The heat in my flat is killing me, so much that i'm sitting in just my pants, the windows are open but the noise from the traffic is terrible.
Me too zx1 and the poor bloody dog sounds like a steam engine puffing and panting and thats with the ceiling fan at full power and the AC running.
You live in Scotland don't you? Wow! If that's what it's like up there when my experience of Scotland was perpetually cold and rainy. Mind you here in Virginia its actually not as bad as it could be, the temperatures in the high 70's but the humidity must be at least 70%!
Well, today is officially the hottest day in Scotland - since 1893! (so RC probably remembers it :)) )My flat temp is now at 31C (it's the same outside) and i can't bear it. I'm sitting with just my pants on.
The way my flat sits is the sun beats down on the living room all day so it gets warm really quickly. The bedroom is a lot cooler so might go in there to keep cool. I'll also be investing in a fan tomorrow as the one i had is broke. I enjoyed the walk to the train station after work as the hot weather has made the girls leave their bras at home!:D
Looks like we'll be in for a long, hot, dry summer. Any other wossers overheating?
Yeah, and you probably don't have to work in the full sun with no shade, or in an equipment room where the air con can't cope, so end up slowly cooking at 37 degrees C...!
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Don't get me wrong i'm enjoying the summer but it's beyond enjoyable today.
Every window in my house is open for the first time ever but that hasn't helped much.
I feel sorry for engineers working in data centres today!
It's 88degrees F and about 65% humidity not too bad for the swamp I inhabit. The dogs are only able to trudge along at a snails pace and head straight for the creek and a nice swim and soak! I wish I could but there have been a couple of cases of flesh eating bacteria reported and at my age its a bit too much of a risk.
The ceiling fan is more use than the AC which is struggling to cope with the conditions and I dread to think what my electricity bill will be for this month and the worst is yet to come.
I'll be doing that tonight when i finish that bottle of Pepsi i have.
Worryingly, there's been no rain here for ages and none is forecast, that's the hosepipe bans starting to appear.
My dad rigged up a system where the drain water from the bath and sinks was diverted, filtered to remove any solids and piped to a sealed 100 gallon plastic drum (sealed to keep mozzie larvae out) with a faucet and a pump for watering the lawn (pumped) or the garden plants that required it (watering can filled from faucet). It was just for emergencies like droughts.
Before old age got me I intended to rig up something similar in case our well dried up but its a deep one and never has. Also I wanted to set up a spray on the house roof ridge to see if the evaporation would help cool the attic some but never got to do it though if my son ever moves nearby I may enlist his help.
What I have done that has made a difference is allow trees to grow next to the house to cast shadow onto it as well as the transpiration cooling effect large broad leaf trees give. Everyone freaked because they said the roots would find my septic tanks drain field but as far as I can see thats a good thing, they are helping the septic fluids be absorbed. I let maples - I love them - grow all by themselves and in three years they have reached 30ft high.
Okay so its possible I suppose that the tree roots could disrupt the concrete block wall our house sits on, but hell, I aint gonna live long enough for that to really be a problem anyway. Of course its my own property bought and paid for so I can do stuff like this!
Reminds me of a guy I worked with Mike, his little invention was quite genius, but on a much smaller scale. He was a Geologist, and big into things like environmental solutions, and water conservation.
This clever little b*astard rigged up an indoor garden using 3 litre pop bottles with goldfish in them. It sounds quite simple, but he had the rubber stoppers and conical flasks, and glass tubes coming off of all of them.
Anyway turns out the fishes sh*t, and dirt and impurities from the water fertilized his plants in this indoor garden, the plants and soil in turn filtered and purified the water back into the fishes living area, so in effect he never had to empty or clean the water out, and he got veggies, and fruit out of the deal. He said due to occasional evaporation he had to top the water up every now and then, but he said what he used would literally cost less than 10 cents a year.
He travels all over, but his Brother still works for the same place I do, although he's at a different location, but he visits ours quite often. I may even ask him if he can get his bro to send me the schematics. As far as I know now there are similar things online now, but this guys was better than the ones you can search for.
Hey Boozy you'll never believe this but I did something very similar in school to show my students how a closed system might work in a spaceship or on the moon.
I built a large perspex fishtank about a yard wide by six foot long and about a foot deep. On top of that we (the students and I) built a combination bird and mouse cage the bottom of which was wire mesh over the fish tank. We put tilapia in the tank because they like grot and overcrowding but the water must be warm so I put it over an electric blanket. Safety? Whats that?
Then we ran a vinyl gutter around the outside from the top to the edge of the tank and grew hydroponic plants in it. Thats the basic idea, it would take too long to explain it exactly in every detail.
The idea was that the birds - budgies -ate the millet and other seedy plants, the bird and mouse crap went into the water and was fertilizing the plants. The mice would also eat the various by products but the school made me get rid of the mice because they were 'vermin', some little creep who was scared of mice sneaked on me..
Heres the best bit though. I rigged up a video camera to a microscope and used epoxy to glue two slides together all around their edges trapping a thin plastic tube coming in one end and out the other. On a B&W TV screen you could see the bacteria from the water which was pumped through the thin piping.
To make sure there was something to be seen I also rigged up a septic tank (thats why I wanted mice) in a soda bottle and we added to it every brand of dried anerobic bacteria we could find - they sell it as septic helper, you put it down the bog once a month. Man did we ever have some really cool bacteria! Parents and administration would have had a fit had they known. I told the kids to keep quiet about that part of it.
It actually worked without much help and the bacteria viewing thing was so successful that when I was finished with it my daughter entered it for her Science project and got first place!
Was that before the Frankenstien's monster experiment ?
