We're an odd nation. We spend 50 weeks of the year whining that it's too cold, wet, grey and miserable, and the other fortnight whining that it's too hot.
I'm really struggling to get anything done today. I've drunk twelvety pints of Coke, I still have what feels like a dehydration headache and I've got shitloads to do for work and around the house. My scrotum is seemingly molecularly bonded to my right thigh. I've got a Big Daft Fan on order from Meaco but it doesn't get here till tomorrow.
@cougar - A Maeco fan in the bedroom has been great for us. I bought it last year in desperation because our old bedroom fan was like a Chinook
Yeah. We've already got one, I've just bought its baby brother. They're spendy but certainly for a bedroom they're worth it.
Though I bought it from Curry's as it was ten quid cheaper.
Bowl of cold water under your desk. Maybe add some ice, even. Put your bare feet in it. Makes a huge difference.
I’m finding frequent breaks and cold drinks are helping me, if not productivity
cold beer is hindering my productivity too...
I'm just sat in my pants working in the dining room.....
I’m just sat in my pants working in the dining room…..
Same as every other day then?
I've got the turbo fan blasting at me in the home office, its keeping me fairly cool but I think I will be deaf when I turn it off.
Haha, glad to see I'm not the only one in pain. I'm just doing frequent cold showers while working topless in my shorts. Not sure what to do about phone and laptop overheating.
And, it's here. Off to Curry's for collection, smell y'all later.
Working from a sofa today with fan to the side. Fancied a change from the home office.
Missus is working from the conservatory which is proper scorchio, but she at least had a fan for company.
Seems like temps will be dropping by Thu.
Same as every other day then?
Well it's a work day, so I made an effort and put pants on.
Is that 6” Meaco fan honestly enough to cool a bedroom? £50 and £70 variants available at Currys.
One of the benefits of being a Zwiftaholic...
I've all manner of fans at my disposal...
Currnetly have brought one of the gentle Honeywell fanst into work - nice a quiet, and keeping air flowing...
At home i've the 40" metal floor fan sat by the open front door, blasting air through the flat...
And my Cleva air gun thing in the kitchen blowing a beam of air at my groin...
mmm
DrP
If anyone's got a fan that's noisy, try balancing the blades with a dob or two of blue tack. I ordered a well-reviewed but cheapy one off Amazon, it felt like it was going to vibrate off the worktop. 10 mins experimenting with size and position and it's smooth and quiet.
Can I get the worlds tiniest violin out? try working under a uniform code with physical activity. Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
I remember regularly drinking 5l of water a day and still getting dehydrated at work. Not a couple of days a year but regularly all summer
OP - you need water. You sound like you are mildly dehydrated
and the other fortnight whining that it’s too hot.
Heat is the killer, not the cold. And COVID too of course.
Can I get the world's tiniest violin out?
FTFY
Have a 2l bottle of ice in front of the fan here.
Bowl of water with ice cubes in front of the big fan and smaller fan on desk
It’s lovely. Working from home with window open and some music on. Beats when I worked in a textile mill with a Tenter machine (basically a massive oven for drying fabric) blasting out heat whilst I was throwing massive rolls of carpet and fabric about.
Christ knows how some of you would cope in an actual warm climate (let alone hot), doing actual manual work.
Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
Just not cut out for actual manly* work, some of these office wallahs. 😉
*The vast majority of women would just get on with it. Tends to be mainly men who whine and moan about how hard life is...
Is that 6” Meaco fan honestly enough to cool a bedroom?
I suppose it's rather dependant on the size of your bedroom. It's killing it here in my office which is probably the size of a single bedroom, it chucks out about as much air as the traditional 12" desk fan it's replaced which was top of the range when I bought it 25 years ago.
Its big brother annihilates it, but that was twice the price.
Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
only if you try counting to more than ten 😉
based on how much you've saved just on fuel/train fares, sort some proper aircon out & you'll still be quids in!
I've got a proper air con unit sat right beside my desk, but due to the layout of the room, I can't use it!!!
No access to the window, and can't run the exhaust out the door as it would pump hot air into the rest of the house.
I'm moving in a few weeks and will be able to set it up permanently right by a window, will be utter bliss. The new office will also be 12ft x 12ft vs the 7ft x 8ft sweatbox I'm currently in, with 2x monitors, a laptop, desktop PC and the smallest opening windows know to man, but facing directly into the afternoon sun...
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this is extremely uncomfortable.
The flame retardant boilersuit, sleeves, gauntlets and welding hood I've had on all day have been pretty uncomfortable, over 30° in the workshop but that's just part of the job unfortunately. No offence to op but it makes me laugh when people complain of it being too hot to work in an office
It's half past 5. You can stop now.
I remember when living in Oz mid-teens, we'd get sent home from school when it hit 38.5C... hope we don't get to that here over the coming years, with our humidity it'll finish a lot of folks off.
The shop floor at work is between 35°c to low 40°c. In a very physical job.
I'm sure you'll get by in your home office with your nice cool drinks close to hand.
Like a few have said, wait till your working on a roll change in a building with no opening windows, wearing a Hat, hairnet, gloves, glasses, mask while wearing Nomex flame retarding workwear.
Temp there at this time of year is 40deg and 95% humidity. your eyes sting with the sweat and you get huge rashes in places you don't want.
On a lighter note I'm on holiday this week so have escaped it for a sweaty job of driving and fixing tractors in Devon 😮
Suddenly I feel a lot better after having to wear level 3 PPE in 31c heat, poor officer workers.
Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
Been there, had the sweat soaked shirt.
In the summer, temps were well into the 40s on the shop floor. Add in wearing thick woollen jacket/trousers, leather gauntlets and full face helmet and visor, and pouring 800 deg aluminium.
