I know I have been very slow lately and there are mostly medical reasons for that. I have to add that I do not intend to expire just yet!
The latest heatwave has not been helpful. I write in a small upstairs room originally set up as a nursery, it is approx 8 feet square with what was a built-in wardrobe at the back. This wardrobe contains almost all the computer equipment apart from the desktops I usually frequent. The room at present is 30C and the wardrobe is 33C. I intend to shut everything down once I have posted this.
It is so hot that I fear for the equipment. It will operate at those higher temperatures but it effectively shortens the lifespan. It is probably doing the same for me! I can't function in this heat, and today is much more humid than the last few days. We have a portable (luggable) air conditioner but it is downstairs. It is too heavy to bring upstairs, where the temperature is usually 4-5C warmer than below, so we hunker down downstairs and mostly read until the evenings.
I have about 90% of VotV #101 written and just have some tidying up to do. Production will likely resume sometime next week, when temperatures should be a little more comfortable.
Penny
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Heat in upper floors
That is basic fundamental physics for you. Warm air raises by natural convection. And on the inside of a house or building the upper floors will naturally be warmer than the lower floors. And it gets worse if the upper level rooms are partially or fully in the attic space, right under the roof. You have not mentioned if this room is on a standard upper floor with an attic above it, or if it is located in the attic space directly under the roof.
Based on the experience I have had in Germany with an attic level apartment, you need an exhaust vent near the peak of the ceiling in the room. Preferably with a fan to extract the accumulated hot air out of the room force-ably. Over time the heat will accumulate in the peak of the ceiling and start bearing down on the room occupants and become oppressive to the point of becoming unbearable. This is especially true if there is only one window and/or if the top of the window opening is to low in relation to the ceiling peak.
On the other hand, in the winter time you need to be able to close that vent to prevent the heated air to escape outside into the cold.
Down in rural South America this heat accumulation is one of the main reasons why multi-level houses are more or less taboo. Also cleaning and upkeep is just so much easier if every thing is on a single level with no stairs. Especially as residents get less young.
Agreed
Our house is what they term "Dormer style" which means that the upper rooms are all, technically, in the roof space, even though there is little roof involved. We have full-length dormers front and back and the upstairs width of the house is only about a meter/yard less than the downstairs. There is a tiny triangular space above the middle which is the real "attic" but it is only about 1.5 metres/6 feet high. Enough to store our travel cases and not much else.
Walking up the stairs you can feel the temperature gradient as you climb. It can be a pain sleeping in the summer but fine most of the rest of the year.
We have an end wall so an extractor fan is a lower-cost possibility. I'll investigate.
Right now the temperature hasn't risen any further as the sun hasn't come out so I've risked logging in, but I doubt that will last. Oh, well, back to the e-books.
Penny
Hm, I interpreted the heading in another way
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Didn't Fall Into The Stock Tank
All week, pants are wet, socks are wet, blouse is wet, under clothes are wet, all of that leaked out of me. The wind blowing twenty six mph isn't drying me off either. Wednesday evening the AC quit. Too hot and too tired to check it out as I've been working on fencing. Thursday night metered it out, one of the capacitors had shorted, simple to replace. The AC is a lifesaver even growing up on the farm without one I'm no longer able to stand the heat like I use to.
Hugs Penny, take care, drinking lemonade will help one's body a little with the heat.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl