It's too hot :(

Raiden85 · 7 Sep 2023 at 21:56

squerble said:
Oops! Just checked the smart meter and I’ve racked up £6.50 today in electricity 18kWh in electricity, most of which will be the portable AC unit. They’re so inefficient!

I can top that, should be hitting £10.50 in electric today by midnight mainly due to the portable AC

andy_mk3 · 7 Sep 2023 at 21:56

squerble said:
Oops! Just checked the smart meter and I’ve racked up £6.50 today in electricity 18kWh in electricity, most of which will be the portable AC unit. They’re so inefficient!

Vs our split AC, 12.1kWh so far today. Living room been 19ºC since 6am, and bedroom 18ºC overnight. They're monumentally more efficient. Pays for itself over a few years near enough I'm sure vs a portable.

marcg868 · 7 Sep 2023 at 21:57

cheesefest said:
There’s a lake by Rhodes airport. Didn’t get a single bite on my week’s holiday. Got home and noticed three huge bites on my ankles. Must have got bitten from terminal building to shuttle bus or bus to plane. Probably a spy mosquito “not allowed to go home without being bitten”

To be fair Rhodes Airport is the Mozzie headquarters of the island. Luckily we seem to be immune to them. But been bit by the yelliw bummed flies they have. They hurt.

lookitsjonno · 7 Sep 2023 at 22:02

squerble said:
Oops! Just checked the smart meter and I’ve racked up £6.50 today in electricity 18kWh in electricity, most of which will be the portable AC unit. They’re so inefficient!

You do get what you pay for with Aircon, my split system has only used 5kwh and we've had it on low all day

cheesefest · 7 Sep 2023 at 22:28

Rroff said:
Ooof would not want COVID in this weather, well at all but especially not in this weather.

Though for some reason I only had like 1-2 hours of fever compared to 1-3 days for everyone else I live with.

I had Covid in early July last year and it was similar hot weather as we are having now.

It was horrible being hot from the weather and hot from being ill. That probably brought on an asthma attack too.

I also remember having mumps June/July when I was 8. Again similar weather. It was awful having a temperature as well

cheesefest · 7 Sep 2023 at 22:33

marcg868 said:
To be fair Rhodes Airport is the Mozzie headquarters of the island. Luckily we seem to be immune to them. But been bit by the yelliw bummed flies they have. They hurt.

I want your immunity to them. I had three bites on my leg in April this year in Cyprus. Look at the reaction. Antibiotics needed. Still got bruise on leg

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Mike9000 · 7 Sep 2023 at 22:39

Hot Robert.

https://twitter.com/mrbiffo/status/1699397859819532475?s=20

LeeUK · 7 Sep 2023 at 23:23

It's so hot I've been sitting in my CK underpants all day.

ZeroG · 7 Sep 2023 at 23:51

It's almost midnight and still 18 degrees. Did someone leave their heat in Scotland by mistake!

steve45 · 8 Sep 2023 at 00:18

I'm so fed up with this heat now. I genuinely thought we were past it for this year, but no!!! Just I was getting comfortable and ready to welcome autumn with open arms, we get hit with this BS heatwave!!! I've struggled to sleep for almost a week. I've been completely cooked throughout the day all week out on Salisbury Plain. This heatwave needs to break. I'm so done with it. I long for a bleak cold Winter.

drakulton · 8 Sep 2023 at 01:51

01:50 in the morning and the living room temp is 25.6C

throwaway4372 · 8 Sep 2023 at 02:48

Can't sleep. Too hot.
Looks like another hedgehog spontaneously combusted in the road outside my house, second one this week, rip.

413x · 8 Sep 2023 at 02:57

18c outside and 25 in. That's nice and comfy for me to sleep

Oh, it's 25.my bad.

FoxEye · 8 Sep 2023 at 04:06

Zero chance of getting any sleep tonight. Thanks, Obama.

AndyCr15 · 8 Sep 2023 at 06:45

Raiden85 said:
I can top that, should be hitting £10.50 in electric today by midnight mainly due to the portable AC

How old is the unit? I'll see if I can work out my display as I think it is showing a weekly amount but I don't think I've seen mine over £25 and I use my two AC's quite a lot. Tbh I don't look at it a lot. If I need AC on, I'm putting AC on... I'm not suffering and struggling to sleep for the sake of maybe a fiver...

Raiden85 · 8 Sep 2023 at 07:11

AndyCr15 said:
How old is the unit? I'll see if I can work out my display as I think it is showing a weekly amount but I don't think I've seen mine over £25 and I use my two AC's quite a lot. Tbh I don't look at it a lot. If I need AC on, I'm putting AC on... I'm not suffering and struggling to sleep for the sake of maybe a fiver...

Only a year old, it's a Black & Decker BXAC40008GB 12,000 BTU. At full speed it seems to be using around 1.1KW according to the smart meter. If I take out most other stuff using powerful the aircon is probably about £6 a day if left running 24/7 with the aircon automatically switching between regular fan mode and aircon mode every couple of minutes.

It's expensive but necessary and I use it throughout the year, the exhaust pipe drilled through the main wall so it stays where it is and no window will be open. I'm not sleeping in a room that can easily hit 27c+ in this heat, and as my gaming PC is in the same room with a 4090 I have no doubt it would be hitting 30c+ quickly. No way can I stick that.

uscool · 8 Sep 2023 at 08:50

My rooms been capped at 28c for the past week , hoping the forecast is correct for Tuesday onwards

squerble · 8 Sep 2023 at 09:03

uscool said:
My rooms been capped at 28c for the past week , hoping the forecast is correct for Tuesday onwards

The forecast for my area looks like a huge flip at the moment. 17C low and 26C high for the next few days, then 17C high with 9-12C lows from Tuesday onwards.

China Man · 8 Sep 2023 at 10:03

Had to turn on my make shift portable AC in my loft bedroom last night, 45mins to bring down the temp from 27c to 20c and used 0.84KWh I am on Octopus Go and I have batteries so less than 7p. Yes, I am that tight with money on energy lol

I have my portable AC in a loft area near the outside wall and DIY the air outlet through a wall into our loft bedroom, the loft space where the AC is is well ventilated and this is as efficient as I can DIY AC to my room.

hdpcgamer · 8 Sep 2023 at 10:14

squerble said:
Oops! Just checked the smart meter and I’ve racked up £6.50 today in electricity 18kWh in electricity, most of which will be the portable AC unit. They’re so inefficient!

When I was living at my mums, I use to use the portable AC all the time when the whether was close to 30 degrees but now that I have my own place I just close the blinds during the day and open the windows at night to let it cool down again.