Cleaning your home in the heat...How?!

lessonlearned

Yes people dancing In streets soaked to the skin laughing and happy because it was raining......:rotfl:

Bennifred

lessonlearned wrote: »

I used to live in a flat during the summer of 1976. It got full sun all afternoon and early evening. It was like a furnace.

For those too young to remember the summer of 76 it was weeks on end of scorching summer days.

In the end I gave up and more or less moved to the park. ...., along with all my neighbours.

Take a rug to sit or lie on, nice picnics, a good book....

It will be raining soon enough, you can catch with the cleaning then.

suki1964 wrote: »

I remeber that summer all too well. Living in London inthat heat, water tanker on the street corners, queuing for water every morning and evening. The roads all bubbling where the Tarmac had melted, rivers, ponds and resiviors dry as a bone and John Noakes in his shorts on blue peter showing how to shower in a bucket worth of water

We also survived by staying out the house as much as possible. The library was my place of choice as it was the only public building that had air conditioning. I'd sit there morning till tea time just curled up in a seat reading away

I was in there when the rain broke. All off a sudden you could smell the change in the air and down it came. Everyone was out in the streets in there summer clothes all soaked to the skin and laughing

Within a week everyone was back whinging about the terrible British weather lol

1976 - "O" levels in that heat.......:cool:

suki1964

Bennifred wrote: »

1976 - "O" levels in that heat.......:cool:

I was too young for O levels but the end of year exams were done sitting under the trees on the lawns of the school. Massive 1950's glass built building. Was like a green house in the summer. Thankfully we had lovely grounds to sit in

Goldiegirl

Bennifred wrote: »

1976 - "O" levels in that heat.......:cool:

Me too!

I used to do my revision at home wearing my swimsuit.

Mr_Singleton

"Cleaning your home in the heat...How?!"

Naked?

elsien

I'm with the " don't bother, go and enjoy the great outdoors" brigade. Dust"ll still be there when the rain starts again.

Mr_Singleton

Opps, double post!

bubbs

Think of us people that do house cleaning for a living:eek::eek: this week has nearly killed me:o
Weds was 36 degrees and the house i go to at 8 am was bed change week, i was dripping by 8.30!!

missyrichards

I live in London and Wednesday was almost unbearably hot.

I vacuum in the early morning before it gets too hot and have been leaving the wet laundry hanging up to dry naturally around the house instead of using the tumble dryer.

We are just using a sheet as a bed cover and I close the bedroom door during the day and open the windows as far as they can open to let air in. I wet my hair every morning and then tie it up in a ponytail. I'm having lots of cold drinks as well.

Dusting and any deep cleaning has been ignored!:D

[Deleted User]

Think of how much money you have saved,all those folk queueing up at Gatwick to fly somewhere sunny and its all yours for free:)
seriously though just forget about the housework the heat doesn't last for long anyway. My friend and I went to the cinema last Monday night as its air-conditoned 'Mr Holmes' not a bad film either

The summer of 1976 my OH and I flew to Malta on holiday with our two children and it was lovely to be slightly cooler there, (always a slight breeze ) instead of stuffy London.Get out in the park under a tree with a picnic and a book and just sit it out.The world won't stop turning if there is dust indoors Just make the most of the fine weather It'll probably be cats and dogs next week :)