We are a relatively cool country. Especially oop North. I reckon most of us could cope with it being a bit warmer. In other countries it will be different. The East Coast of the USA is often unpleasantly hot and humid for several months each year.
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We are a relatively cool country. Especially oop North. I reckon most of us could cope with it being a bit warmer. In other countries it will be different. The East Coast of the USA is often unpleasantly hot and humid for several months each year.
Argued it to death?
You have explained nothing regards you nonsense post - zero boyo. Nuffink. Nill.
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I suppose we could all handle being flooded once per year. Gets a bit of a chore if it were to happen more than once though.
Speaking of climate hypocrites - here comes the biggest personal producer of CO2 on the forum with his pointless trips to go and slide down a mountain on some planks tied to his feet. Its always the biggest doomers that do the most damage that they blame the doom on.
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slightly warmer sounds good to me too - problem is though, it is some of these lunatic countries that will become uninhabitable and many will all want to come and live here.
we have only seen the slightest tip of the very top of that giant iceberg of migration
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I thought you'd know about this, given it's your line of work. Its well known that highly insulated buildings heat up due to overheating.
Only early (cavity) buildings that are poorly ventilated. Luckily B'regs and conscientious builders focus on both.
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Ahh the old, thats not a crack it's a ventilation hole.Only buildings that are poorly ventilated. Luckily B'regs and conscientious builders focus on both.
But why. What is the science behind it. Please don't just give me a link. I would like somebody to explain it simply!
Maybe it could be from the fact that you have to open doors to go in and out which lets the heat in and it stays there or opening windows and also sunlight through windows.
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We, collected several bottles, filled with water, then added a length of rigid pipe sealed into cap. Those, poked into the soil of potted plants, mean they get watered when they need it - only when the soil is dry enough to allow air up the pipe, to release the water. Other than that, I ran a pipe 100yards around the two sides, where there are beds, made tiny holes where the plants are, and that connects to a Lidl watering timer which waters them every morning.
4.2 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND OVERHEATING Lomas 490 Buildings and Cities It is frequently suggested that increasing the insulation levels of homes exacerbates overheating. However, some reporters mistake correlation for causation. Field studies have shown that there was no significant difference in the incidence of overheating with the presence, or otherwise, of cavity wall or loft or other insulation measures. Whilst dwellings with a good energy efficiency rating overheated significantly more than less efficient homes, this could be because they were also significantly more likely to be flats.
4.1 WHY DO FLATS OVERHEAT? Generic factors that lead to overheating can be readily identified; flats are often smaller than other dwellings, more densely occupied and have a reduced external surface area through which ventilation can be provided. On higher floors windows are less shaded by surrounding urban features, and top-floor flats are exposed to the sun-heated roof above. In addition to these solar gains, internal heat gains arise from the activities of the flat’s occupants and from surrounding f lats and common circulation areas. The hot air created on lower floors rises, making overheating on the higher floors even more likely. Cities pose particular problems. The urban heat island can elevate night-time temperature 5–10 K above the surroundings, thus it reduces the benefits of night-time ventilation cooling. Land prices in cities are high and so are construction costs, so the pressure to reduce construction time and complexity is acute. Off-site construction is seen as one way to reduce costs, but in its extreme form, the stacked, flat-faced boxes can suffer from chronic and extreme overheating (Quigley & Lomas 2018). In addition to the generic factors, design is important. Flats are often single aspect and relatively deep plan. In this situation, only single-sided ventilation is possible, which is much less effective than cross-ventilation. Flats may have large glazed areas to help ‘off-set’ the gloom of deep plan designs, but when facing towards the south and west these exacerbate overheating risks. Whilst external shading reduces solar heat gain, it also adds construction cost and complexity. ‘Business-as-usual’ windows and patio doors can be difficult for some people to operate, and security, pollution and noise concerns may deter their use. On higher floors window opening may be deliberately limited to roughly 100 mm on safety grounds. Hot water, piped from a central, communal heating plant, can be a permanent source of uncontrolled heat, and poorly designed and installed mechanical ventilation systems can actually contribute to overheating (McLeod & Swainson 2016). It is not only new flats that overheat. Monitoring revealed that the living rooms in 30% of all English flats overheated in the summer of 2018 compared with 12% for all other dwelling types (Lomas et al. 2021). Retrofit can alleviate problems, but poorly conceived remodelling might turn a habitable apartment building into one with flats that overheat (Baborska-Narożny et al. 2017)
