It's too hot :(

What kind of house benefits from closing doors/windows/blinds or curtains? It's definitely not timber framed houses. Mine fries if you close it all up and holds the heat for endless hours.
 
I will admit that my home gym is a little toasty as it's at the back of the house in a flat roof building. But with a fan and the doors open it's not too bad. Only thing that I miss from a commercial gym - but that's the only thing.
 
Got home from work about 4:20pm and it was a little stuffy. Opened windows and its nice and cool. Hopefully get a decent sleep. Providing whoever back of my flat doesn't smoke cannabis again like they did Monday night.

What helps me is no west facing windows. Bedroom at parents' previous home faced SW. It was torture when had this weather. Had a ceiling fan and two fans going. Lovely and cool then, but unable to sleep as was like sleeping under a helicopter taking off. Had to keep curtains closed as a street lamp opposite shone into my room.
 
Angilion said:
I thought everyone would be doing that already. If it's hotter outside than inside, opening windows will increase the temperature inside. Convection complicates things regarding how hot a person inside will be, but there wasn't been much wind recently either.

Did you remember to close your secret window? :)
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Yeah, it has been marginally better. It might work better for other people than for me. As soon as I opened the windows the hot air outside came in and made everything hotter again, despite outside temp supposedly being lower. I don't really think there is any perfect solution for this other than getting an air con.

The secret window is closed, for now...
 
norm said:
If by housing regulations you mean building standards, then no. If somebody wants air conditioning it's not exactly hard to fit into an existing building. If it was a building standard you would have to decide what rooms got it, or whether it was the whole house like central heating then it would get ridiculously expensive.

Most people in this country have this perception though that it's not worth it and they'll just suffer through the odd few days of hot weather.

However most of those same people probably don't understand that an air conditioner can also be used as an air source heat pump in the winter.
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I think most people will grin and bear for 14 days of hot weather a year. Though some years I remember not digging out my fan. Purchased my Honeywell tower fan for £25 from Asda 16 years ago and still going strong. Probably not had it out for 2 years in that time. Couldn't tell you which years though.

Some people throw out their fans once we are in autumn as got no room to store fans. Hence why shops sell out of fans. Mine is stored behind the bedroom door and never shut the door.
 
Went out a bit earlier today for my bike ride, bit cooler, only 64f as opposed to 74f yesterday.

Goddamned midges though, riding through thousands of the little buggers.

With the sun tan lotion I'd put on, I looked like a human fly sticker when I got home. :/
 
cheesefest said:
I think most people will grin and bear for 14 days of hot weather a year. Though some years I remember not digging out my fan. Purchased my Honeywell tower fan for £25 from Asda 16 years ago and still going strong. Probably not had it out for 2 years in that time. Couldn't tell you which years though.

Some people throw out their fans once we are in autumn as got no room to store fans. Hence why shops sell out of fans. Mine is stored behind the bedroom door and never shut the door.
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I have a small tower fan purchased from Argos 15 years ago that just won't die. Last year I took it apart and vacuumed the inside because it wasn't blowing as well as before, it was filthy and a good clean made it work like new. This year I got it out and found that the oscillation feature had stopped working :( I worked the action s few times with it switched off and when plugged in it began oscillating again :)

I will cry when it finally fails.
 
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