Tips on Sleeping in hot weather

[Summerbuzz]

Ah this takes me back to my physics lessons.

If you have an operating fridgefreezer in a enclosed room with its doors open, what happens to the temperature.

That's it.

The smart move for me was to stop chilling water and making ice, and to stuff the freezer with scrunched up newspaper. It's now much, much cooler on the outside.

 

[Bill Walker]

1. No cold showers. They trigger the body into conserving heat, pooling it in your core, ready to come out later. Tepid is the way forward. Then wash your face and next with cold water.

2. You can get quite good aircon for one room for £100 quid or so.

Honeywell 10Ltr Portable Evaporative Air Cooler - TC10PCE - Return Unit

Please note that this is not an air conditioner and will require a flow of air like an open window and/or door in the room to work effectivelyThe TC10PE is ideal for spot cooling in a small to medium-sized space. The unit is lightweight and has a slim and functional design. The TC10PE has wide...

www.airconcentre.co.uk

I could have got one of these for £60 couple of months ago... sigh.

Still, beware that if you freeze the water yourself, that heat will be exchanged back into the air by the freezer, every last bit.

I made this mistake, filled my freezer with cold water for ice, then noticed the damned thing was like a 7 foot radiator.

Thermodynamics is not a phenomena you can cheat - you might as well try and change the entire course of the universe or reverse the flow of time. And note well that you are running two electric devices that are woefully inefficient. In a closed flat, you will end up generating much more heat than you remove. The only reason to use these things is to generate local cooling.

2. Hot air rises. Skylights are the fucking shit. I wish I had one.

I wouldn't bother with an evaporative air conditioner mate they only really work in dry hot environments, the UK in summer is usually quite humid.
Swamp coolers (as they're known) won’t function well in humid climates because the water won’t evaporate quickly enough to cause a major drop in temperature in your room. In humid areas like the UK, you probably won’t want to do anything to add humidity to your room and increase the sticky feeling that so often makes the summer unbearable.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo Matron !!

You might ned her to retreive the stick

 

[Nellies left peg]

Apparently a ice lolly up your anus help.

Too much time on your hands working from home, thinking up solutions like that :-)

 

[Sir peace frog]

I have been giving this some thought and sorry I am not having that. If hot air rises how come there is ice on the North Pole ?

Eeerm I think you've got a point, there's plenty of know it alls on bluemoon who will be right along to put us right

 

[Sir peace frog]

We get about 10 hot nights a year, usually fucking freezing and rainy, it's a luxury to be hot and sweaty in bed,

For what it's worth, the open attic trick worked a treat, hopefully we will get some nice drizzle in the next few days, haha

 

[Blue Maverick]

Thought i had finally been smart this year. Every summer i keep saying i will install aircon. The trouble is we already have a air source heat pump for the pool. So the neighbours are already treated to a constant outside fan going 24/7 as it is.
So after xmas i finally stumped up for a decent portable air con unit while they were still cheap.

It has sat under the stairs until last week.

So simple to set up. Basically plug in, throw the supplied flexi hose out of a window. Draw the curtains to stop warm air coming straight back in. (i will get a proper window vent at some point)

So there was me all cool with the room around 22-23C. Until....
The wife comes in. Fuck me are they ever happy?
"The fan is too noisy", "the room is too cold". "The open window is letting too much noise from outside". I give up!!!

I bet she has the central heating on with the windows open in winter as well

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

We get about 10 hot nights a year, usually fucking freezing and rainy, it's a luxury to be hot and sweaty in bed,

For what it's worth, the open attic trick worked a treat, hopefully we will get some nice drizzle in the next few days, haha

Folk moan when it's too cold, same folk moan when it's too hot. They should folk off to Argos n' buy a fan and appreciate some nice currant bun.

 

[Blue Mist]

Eeerm I think you've got a point, there's plenty of know it alls on bluemoon who will be right along to put us right

Those bm I know better than you posters?
Yeh well they obviously never had a globe as a kid

 

[kaz7]

My neighbours pond is looking attractive

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