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Warm innit?
So who uses a portable device? I've tried the 'ice cubes in a bowl under the flow of the fan' system & It's ineffective.
So what's a decent unit? It's mainly to cool the bedroom down before bedtime, don't mind being cold in bed cos you can easily warm up but lying there sweating like Jack McSweaty from Sweatyville ain't no fun! The way things are going I can only see one getting more use year by year.
Do I need to spend £400-500?
Thoughts please.
Have you done all the things you can to do help passively keep cool?
The way things are going I can only see one getting more use year by year.
Now there's a self fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one 🙂
My thoughts are try a DC fan 1st as aircon is an environmental disaster, especially portable ones, also running costs are circa 75p-£1 an hour.
we have a Maeco fan and it’s keeping our room manageable.
Amazing how many people think 'it's hot therefore I open windows' when the air outside is hotter than the air inside.
We've had one about 15 years. Modern house, super cheap to heat, cool downstairs, but two south facing bedrooms get stupid hot in weather like this. The walls just radiate heat.
Running costs are just short of 30p per hour (1Kwh consumption on ours). We've had it on quite a few days.
Be aware they are noisy - ours sits outside the bathroom, exhaust vented out of the bathroom window, and blows the cool air into the bedrooms. You get used to the noise ! Only use it when the weather is as hot as this.
Ours has been very reliable.
Is a targeted air con unit in one room for an hour so occasionally at 700-1000 watts any worse than heating your house all winter?
Even when you've done everything else. Curtains etc.
Amazing how many people think ‘it’s hot therefore I open windows’ when the air outside is hotter than the air inside.
Yes I hate seeing this - but I guess we're operating on on the normal logic of letting the British Weather cool your down.
I have a lot of sympathy for the current situation - we're set up to keep heat in.
Amazing how many people think ‘it’s hot therefore I open windows’ when the air outside is hotter than the air inside.
The temperature in my (east-facing) bedroom was 29C at 8am this morning. And that's with some heavy curtains and a couple of blackout blinds! 🙁
My thoughts are try a DC fan 1st as aircon is an environmental disaster, especially portable ones, also running costs are circa 75p-£1 an hour.
Don't get a 3KW model.
we have a Maeco fan and it’s keeping our room manageable.
We have 2 of these, they are great in the bedroom
£299 - with window kit.
Out of stock. Lol.
I got this for occasional use. Cheap and very very noisy.
Does the job for a couple of hours a week.
Have you done all the things you can to do help passively keep cool?
Like what? I mean seriously.
I know I'm due my state pension next month but I might've missed something.
Fan(s) Check.
Open the windows first thing before it warms up Check
Close the windows & curtains/blinds as soon as it's starts to warm up. Check
Try having the windows open but curtains/blinds closed. Check.
Have a quick warm shower then stand in front of fan(s) stark bollock naked. Check.
Have a cold shower to cool off NO!
What else am I missing?
Shutters?
Open the fridge ?
We bought a portable a/c unit just before the 40C stint a month ago. Thinks it's 2.3 KW. Worked pretty well and could just about cope with 40C outside whilst cooling most of the downstairs (open plan) which was well outside it's spec. Probably cost £1/hour to run or something like that.
I can see us getting a proper a/c system installed at some point if we keep getting hotter summers. Just plug it into the solar and it'll cost nothing to run.
Use a big fan. Control the ambient temperature with your doors and windows.
As for AC
Now there’s a self fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one 🙂
Yes, the AC-GW paradox.
Fans use around 1% of the electricity consumed by air conditioners. You could leave a fan running for a full 24 hours and still use less energy than 15 minutes of air conditioning.
When it all gets too much I do use this 18” floor fan and even at the lowest setting it stops our dog collapsing and me from drowning in my own sweat. It’s unused 90% of the year but it’s been very very handy this last few weeks.
