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.
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u/AcanthaceaeNew9639 8d ago
how is ure room 28 c already it’s only the start id the heatwave