Thread: Is your shed hot today.

We don't get heat like you have at the moment. So when we do get a hot summer afternoon with no breeze it's all the more uncomfortable. Back in 2001, I planted grapevines on the afternoon side of my house. Even with all the usual pruning over the years, I have a solid wall of green shade, 60cm out from the house. It is 4.5m high and 14m long. I estimate that it is 5-7C cooler in the afternoon kitchen. For the winter months, the leaves all fall off of course. The winter sunshine today is nice. So are all the snowcovered mountains, 7000-9000' all around my village.

I start rooted cuttings from my pruning garbage and sell those 2/$5. I like selling garbage. I sell the grapes.
When the early leaves are fresh and not yet woody, a bunch of us make dolmades.

My shop is downstairs. 14C when I opened the door.

Dolmades.... Yum!!!

West facing kitchen not so good!

artme, my kitchen was a real stinker in the early years, now the summers are green and cool. True, it means that I can't see out of any of my west-facing windows (dining room, kitchen, master bedroom) from my mid-June to late September (depends on frost.) I pick after the first couple of hard frosts, really seems to lift the sugar content.

When adult birds fledge their babies, they get them to fly into my grapevines. Totally hidden from the garden.
But when I'm in the kitchen, I can watch the adults bring bugs for them to eat. The whole show is less than 60 cm from the windows. Hummingbirds go sort of torpid at night, they can turn down their metabolism so they don't starve in the night. . . . often find them roosting in the GVs. We have the super aggressive fighters, the Rufous.
There are some Calliope with red & white striped throats and occassionally a big mountain Black-chinned one will hang out at my place for a week or two.

I tell ya, if I ever had to move, there will be grape vines in the ground and a trellis before I unpack my socks.

Love the idea of that bird show RV!!. Right up my alley!!

I didn't realize Hummingbirds were over your way.Thought they were tropical/subtropical.

Must look ém up on the internet.

In Brasil they are called Beija Flor - Flower kisser. A beautifully apt name. I have had several
of them at times hover less than a foot from my face. In Brasil people feed them on a water &
sugar syrup placed into a reservoir onto which is attached an artificial flower. The birds become
quite tame, or at least accustomed to humans. My e counters happened on verandahs where these
feeders were placed. The first time I was startled out of my wits. I had eaten some very sweet
desert and this glorious little fellow must have smelled my breath. He came right up to my mouth
and hovered there for several seconds, only moving when I moved.

Originally Posted by nine fingers

My work area is under a split level house, very pleasent today,24 cel , (74) outside Geelong temp 43.9 (110.5 ) . John.

Clearly not doing any woodwork requiring externally vented dust extraction then?

My shed has good insulation and air con and can maintain 22º when it's ~35º outside and 25º when it's 42º outside, but all that cool air goes up the chimney when either my welding bay fund hood or dust extractor are turned on.

I tend to do work needing DC earlier in the day and then usually switch the air con on after morning coffee.

When my 22kW mains gas forge is running, even on a cold winters morning AND with the welding bay fume hood going flat chat to vent the exhaust fumes, after about an hour the radiant heat from the forge sends the shed temperature to over40º and I have to turn the forge off.
The air con is only 2kW so it doesn't have a hope against the forge.

Cooler today and went down to the shed for my Sunday worship at the lathe. I never realised how tired I'd become over the heatwave. I just didn't have the stamina to spend more than an hour or so there.

Only gonna be 39C here this afternoon.

Its only 24C inside the house with the air con running.

I briefly looked outside the door at the tin shed.... didn't even bother to venture outside the door to see what it's like inside the shed...

Closed the door and went back to the 'puter.

Hot Day's like this - is when I see what i can find to buy online or gumtree - to use in spring and autumn when its lovely weather to be up working in the shed.

20 years of working stinking hot summers in the tin shed factory, and freezing winters in there.... I don't go to the shed to work unless I feel like it these days. Less and less days I feel like it thru this heatwave... just watching those in the east on the TV, get the 45C days & wild fires we had last week, makes me break out in a sweat.

Once my shed lights are wired up - I might go up the shed at night maybe when its cooler..and potter around doing quiet work like glueing up & cramping etc...

I just don't see the point of working in the shed in such heat during the day if I don't have too.

Originally Posted by jimbur

Cooler today and went down to the shed for my Sunday worship at the lathe. I never realised how tired I'd become over the heatwave. I just didn't have the stamina to spend more than an hour or so there.

JC was a carpenter so I'm sure he'd have liked to spend some lathe time too.....