It's too hot :(

CaptainRAVE said:
This is us so far for 4 units, 1 not recorded on there. It uses very little electricity. For the most part the heating earlier in the year was on the night tariff. Will have cost less than £3 to run 5 units and to keep the whole house cool today, one of those units also fighting the heat from my gaming systems. Worth every penny.




Still 24C outside, crazy.



It’s amazing how much heat the fabric of the building holds.
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That's really decent. It is amazing how efficient heat pumps are. It's a small price to pay for what can only be described as utter bliss.
 
It's not a bad 15c here just now and it's been about 20c most of the day. That's helped massively to cool my bedroom tonight to ~24c, down from 28c last night. :cool:
 
I'm working away and staying in my van. It's been hell today. In winter having a warm van to escape too is a luxury but in this heat it's absolute torture. Still 28°C degrees here.
 
Trying to get into shade makes a huge difference with vehicles - annoyingly very little of it in the car park at work and people desperately trying to make the most use of the little shade there is as possible :s

I don't use it very often but I've got a 5x3m camping tarpaulin/canopy thing with poles which does make a difference to keep the sun off the vehicle itself.
 
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Rroff said:
Yeah got a nice cool breeze coming in from the west now and retained heat finally dying off. Should be quite comfortable overnight.
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Theres a stiff breeze and temperature dropped outside but its still stifling hot indoors building takes several days to cool off aircon's still doing duty

edit: wow raining now!
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
Theres a stiff breeze and temperature dropped outside but its still stifling hot indoors building takes several days to cool off aircon's still doing duty

edit: wow raining now!
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Can't wait for the rain here, but I can smell the rain and there's no rain smell in the air, so still hours away at least (assuming predictions are correct, and we all know how those are...:rolleyes:)
 
Efour said:
Yikes, saw the weather in London.
Hellish... :p

Do not want..
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We've rarely had it that bad in my opinion in recent years, 1-2 days where it is uncomfortable but not like in the past where we'd some years have proper like 10 day heatwaves with temperatures rarely below 27C and hosepipe bans, etc. etc.

I remember starting a job in the summer of 2006 and it was disgusting - end of June, all of July and well into August every day was like the Monday just gone - hitting well in excess of 40C on the top floor of the building for a large amount of that.
 
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I've worked out that if I point the fan out the window, open the second bedroom window and close the door, then it creates a cooling draft. Been sleeping like a log - even in the heat.

Deliberately kept the house closed last night and the house is a pleasant 30C that slowly dropping as cooler air cycles. I didn't want it going from 30+ to 19C quickly so I acclimatise.

Outside is warm, even with the rain, enough to be in Bermudas and feed the fish.
 
Started work at 7am again this morning due to the heat (37c yesterday). Already 30c in the office and all we have is a portable AC unit. Not much work is getting done today :p
 
timely, council have been 'fixing' our camb pavements with slurry seal which remains sticky and bouncy under-foot whilst out running - so have to run in the road.
e: perhaps they do it in high summer so it is more conformal

Locally didn't see any of these gritting lorries, or pictures , reported in Beds.
 
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