Failing all above - simply fill the washing up bowl with iced water and put your feet on while sitting in front of the fan and making soft cooing noises
Do the geniuses on here realise that a fan won’t [i]actually[/i] cool a room down?
I'd happily use a fan, but 'the boss' will moan it's dried her eyes out (whilst her eyes are shut). Just not worth the aggro. Tried it many times.
What else am I missing?
When in bed, use just a sheet, and mist the sheet with a water mister bottle.
A few pumps of that up in the air then feeling it mist down onto you is lush.
Do the geniuses on here realise that a fan won’t <em class="bbcode-em">actually cool a room down?
In fact they will warm it up, since the motors are much less than 100% efficient. The answer is just relax, it's only a few days a year. Keep the curtains closed so the sun doesn't warm the inside of the house. Let the air through when it is actually cooler outside. Have a siesta in the hottest part of the day.
I bought a Delonghi Pinguino 11,000BTU portable unit a week ago. I work from home a lot in a south facing single storey flat roofed office approx. 2x2m. It was hitting mid 30s in there with all the measures noted above before lunchtime. I do feel bad as I’m well aware they’re an environmental disaster.
It’s completely over specced for the size of the room so it is VERY effective and only needs to be on for 30-40 mins to fridge the place and keep it cool for the rest of the working day. I over specced thinking I’ll get the window kit and carry it upstairs when it gets really bad again for the bedrooms. I tried this out with a bodge for the window ducting and it was average at best. A split system is meant to be much better and efficient but that’s a whole order of magnitude more cost/work as you’re running refrigerant pipes through walls, mounting stuff on the roof, etc.
I was going to get one from screwfix but they were all sold out and when I started reading the reviews they said they were pretty noisy. The delonghi was nearly double the price but was a brand I’d heard of and had a quiet mode.. It is still rather noisy even in that mode but I’ve tested it on Teams/Meet and the only one that can hear it is me so the mic/software must do a good job of cutting out background noise.
Had to cut a 150mm hole in the wall mind.. which was a bit of a surprise as I thought it would just be the same as a dryer outlet but no, £55 for a drill bit I will likely use once. So if anyone in the North East wants to borrow it let me know!
We’ve spent a lot of money on the flat dormer roofs getting them over insulated (warm deck?) with new frame, 100mm insulation, etc. New pitched roof next, insulation behind cladding in bedrooms, etc. but it’s big money and the government aren’t interested in helping people with it. Anyway I’m away down a side road now..
Do the geniuses on here realise that a fan won’t actually cool a room down?
I’m very far from a genius but I’m just smart enough to know that you were being condescending/sarcastic!
I’m not using the fan to make make my room cooler I’m trying to make me cooler by convective heat loss. By blowing air around, the fan makes it easier for the air to evaporate sweat from skin, which is how you eliminate body heat. The more evaporation, the cooler you’ll feel.
When I leave the room I turn the fan off.
I’m old-fashioned and still believe that ‘wind-chill’ is a factor 😉
Do the geniuses on here realise that a fan won’t actually cool a room down?
That possibly true. But they will cool you down
Do the geniuses on here realise that a fan won’t actually cool a room down?
a) they can help, if the inside temp is warmer than outside (it often is in my house in the evenings)
b) anyway they cool the person, not the room
What else am I missing?
Fridge-cold water? - use an insulated bottle/flask at your desk so it stays cold
And you totally should have a cold shower! They're great.
Have you tried lying on the sofa and saying UUURGGGHHH at regular intervals?
You shouldn't need to spend that much, I got one a couple of years back for around £300. Bodged up some attachment to the bedroom window, only ever use it at night times in summer usually but I did get it set up in the living room when it got up to 40 degrees a few weeks back
Warm innit?
So who uses a portable device? I’ve tried the ‘ice cubes in a bowl under the flow of the fan’ system & It’s ineffective.
