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[Migalot]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Heard on the radio today......

If you have a fan blow the air through a frozen  2 litre plastic bottle of water.  Apparently it helps.

[redelitev6]

Hot ? 18c here in Newcastle today , chuffing southern whingers ! 

[Varche]

Murderously hot here in central Andalucia. It is only 38 outside at the moment . It was 40C earlier ( while we were laying 8 cu m of concrete. Minimum tonight is forecast to be 23C .

That qualifies for “ sub tropical” . Over 25C minimum is “ tropical” . If our bedroom is. Over 25 it is difficult to sleep even with a ceiling fan. One plus is it is a dry heat unlike the lower heat on the Costa del Sol where it is more humid.

[STEMO]

Breaking news:It's a bit warm outside. Cue comparisons with normally hotter countries, ten minute news reports and warnings about people dying from heat stroke.
FFS, what a bunch of snowflakes we are.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It's just June.... 

[STEMO]

It's just June.... 

June 17th....one hot day....then back to normal 

[ronnyd]

The tabloids, esp the Express, love a good weather story to absolutely  exaggerate over. Back to average tomorrow so panic over. Oh, i've got a portable aircon unit that my youngest left when he flew the coop. Comes in handy now and then. 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

Perhaps you have never lived in a country with a hot climate, but when you do you shut the external wooden slated shutters over your window openings, but keep the windows open.

I cannot imagine keeping the windows closed when the outside temperature exceeds 45c+ during  the day, and 25c+ at night.  You are going to end up in a very stuffy room and covered in perspiration.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

Perhaps you have never lived in a country with a hot climate, but when you do you shut the external wooden slated shutters over your window openings, but keep the windows open.

I cannot imagine keeping the windows closed when the outside temperature exceeds 45c+ during  the day, and 25c+ at night.  You are going to end up in a very stuffy room and covered in perspiration.

Further to the above, to clarify:

I have quoted some of the highest temperatures I have experienced, but even at 40c+ and 20c+ I have regularly experienced, keeping the windows closed was not an option.

 

[Doctor Gollum]

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain 

[Lizzie Zoom]

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain 

And what does that mean?

Just another single line cynical comment from you without fact.  It depends on what type and age of property you have in those countries, in what type of country / district, if you have bars on the outside of ground floor accommodation or simply if they have air con. Other factors will also apply dependant on the country, but with Mediterranean countries that I know all the former applies.

[Doctor Gollum]

It means that I will be unlikely to open the windows in which ever high rise air conditioned establishment that work puts us up in.

Which is what I said, but you dismissed it without actually reading the words.

Must be the heat

[STEMO]

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain 

If that's where you're off to you have my sympathy 

[Doctor Gollum]

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain 

If that's where you're off to you have my sympathy 

Have to say Bahrain is the nicer looking of the two, but it's only ever for a night or two, so whilst neither would be my first choice, for a holiday, they have to be an improvement on a Tuesday night in Mancchester 

[Raeturbo]

Can’t argue with that ^^^🙄

[STEMO]

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain 

If that's where you're off to you have my sympathy 

Have to say Bahrain is the nicer looking of the two, but it's only ever for a night or two, so whilst neither would be my first choice, for a holiday, they have to be an improvement on a Tuesday night in Mancchester 

Depends on who you're with 

[Sir Tigger KC]

It's just June.... 

June 17th....one hot day....then back to normal 

Apparently the hottest day recorded in the UK was 35.6C in Southampton on 28 June 1976. 

Climate change! 

[Doctor Gollum]

It was only 34 in Longford at 5 this evening 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

This absolutely works. 
Keep the hot air out  when its hot, let the cool air in,  in the evening when it cools down.We started doing it a couple of summers ago and it makes a big difference.
Hoping to get the aircon regased in the Omega Weds. too which will make life more bearable if we keep getting high temps.

[Migalot]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

This absolutely works. 
Keep the hot air out  when its hot, let the cool air in,  in the evening when it cools down.We started doing it a couple of summers ago and it makes a big difference.
Hoping to get the aircon regased in the Omega Weds. too which will make life more bearable if we keep getting high temps.

 

[Nick W]

Funny how people throw their windows open on a hot day.

Trick is to close the curtains/blinds on the sun-facing side and keep all window and doors closed.

A short while ago it was 32c outside and only 24c inside my home. Not great, but bearable.

This absolutely works. 
Keep the hot air out  when its hot, let the cool air in,  in the evening when it cools down.We started doing it a couple of summers ago and it makes a big difference.

That's how it's done in southern France and Spain. Keep the windows and shutters facing the sun closed. Combine that with traditional building style - thick walls, light plaster, tiled roofs and floors - and cool interiors are entirely possible even when the outside temperature is 40°.

[Doctor Gollum]

Aren't those Mediterranean countries? 

[Nick W]

Aren't those Mediterranean countries? 

Yes. But the principle is the same; keep the heat out.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Zackly. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Quite

[Raeturbo]

Indeed

[STEMO]

New word association thread?

[Drewomega]

Hmmm! ... oop here oop north near the arctic circle it is 14c today and has been blowing a hooly for the last 3 days. Talking to my pal today and the temps were -6c at the top of the Cairngorm massif last night ffs. Off to Mallorca a week afer next. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Hmmm! ... oop here oop north near the arctic circle it is 14c today and has been blowing a hooly for the last 3 days. Talking to my pal today and the temps were -6c at the top of the Cairngorm massif last night ffs. Off to Mallorca a week afer next. 

The way Palma flights are going currently, I would go to Barcelona or Valencia and jump on the boat...

[Sir Tigger KC]

I've always found it bizarre that houses in hot countries aren't insulated better to keep the heat out and the cool in. 

My mate moved to Houston, Texas a few years ago and bought a lovely big mock georgian house, but it was really an overgrown garden shed on steroids with huge single glazed sash windows that streamed with condensation, skinny walls, hardly any insulation in the attic and the roof was felt shingles. 

They had three large A/C units which were each about the size of a small car, humming away in the garden keeping the place cool in the long hot summers. I'd have hated to pay the leccy bills! 

[Lizzie Zoom]

It means that I will be unlikely to open the windows in which ever high rise air conditioned establishment that work puts us up in.

Which is what I said, but you dismissed it without actually reading the words.

Must be the heat

But that is your problem.  You love making single sentence contributions to a thread without using enough words to explain what you are saying

You then post a fuller explanation after I have raised the question

You just love faulting us who ask further questions.  Grow up and stop being a cleaver arsed silly kid!

[Doctor Gollum]

It means that I will be unlikely to open the windows in which ever high rise air conditioned establishment that work puts us up in.

Which is what I said, but you dismissed it without actually reading the words.

Must be the heat

But that is your problem.  You love making single sentence contributions to a thread without using enough words to explain what you are saying

You then post a fuller explanation after I have raised the question

You just love faulting us who ask further questions.  Grow up and stop being a cleaver arsed silly kid!

Bless your heart. *

*Quoted so as to identify which post on the thread my one line response was in relation to. If it helps

[Lizzie Zoom]

It means that I will be unlikely to open the windows in which ever high rise air conditioned establishment that work puts us up in.

Which is what I said, but you dismissed it without actually reading the words.

Must be the heat

But that is your problem.  You love making single sentence contributions to a thread without using enough words to explain what you are saying

You then post a fuller explanation after I have raised the question

You just love faulting us who ask further questions.  Grow up and stop being a cleaver arsed silly kid!

Bless your heart. *

*Quoted so as to identify which post on the thread my one line response was in relation to. If it helps

Whatever!

A nonsense reply to try and prove yourself right as usual!  You fool no one!