I could drink almost at every opportunity, and still lose 5-6 lbs in a day
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Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
Been there, had the sweat soaked shirt.
In the summer, temps were well into the 40s on the shop floor. Add in wearing thick woollen jacket/trousers, leather gauntlets and full face helmet and visor, and pouring 800 deg aluminium.
I could drink almost at every opportunity, and still lose 5-6 lbs in a day
"Yep and had the kidney stones to prove it :("
The stupid amount I spaffed on a Visionair aircon/heater for my shed is now not so stupid.
we're up to early 40's in't foundry, any one have it harder than that? 😀
If you work in a foundry or any line of work, that's your choice and you sort of know what to expect. Working in an office, you expect a nice comfortable environment. It's partially why people choose to work in an office. So when we have to endure 30+ degree heat, being used to a nice 22 degree air conditioned air, it's not surprising we can't cope.
Plus, Brits melt at anything over 28 degrees, it's been scientifically proven. I'm just a pool of mushy liquid currently.
I’m sure you’ll get by in your home office with your nice cool drinks close to hand.
I've worked on the shop floor in those temperatures and it's far from pleasant. Equally, high office temperatures make it very difficult to concentrate.
Sitting down is hard!
How many of you shade windows, as they do in the med? I find it amazing that most of our street on the hottest day of the year have windows with curtains open through the heat of the day.
Every little helps and all.
only had to put up with 30 plus this aft working on site only bearable cos of shorts, Email this afternoon'It has been bought to our attention that a number of people have been wearing shorts today ...will turn blind eye today but long trousers from tomorrow' ... bugger, much safer though?
It was rare to find air-conditioning in Switzerland and in the summer it got really hot. When this happened all the windows were shut and the blinds went down. Seemed to work.
OP your facilities manager needs replacing. Not up to the job!
When my second son was born my wife went into labour at our sub-tropical home in peak summer it was over 40 degrees C on the deck. Humidity like you wouldn't believe. No air-con.
I had to chase her round the house with ice packs and a pedestal fan. She wouldn't bloody stay still, i was exhausted.
...and God she made a racket.
Blinds down and curtains shut does stop the house from getting hotter than the outside, but in a house where the rooms are all relatively small it gets stuffy very quickly. My office room is about 2.5m x 1.8m and if I work in there when it’s 30c outside it will easily get up to 35c.
I can bear that though. What’s hard is putting a 2 year old and 2 month old to bed when it’s 28-30c inside.
Is the answer not to just go in to the office where they (I assume) have air-con? The government tell us it's perfectly safe now after all... In seriousness, my employer has completely rearranged the office so we have masses of space between people. I think the chances of covid are much outweighed by the negatives of sitting in a 30degC home office right now. That said, my solution was just to start work very early today so I can finish before the sun hits my window.
Don't worry; in a few years, when all the office jobs have either become redundant or outsourced to India etc, you'll all be working in factories making cheap shit for wealthy Chinese people, and you'll be too busy to worry about being uncomfortable. So you do at least have something to look forward to.
Naively, I wasn't expecting to get flamed for my OP!
I have a a can of fridge-chilled aerosol cooling mist which is bloody lovely.
It's 32.3 in here today...
So what did HR say?
Naively, I wasn’t expecting to get flamed for my OP!
Forget where you were? 😉
I used to work in a TGI Fridays style place, on days like this, the fry and grill station were horrible places to work BUT, the walk in freezer was amazing.
Well - it's getting dangerous now:
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I've gone down the windows closed, blackout curtains closed, door closed, fan on circulating air method today and it does seem a lot better.
Closed the curtains before the sun had a chance to hit, dare I say it's actually quite comfortable.
Thanks to whoever suggested that.
Well – it’s getting dangerous now:
Another top tip: Soak a large, absorbent piece of fabric such as, say, a blanket, in cold water, and wrap yourself up in it. Would be quite fitting.
Derek - given its cooler outside my guess is its solar gain. Have you had windows open and blinds closed overnight and all day to a: cool it down overnight and B: prevent solar gain in the day
Have you got a cross breeze running with windows / doors on both sides of the building open?
32.7c really is not dangerous so long as you keep hydrated.
TBH it was 40 here last Monday and that was a tad warm.
Currently a pleasant 32 with a light cooling breeze and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain.
I’m really struggling to get anything done today. I’ve drunk twelvety pints of Coke,
not sure if this is a joke, but coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
not sure if this is a joke, but coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
Not if its fun free decaffeinated 🙂
Still it could have been twelvety pints of Red Bull 🙂
BUT, the walk in freezer was amazing.
I worked for a bit in a support job at a call centre. Open plan office with no air conditioning or opening windows got rather warm during summer. Luckily I was one of a handful with access to the server room so used to find important things to find to do in that air conditioned room.
coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
that sentence has myths in it.
Caffine is a mild diuretic and will make you pee a bit more - but if you are dehydrated other bodily mechanisms come into play to prevent this and anyway the extra it makes you pee is not as much as the fluid volume - thats my undeerstaning of the myths about cola
Its also fairly well isotonic if you get the real stuff with sugar in it.
The reference to it getting dangerous was in jest folks.
Although it did hit a veritably lethal 37.4 earlier.
I have the blinds shut and window open.
I'm 52 and thought this was okay?
The reference to it getting dangerous was in jest folks.
straight over my head - sorry!
another wee tip - wear a sarong. Its all I have on right now in my 30C+ flat. Very comfy.
now there is an image you didn't want 🙂
Cripes - this heat just made me envisage TJ in a sarong and nowt else.
Like a mirage from hell.
You want pictures?
that sentence has myths in it.
it does? i thought caffeine (and sugar) would cause dehydration. happy to be corrected
edit: seen tjagain’s post. thanks