So what’s a decent unit? It’s mainly to cool the bedroom down before bedtime, don’t mind being cold in bed cos you can easily warm up but lying there sweating like Jack McSweaty from Sweatyville ain’t no fun! The way things are going I can only see one getting more use year by year.
Do I need to spend £400-500?
Thoughts please.
I can't comment on current models and costs but we use one when needed, 9000btu. South facing living room gets very toasty all day so unit runs from mid morning until about 7pm and keeps the downstairs of the house around 23 °C.
The unit itself has to be getting on for around 20 years old, my dad bought it in France to use in his caravan. Runs at about 1kW so when we had the first heat wave hitting 40 °C we were using a good 10kWh a day, more like 7-8 kWh this week with it being a bit cooler. I had a 4.2 kWh solar install fitted in 2018 so thankfully no running costs.
I'm looking to pick up a newer one (2nd hand) with heat function too to use during brighter winter days as a secondary heat source.
What else am I missing?
Fans - no, at least not if you can help it. They do generate a noticeable amount of their own heat. Those are all the basic tips but I'd add the following:
- Thick heavy curtains are good in both winter and summer. Use a double rail so you can have a light muslin one on the inside if you want. Blackout lining is great stuff.
- If you have a hot water tank, turn the temp down, and stuff a duvet or two around it. Also handy in winter.
- Showers don't have to be hot or cold. Start with a medium shower, and whilst you are in it gradually ease the temperature down til it's as cold as you can handle. Get yourself as cold as you can bear then your bedroom will feel lovely.
- Open windows on opposite sides of the house if you do, then any air movement will pass through the house. I've just done this.
- Don't cook, obvs, and if you have to use the microwave if possible e.g. for cooking vegetables. Helps if you put it outside on an extension lead, same for the toaster and kettle.
- Don't use the TV - watch on a tablet or phone if you can.
- Don't use computers either if you can help it, and if you have to make it a laptop.
Didn't bother this summer but portable AC on the menu next year. We spend hundreds of pounds heating our house for most of the year to be comfortable. I see nothing wrong with running AC for a few weeks.
As for the planet? I,m sure the no foreign holiday this year will balance 2 or 3 weeks using aircon.
Drink more beer!
Then use the cans to make a solar draft cooler...
If you're feeling especially crafty, you could use a portable panel to shield a window
Ceiling fans work. There's a reason why they're often seen in hot countries. They're much quieter than freestanding fans, and just keep the air circulating / a slight breeze.
3:30pm and still only 21.4C in our open plan , south facing living room. 32C outside & 4th day of cloudless skies. Carefull management, windows open all night, closed by 9am, curtains and blinds mostly closed. Most importantly, stopped the Mrs throwing open the French doors at lunch time. With a pedestal fan on as well, very comfortable. Outside....later maybe!
At work we bought a portable 12000btu air con unit a few months ago, planning ahead before they sold out or jumped in price. 30m2 office, just 2 of us and 4 desktop PCs running. AC struggles, just about keeps below 28C by the afternoon. Problem is they throw a lot of heated air out the exhaust (to a vented roof void in our case), but equally are pulling that air in from outside at over 30c as well. Chasing its own tail really. If we could take outside air directly into the condenser section, rather than it mixing we the room air we're trying to cool, would help. But not possible.
I've got a Challenge 7k unit from Argos about three or four years ago. It's been used about ten days since then for four or five hours in the heat of the day. Came with hose and fitting for a sliding window (we have those). Really makes a difference when you get that "just too hot to think straight" feeling. Noisy, expensive to run, bulky and heavy to move up and down to the cellar when not needed, but I'm glad I have it. our house is big Victorian semi, and doesn't heat up quickly, so we don't need it often. The big trees in the front garden help with shade too.
Thick heavy curtains are good in both winter and summer. Use a double rail so you can have a light muslin one on the inside if you want. Blackout lining is great stuff.
You obviously haven't bought curtains lately. I could get 2 air con units for what it'd cost to do our front room!
parents have a portable unit
We used it to cool down my daughters room when we stayed with them as shes 2 and doesnt understand why its so hot there and cannot be reasoned with.