Grey the best compliment I ever had was from my supervisor in a Long Island middle school who said "You're a dangerous **** arent you Dench? That's why you never have discipline problems, they're all terrified of what you might do next!"
Where I am, we got a large shower, followed by some lighter rain. Then it stopped. Had a little bit more overnight. Came to just over 1.5mm according to my cheap half working weather station.
This morning, it bright and sunny, and getting warmer by the minute (or is that just me on a two carriage train that has 34 school children on board as well as the regular passengers...)
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
It's so humid here right now it feels like a sauna when you go outside, it hasn't rained for about 5 or 6 days, and I'm dreading when it does, as it'll no doubt be a massive storm, which will cool everything off for about 20 minutes, then all that water will go up in the air, and hang there until the next tropical lightening bomb....
It's so humid here right now it feels like a sauna when you go outside, it hasn't rained for about 5 or 6 days, and I'm dreading when it does, as it'll no doubt be a massive storm, which will cool everything off for about 20 minutes, then all that water will go up in the air, and hang there until the next tropical lightening bomb....
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Get a cold water bottle (1.5 litres plastic bottle, fill with water, freeze), wrap it in a kitchen towel and keep it close (like in your lap).
Me too zx1 and the poor bloody dog sounds like a steam engine puffing and panting and thats with the ceiling fan at full power and the AC running.
You live in Scotland don't you? Wow! If that's what it's like up there when my experience of Scotland was perpetually cold and rainy. Mind you here in Virginia its actually not as bad as it could be, the temperatures in the high 70's but the humidity must be at least 70%!
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The way my flat sits is the sun beats down on the living room all day so it gets warm really quickly. The bedroom is a lot cooler so might go in there to keep cool. I'll also be investing in a fan tomorrow as the one i had is broke. I enjoyed the walk to the train station after work as the hot weather has made the girls leave their bras at home!:D
Looks like we'll be in for a long, hot, dry summer. Any other wossers overheating?
I'd say "I win" to be a dick.....But really I don't win at all, I wish it was about 10'C :))
But I do like it when we get a proper summer :-)
Mark
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! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Every window in my house is open for the first time ever but that hasn't helped much.
I feel sorry for engineers working in data centres today!
Oh the joy of living in the USA....Freon is your friend :p
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The ceiling fan is more use than the AC which is struggling to cope with the conditions and I dread to think what my electricity bill will be for this month and the worst is yet to come.
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
Worryingly, there's been no rain here for ages and none is forecast, that's the hosepipe bans starting to appear.
Before old age got me I intended to rig up something similar in case our well dried up but its a deep one and never has. Also I wanted to set up a spray on the house roof ridge to see if the evaporation would help cool the attic some but never got to do it though if my son ever moves nearby I may enlist his help.
What I have done that has made a difference is allow trees to grow next to the house to cast shadow onto it as well as the transpiration cooling effect large broad leaf trees give. Everyone freaked because they said the roots would find my septic tanks drain field but as far as I can see thats a good thing, they are helping the septic fluids be absorbed. I let maples - I love them - grow all by themselves and in three years they have reached 30ft high.
Okay so its possible I suppose that the tree roots could disrupt the concrete block wall our house sits on, but hell, I aint gonna live long enough for that to really be a problem anyway. Of course its my own property bought and paid for so I can do stuff like this!
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
This clever little b*astard rigged up an indoor garden using 3 litre pop bottles with goldfish in them. It sounds quite simple, but he had the rubber stoppers and conical flasks, and glass tubes coming off of all of them.
Anyway turns out the fishes sh*t, and dirt and impurities from the water fertilized his plants in this indoor garden, the plants and soil in turn filtered and purified the water back into the fishes living area, so in effect he never had to empty or clean the water out, and he got veggies, and fruit out of the deal. He said due to occasional evaporation he had to top the water up every now and then, but he said what he used would literally cost less than 10 cents a year.
He travels all over, but his Brother still works for the same place I do, although he's at a different location, but he visits ours quite often. I may even ask him if he can get his bro to send me the schematics. As far as I know now there are similar things online now, but this guys was better than the ones you can search for.
I built a large perspex fishtank about a yard wide by six foot long and about a foot deep. On top of that we (the students and I) built a combination bird and mouse cage the bottom of which was wire mesh over the fish tank. We put tilapia in the tank because they like grot and overcrowding but the water must be warm so I put it over an electric blanket. Safety? Whats that?
Then we ran a vinyl gutter around the outside from the top to the edge of the tank and grew hydroponic plants in it. Thats the basic idea, it would take too long to explain it exactly in every detail.
The idea was that the birds - budgies -ate the millet and other seedy plants, the bird and mouse crap went into the water and was fertilizing the plants. The mice would also eat the various by products but the school made me get rid of the mice because they were 'vermin', some little creep who was scared of mice sneaked on me..
Heres the best bit though. I rigged up a video camera to a microscope and used epoxy to glue two slides together all around their edges trapping a thin plastic tube coming in one end and out the other. On a B&W TV screen you could see the bacteria from the water which was pumped through the thin piping.
To make sure there was something to be seen I also rigged up a septic tank (thats why I wanted mice) in a soda bottle and we added to it every brand of dried anerobic bacteria we could find - they sell it as septic helper, you put it down the bog once a month. Man did we ever have some really cool bacteria! Parents and administration would have had a fit had they known. I told the kids to keep quiet about that part of it.
It actually worked without much help and the bacteria viewing thing was so successful that when I was finished with it my daughter entered it for her Science project and got first place!
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
It is still scorchio
This morning, it bright and sunny, and getting warmer by the minute (or is that just me on a two carriage train that has 34 school children on board as well as the regular passengers...)
Mark
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
yeah, same here.
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
*insert Eurythmics joke here....
We are not Tourists you know !
Could've fooled me :p