This is the second post I've seen where they're complaining about the insulation. My brother in Christ you gotta close up the house in the mornings and trap as much coolness as you can inside.
Do people not know this. Open up the house when it's cool then shuter down
Honestly it’s so boiling even in the morning no way I’m gonna close all my windows
The last place I lived had for all practical purposes no AC when it regularly gets to over 100 and closing the house up after 10am is vital to pushing the suffering to mid afternoon. Having more than one fan centered on you and cold showers do wonders.
cold showers, ice drinks and open windows only after dark seems to work so far, though I
would(will) get ACif it didn't violate my lease(when I get around to it, apparently its no longer a lease violation)nope, they
don't(didn't) let us do that and apparently its legal in this state. i have some neighbors that have windows units though, so maybe i need to reread my lease in case something changed (it did). they did explicitly say no window units when I moved in thoughI'm genuinely confused why that would be an issue for anyone unless they're paying the electric bill I guess?
there is the issue of liability in case the ac falls on someone's head due to improper installation and also the issue of potential damage to the window. i mean its mostly bullshit tbh and they could just take some responsibility and have one of the maintenance staff install it instead of asking us to do it but obviously they wont do that. and no, they don't cover the electricity bill, that would be sweet though
also PS, this conversation made me reread the lease renewal and apparently they removed the language about not being able to put in an AC so that's progress and I guess I can get an AC unit. we did have some people die in the neighborhood from the heat, so i guess they weighted the liability costs associated with that too..
it was mostly disabled elderly people living in public housing. they were not able to move around easily and get to a cooler area. i could say more but i don't want to doxx myself too much
I mean ya if ya can't cool off the building over night or in the morning than ya. Airflow. What's the humidity like?
Angrily pointing at my 1000 thread count sheets produced from cotton harvested in a former African colony and demanding that you feel pity for me.
JFC, what kind of AC do you think the Egyptian cotton farmers had?
critical support for climate change in its war against br*ts
Death to America
Weren't there just protests over there ABOUT the lack of insulation that the mainstream UK just kinda shrugged off or got mad at for blocking traffic?
Edit: I wasn't aware that br*ts don't insulate at all so whatever
Oh this is my thing
When you insulate a home for a cold, wet, climate you put what's called the 'vapor barrier' on the inside of the home, so as to prevent the warm air inside from coming into contact with the cooler building materials and forming condensation.
In places where it's normally hot, you insulate with the vapor barrier on the outside because you want to prevent the hot air outside from coming into contact with the cooler air inside, either because of air conditioning or the home cooling methods described in this thread.
So while the insulation does still work both ways, the method by which the insulation is applied does affect the efficiency by which the home can be cooled
does he think that most people in the tropics have ac or something lol
tho tbf to him i was shocked to see the weather in London todayIn India at least you would have ceiling fans. That spin faster than any I've seen in the US
I legit cannot imagine anyone living in the south of anything, when I was taken to the southern US once I nearly passed out twice
I think Southern California gets chilly in the winter. Can't survive anywhere it gets under 10C
We have those in Guatemala too. Sometimes I watch them spin when I have trouble sleeping.
I used to draw on the center so you get some cool spinny lines
Go to the stone walled uninsulated basement
Edit: this is in reference to the London building tend of digging down to create new stories on building as they are restricted from building up
You can borrow some of the ice cubes, but you don't get to sit on the bottom. :top-use-words:
It’s not that their homes are only insulated for cold, their homes aren’t fucking insulated because they built their entire disastrous society on the idea that the outside temperature will only ever be between 40F and 75F. If it gets colder than that they just use a wasteful amount of energy to heat their leaking homes.
As someone said in the last thread about this, the only solution is to sink that island back below the azure waves where it belongs
sounds like you should be taking this out on the landlord and not the inanimate architecture...
If they covered all their windows with canvas during the day and opened the windows at night they'd be infinitely better off. I don't have AC, and it gets absurdly hot and humid, and it isn't great, but unless you're elderly or otherwise in some sort of dire medical need, it is imminently survivable if you don't have the anglo brainpan
wherever you are, plan for increased weather variability: higher highs, lower lows, prolonged droughts, sudden floods, decreased predictability from historic models, and increased storm/precipitation intensity. everything is now on the table and the brightest minds/experts are both underfunded and having to improvise constantly. i'll tell you what events freak me out: these ones where some high pressure system becomes nearly stationary somewhere in the summer and lets the sun just broil everything there. like what happened in the PNW a year or so ago, which they called the "omega block",
i don't feel bad for people of means who are experiencing discomfort in this event. their privilege gave them access the information needed to act and the power to prepare. instead, they used that privilege to ignore climate change. nature doesn't knock and go away. it knocks once or twice and then breaks the door down.
i do feel bad for overworked people on the edge who are taking it on the chin. it's miserable. everyone around you is miserable. no one sleeps. they just pass out for a few hours and have weird, restless dreams before stirring awake, sweaty and unrested. blackouts and utility failures compound the stresses by taking out lights, fans, appliances for food, and communication abilities.
the veil of civil society fades for every second the people in power don't do harm reduction during these situations, like opening venues with good ventilation and backup power for people to gather, rest and receive basic attention, opening misting/cooling/hydration stations, helping people check on the elderly and others with limited mobility and making sure they know the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke which can be deceptive.
insulation works both ways
That's the neat part - they're not!
There is an argument to be made about this heat wave striking only at the lower levels of society, since the top both does have AC and doesn't have to go anywhere. That said, it is perfectly possible to be sympathetic to the individual people suffering the most from this without feeling any sympathy for Britain itself. I hope the island melts and I guess I also hope some people make it out.
Everything will go against my wishes in this case. The heat wave will kill the poor people least responsible for anything Britain has done and leave the upper class (who for sure does have AC) untouched. Still, no reason to be a doomer about it. This particular heat wave may not do the job, but it's not as if Britain is suddenly on the rise. We will all still be able to watch the UK crumble and die.