Even though it was a pricy unit it was Noisy.
IT was effective at cooling the air ..... but not at cooling the structure so when turned off it heated up very quickly.
Outside temp was +40 the exterior shutters were closed - the internal temp with the AC unit going hell for leather and externally vented was 19 degrees.
25 minutes after turning it off - it was back to 28degrees in there.
As for running costs and enviromental disasterism...... it was using up excess solar power.
Oh and its regularly +40 down there.
Id have a celing fan my self.
Fans – no, at least not if you can help it. They do generate a noticeable amount of their own heat. Those are all the basic tips but I’d add the following:
– Thick heavy curtains are good in both winter and summer. Use a double rail so you can have a light muslin one on the inside if you want. Blackout lining is great stuff.
– If you have a hot water tank, turn the temp down, and stuff a duvet or two around it. Also handy in winter.
– Showers don’t have to be hot or cold. Start with a medium shower, and whilst you are in it gradually ease the temperature down til it’s as cold as you can handle. Get yourself as cold as you can bear then your bedroom will feel lovely.
– Open windows on opposite sides of the house if you do, then any air movement will pass through the house. I’ve just done this.
– Don’t cook, obvs, and if you have to use the microwave if possible e.g. for cooking vegetables. Helps if you put it outside on an extension lead, same for the toaster and kettle.
– Don’t use the TV – watch on a tablet or phone if you can.
– Don’t use computers either if you can help it, and if you have to make it a laptop.
that sounds like one of those bad instagram troll lifehacks videos in the making ?
I used to work in northern territories and off papua new guinea in much hotter temps than this - and sleep in accommodation with no AC. Going for a shower with the bed sheet and then going to sleep with the fan blowing over that became a firm favorite for a nice cool sleep in the stifling heat.
We've had ours years, and I wouldn't be without it in weather like this. Main exhaust/outlet pipes are about 150mm diameter, but only 1.5m long. Any extensions you get are usually 100mm, so you've got to use some tape to join them, or a reducer. Our run is about 3m-5m in total - main pipe is kept compacted, and the extension is just flexible ducting, which then vents a couple of feet down from the open window. Ours is 9,000 BTU and is enough to keep the two south facing bedrooms cool - we also put towels over the bannister to stop cool air being blown downstairs. At a push we can cool 3 rooms if angled properly.
I very nearly chucked it one year - just kept overheating. Wasn't until I got all the covers off did I find the condensor/exchange radiators covered in thick dust (despie a filter that's regularly cleaned).
Cleaned it out again this week - 5 minute job (when you know which cover to remove).
We've inherited a Dyson fan - that's needed stripping and the motor lubing with Finishline Ceramic to make it quiet.
Tried to buy one this week and couldn't find one in stock for under £400. Seems everywhere sold out
Tried to buy one this week and couldn’t find one in stock for under £400. Seems everywhere sold out
thats capitalism for you.
You obviously haven’t bought curtains lately. I could get 2 air con units for what it’d cost to do our front room!
We didn't get fancy specially made ones, we went to Ikea and spent £100 about a decade ago.
Try fans first, a little bit of airflow over your skin makes an absolutely huge difference to the rate sweat can evaporate. I've got a tiny little USB powered desk fan (it's basically a 120mm PC cooling fan in a nice gimbal) and that's generally enough, and runs off the spare port on my phone charger.
In the glamourous world of TV production one of my many jobs was to try and air condition various metal boxes sat in the sun and overfilled with shouty TV people and electronic equipment. They only work if they're pretty much sealed shut. Dangling hoses out of windows and through doors is hugely inefficient. If the "hot" hose is blowing air out the window, then an equivalent of volume of hot outside air is also being drawn in the window. So you need to give them some thought to making blanking panels for windows etc. Else put the AC in a separate room and put a duct through the wall for the cooled air.
