Heat haters unite! (Heat lovers bugger off)

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It’s coming up to summer and I already hate the weather. It’s hot, muggy and just ugh.

I hate summer. It’s much easier to warm yourself up than it is to cool yourself off. You can always put more clothes on, but you can’t take more clothes off.

You struggle to sleep cos it’s so hot, and then you’re even more irritable because now not only are you hot and bothered, but you’re tired too.

No I don’t have air con cos I can’t bloody afford it. I have a plug in fan, than yeah works ok in the day but I don’t have it on overnight cos the breeze keeps me awake too.

Second day I’ve woken up with a heat induced migraine. I was yesterday today I am miserable. My dh will want to go out and I want to hide

Today's interesting. I've almost completely lost my voice and hearing overnight because the air is so hot everything's dried up, so I'm croaking like a 200 a day smoking 90 year old.

I'm not going to be leaving the house at all.

Same! I've been waking up with razor blade throat and blocked ears for weeks now!

Were we? Well hello again!!

I went to the supermarket, it wasn't quite as painful as I'd thought as it was a short trip. It's along a very straight, very long road into the centre where the cars thunder down like they're in the cannonball races and there is no escape from the sun.

Sometimes it feels like you're trapped into tunnel of fire. Like a few others I couldn't sleep last night. I have to meet a friend later so am anxiously checking the temperature forecast (half hour walk along said road). Good thing is washing dries off so quick on the clothes line!

My husband is in hospital so I've been traipsing up to central London every day for the past 3 weeks, sitting on hot trains then fighting my way through throngs of tourists and all the while trying not to pass out from the heat. It zaps all my energy and combined with a full time job I am absolutely exhausted.

I dread summer. I start to panic when the temperature goes into double figures °C. I usually hibernate as much as I can but circumstances beyond my control mean I have to venture out and I HATE it!

Roll on October!

my bedroom door is hot the door handle is hot the walls are hot I HATE THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE

That sounds gruelling. I really feel for you.
Roll on October indeed. I' just cannot wait for autumn!

we have a super cool breeze coming in! I’ve had to pull my window in a bit because it was like a mini tornado on me.

it’s beautiful

It’s cool here in Kent. I’ve popped a cardy on.
I’m seeing more heat being forecast for week beginning 21st July. No end to it

My toddler has my intolerance to the heat. He's currently lolling against me trying to nod off. I'm absolutely melting 🥵

Visited my elderly DM last night. Her legs have swelled up due to the heat.

Other countries have air conditioning In the UK we have yoghurt on the outside of windows Would love for this academic to show me how someone who lives in a tower block is supposed to do this.
Absolute fucking stupidity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rg3nqq7go?app-referrer=deep-link

I think that study is intended to show that it doesn't require solely expensive, energy intensive solutions to reduce internal temperatures in building design - it's the application of a light coloured covering that's made a measurable difference through reflecting some of the heat, but not as much as from having a reflective foil surface.

That study's conclusions could be useful in making a case for a translucent/frosted white glass instead of standard bathroom texturing when ordering the windows for a new HA development or replacing existing units, for example. It could encourage people to not dismiss net curtains as unfashionable or pointless when it does have a measurable effect upon room temperatures to have a light coloured layer between inside and outside. That 3.5C maximum difference in hot and sunny weather would also considerably reduce the amount of electricity consumed in running an aircon unit.

It also demonstrates that there could be a good cumulative effect from using multiple lower cost measures, architectural design and some more expensive things to reach the desired point (of not feeling like you're about to expire from the heat); a pair of curtains lined with reflective foil behind a white backing would be more effective than an open or permanently locked shut window with a dark set of blinds.

It's better than research is carried out than not. Somebody in charge of designing a block could now point to this study to justify the expense of translucent white windows. Somebody who does not have the money for a portable aircon to run constantly would at least have the knowledge that a white net behind thermal curtains with a reflective layer and white lining is going to make a greater difference than a set of heavy, dark velvet curtains and no reflective surface.

It can also be used as part of study into ways to address the loss of the albedo effect - those dull grey flats with a dark grey roof will absorb more heat than ones that are whitewashed - so it makes sense through science that homes are built to be lighter, not darker.

It's not saying it replaces aircon in a room that's 34C, but it is useful data for reducing it to a room that's nearer 27C with additional measures, then using mechanical, inherently energy intensive solutions from a lower starting point. Add in more support for gardens with grass, street trees that actually cast shade and thrive in heat, access to water features, encouraging airflow and it all combines to make life slightly less intolerable.

Good post We still have some of the old post war housing here The top half is a white substance (i dont know what it is) a couple we were friends with lived in one and it was always comfortable in there even in high summer. Our flats are covered in BLACK cladding so the opposite Looks like wood to me but im not sure but bloody black.

I'm guessing either whitewashed pebbledashing or render? They were different construction as well - my mother's house was built with a larder on the north side of the house because it was so easy to keep things cool that way before electric refrigeration was affordable for everybody. On the other side of the house, the way one room was set back over a porch and shielded by the larger part of the house that had the kitchen underneath meant that there was one room even colder than all the others as it was more or less in permanent shade.

But, on the other hand, they were brutally cold houses in winter, especially if there wasn't money for more than a square of lino and a thin offcut of carpet in the centre of the room (and oh, the animal life you'd get coming up from under the floorboards when it wasn't floodwater...). Being cooler in occasional heatwaves was no real consolation for the house only ever feeling vaguely warm in winter when you had ice forming on the inside of the window blocking the draughts.

Oh God that sounds lovely Perfect for me as i dont tend to feel the cold easily. If i could afford to buy a house thats what i would be looking for Ive just had to throw out food that has gone off while being stored in the hall cupboard,

@NeverDropYourMooncup Thanks. It's certainly made me re-consider getting some thin voile curtains behind my ordinary curtains. I thought they might look a bit old-fashioned but if it reduces the heat, even by just one degree, it would help.

I’ve just come back from town - it’s around 25C here and really muggy which makes me sweat instantly.
The only shops that were busy were those with air con. Usually Monday is a pretty busy day normally.
I felt for the staff in B & M Bargains - it was roasting in there and there was a paltry portable (hired) air con unit at the back which was blowing out hot air. I walked in then walked out without buying anything.

Im exactly the same. Still havent been in Bonmarche in my local department store even though i need to. i cant face it Its stifling in there. Our B&M is the same too. And Savers. And Boots. And Card Factory and cards direct. You know where DOES have air con here..............Greggs and Costa. So thats where ive been going. Not great is it the only places with air con are the ones serving UPF!!!!!!!!!!! They are also the only places ive been able to consume hot food because this flat has been so unbearably hot i havent cooked for three weeks. DH has just eaten cold hot dogs. Its completely unacceptable.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/22d4b4be-6aeb-46f3-be63-968f67141654?shareToken=54d6e75f4a65a9775deeadb544a81f7a

I’ve been throwing up for the last two days because of the heat.

Fab….

@Soubriquet oh no, it’s terribly muggy and oppressive here. Horrid. I hope you feel better soon.

God I just want to cry. I feel so ill. It’s horrible

how the fuck have they managed to make flats so muggy and humid. Thats some achievement 🤔

This hot/humid weather has been going on for six weeks now and yet the air con denial continues.