What's the temperature in your house today?

shiraz99

An update on mine this morning (11:46pm), 30C outside, upstairs in the hall it's 25C with the doors closed to the south facing bedroom and bathroom and windows open on the front. Downstairs in the front lounge, it's 24.5C but on the other side of the dividing doors in the dining room with French doors it's a barmy 27.9 even with curtains closed. Unfortunately I don't have blinds on the, all glass, back door or rear kitchen windows so it's a bit of an oven in there at the moment.

Eldi_Dos

At least humidity levels are low for most parts, high temperature and humidity levels are harder to cope with, must be difficult for shift workers just now.

shiraz99

Eldi_Dos said:

At least humidity levels are low for most parts, high temperature and humidity levels are harder to cope with, must be difficult for shift workers just now.

That's all about to change over the next 24hrs.

FaceHead

If you have a nest, you can go to Google takeout and download all 15minutely data as long as you've had your nest. 

Here we peaked at 32.23 in the kitchen during the previous heatwave (when >40 degrees was forecast outside).

A mere 28 this time around.

rudigarude

Thank you all for your comments, as ever this forum is a fantastic community. Firstly it is good to hear that the temperatures I'm getting are similar to everyone else's. Since I've only lived here for two years and made a lot of changes over that time it's been hard to know what is the norm. I wish I had put the temperature sensors in much earlier so I can see. 

The rear of our house is SW facing, and we have a polycarbonate roofed conservatory that is basically south facing that is acting like a furnace in this weather, getting to 60C sometimes if the door is shut! And then at the front of the house which is NE facing, we have a massive bay window, which is beautiful, but even though it is double glazed still pumps in a lot of heat (and presumably loses it too in winter). All of the DIY and building works I've had done this year have all been in preparation for winter, so it's been interesting to see how the house is performing in this heat.

The biggest thing I've noticed in terms of the temperature in the house since insulating everything (loft in April and cavity wall in June) is that the temperature barely fluctuates any more. Prior to the efforts this year, the living room would swing about 5C over a day. Now, it fluctuates about 1C throughout a day. Obviously these observations are in summer, but it's quite promising. It'll be good to see how this is going to be over winter. 

Next year I'm hoping to do the conservatory roof, because at the moment the room is practically unusable. But at the rate we are going, I might focus on solar and battery. 

Rosa_Damascena

rudigarude said:

The rear of our house is SW facing, and we have a polycarbonate roofed conservatory that is basically south facing that is acting like a furnace in this weather, getting to 60C sometimes if the door is shut! 

I don't disbelieve you, but am wondering how you measured 60°C? My room thermometer goes up as far as 50! 

rudigarude

Rosa_Damascena said:

rudigarude said:

The rear of our house is SW facing, and we have a polycarbonate roofed conservatory that is basically south facing that is acting like a furnace in this weather, getting to 60C sometimes if the door is shut! 

I don't disbelieve you, but am wondering how you measured 60°C? My room thermometer goes up as far as 50! 

Good question. You're right, the LCD stops working after about 50C, however it's still transmitting data (it's a 433mhz radio transmitter) that I'm able to pick up using a receiver attached to a computer.

twopenny

I've had over 50 in the sun from my back garden in the sun.

Today 24° inside with all protection down d
espite it dropping to 24 outside. Feels cooler but still hot and sticky.