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It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so I'll be back when it gets cooler. It's a pity that nobody appears to have put proper, built-in, home air-conditioning systems on the UK market for the non-rich. What appears to be normal for Americans from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, San Francisco to New York, to have permanently installed at a reasonable price, is a luxury here. I have never been in a private, air-conditioned house in the UK (with the system built-in rather than depending on inefficient water evaporation or small portable units). We don't have screen doors, either. Madness!
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Crossposting to AEU terminated with prejudice, "Because It's About Time"(tm). [nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... [/nq] But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties are way less efficient (in the "ability to cool the human effectively" sense) than the ad hoc-installed units I knew back in the 'Seventies, which would quickly turn a room into a frosty-freezy zone of happy coolness.
- Crossposting to AEU terminated with prejudice, "Because It's About Time"(tm).
- [nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ...
- [/nq] But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties are way less efficient (in the "ability to cool the human effectively" sense) than the ad hoc-installed units I knew back in the 'Seventies, which would quickly turn a room into a frosty-freezy zone of happy coolness.
- Maybe it's the EPA's fault.
- So much for Jan Sand's "ecology".
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Crossposting to AEU terminated with prejudice, "Because It's About Time"(tm).
[nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... air-conditioned house in the UK (with the system built-in rather than depending on inefficient water evaporation or small portable units).[/nq]
But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties
[nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... air-conditioned house in the UK (with the system built-in rather than depending on inefficient water evaporation or small portable units).[/nq]
But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties
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[nq:1]This I don't understand. The BrE also don't have screens on their windows FWIU. Have they no troublesome flying insects over there? Or have they made their peace with those creatures?[/nq]
What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft. You don't need screens if you don't open your windows.
What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft. You don't need screens if you don't open your windows.
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[nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... system built-in rather than depending on inefficient water evaporation or small portable units). We don't have screen doors, either. Madness![/nq]
How much would you want to pay for an installation you might use for two or three weeks every five years or so?
-- Don Aitken
How much would you want to pay for an installation you might use for two or three weeks every five years or so?
-- Don Aitken
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[nq:1]But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties are way less efficient (in the "ability to cool the ... the effective air conditioners of an earlier era, I have only been disappointed in the relative ineffectiveness of present-day standards.[/nq]
I was just remarking to a friend in the states (Yes, I still have a few) that I've hardly missed AC (something I couldn't do
I was just remarking to a friend in the states (Yes, I still have a few) that I've hardly missed AC (something I couldn't do
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[nq:2]This I don't understand. The BrE also don't have screens ... there? Or have they made their peace with those creatures?[/nq]
[nq:1]What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft. You don't need screens if you don't open your windows.[/nq]
We don't open our windows in order to keep out the pesky little flying thingies, as infreqauent as they might be.
It amaze
[nq:1]What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft. You don't need screens if you don't open your windows.[/nq]
We don't open our windows in order to keep out the pesky little flying thingies, as infreqauent as they might be.
It amaze
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[nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... the system built-in rather than depending on inefficientwater evaporation or small portable units). We don't have screen doors, either. Madness![/nq]
Well, normally*, the weather in northern and central Europe is so mild that we don't *need air conditioning.
[nq:1]It touched 97 in the shade here yesterday and today, and it is now 110 in my computer room, so ... the system built-in rather than depending on inefficientwater evaporation or small portable units). We don't have screen doors, either. Madness![/nq]
Well, normally*, the weather in northern and central Europe is so mild that we don't *need air conditioning.
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[nq:1]How much would you want to pay for an installation you might use for two or three weeks every five years or so?[/nq]
Yep, that's about the size of it. Though this year could be a bit different. We've already had a week or two in May and one in the past week and now the weather guys are saying this heat could last till into Sept.
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[nq:1]How much would you want to pay for an installation you might use for two or three weeks every five years or so?[/nq]
Yep, that's about the size of it. Though this year could be a bit different. We've already had a week or two in May and one in the past week and now the weather guys are saying this heat could last till into Sept.
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[nq:1]But the built-in systems I've experienced since the mid 'Eighties are way less efficient (in the "ability to cool the ... units I knew back in the 'Seventies, which would quickly turn a room into a frosty-freezy zone of happy coolness.[/nq]
Jeez, turn down the thermostat if you want it cooler. We keep ours set at 78F in the summer, the A/C's dehumidification being its more important func
Jeez, turn down the thermostat if you want it cooler. We keep ours set at 78F in the summer, the A/C's dehumidification being its more important func
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[nq:1]This I don't understand. The BrE also don't have screens on their windows FWIU. Have they no troublesome flying insects over there? Or have they made their peace with those creatures?[/nq]
As a child I lived on a smallholding where we kept cows and poultry, and we had fly-screens on the doors and windows.
Urban houses here, however, are not built with such things, though they would b
As a child I lived on a smallholding where we kept cows and poultry, and we had fly-screens on the doors and windows.
Urban houses here, however, are not built with such things, though they would b
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[nq:2]This I don't understand. The BrE also don't have screens ... there? Or have they made their peace with those creatures?[/nq]
I used to brag about how we don't get mosquitoes, but I think that claim is moving into the fiction column. :-(
The number of moths is also starting to bug me...
[nq:1]What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft.[/nq]
No, we call
I used to brag about how we don't get mosquitoes, but I think that claim is moving into the fiction column. :-(
The number of moths is also starting to bug me...
[nq:1]What we in the States call cross ventilation the Brits call a draft.[/nq]
No, we call
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