It's too hot :(

uncle_rufus said:
And you use it for waaaay more than 2 months, even if we're just talking about cooling we've probably used ours here and there since May sort of time, and if you include heating which it can also do we use it all year round - we have a big open kitchen/family room which our central heating takes quite a while to heat up - so a quick blast from the heating on the aircon which gets it up to temperature in minutes can really help on the colder days
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Indeed, I don’t think people realise how much it can be used or how efficient and quiet the modern units are. We seem to have such an aversion to cooling in this country. We’ll spend at least the same warming our houses that are built to retain heat and couldn’t imagine it being too cold in the winter, yet no one will take similar measures in the summer. Our colleagues and friends seem to think we’re crazy. I think our bedroom went up to 35C or so a couple of summers ago, that’s just not for me.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Cor, do you wanna swap properties?
We're in a nice quiet rural 3-bed semi, surrounded by fields. The PC room often hits single digits in the winter!
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I wish it cooled down that easily. I’m usually sat in 30C plus! The radiator is permanently off. It’s worse since I got the TV in there to go with my XSX addition - I didn’t realise the TV and XSX would churn out as much heat as my PC!
 
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I'm dreaming of arctic blasts the Express likes to report, they love telling us we will melt in heatwaves or freeze in arctic blasts, I'm weird but much prefer the arctic blasts.
 
Secret_Window said:
I've caved in and bought an air conditioner now. With another potential heatwave coming up during the first week of August, I decided I had enough of trying to battle this crazy heat with fans.
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Good for you, I look forward to reading what you think about it, as you seem to suffer in the heat in a similar way to me :)

Which model did you go for?
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Indeed, I don’t think people realise how much it can be used or how efficient and quiet the modern units are. We seem to have such an aversion to cooling in this country. We’ll spend at least the same warming our houses that are built to retain heat and couldn’t imagine it being too cold in the winter, yet no one will take similar measures in the summer. Our colleagues and friends seem to think we’re crazy. I think our bedroom went up to 35C or so a couple of summers ago, that’s just not for me.
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Our real justification for buying it was that we were having a baby right in the summer and knew that our house including the room we were going to use for the nursery would regularly hit 30+ degrees in the summer - just didn't want to deal with having an overheating little person and all the worry about that on our minds too. But of course I absolutely love it as well because it just gives you complete control over the environment - worth every penny

Agree about the aversion though - the other common one being "wow it costs you so much to run though probably" (says a person who doesn't have AC and doesn't know the running costs, which are really surprisingly low)
 
Would having a split unit aircon unit on the upstairs landing be ok for cooling the 3 bedrooms facing it if the doors were to be left open? or would I probably need a unit in each bedroom? I had a google and some people seem to think it works and have done so, put a fan on a landing that blows the cooler air into other rooms that the air con produces.
 
I don't mind being unemployed when the weather's this nice.

FoxEye said:
No rain until the w/e here.

30C inside. Gah. Make it stop.
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If you live in Cornwall you can't be that far from the coast. Have an early morning swim in the sea, lovely and refreshing if you've sweated your balls off all night. Also good if you've had a good nights sleep or are female and have no balls tbh.
 
Droolinggimp said:
Would having a split unit aircon unit on the upstairs landing be ok for cooling the 3 bedrooms facing it if the doors were to be left open? or would I probably need a unit in each bedroom? I had a google and some people seem to think it works and have done so, put a fan on a landing that blows the cooler air into other rooms that the air con produces.
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Depends how big your landing and rooms are.

V F said:
Imagine an air-conditioned home/gaming room just now. Imagine.
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2.more.days. It’s been a dream of mine for years.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
2.more.days. It’s been a dream of mine for years.
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I remember what it was like as well. I remember an office I used to work in that the computers had. Damn, the temperature control was like a whole new world. You felt so alert, so refreshed and such a positive feeling. Soon as you went out to normal rooms or outside, it felt like bleh!

Nor were arms sticking to desks. Plus there was no smell, it was perfect. Everything was purified.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Depends how big your landing and rooms are.



2.more.days. It’s been a dream of mine for years.
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Landing is 8ft x 3ft (8ft x 6ft if stairwell inc) with bathroom and smaller bedroom at either end and the 2 larger rooms (10ft x 11ft and 12ft x 11ft) facing the landing window where the unit would be above. I imagine the unit would blow cooler air onto the landing and it would make its way into the rooms with doors open, having a fan in each doorway helping it go into the bedrooms.
 
V F said:
I remember what it was like as well. I remember an office I used to work in that the computers had. Damn, the temperature control was like a whole new world. You felt so alert, so refreshed and such a positive feeling. Soon as you went out to normal rooms or outside, it felt like bleh!

Nor were arms sticking to desks. Plus there was no smell, it was perfect. Everything was purified.
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I remember the days of working in IS with a nice big server room which was always held at a constant temperature and in a lab with an environmentally controlled room for experiments - some days you'd just find excuses to spend a lot of time in there.

Where I work now is interesting as outside there are air-conditioning units, they are fully functional and we are even paying a yearly maintenance but they don't seem to be doing anything internally... aside from slightly in the manager's office. It is absolutely horrific in weather like this as we have a huge south facing roof.
 
Rroff said:
I remember the days of working in IS with a nice big server room which was always held at a constant temperature and in a lab with an environmentally controlled room for experiments - some days you'd just find excuses to spend a lot of time in there.

Where I work now is interesting as outside there are air-conditioning units, they are fully functional and we are even paying a yearly maintenance but they don't seem to be doing anything internally... aside from slightly in the manager's office. It is absolutely horrific in weather like this as we have a huge south facing roof.
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Ahh you've reminded me of the lab rack we had. In there was a workbench for laptop rebuilds and what not. I would re-image so many as my excuse to hang out in there!
 
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