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[Trumpet]

Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Also wondering this. Surely like in a large hotel room one unit does multiple areas as long as the doors/windows are closed? 

I reckon it’d depend on the BTU of the unit. I had a portable 12,000 BTU unit which would cool a sealed 20m2 room nicely, but open that up to the rest of the house and it’s as good as trying to heat your home in winter via method of passing wind.

[Stuntman_Mike]

Tried the hack of putting a bowl of ice in front of the fan and had it facing the bed overnight. 

 

Seemed to work well. 

[Rubbersoul]

Windows and curtains closed all day usually does the trick 

[filbertway]

Glad I got a portable AC unit for my room last summer. It sits there useless for 99% of the year, but it's coming in clutch this week. Cost me about £180 and keeps a fairly decent sized bedroom cool.

 

Thankfully for me i've always had the radio/tv on to fall asleep to so the noise doesn't bother me.

 

Although yesterday, mid meeting my hose fell out of the window and I couldn't reach the AC to turn it off or fix the hose. So I spent the last 15 minutes getting warm air blasted on to me. Which felt a little karmic after I'd been bragging about it

 

[FoxesDeb]

4 hours ago, Raj said:

What do the Europeans do Debs in Summer to keep cool?

I presume ac is normal in most houses?

Yes a lot of people have ac to cool in winter, then the same units are used for heating in winter. Most windows also have built in shutters too so they're kept closed all day and only opened at night when it cools down, and we have ceiling fans in the living rooms and bedrooms. 

 

Our routine is different too, we don't have dinner until really late when it's cooler, and if you go out at midnight you'll find everyone including young children are out, people walking, kids playing football, not much gets done during the day, it's a bit like hibernation during the day but from the sun rather than the cold 

[Samilktray]

2 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Yes a lot of people have ac to cool in winter, then the same units are used for heating in winter. Most windows also have built in shutters too so they're kept closed all day and only opened at night when it cools down, and we have ceiling fans in the living rooms and bedrooms. 

 

Our routine is different too, we don't have dinner until really late when it's cooler, and if you go out at midnight you'll find everyone including young children are out, people walking, kids playing football, not much gets done during the day, it's a bit like hibernation during the day but from the sun rather than the cold 

Does work/school start later in the day if everyone's gallivanting at midnight?

What a bloody life to be fair

[FoxesDeb]

1 minute ago, Samilktray said:

Does work/school start later in the day if everyone's gallivanting at midnight?

What a bloody life to be fair

Schools are closed for 12 weeks over summer from mid June to September so the kids are at home for the hottest part of the year. Work not really, although nothing really opens here before 9am anyway, and many places shut again for a couple of hours in the afternoon and reopen for the evening. A lot of trades take time off in the summer too, it's just too hot to work outside.

 

One of the weirdest things that took me a while to get used to was the time the younger generation go out. When she first moved here our older teenage daughter had a midnight curfew which was already later than she had in the UK. It didn't last long because that's about the time they go out over here  Then they roll in from the nightclub at 6am when it closes

[Officer Doofy]

3 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Apparently if you put of bowl of water on the windowsill and open the window it cools the room down? I've not tried it yet  

I don't think it works very well when the air outside is 36 though 

[RowlattsFox]

It's been quite pleasant today in the North West  Nice little coastal breeze

Tomorrow is going to be hotter though. 

[Jattdogg]

Do you lot use heat pumps for cooling/heating the whole house over there?

 

Not as popular over here but seeing more and more of them.

 

We have the standard gas furnace for heat and an AC sitting outside for cooling the house.  

 

My house is sitting at 23.5 celsius on the main floor. Basement is cooler and upstairs is like a sauna as usual. For upstairs the kids have their own tower fans which stay on all night in the hot heat summers and we do too.

Edited 24 June by Jattdogg

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, Officer Doofy said:

I don't think it works very well when the air outside is 36 though 

I should of mentioned it only works in the evening if/when the temp drops lower than your bedroom 

[Zear0]

5 hours ago, Tommy G said:

What is the cost of an A/C unit per bedroom (approx)? Yes I've googled and it throws up varying results. 

I paid 7.5k for installation, external unit and four distributors. It’s roughly 2k per room.

[Zear0]

Son’s school closing early tomorrow and Friday as class temperatures were bordering 36 due it being an effing greenhouse.

[Raj]

My balls are like soggy maltesers

[Zear0]

14 minutes ago, Raj said:

My balls are like soggy maltesers

Betty Swollocks sir?

[PAULCFC]

5 hours ago, filbertway said:

Although yesterday, mid meeting my hose fell out of the window

That made me laugh way more than it should!

[PAULCFC]

1 hour ago, RowlattsFox said:

It's been quite pleasant today in the North West  Nice little coastal breeze

Tomorrow is going to be hotter though. 

yeah.....it's a bearable 20c up here on the North East coast.Had to do a delivery to North Yorkshire this afternoon and it was 32c there........only about 75 miles away but inland.

[SpacedX]

8 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Apparently if you put of bowl of water on the windowsill and open the window it cools the room down? I've not tried it yet  

I think that the contention is that placing a bowl of water on a window sill can provide a minor cooling effect through evaporation. As the water evaporates, it absorbs heat from the air. If you place the bowl near an open window, a breeze can help circulate this cooled air into the room. However, this effect is so negligible that in temperatures such as these the phenomenon would be barely perceptible 

[Suzie the Fox]

I've got my feet in a washing up bowl under my desk, full of cold water. Its very refreshing and cooling 

[NAKC20]

2 hours ago, Raj said:

My balls are like soggy maltesers

 

26 minutes ago, Suzie the Fox said:

I've got my feet in a washing up bowl under my desk, full of cold water. Its very refreshing and cooling 

Can @Raj come and join you?

[bovril]

so can someone explain which way I should point the fan in a warm room?

[CornwallFox]

3 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Son’s school closing early tomorrow and Friday as class temperatures were bordering 36 due it being an effing greenhouse.

We've had how many years to prepare places like hospitals and schools but absolutely nothing has happened. 

[Robo61]

4 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

We've had how many years to prepare places like hospitals and schools but absolutely nothing has happened. 

Yep austerity has consequences who'd have thought it.

[DJW1]

2 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

That made me laugh way more than it should!

Is that Benny Hill and Syd James I can hear tittering?

[Officer Doofy]

42 minutes ago, bovril said:

so can someone explain which way I should point the fan in a warm room?

Preferably at yourself