Excess heat in private rented

RHemmings

Personally I feel that fans make the heat more bearable, even if they don't actually decrease the temperature at all. I've got one in my office, and it works well during the occasional heat. 

I looked at the temperature, looked at the date of the OP, and wondered where all that heat is coming from. I've never lived high up in a tall building. Do they really get that hot just from heat rising from other floors? 

Personally I agree with @MattMattMattUK; find out where the heat is coming from. 

jimbog

pilchard74 said:

Hi. My son has just moved in to private rented flat for his final year at Uni. His top floor studio room is extremely hot and is recording a daily temperature of 29-31 degrees. The landlord won’t inspect the room and after much hassling has just given him an air cooler which hasn’t done anything to the temperature. He also has 5 fans in the room too! He suffers with asthma and I’m extremely concerned for his health. What are his rights? I can’t get through to Environmental Health. It just keeps me on hold forever! 

If it has been ridiculously hot of late it means that there is poor roof insulation. It means he will freeze in winter unless he sorts out his own heater 

theartfullodger

jimbog said:

pilchard74 said:

Hi. My son has just moved in to private rented flat for his final year at Uni. His top floor studio room is extremely hot and is recording a daily temperature of 29-31 degrees. The landlord won’t inspect the room and after much hassling has just given him an air cooler which hasn’t done anything to the temperature. He also has 5 fans in the room too! He suffers with asthma and I’m extremely concerned for his health. What are his rights? I can’t get through to Environmental Health. It just keeps me on hold forever! 

If it has been ridiculously hot of late it means that there is poor roof insulation. It means he will freeze in winter unless he sorts out his own heater 

Landlord responsibility to ensure adequate heating system, tenant should not have to provide his own heaters.

LunaLater

I know that this may seem like a silly question, but does he have all of the windows open and the heating turned off?

MultiFuelBurner

LunaLater said:

I know that this may seem like a silly question, but does he have all of the windows open and the heating turned off?

Not silly at all being new to living on their own as a student......life skills and all that.

Something I asked as well earlier in the post.

[Deleted User]

Earlier today I commented in a topic where the tenant was finding it is too cold, and I login this evening to find another tenant thinks its too hot. Must be the time of year. Hope they don't live together.

molerat

[Deleted User] said:

Earlier today I commented in a topic where the tenant was finding it is too cold, and I login this evening to find another tenant thinks its too hot. Must be the time of year. Hope they don't live together.

I am generally sitting in a t shirt & MrsM has a thick fleecy top on moaning about the cold.

BobT36

5 fans may not be helping... Think about airflow, tis the same in a computer. If you have all the fans pointed in silly directions it will create either a clump or void of air. You want air FLOW, single direction, across the thing you want to be cooled. 

Fans only move air, and they have to also find that air from somewhere (such as an open window or door) and then it's better if they move that air somewhere (another open window or door). Too many fans will just bodge up that airflow and stop it well, flowing..

spoovy

If the temperature outside is cooler than in the room the best thing to do with a fan is generally to point it out of the window (about one meter away from the window is best for a typical floor standing fan). 
It acts like an extractor fan; warm air is blown out to be replaced by cooler air from some other source (another open window on the other side of the property works best).
I've always done this and it works well. You might not reduce heat in the middle of the day in this way but you can do it in the morning and evening (and all night) while it's still cool outside and it will lower the peak temperature.

MultiFuelBurner

Back to the original.comments unless there is an unknown source of heat left on 24/7 then it's just life skills.of living in the eaves of a property and how to cool and ventilate it properly.

Common sense required.