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Unbearable - had the curtains shut at the front and open them when the sun goes round, windows all open, a fan blowing air through - still like a furnace and trying to exercise in it is hell.
To think I loved sunbathing in similar temperatures in the 80s!!
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Genuine question, are any new homes in the UK built with air conditioning?
Probably but not many, in general there is no need.
They are also a horrible feedback loop. Use AC everywhere to stay cool but they use loads of power so add to emissions which then adds to the warning through climate change.
Genuine question, are any new homes in the UK built with air conditioning?
I am getting one installed next years. The last 3 summers have been hot in concentrated bursts and my computing equipment for work is chugging in the office. Should cast around 3 grand for it to be installed (split system)
You can get portables, but I tend to stay away as they are really not all that good at efficiency, as the heat is generated from an internal unit and escapes through the hose, as well as other more complicated ways it generates heat transference.
Genuine question, are any new homes in the UK built with air conditioning?
Doubt it
However, I believe construction styles are changing to keep homes cooler. Saw an article on tv. Something to do with shading windows to stop heat building up inside, hence windows being more recessed... Though could also have been a Stockton and red wine fuelled dream after watching grand designs.
Genuine question, are any new homes in the UK built with air conditioning?
They still favour wall-mounted radiators fed by pipes connected to a boiler. Gas boilers are banned from 2025 on new builds so they'll just be replaced by electric boilers. I don't know why we still persist with wall-mounted rads. Every house I've owned has meant that the furniture layout is almost always dictated by where the rad is. When you move house that rad in the hall/corridor turns out to be an obstacle and a real pain to get past. The only house I've seen with air-con was a friend from school (that's 1960's) whose architect dad designed and built his own house. It was powered by oil which was cheap at the time as the 70's oil crisis was yet to happen. It had vents on the floor by the skirting boards on all sides of the room. It blew cold air into the house during the summer through a heat exchanger which meant the hedge outside by the exhaust was brown and dying. If new homes are built with air-con then it's seen as a gimmick not a must-have.
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
They still favour wall-mounted radiators fed by pipes connected to a boiler. Gas boilers are banned from 2025 on new builds so they'll just be replaced by electric boilers. I don't know why we still persist with wall-mounted rads. Every house I've owned has meant that the furniture layout is almost always dictated by where the rad is. When you move house that rad in the hall/corridor turns out to be an obstacle and a real pain to get past. The only house I've seen with air-con was a friend from school (that's 1960's) whose architect dad designed and built his own house. It was powered by oil which was cheap at the time as the 70's oil crisis was yet to happen. It had vents on the floor by the skirting boards on all sides of the room. It blew cold air into the house during the summer through a heat exchanger which meant the hedge outside by the exhaust was brown and dying. If new homes are built with air-con then it's seen as a gimmick not a must-have.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine installed those shutter blinds in his bedroom. His bedroom is like a furnace in this type of weather. He now says having his bedroom window open, with the opposite panel open and the rest closed, has made a massive difference to the temperature in his bedroom.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine installed those shutter blinds in his bedroom. His bedroom is like a furnace in this type of weather. He now says having his bedroom window open, with the opposite panel open and the rest closed, has made a massive difference to the temperature in his bedroom.
UK Air-con = open a window. Cheap but not burglar proof.
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
They still favour wall-mounted radiators fed by pipes connected to a boiler. Gas boilers are banned from 2025 on new builds so they'll just be replaced by electric boilers. I don't know why we still persist with wall-mounted rads. Every house I've owned has meant that the furniture layout is almost always dictated by where the rad is. When you move house that rad in the hall/corridor turns out to be an obstacle and a real pain to get past. The only house I've seen with air-con was a friend from school (that's 1960's) whose architect dad designed and built his own house. It was powered by oil which was cheap at the time as the 70's oil crisis was yet to happen. It had vents on the floor by the skirting boards on all sides of the room. It blew cold air into the house during the summer through a heat exchanger which meant the hedge outside by the exhaust was brown and dying. If new homes are built with air-con then it's seen as a gimmick not a must-have.
I spoke with a guy about three or four years ago looking to bring a product to market that was in effect underfloor heating, though it was also fine to be installed in walls.
They were sheets, or more like pads really that were installed that heated up when voltage was passed through them, nothing revolutionary there, but they also had a 'resting temperature' that was quite cool when unpowered and he claimed that they would significantly lower the temperature in a room.
He was talking to me about taking the stauff to market, at the time they were a way off so I passed up, I'll have to look see if they are available now.
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Probably but not many, in general there is no need.
They are also a horrible feedback loop. Use AC everywhere to stay cool but they use loads of power so add to emissions which then adds to the warning through climate change.
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What if that is balanced with solar panels on the roof?
I genuinely don't understand why new builds don't have solar installed as standard? Surely it would reduce the need for more power stations needed to be built? You then have a decentralised system which can pump energy back into the national grid or would it be weak against surges etc?
Who loses out if this was done because from what I can see, we have the French running a lot of our power stations and the Chinese set to build them?
Alcohol is the answer but I can't remember the question!
Genuine question, are any new homes in the UK built with air conditioning?
Doubt you'd get them through planning and building regulations
They keep getting stricter, and ends up with things like bigger cavity insulations and floor slabs, solar panels, ground source heat pumps, rainwater harvesters etc
You'd have to offset it so far to allow for it to hit the greener targets on the other side that it just is almost unviable
Doubt you'd get them through planning and building regulations
They keep getting stricter, and ends up with things like bigger cavity insulations and floor slabs, solar panels, ground source heat pumps, rainwater harvesters etc
You'd have to offset it so far to allow for it to hit the greener targets on the other side that it just is almost unviable
Try and listen to this and imagine I am at Weymouth beach where it is nice and windy and I am able to walk out into the sea at low tide or locally to Felixstowe with a cooling onshore breeze.
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