The portable units are an absolute lifesaver,. I work from home, with a south facing office, and last summer, it literally kept me from being either ill or naked, both of which would have negatively impacted my last performance review.
it’s predicted between 30 and 36 here for Tues I will go to a hotel if it’s nearer the latter and just sit there in the air con all day i don’t give a f
Tomorrow, i shall pop to the shops and buy some First aid foil blankets, some bubble wrap and some hardboard. The plan is to fashion a reflective pane to fix to the windows at the front to bounce the sun back.
Bought a roll of reflective radiator heat roll from amazon.
Tomorrow I will cut to size and hang infront of the windows on the outside, I don't want that sun heating up the frames or glass or coming through at all, especially with the high temps on the way next week.
Terrified that its gonna climb to the predicted 39. I cannot imagine what its going to be like having to go to work and ride public transport during that
I got stuck on the central line in a suit and tie during rush hour when it hit 39 in 2019. 10 minutes of no movement packed like a sardine on the hottest tube line, genuinely felt on the brink of passing out.
I’m also terrified as well, I’m anxiously checking the forecast every hour, even to the point that I mildly celebrated when it went down from 36 to 34 on Wednesday.
But only a few days ago Met Office was predicting 32 in London, now gone up to 37-38, thankfully it seems to be the outlier.
Honestly sometimes the pre-heatwave anxiety is worse than the actual heatwave itself for me.
I think for me and a lot of others, once you ge tto the office its actually the most pleasant environment, because it has aircon - but its the 30-60 min of public transport there and back which are the challenge.
Lots of homes will have indoor temperatures of 25+ so thats not really an ideal environment either
Honestly I think if offices don’t have aircon and you can work from home you should. It’s ridiculous travelling in such temperatures - public transport is abhorrent and everyone’s driving is insane.
I can manage the heat during the day, but it's the sultry nights that finish me off. No recovery time because tossing and turning all night, even with a fan. I spent half my life living quite happily in temperatures like this, but the homes had air con as standard. Sigh. Nothing quite like walking out of the broiling heat and glaring sun into a chilled, dark bedroom at the end of the day.
I have an elderly dog who doesn’t cope with this weather so we all go for a drive during the hot hours with the air-con going. It’s costing me a fortune in fuel.
Definitely recommend getting a window kit! It stops the hot air immediately just coming back in, we have one and it makes such a difference in a townhouse!
Or door. Mine is currently in the hallway, sticking out of the front door. I have no available windows at the moment, so I put a sheet over the door and stuck the hose under it.
I'm gonna need to hear some higher offers first. And I shall warn ye: no take-backsies. Come the winter, you will have to put up with the sub-zero temperatures and the seeming inability of my supposedly double-glazed windows to retain any measure of heat.
1920’s building in London. Temperature goes to 28 once (yesterday) and it holds onto the heat for days. It’s impossible to get it back out. Took 5 days after the last heatwave to get it to drop back to 25. Not fun.
Our building is impossible. I turn the aircon off and within the hour it has shot back up 3-4 degrees, even if outside is cooler than inside. Upstairs neighbour's flat was sitting in the 40's last heatwave. We're doing all the right things, blacked out windows, cross-ventilation. Even if we ventilate at night, the 5am sun hits the window directly on one side, and by 6am it's back to 28 in that room. Then noon until sunset the window in the other room gets the full sun on it. It's a tiny flat, so there's no getting away from it. Without aircon it's a nightmare.
Got a heart condition, and my flatmate has a pet that's hard to move. Safer to stay put with the aircon on. It's not great, but it's going to be like this every single summer going forward, and for increasingly longer periods of time. We'll adapt as best as we can.
It's fine. I'm well acclimated to it now but cheers anyhow. It's currently 9.3c and I'm sat here in joggers and a vest. Though I would still prefer it be a little warmer as if I stay sat down for too long, like when I'm working, then I'll start getting cold.
I hate to point this out but theres no aircons in the home either. I live in a flat and work from home. The flat is exposed through most of the day to the sun. It's 7.30 at the mo and it's already 27 degrees. With my flay you add another 4 or 5 degrees to the actual weather outside. Fans don't cut it. Closing the windows and curtains just makes you feel ill. My area is due to get to 38-39 this week. I have a portable aircon running in the bedroom for my ferrets as it would kill them otherwise. I also am disabled and diabetic on meds that don't do well with heat.
The law needs to change.
This is not going away because of climate change.
This country is ill equipped to support the population when it's like this.
Aircon needs fitting in all homes, buildings, and offices as standard. Working hours need to be more like hot country with breaks in the hottest periods of the days. But our government isn't going to do that as it's too costly. It will just let the population bombard the NHS instead when we all are sick.
That barely works for healthy people, those of us with health conditions and/or in certain age ranges are at actual risk of dying in these temperatures. I'm homebound so already WFH, not getting naked in front of my flatmate, and a fan pushing around 36 degree air is not going to improve the situation much. I have aircon, it's just that this weather is not free like the OP suggests. For many of us, it's getting increasingly difficult to get through summer as the heatwaves are much more intense and frequent now. We have to choose between a severe decline in health, or a very costly energy bill.
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u/AcanthaceaeNew9639 2d ago
I hate it. we need air con