In the end we gave up and bought a split system that pumps hot water out to an exchanger outside, then just used the all in one units to keep the other end of the cabin consistent and act as extractor fans.
If you can't handle your beers sufficiently to make the solar draft cooler, you could knock up some fancy paint that is so potent it basically bats the heat back into space....
Do the geniuses on here realise that
a fanan AC unitwon’t actually cool a room downwill actually warm the globe up?
FTFY
“By 2050 the International Energy Agency expects the number of AC units to reach 5.6 billion, which would make AC the second source of electricity demand globally, requiring as much power as the current capacity of the US, Europe and Japan.”
https://www.rics.org/uk/wbef/megatrends/natural-environment/the-air-conditioning-paradox/
Well, if everyone else is doing it…
Oh and its regularly +40 down there.
It is here too. Insulated white painted walls, external shutters, no air con. We're now into our fourth heat wave of the year whereas 30 years back we used to get one every couple of years.
The last few nights the lowest overnight temperature outside we've seen has been 25°C and this morning it was 27°C at 07:00. It's now 29°C inside, that's the highest since insulating the place. It's starting to cool outside though, 36°C, and the forecast is much cooler tomorrow, Hopefully that's the last heat wave of the year.
You get used to it and work around it. If I know it was 27°C this morning it's becuase we went out horse riding before it got hot. A swim at lunchtime and then siesta. We'll go out again when the relative cool of evening comes. I sleep fine, you get used to it.
I've planted some trees and we plan to dig up some of the tarmac to replace with grass.
You get used to it and work around it. If I know it was 27°C this morning it’s becuase we went out horse riding before it got hot. A swim at lunchtime and then siesta. We’ll go out again when the relative cool of evening comes. I sleep fine, you get used to it.
I guess its grand to have that privilege .
But yes my parents who are also retired are used to it -
MY two year old daughter who is a visitor and also cannot be rationally reasoned with although im sure certain people would try it ..... requires cooling as its just not an issue that she has to deal with for more than 7-10 days at a time. - much like the south of england to be fair.
Pretty sure it was having young kids that got us getting the unit TBH. We did have ceiling fans on the landing and our bedroom many years ago, but, as said earlier, the Boss complained.
Oh, and switch the unit off, the stored heat in the walls then heats up the bedrooms. They are currently nice and cool.
If I know it was 27°C this morning it’s becuase we went out horse riding before it got hot. A swim at lunchtime and then siesta.
I tried to adopt that kind of schedule but my boss complained
Have you considered insulating the walls on the inside or outside, Fossy? Cooler in Summer, warmer in Winter, lower energy bills. Some of our walls today:
Newly built, unfinished extension wall in red brick: Outside too hot to touch, inside warm. The bricks have about the same colour and thermal resistance as a British cavity wall with polystyrene beads in the cavity.
A section of old uninsulated wall painted white: warm on the outside, not quite so warm on the inside.
Properly insulated white painted wall: warm on the outside, cool on the inside.
Have one. Don’t use it. Too noisy to work with, takes the temp down by about ten degrees. Uses several KW. Was 30 in the office yesterday. I use a fan and spray some water at it to add to cooling with a plant sprayer.
By 2050 the International Energy Agency expects the number of AC units to reach 5.6 billion, which would make AC the second source of electricity demand globally, requiring as much power as the current capacity of the US, Europe and Japan.”
What will be the biggest demand then? Electric cars?
I tried to adopt that kind of schedule but my boss complained
My boss hadn't used to complain. Up at 05:50 for a run/bike before walking into the office at 08:00 and then a lunchtime swim. It's true that the siesta habit only started when I quit employment and went completely self employed.
Our walls have the insulation panels inserted between the outer brick and the breeze block. Built 27 years ago. Same issue with neighbour's south facing rooms too. Downstairs is cool, those two bedrooms hot. Thing is the house is really cheap to heat on gas in winter, really thermally good (electricity is shocking due to various gadgets/hot tub). It's only a few weeks of the year.
