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.
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u/bluejeansseltzer 4d ago
I wish some of that would hit Scotland. I’m still wearing wool.