UK households urged to ‘seal all doors and windows' this week
An air conditioning expert is urging UK households to seal up all gaps around doors and windows as another heatwave bakes the country this week.
The Met Office is forecasting temperatures will soar as high as 30C this week - and could even hit 'mid 30Cs' by Monday, according to its latest hot weather predictions. It means that many of us will be sweating and sweltering, desperately looking for ways to keep rooms cool in the hot sunny conditions. According to Andrews Air Conditioning, one of the best ways to keep your house cool in a heatwave is to seal gaps around doors and windows.
What about those of us living in a house with chimneys? Nip out and find something substantial to shove up the chimney I suppose.
Front doors too - what about those of us living in a house with a front door? Do we seal that up too so nobody can get in or out? It's no good giving us all this incomplete advice.
Maybe the Met Office chaps could seal up the Met Office completely, in the approved manner, show us how it's done.
6 comments:
I think back doors are more important than front doors in a heatwave. Because after you've done all the sealing and eliminating gaps, you'll want to go out into the garden with a cool drink and sit in the shade of a tree.
Sam - that's what we did this afternoon and it worked quite well. Might be worth suggesting to the experts.
30C is not a heatwave. Most of the World's human population regularly live with it. I think that most UK hospitals (There are no sensible local "cottage" hospitals any more. The ill are carted many miles to some sealed skyscraper in a city centre where the common air conditioning ensures that infections and fungi are shared equally) regularly maintain a temperature close to 30C. Ideal but breeding temperature.
Anyway it is humidity that is uncomfortable.
Doonhamer - I agree, 30C is not a heatwave and references to "flaming June" suggest it's not that uncommon in June. We can't even rely on 30C being particularly accurate.
The "C" now means " Circa " in Met Office lexicon. The emphasis on "con".
Doonhamer - ha ha, very good, it does mean that.
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