Aha! Insulation not ventilation. If only they thought we could have both.
Well of course. How would we cope in the heat if we couldn’t complain about how awful it is?
I think Sweden & Norway have it worse if they regularly start getting prolonged hot summers, almost as much heat gain but 1/3 the heat loss. So the house will never cool down overnight
Surprising that Spain and Portugal have more leaks/damp/rot than we do. I’d have imagined those would be less of an issue in hot climates, but maybe I’m missing something
A lot of this is probably due to poor management such as opening windows during the day and not closing curtains etc.
This has to be flawed. It’s never reached 30 degrees in Ireland!
What’s up with some of the borders, looks like someone drew it from memory.
Or is this some alternate history map where the Bakker-Schut Plan happened?
BRING BACK GREAT BRITISH ENGINEERING!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 RULE BRITANNIA. BRITISH EMPIRE NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG
Higher number is bad?
I’ve got a cellar in a 4 storey house and it’s 34 on the top floor and 19 in the basement. It’s like walking into a fridge in a hot day.
Everytime I can’t help but notice the /r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
Laughs in Australian. Our houses would likely measure double digits
What we really need in hot weather are external shutters. Closing blinds/curtains on the inside only does so much, if you have upstairs south and west facing windows in the summer here the solar gains are way too high. I’ve started covering my south-facing bedroom window with a white bedsheet on the outside (I can trap it in the window hinges on either side due to way they open) and it makes a real difference.
My bedroom alone is 32c
Perfect weather to fan ones balls. 😉
Shock : Nation that had a bug up its arse for years about insulation and energy saving in the winter is now boiling fucking hot because of global warming, we are not a nation built around any sort of extremes in temperature, be it snow or sun.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of insulation grants go unspent every year.
A well insulated house will always be cooler.
The Danes get it. They feel our suffering.
To be fair this is actually reasonable for a country that historically has an unusually low winter to summer temperature range – there was little need for lots of insulation _relative to other countries_. Of course, now with climate change and energy efficiency considerations it is a lot more necessary than historically, but that doesn’t refute the point that the UK historically didn’t need the same levels of insulation as a lot of other countries.
We seriously need to get insulation sorted out in this country, don’t we?
I honestly feel a bit lucky, the house gets cold fast in winter but in Summer it always feels colder than it is outside.
Poor Ireland has it even worse lol. Seriously though British summers are a whole different beast than in other countries because of the humidity. I was in Egypt last month and it was actually hotter there (temperatures reached a high of 36°) than here during the heatwave but it was a dry kind of heat which is much more bearable and the buildings are designed to ventilate hot air helping to keep cool. The hotel room had ceiling AC which was really nice. I just kept the thermostat at room temperature all the time and turned the fan off at night to sleep. It’s a luxury that I wish I could have here but it would cost a fortune to have in every room in my house.
My room, in a shared house (so essentially live in this room), was 30 degrees at 9 pm last night. I had tried the”keep windows and blinds drawn” method, and I guess it was slightly cooler inside than out.
I opened the windows fully.
By 5am this morning it was still 28 degrees in my room.
I very much hate this weather
A friend of mine lives in Finland and his apartment block was built decades ago so it was designed to last through an ice age. He sometimes has to kip on the balcony in summer.
Because our houses were built with long, cold winters in mind. Not this 30c plus nonsense we get today.
Tom Watson: Keeping Britain Warm
So we retain the heat when its hot, get cold when its cold and generally its damp.
Some skill in that when really we’re looking for the opposite
It really stirs the patriotism in me
Insulate Britain had a point, if only they’d gone about things better and actually proposed a plan instead of glueing themselves to roads
Would be interested to see the correlation between old and new houses. I would *hope* that the statistics are skewed by the prevalence of older houses with newer houses being much better….. But 🤷
Last night I put some garden furniture cushions on the dinning room floor and slept in there upstairs is just not healthy. I feel so much better for it. A good 5 degrees difference if not more.
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Aha! Insulation not ventilation. If only they thought we could have both.
Well of course. How would we cope in the heat if we couldn’t complain about how awful it is?
I think Sweden & Norway have it worse if they regularly start getting prolonged hot summers, almost as much heat gain but 1/3 the heat loss. So the house will never cool down overnight
Surprising that Spain and Portugal have more leaks/damp/rot than we do. I’d have imagined those would be less of an issue in hot climates, but maybe I’m missing something
A lot of this is probably due to poor management such as opening windows during the day and not closing curtains etc.
This has to be flawed. It’s never reached 30 degrees in Ireland!
What’s up with some of the borders, looks like someone drew it from memory.
Or is this some alternate history map where the Bakker-Schut Plan happened?
BRING BACK GREAT BRITISH ENGINEERING!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 RULE BRITANNIA. BRITISH EMPIRE NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG
Higher number is bad?
I’ve got a cellar in a 4 storey house and it’s 34 on the top floor and 19 in the basement. It’s like walking into a fridge in a hot day.
Everytime I can’t help but notice the /r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
Laughs in Australian. Our houses would likely measure double digits
What we really need in hot weather are external shutters. Closing blinds/curtains on the inside only does so much, if you have upstairs south and west facing windows in the summer here the solar gains are way too high. I’ve started covering my south-facing bedroom window with a white bedsheet on the outside (I can trap it in the window hinges on either side due to way they open) and it makes a real difference.
My bedroom alone is 32c
Perfect weather to fan ones balls. 😉
Shock : Nation that had a bug up its arse for years about insulation and energy saving in the winter is now boiling fucking hot because of global warming, we are not a nation built around any sort of extremes in temperature, be it snow or sun.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of insulation grants go unspent every year.
A well insulated house will always be cooler.
The Danes get it. They feel our suffering.
To be fair this is actually reasonable for a country that historically has an unusually low winter to summer temperature range – there was little need for lots of insulation _relative to other countries_. Of course, now with climate change and energy efficiency considerations it is a lot more necessary than historically, but that doesn’t refute the point that the UK historically didn’t need the same levels of insulation as a lot of other countries.
We seriously need to get insulation sorted out in this country, don’t we?
I honestly feel a bit lucky, the house gets cold fast in winter but in Summer it always feels colder than it is outside.
Poor Ireland has it even worse lol. Seriously though British summers are a whole different beast than in other countries because of the humidity. I was in Egypt last month and it was actually hotter there (temperatures reached a high of 36°) than here during the heatwave but it was a dry kind of heat which is much more bearable and the buildings are designed to ventilate hot air helping to keep cool. The hotel room had ceiling AC which was really nice. I just kept the thermostat at room temperature all the time and turned the fan off at night to sleep. It’s a luxury that I wish I could have here but it would cost a fortune to have in every room in my house.
My room, in a shared house (so essentially live in this room), was 30 degrees at 9 pm last night. I had tried the”keep windows and blinds drawn” method, and I guess it was slightly cooler inside than out.
I opened the windows fully.
By 5am this morning it was still 28 degrees in my room.
I very much hate this weather
A friend of mine lives in Finland and his apartment block was built decades ago so it was designed to last through an ice age. He sometimes has to kip on the balcony in summer.
Because our houses were built with long, cold winters in mind. Not this 30c plus nonsense we get today.
Tom Watson: Keeping Britain Warm
So we retain the heat when its hot, get cold when its cold and generally its damp.
Some skill in that when really we’re looking for the opposite
It really stirs the patriotism in me
Insulate Britain had a point, if only they’d gone about things better and actually proposed a plan instead of glueing themselves to roads
Would be interested to see the correlation between old and new houses. I would *hope* that the statistics are skewed by the prevalence of older houses with newer houses being much better….. But 🤷
Last night I put some garden furniture cushions on the dinning room floor and slept in there upstairs is just not healthy. I feel so much better for it. A good 5 degrees difference if not more.
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