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MargaretR

MargaretR

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I don't want to appear a spoil sport, but I am struggling to cope with this hot weather.

If you are in a two story house you will notice that upstairs rooms get hot due to the sun heating the roof and loft space.

All my rooms are 'upstairs'.

I bought a mobile aircon machine a few years ago. Until this hot spell I had only needed to use it for a few hours a day, on a handful of days each year.

I need a temperature between 22C - 24C, and humidity between 40% - 50%. Higher than that feels like breathing pea soup.

Yesterday and today I have needed to switch on the aircon at 6am and it is on constantly till 9pm! The noise of it, and the three dehumidifiers, did cause me to use some wax earplugs for a spell yesterday.

Another problem is that when the loft heats up, the water piping to my shower does too, and my electric shower shuts down if it is fed hot water.

So as I sit here sweating, stinking and gasping. I take solace in the fact that I have only two more weeks before I move and wont be living directly below a loft space, and will have a 'direct feed' shower. Breathing easy and keeping clean are struggles that you probably aren't needing to overcome.
 
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I was exactly the same yesterday Margaret, my air conditioner was on all day yesterday and all windows wide open, and I live in a ground floor flat, not looking forward to the next few days really wall to wall heat is OTT for me, well at this level
 
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MargaretR said:
I don't want to appear a spoil sport, but I am struggling to cope with this hot weather.

So as I sit here sweating, stinking and gasping. I take solace in the fact that I have only two more weeks before I move and wont be living directly below a loft space, and will have a 'direct feed' shower. Breathing easy and keeping clean are struggles that you probably aren't needing to overcome.
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Maybe you and Jaysay need to rig up one of those "ice towels" that Murray and Djokovic were using in yesterdays final ;)
 
MargaretR said:
I don't want to appear a spoil sport, but I am struggling to cope with this hot weather.

If you are in a two story house you will notice that upstairs rooms get hot due to the sun heating the roof and loft space.

All my rooms are 'upstairs'.

I bought a mobile aircon machine a few years ago. Until this hot spell I had only needed to use it for a few hours a day, on a handful of days each year.

I need a temperature between 22C - 24C, and humidity between 40% - 50%. Higher than that feels like breathing pea soup.

Yesterday and today I have needed to switch on the aircon at 6am and it is on constantly till 9pm! The noise of it, and the three dehumidifiers, did cause me to use some wax earplugs for a spell yesterday.

Another problem is that when the loft heats up, the water piping to my shower does too, and my electric shower shuts down if it is fed hot water.

So as I sit here sweating, stinking and gasping. I take solace in the fact that I have only two more weeks before I move and wont be living directly below a loft space, and will have a 'direct feed' shower. Breathing easy and keeping clean are struggles that you probably aren't needing to overcome.
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Half your luck Margaret. It's bl...y freezing here.
 
Ideally, it should be vented through a sealed vent, not always practical though, just makes it less efficient.
 
MargaretR said:
Hyndburn Homes don't like tenants who knock holes in walls;)
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I`m sure they don`t, like I said, not always practical. Perhaps when you move it might be worth asking permission, if it`s for medical reasons and it`s done properly, they may let you do it. You`ll notice a big difference and will use less leccy. It`s like having the heating on with the windows open.
 
Oh dear - just had to retrieve the pipe and shut the window -
grass cutting using a petrol mower has filled my lounge with petrol exhaust fumes :mad::eek:

Sometimes 'fighting the world' is a full time job :(
 
MargaretR said:
Oh dear - just had to retrieve the pipe and shut the window -
grass cutting using a petrol mower has filled my lounge with petrol exhaust fumes :mad::eek:

Sometimes 'fighting the world' is a full time job :(
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Have you not got a catflap you can put the hose through Margaret?
 
Aussie Irene said:
Half your luck Margaret. It's bl...y freezing here.
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And we've had temps in the mid 30s for a couple of weeks ... heat advisories and smog from the forest fires in Quebec ... but we are lucky in Kingston; its always a few degrees cooler by the lake. All in all, beating the heat is a lot easier on my system than shovelling snow at -25:alright: And there are always cold brewskies in the fridge:thepint:
 
When we had a big static caravan it got unbearably hot in summer, like being in a big tin box, which I suppose they are.
I installed a aircon machine and piped the exhaust through the caravan wall. It was much easier than cutting a hole through a brick wall. The outlet was sealed and a grill over the outside to stop creepy crawlies getting in.
It worked OK as long as the doors and windows were kept closed.
The van was 40 foot by 12 and the rooms 7 foot high, 3360 cubic feet and the machine just about coped with it.
 
MargaretR said:
No - and it wouldn't work if I had - the hot air outlet needs to be higher than the machine in order to 'exhaust'
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Suggest you get a "Split Unit" type A/C. Interior unit is only a distribution fan unit, all the work is done outside, either at low or high level - only two refrigerant pipes and a power lead goes through the wall.
 
Barrie Yates said:
Suggest you get a "Split Unit" type A/C. Interior unit is only a distribution fan unit, all the work is done outside, either at low or high level - only two refrigerant pipes and a power lead goes through the wall.
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As a tenant, I can't put anything 'through the wall'.
 
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