discussion Too Hot!!

[Neil Merryweather]

Instead I'm decorating my daughter's bedroom. Over the last 4 days I've stripped the walls, papered and painted. Still have wooden flooring to lay, and beds and cupboards to build. All in this heat.

I feel your pain , Bob.
My eldest daughter & her 7 year-old have been living in our front room bedsit since mid Feb. She's finally got a job and found a flat but it needs a shed-load doing to it. I've been there all week putting shelves up, changing light fittings etc etc.
Fortunately she has an army of wannabe boyfriends doing the painting, so I let them :thumb2:
As John says It's what dads do isn't it.
And on Monday the father-in-law(87) moves to a new flat........
Not a lot of bench time on the horizon

sorry ,I just realised this is off topic- it IS very hot here too............

 

[Guest]

30 degrees here in the southwestern Netherlands yesterday, 34 today. Good beach weather for the tourists, I suppose, but I spent most of today watching episodes of Dark (highly recommended if you want a complex story, BTW) because it was too hot for anything else.

I’ve had an air conditioner (a proper split unit) for my bedroom for years, because I physically can’t cope with heat, but it’s been acting up lately Sometimes it works fine, most times it keeps turning itself off and back on, cooling the room by only about 2 or 3 degrees. Which is better than nothing, of course, but far from ideal when it’s much more too hot than that.

 

[Peter Gillson]

Look forward to that Richard cannot guarantee the weather but can guarantee a good welcome.

Plus Jersey Royals Potatoes are still being dug & they are superb. Just rub your thumb over the potatoe & the thin skin disappears leaving it scrapped retaining all the flavour.

Laurie - the best way to improve the flavour of Jersey potatoes is a nob of Guernsey butter !!
Peter

 

[KarlW]

I love the cooling blasts of air coditioners, my asthma not as much......

 

[Richard48]

Laurie - the best way to improve the flavour of Jersey potatoes is a nob of Guernsey butter !!
Peter

Is it going to descend into island banter hehe,I cant remember what each island calls each other?,Toads and Crappos have popped into my head.Lol.
Rich.

 

[Ian M]

We hit 30 C yesterday clear sky and almost wind still. Bloody hot but survivable. Today 26-27 overcast and no wind at all. It's horrible. Sunshine is fine it's the humidity that gets me. Thankful for the AC. Even though it is only set to fan. If we put it on cooling it can cool the house quickly but the heat coming of the electric meter warms things up again.

 

[Guest]

Is it going to descend into island banter hehe,I cant remember what each island calls each other?,Toads and Crappos have popped into my head.Lol.
Rich.

Ug ug no no Richard. Crapauds my dear boy for Jersey . a toad


Donkey for Guernsey gee they are as well.

Laurie - the best way to improve the flavour of Jersey potatoes is a nob of Guernsey butter !!
Peter

Tut dear me Peter. Does though not know that Jersey butter is the richest butter in the world. Most use Guernsey butter for greasing the lawn mower. :smiling5:

 

[stona]

My eldest daughter & her 7 year-old have been living in our front room bedsit since mid Feb. She's finally got a job and found a flat but it needs a shed-load doing to it. I've been there all week putting shelves up, changing light fittings etc etc.

I've done substantial work on both my daughters' houses, though one now has a fella who knows how to work a drill and wire a light fitting. It's never ending, as I also double as the maintenance man.
One grandson has what he calls his 'Pops Box' into which all the broken toys he wants fixing go. At least putting them back together can be quite good fun

 

[Neil Merryweather]

I've done substantial work on both my daughters' houses, though one now has a fella who knows how to work a drill and wire a light fitting. It's never ending, as I also double as the maintenance man.
One grandson has what he calls his 'Pops Box' into which all the broken toys he wants fixing go. At least putting them back together can be quite good fun :smiling3:

I'm just happy all our children still see us. I know many whose children are strangers...

 

[stona]

I'm just happy all our children still see us. I know many whose children are strangers...

I've tried tactfully suggesting that everyone doesn't descend on us at Xmas! It's a nice 'problem' to have, you are right.

 

[BigGreg]

WAY TO HOT here in Belgium... the only idea of doing the jungle terrain i felt hot and humid... so today no bench time....hopefully on my day off on wednesday....

 

[Steve Brodie]

I feel your pain. I hate the sun, well heat :cold-sweat:. I even wear shorts in the winter!, Neighbours are used to seeing me out in shorts in the winter or jeans without a coat on when walking the dog, when they are wrapped up like they are in the north pole :smiling5:.

 

[Dave Ward]

I thought that the temperature was going to be the same as yesterday, but it's hotter, and the humidity has risen, so it's not at all comfortable. Thunderstorms are forecast for later today, over into tomorrow, so I hope that will clear the air a bit, I don't think I'll get any benchtime today............
Dave

 

[Guest]

It's all about humidity. Today (Monday) it's around 31 degrees here, and very humid, so it's sticky and uncomfortable. I've experienced 40+ in Egypt without sweating, due to the aridity - you actually get used to those conditions fairly quickly.

 

[Peej]

The chicken sheds on my farm are set at 30 regress at the moment as the birds are only a few days old. With the ventilation in the sheds it feels a lot more comfortable in them than being outside.

 

[Guest]

I'm really not a fan of the heat either.

I've been turning up to work around 05:45 and it's already too hot, 29.8°C one morning! One of the disadvantages of working in a super insulated building, it doesn't lose much heat overnight. Then during the day it just gets warmer. With 4 full sized spray booth / ovens running at 80°C up to 20 times a day we easily see mid to late 30's, and the paint mixing room (sandwiched between 2 of the ovens) gets up to the mid 40's :smiling6: All while wearing Tyvek overalls, mask & gloves.

It's really no surprise that I have no motivation to go into the shed after work when it too can be over 30 degrees due to baking in the sun all day :smiling5:

 

[Tim Marlow]

Bloody hell Andy, your paint room seems to be against health and safety rules...I know there’s no maximum working temperature but that seems pretty debilitating to me.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, it's not fun Tim. We try and spend as little time in there as possible. I've tried propping the doors open (totally against fire regulations!) but it doesn't help a lot.

The current shortage of PPE is causing further issues. We normally wear 3M paint suits which have large breathable panels in them. Since they are pretty much unavailable to us at the moment we're using cheap alternatives that are almost air tight. One of the younger guys was painting over the weekend and by mid morning his shirt was soaked in sweat. The only plus point is that we tend to stop painting by mid afternoon. The booths (set at 20° for spraying) just can't cool down enough between bake cycles at the moment so gradually get hotter during the day. Above about 36-38 the paint starts doing weird things due to drying too fast so we pull the plug.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Yep, tyveks are pretty uncomfortable after a while....do you have to wear the pixie hoods? They make them almost unbearable....we just used to wear what we called “pajamas” underneath them, like hospital scrubs....
With respect to the paint mixing room, what’s the flashpoint on the solvents, or is everything water based these days?

 

[Dave Ward]

Andy,
you get supplied with cool drinks? - I hope so, & salt tablets as well. When I was in the tropics in the MN, we popped salt tablets like smarties - at least 15 a day, and maybe 2 gallons of water ( and a gallon of beer after watch ). If you missed the salt tablets, you could be in a serious condition pretty quickly. I only had heat exhaustion once ( that was enough ) - frightened all my mates, as the initial symptoms are similar to a heart attack! Due to over exertion, not drinking enough water & taking more salt tablets - I sometimes wonder if my later health problems were due to the stresses & strains of 6 month voyages.................
Dave