WARM..........
#7
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Lovely weather here in South Germany, although the heat haze is obscuring my view of the Alps today! May have to take a dip in the lake at lunch time to cool off
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#8
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the £400 investment i may 2 yeas ago is paying off, i've slept great past few nights with the AC unit running
given the number of dayas it gets used its prob cost about £50 a day int he time i've owned it hahahaha, but sooo worth it
given the number of dayas it gets used its prob cost about £50 a day int he time i've owned it hahahaha, but sooo worth it
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#12
i guess i "run hot" all the time, i have a fan on every night all year round and i sleep with no duvet just my shorts.
weirdo.........maybe lol
#17
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That's one thing they got right in Germany - all windows are fitted with roller shutters on the outside, when its hot, you just close all the shutters during the daytime and it stays pretty cool inside. Looking at my current home temperatures, its a toasty 38°C in the shade on my balcony, but a comfortable 28°C in the bedroom and living room!
#19
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When I've been on holiday in a hot country and had air con in the room, I usually set it about 27°C. I don't like it when the temperature difference between outside and inside is too much, usually gives me a blocked nose! No problem sleeping as long as the temp is below 30°C at night!
I'm interested to see what it will be like in my new house. As long as I keep the shutters closed, it should stay pretty cool, but if it does get warm inside, it will be impossible to cool down again! If it is too hot, I have the option for about €1000 to install a cooling system which will pump cold water through the underfloor heating, but will wait to see what its like without for starters and can install it at a later date if needed!
I'm interested to see what it will be like in my new house. As long as I keep the shutters closed, it should stay pretty cool, but if it does get warm inside, it will be impossible to cool down again! If it is too hot, I have the option for about €1000 to install a cooling system which will pump cold water through the underfloor heating, but will wait to see what its like without for starters and can install it at a later date if needed!
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That's one thing they got right in Germany - all windows are fitted with roller shutters on the outside, when its hot, you just close all the shutters during the daytime and it stays pretty cool inside. Looking at my current home temperatures, its a toasty 38°C in the shade on my balcony, but a comfortable 28°C in the bedroom and living room!
Same in spain.
White persianas block and reflect solar heat, even though the windows are wafer thin double glazing (10mm glazing unit’s) and aluminium frames don’t have proper thermal breaks or draught proofing, the persianas take the brunt of it. Keep shut from mid morning onwards, open again at sunset.
Also the buildings are mostly concrete so a huge thermal mass to sink heat into floors and roofs...concrete beams using polystyrene interlocking blocks to support the concrete poured on top. Walls are hollow terracotta bricks double skinned with polystyrene cavity (except kitchen and bathroom which is single skin on the south walls ).
The result of this is a building that peaks at 26c degrees when its 36c outside without air-con, open windows at night and stick box fans in them and it’ll drop to a pleasant 22c. 26 too hot? Well I got back to UK to be greeted by my room stat saying 32C INSIDE. That’s what you get when you are living in a dorma house...its mostly timber so no thermal mass and mega reliant on insulation and blocking solar gain...but this is the UK so insulation is not enough and what has been installed is full of gaps, like most of he UK’s housing stock.
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