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Keeping the house cooler
« on: 17 June 2022, 16:05:35 »

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. :y
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #1 on: 17 June 2022, 16:11:54 »

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. :y

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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #2 on: 17 June 2022, 17:46:44 »

Hot ? 18c here in Newcastle today , chuffing southern whingers !  :y
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #3 on: 17 June 2022, 17:48:26 »

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.
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #4 on: 17 June 2022, 18:10:05 »

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.
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #5 on: 17 June 2022, 18:25:36 »

It's just June....  8)
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #6 on: 17 June 2022, 18:32:55 »

It's just June....  8)
June 17th....one hot day....then back to normal  ;D
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #7 on: 17 June 2022, 19:09:31 »

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.  :y
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #8 on: 17 June 2022, 19:24:32 »

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. :y

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. ::) ;)
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #9 on: 17 June 2022, 19:57:11 »

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. :y

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.

 ;D ;)
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #10 on: 17 June 2022, 20:32:14 »

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain  ;D
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #11 on: 17 June 2022, 20:49:23 »

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

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. ::) ;)
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #12 on: 17 June 2022, 21:00:06 »

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 ;D
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #13 on: 17 June 2022, 21:00:20 »

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain  ;D
If that's where you're off to you have my sympathy  ;D
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Re: Keeping the house cooler
« Reply #14 on: 17 June 2022, 21:06:11 »

I will let you know how opening the windows goes in Dubai/Bahrain  ;D
If that's where you're off to you have my sympathy  ;D
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  ;D
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