Would local planning regs allow you to paint the south-facing walls white? There was a report on our local TV encouraging us to paint roofs/walls white where possible, the temperature differences and economies they reported were significant.
We didn’t get fancy specially made ones, we went to Ikea and spent £100 about a decade ago.
Except that what I’m happy with regarding curtains & what Mrs Efg is happy with are two completely different things.
Plus we’d need 4 pairs of quite big curtains, so it’s curtains to that idea.
Actually we do have blackouts in the bedroom though.
Would local planning regs allow you to paint the south-facing walls white
Not much point as the only south facing wall is a gable end that’s in the shadow of next doors gable end.
Yep, got a couple of portable units. One upstairs cooling the hallway with fans blowing into the offices (Both of us WFH). One downstairs to cool the lounge down ad hoc as needed.
Seriously considering a proper installation in a couple of rooms.
What will be the biggest demand then? Electric cars?
Not a chance. I imagine heating would still be number one, then cooling , then manufacturing? Transportation sector currently uses 1% of electricity in the US for instance, I don’t see that overtaking the cooling sector by 2050?
Research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency predicts that by about 2060, the amount of energy used worldwide in cooling will overtake that used in heating.
Over the next 15 years, according to the EU, the energy used to cool buildings across Europe is likely to increase by 72%, while the energy used for heating them will fall by 30%.
Have a cold shower - don't be a pussy about it. Don't dry yourself - the evaporating water cools you further.
Jump in your local river!
Paint your house white.
Fit shutters OUTSIDE yr windows.
Insulate yr house
Another idea as I'm the one cooking tonight, a portable induction hob used outside doesn't heat up the house. I carry the oven outside too.
had a shower - went out on the bike. Keeps you cool for 10 minutes. Or go for a drive with aircon on. (I expect Greta will tell me off soon).
First things first, and this will save you a fortune in the winter, is your house properly insulated? With the impending gas price rises in mind we insulated our loft this spring and our house has be noticeably more comfortable in this years hot weather.
Jump in your local river!
It's currently about 3cm deep!
A few years ago we built above our garage and instead of speccing radiators/ boiler etc to heat it I put an air con unit in at a cost of £1000.
It’s a 9m x 6m space and right now I’m sat in 20 degree comfort and have slept in here for the past week with the kids. It runs off solar panels on the south facing roof mainly and is used to heat in winter and cool in summer, much like countries abroad do.
Our main house is a south facing barn that gets absolutely roasting in this weather no matter what we do, I’d guess there are a lot of houses out there like this so with the global changes happening maybe it’s time to either build houses like the Spanish do or fit air con.
IT was effective at cooling the air ….. but not at cooling the structure so when turned off it heated up very quickly.
Thermal mass of the walls is far greater than the thermal mass of cold dry air. You really need to use it early on in the day to stop the fabric of the room heating up, or just leave it on all night. Once the walls etc have heated up, it will take a lot of cold air to cool them off.
Our 8000 BTU unit only cost £250 just before the 40C heat wave. Currently churning away cooling the bedroom.
Have a cold shower – don’t be a pussy about it. Don’t dry yourself – the evaporating water cools you further.
Jump in your local river!
Paint your house white.
Fit shutters OUTSIDE yr windows.
Insulate yr house
You're wrong about the shower. If you get out of a hot shower you'll feel cooler as long as the ambient temperature is less than the shower was. If you get out of a cold shower into a warmer ambient temperature you'll feel warm straight away.
Jumping into our local river will give me wet feet.
I don't want the only white house in the street thanks.
I'll stick to drawing the curtains.
At work we bought a portable 12000btu air con unit a few months ago, planning ahead before they sold out or jumped in price. 30m2 office, just 2 of us and 4 desktop PCs running. AC struggles, just about keeps below 28C by the afternoon. Problem is they throw a lot of heated air out the exhaust (to a vented roof void in our case), but equally are pulling that air in from outside at over 30c as well. Chasing its own tail really.
