What's the temperature in your house today?

TELLIT01

Before this year the temperature inside the house has never been high enough to be any kind of problem so can't say accurately.  At a guess no more than 23 or 24 degrees.  Since the extremely hot weather started the temperature has been climbing slowly.  Currently 28 in our living room.  The house has been closed up all day and the conservatory, which now has a solid roof and is west facing is 39.  We're keeping the door between the house and conservatory closed until it cools.  Thank god we never removed the door!

marlot

26C inside, 34C outside.

I open the windows and doors when I get up, use a fan to pull air in downstairs, and expel it upstairs, so the whole house is cooled.  About 9am, close all doors, windows and curtains.

TimSynths

Brighton- 27.4c, its nearly 8pm. Didnt drop below 24c last night in here.

shiraz99

chrisw said:

TheGardener said:

Draw the curtains on the sunny side - makes more difference than you'd expect 

We've got blackout blinds covered by blackout curtains. I've been trying all permutations of windows covered, not covered, windows open, windows closed and it hasn't made the slightest difference.

All I've found is that it feels cooler with the windows open rather than closed even though the temperature appears the same. It feels less stuffy and humid.

The rear of my house gets the sun in the morning till around 2pm. I've got French doors to the back so the dining room and kitchen have been getting 27 to 28C. Keeping the curtains closed and cracking open the windows seems to keep the temp constant but I've noticed keeping the doors closed to these rooms and the back bedrooms upstairs has made the big difference. For example, the lounge is a good 3 degrees cooler.

Rosa_Damascena

33degC in my kitchen at 7.30am, the moment the sun hits it.

Its fair to say its freezing in the winter without the heating on. I'm not complaining about the heat though, give it 4 weeks and it will be business as usual.

fatbelly

I'm trying to cool the house down before the outside temperature rises.

10.30 a.m. 
24.5 downstairs
25.3 upstairs

Everything closed now. Outside it's 27.9 according to my local amateur weather station*.

11.15 a.m
25.5 downstairs
25.9 upstairs

*Interestingly it has been going since 2009 and only recorded temperatures over 30 in three months - and July 2022 was not one of them. August 2022, July 2021 and June 2017. Highest ever temperature was 31.0 and atm it's 30.8 (12.40) and rising! Looks like this is the hottest day in the history of that weather station. Will update later

Peaked at 32.0 degrees at 16:37

Mr.Generous

Approx Majorca sweating level in the north facing lounge, Lanzarote in August heavy sweating level in the south facing dining or kitchen, and Death Valley unbearable in the south facing conservatory.

Rosa_Damascena

Mr.Generous said:

Approx Majorca sweating level in the north facing lounge, Lanzarote in August heavy sweating level in the south facing dining or kitchen, and Death Valley unbearable in the south facing conservatory.

Your conservatory comes into its own when it is freezing but sunny outside. I miss mine but then I am a person who likes to have her cake and eat it too.

twopenny

30°c last night at 8pm.

Inside was 28 yesterday with no breeze. But it has stayed a constant 24 at night and day breeze or not.

I'm on a rise that gets sun all day all round. Thought that was wonderful when I moved in 

First year I used foil car shades attached to the bedroom windows where the sun rises. Now have a detachable blackout.  Glass porch curtains on a tension rod which give privacy when you want the door open for air.

The back patio doors have a Dutch blind. Foil survival blankets(cheap as chips) pegged to them. They really make a huge difference. Blistering in front and cool behind.

I've tried to make temporary weighted poles to attach these to to cover the patio that is so hot but they get pulled over so looking at sinking post holders so I can put in temporary posts in summer and some kind of removable shade for the hot days.

fatbelly

Mr.Generous said:

Approx Majorca sweating level in the north facing lounge, Lanzarote in August heavy sweating level in the south facing dining or kitchen, and Death Valley unbearable in the south facing conservatory.

That's the problem with a south-facing conservatory. Ours is east-facing with the sun leaving it after 1pm. That works quite nicely when I need a bit of extra warmth to be drawn into the house in the morning. At the moment the door to the house is closed and the two doors at each end of it are open. I've been here 20 years and never had to manage the temperatures like I have over the past few weeks