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Anyone else hate hot weather? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm grumpy and if one more person says "this is great isn't it?" I'm going to scream

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely loathe it. See y'all in 5 months...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm literally indoors with the curtains shut, fuck what the neighbours think

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Nothing works in my flat or the one before.

All windows open, got a fan blowing with the direction of the breeze.

All windows closed, blinds and curtains closed, close off the warmer rooms.

My thermometer shows no difference day to day in my kitchen area.

I was in the loft in my last flat, sloped ceilings and they had zero insulation. Only the top part of the ceiling where it was flat had insulation. The sloped parts of the ceiling were hot to the touch and it got up to 37.5 Celsius over the one summer.

I put my ear thermometer to my metal keyboard and it read 42 Celsius.

The way the house was positioned, the wind used to blow along it and I only had windows front and back, so zero breeze at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've honestly had nightmares like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I drank so much water but eventually I just stopped sweating.

11pm would roll around, still 35C and when I woke up in the morning it was still about 30C.

I had all my windows open over night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Open all windows and as many curtains as you can manage at night with fans going. Then close everything when you get up in the morning. Definitely helps when it's really hot. Might not get as much benefit in a flat though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, tried that and no difference that I noticed.

Top floor flat, full contact with the sun.

No trees around.

My downstairs neighbour is shielded by the building across the road in the afternoon, he is cooler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You're in a very sweaty situation it seems. The hope is to keep the lower temperature from overnight but if you've not got great ventilation that probably doesn't do much if you can't swap out the cooler night air. You're probably getting the heat from the building below you coming up overnight as well.

Have you tried aiming some fans at windows on one side of the house to create more airflow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thankfully my current flat can get some airflow.

I have a fan aimed down the passage to get some air to move.

My last flat was the main issue, such a small and square flat and did not allow air to flow easily.

It really should have been a studio flat, remove some walls and it would have opened up and seemed much larger and the air would flow easier.