That doesn't sound right. Most portable units extract to outside via ducting but they draw in air to cool from the room itself. Otherwise you'd have two ductings going outside and needlessly cool warmer air....
Does tieing a leaf blower to the end of the firewood processor count? That was my setup for today so I was in a good breeze at the machine.
And this is why we're ****ed.
Try opening a window.
Air con.... FFS.
It took 66 posts for someone to say it like it is. 🙂
Try opening a window.
But that’ll let more warmer air into your hermetically Sealed passivehaus…..
Idealism is wonderful but it’s almost s workable as taking your horse outside to cook
Don't open a window when it's 25 inside and 35 outside.
And this is why we’re *.
Try opening a window.
Air con…. FFS.
Bad advice is another reason why we are*
😉
Windows/doors etc open in the cooler air evenings/night and v. early morning. Basically wherever it’s both safe to do so and the air is cooler out than in. Keep them closed when the air outside is hotter than the air inside. Shutters are a good call. We’re in a Victorian property with 6-foot high sash windows and 1” -thick wooden shutters which completely cover the windows. They make a big difference. Even better if they were on the outside
Open all upstairs windows and just the ones in the shaded side of the house downstairs to set a cooling convection current in motion, bearing in mind that moving air is far more pleasant than static air.
21:03 just opened the windows (mosquito nets in place) as it's cooler out than in. Nice breeze through the house. Only 34 tomorrow, Winter is on its way.
This year I've learnt to open all the windows at 6am and then close them all up at about 8am, and shut the curtains. I also close the internal doors to the kitchen and lounge as they get full sun all day.
The rest of the house stays comfortable, on the hottest day last month I got home at 2pm and my wife hadn't even turned on the fan I left out, the house was about 26c.
[I]The temperature in my (east-facing) bedroom was 29C at 8am this morning[/I]
Is your bedroom a heated green house? It's about 16 degrees overnight and about 18 at 8am here, didn't hit 29 until midday!
I noticed this house and our last house both got noticeable cooler when we added loft insulation (and quieter...thanks seagulls!)
Is your bedroom a heated green house? It’s about 16 degrees overnight and about 18 at 8am here, didn’t hit 29 until midday
Not that that comments by me but our bedroom once or twice a year can be 29 degrees with no signs of cooling if the roof has been battered by the sun on both faces. Clay tiles and no insulation in the area between sarkin and plasterboard on the cheeks.
On those nights I sleep in the much cooler downstairs....
Bike tinkering in the cool cellar provides some relief. Couldn't cool down after footy last night so I resorted to a buff soaked in cold water which did the job nicely. Giant fan and blinds keeps the home office cool in the day.
Just have an oscillating fan and get naked... problem solved.
And this is why we’re ****.
Try opening a window.
Air con…. FFS.
Steady on tiger.
I wouldn’t be running it all day every day, more like an hour on an evening when it’s hot hot upstairs, downstairs is fine. So a few hours a year.
Please tell me you’re 100% carbon neutral. Or Greta Thunberg.
Slightly confused by The Times quoting an Imperial College professor saying that air conditioning is “bad” because it just moves the heat out into the surrounding area, but recommending a heat pump running in cooling mode instead.
I have a portable one but only use it in the evening to cool the bedroom (in the eaves) from its 30+ temperature. Because it’s about 20C outside at that point, the fact that it’s sucking in outside air isn’t a big deal. It’s running off solar power so I’m not particularly worried about environmental issues.
Slightly confused by The Times quoting an Imperial College professor saying
But not at all surprised.
Shade netting draped over the outside of Windows helps a lot. I trap it in place by closing the openers on it. Bedrooms that age South facing still getting hot but it's Keelung the temp down a few degrees more than closing the black out curtains alone.