To ask how are people not dying in new builds with the heat?

[icantbreathehelp]

Our new build is a fu..ing joke!! We are actually going to have to sell our house before next year or live downstairs because it is so hot upstairs at night that a newborn baby would over heat and end up in hospital without a doubt!

How the hell are people coping with the heat in new builds? We live in a redrow house, we have to shut all the blackout blinds at the back and open all the windows at the front and even with 2 metal fans on its still like sitting in a sauna! I don't want to go to sleep because I am scared DC is going to over heat.

I cant cope 🥵🥵🥵

Abra1de

That's what thought too, re the heating on at night

Seconding getting ceiling fans installed (and perhaps also internal shutters) to see if that helps before you go down the aircon route- we're in the US with hot summers and they really are brilliant and both very cheap solutions.

Air conditioning is amazing though. It also dehumidifies the air which makes sweating more efficient meaning you don't need to put the thermostat at such a low temperature.

Hinely the Hong Kong climate is sub tropical. If the UK becomes sub tropical in the future, what will the rest of the world look like? Would we really be here discussing air conditioning in this situation ?

I haven't felt the heat at all! Still sleeping under a winter duvet here (have a 100+ yr old house)!

Also, recently stayed in a roof conversion in a similar aged large semi, had to go outside before realising how hot it was outside!

Its a huge worry that houses are getting so hot, especially for the particularly vulnerable like babies (who generally have good parents keeping a close concerned eye to them) but also the elderly (who often dont).

I can only recommend the through-draft, and in new-builds do you not have a locked open position on the new windows? All plastic DG sealed units that ive come across have the ability to be locked, whilst slightly ajar, that you cant get a hand through.

Yes to keeping sun out of rooms,but it sounds like the fabric of the house is heating up (not like older houses where there are thicker stone walls).

It’s supposed to help if you set up fans to blow out of the windows to create a through draft and push hot air out of the house www.google.co.uk/amp/s/lifehacker.com/keep-your-room-cool-at-night-by-facing-your-fan-out-no-1610472983/amp

How are people not dying???? Because its a little bit of warm weather. We are talking about the uk here. It will be over before you know it.. In fact the forecast for glasgow today is rain

@icantbreathehelp https://www.amazon.co.uk/Olimpia-Splendid-01960-Conditioner-Dehumidifier/dp/B07MXR93T8/ref=mpssa111_sspa?keywords=portable+air+conditioner&qid=1561779889&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

if yoiu are in a house with a loft hatch, you can open it in hot weather and convection will carry hot air up and out (provided you have a door, window or letterbox open downstairs to allow flow)

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and no fans required if you have natural airflow

Opposite problem for me-house built in the 1500's. It's freezing all the time-except DD's bedroom right at the top which catches the afternoon sun just about, and the kitchen which is partly below ground level.

I'm a very cold person in general and though I love our house I can't stand being chilly all the time.

Where are you all? It's not that hot here at night.

We are just selling our new build and buying an older house and hubby said yesterday he can't wait to live in a cooler house! We have indoor cats so can't even open the windows, it's ridiculously hot!

Old houses aren't always cooler! We're in a Victorian one and if it's been sunny all day retains the heat. Last summer with our newborn all the upstairs was between 26-28c. Yesterday after a day of sun ;doing everything I could to keep it cool) it was 25 upstairs

The heat comes through the walls too ime so blinds on windows don't always fix it.
Bought a de longhi ac. Expensive but worth it.

I live in HK but have a house on south coast of UK. I looked at air con but it’s really noisy and also expensive to retrofit. The portable units are pretty shit. We’ve just put ceiling fans in 2 bedrooms and may well retrofit into the 2 others if they’re effective. I’ll find out tomorrow.

My heating goes on at night in the winter. I get up for the loo numerous times and I sleep naked. Hate being cold, hate wearing clothes in bed.

I'm also wondering where people live as it has been cool at night here(I still have my winter duvet on as it was so cold last week.,)Yesterday DD went to post prom party in a hoody.
Yesterday was our only really hot day and today is forecast as breezy and Sunday a return to ordinary summer weather.
Our house is 20yrs old and I cracked the knack of keeping it coolish last year,the kitchen is atthe front and north facing do I can also keep the butter out of the fridge.

2nd floor flat - 6 windows - all open wide at night. Very cheap heating when it was even on.

Now we are in a two bedroom cottage and paying a fortune.

Why not just install air con? Far cheaper and easier than moving house because it’s hot.

Or you can buy portable air con units. We recently bought this one but there are cheaper ones:

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We have a stone house, and it is very cool inside. I wouldn't buy a house with added insulation, all of our houses are too warm as it is. It is not healthy. Fresh clean cool air aids good health.

@user1480880826 we need to move anyway as we need more space currently pregnant with a 3 year old, we was looking at other new builds but not now !!

Managed to get to sleep around 12 and DC woke up at 6 woohoo 🥵 its still hot and the sky is grey today.

My 1905 house is lovely and cool

@icantbreathehelp buy a house that faces north/south so that the sun doesn’t shine directly in. Ours faces east/west and the heat is unbearable.

Our new build is great in the heat. It’s the coolest house we’ve lived in. It’s nit cold in winter either though so I don’t know how it manages it!

Mine was a new build when I moved in,it holds heat, which is great in winter but not so much in summer.

I use a portable aircon, actually now I have 2.

I also open the loft hatch.

But first thing in the morning go round and open all windows and curtains / blinds. This should get some coolair in.

At about 9.00 close the windows and blinds.

Open the windows again when it is getting dark.