Thread: It's too damn hot!

Ah yes, in summer the refrigerated air con is the most important machine in the shed.

Today it only reached 32º but it was a bit humid so the mens shed evaporative air unit struggled but my shed was cool as.
There is a down side though, can't use DC for too long doing the middle of the day.
When it's this hot I tend to do MW or repairs and save the DC for the cool of the morning.

Originally Posted by DaveVman

snip... it's just too damn hot. ...snip

Oh no it's not, at least not here in Somerset
5 deg, Raining & the wind bringing down branches in my yard.
Need thermal underwear to work in the shed...
Mark

Mark, that's just the norm for the old dart

Be careful what you wish for.
Nice & sunny, no wind, blinding snow glare off all the mountains around my house.
Nothing local more than 8,500' within a couple miles of the house.

And -27C yesterday AM, just -20C this AM.

22C at 0645 this morning, top 27C. Tomorrow, up to 34C. I think the lawns will be done today, so lounging in the pool tomorrow, after playing in the shed

Just one day ahead of you Pat, we will have 34C today. Like they used to say for Queensland tourism, beautiful one day, perfect the next.

Indoors, reading, like Vic Tesolin or Christopher Schwarz or Charles Hayward or David Charlesworth.

Early in December I was driving through the industrial area of Tamworth and on the spur of the moment dropped into an airconditioning crowd to see roughly what evaporative would cost to be ducted through the house........2 weeks we had it installed. Since its been running I have only been out in the shed briefly a hand full of times. Its just too damned hot outside.

Down side.....the desk I am sitting at that I made 20 plus years ago now has 2 tight-to-operate drawers Extra moisture in the air more than normal

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

And -27C yesterday AM, just -20C this AM.

I can't even imagine -27!
The nearest I have been to that was in a simulated Antarctica environment.
I think it was even colder in there but only for about 5 minutes.

Although at least you could heat your shed.
I have to resolve my dust collection before I could think about air conditioning.

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Originally Posted by Treecycle

Like they used to say for Queensland tourism, beautiful one day, perfect the next.

haha not Queensland, perfect never! too many old farts around and then the dopey sods grab their Winnabagos and travel south thinking it will be cooler, AND sit on 80k/h thinking they own the world, serriously next one that gets in my way gets shot. Had enough of the idiots. STAY HOME WE can live without you.

Tonto, you will find the Queenslanders say the same thing in winter when the Mexicans migrate north.

Maybe but at least southeners know the speed limit and keep to it, well the only reason they dont is the locals dont understand the difference, so much sun & heat has affected the grey matter

Im in for a reality check, i visited my new Brisbane workshop during the week... it was like an oven in there, i'm going to need to invest in some fans, even then with those, that would make it a fan forced oven shed

As much as i love air con, and have spent most of the summer in it, with a 6 mtr high roof industrial shed, the electrically bill would hurt more than the heat would...

i miss cooler climates, so much easier to heat than cool.

I came across something a week or so ago which has changed how my body reacts to hot weather. In recent times when it got hot outside, it would get very hot in the garage quickly when running the dust extractor along with the saw or thicknesser. By about 1pm I have had enough and call it quits for the day. But now I am "working for the man" again and I have to do what ever he tells me to do.

So the second day working for him, it was a hot day about 36° and I needed to chase a forklift around outside in the direct sun on concrete slabs for about an hour, just in my standard work attire being shorts and tshirt. Well sure enough, when I came back into the factory my body had overheated and I was about to throw up. So I said to the bossman, "I know it's as soft as ya can get, but I gotta go home cause I just ain't man enough". And off I trot back home, there was only 45mins left for the day anyway.

Now upon getting home, I searched the symptoms etc being pretty confident that it was just heat exhaustion and not heat stroke. But I came across something about "how to stay hydrated". Seems obvious right, just drink water. But I had drank 6@600ml bottles of water already that day and it was only 2:15pm. But it also said you need potassium which lets the blood flow around the body and I guess spread water around the body. Well since my diet consists of a choice between KFC/maccas most lunches and dinners, there is basically no potassium in my diet at all, and I sure as hell don't eat leafy greens..YUCK!!!!

So now everyday at smoko, I drink a bottle of powerade or gatorade and that stuff has a bunch of sodium/potassium/magnesium and calcium in it. Now today was pretty hot in Melbourne, but I was flat out like a lizard drinkin' all day in the garage except for about an hour when the neighbours had their house auction around midday. I was barely even sweating. Certainly not beads of sweat dripping off my face like usual.