BYC Café

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe'.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning!
Aart, glad the trees missed you!
Thanks for the coffee and on with the day!
Firewood, firewood, firewood... Winter is coming!

 

[Perris]

Good afternoon Cafe.
Thanks for the coffee Shad.

all the food I lost

was it a lot? What are marketed here as American fridge/freezers are enormous by UK standards.
Y'all talking about air conditioning, makes me realize that it is something just for cars and office buildings here. We have draughty houses instead, and too few hot days to warrant it anyway .

Winter is coming

yeh yeh, the solstice has passed and now the days are drawing in . But seriously, so how many weeks/days per year do you get without ice in some form?!?

 

[aart]

was it a lot? What are marketed here as American fridge/freezers are enormous by UK standards.

Eh, not too much, I don't keep my fridge/freezer stuffed.

Y'all talking about air conditioning, makes me realize that it is something just for cars and office buildings here. We have draughty houses instead, and too few hot days to warrant it anyway .

Yep...and we get a good bit of heat, this is the longest heat wave on record if it goes beyond the forecast of 10 days above 90°F, usually they only last a few days, not enough to really warrant AC.

 

[ronott1]

I used to have a window unit in the bedroom, when I was working and needed to sleep well and shower and dress without being soaked. Had to build a special mount for the awning window in there, which included removing the window when installing...worked good but was a bear to do even with help no longer available. I tried the fan thing to blow the cold air into the rest of the house, unit was just too small at the other end of a 60' house. All my windows are tall sliders, so impossible to pop one in. Have considered cutting a hole in the wall to put one in...but I just deal with it, and bitch most the whole time , during the heat waves. Luckily my house is a north facing walkout, so it's stays pretty cool down there most the summer for a bit of respite. Hot water baseboard heat or I would have put a central system in 20 years ago when I bought the place. Looked into 2" high velocity systems but they were like $15K, I'd need two compressors for house size, and not too efficient anyway.
<shrugs>

There are some nice DIY mini splits out now. You would need to get 230V to it though

 

[sourland]

Brewed an afternoon pot.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thanks sour could use it had to go back in to town slug and snail bait
Also the Son needed to pickup his meds at Safeway...
Went out cleaned coops when we got home sitting back now taking it easy

 

[bruceha2000]

They are in Oakland California but they used to be in Maine.

That is quite a move.

 

[Shadrach]

I used to have a window unit in the bedroom, when I was working and needed to sleep well and shower and dress without being soaked. Had to build a special mount for the awning window in there, which included removing the window when installing...worked good but was a bear to do even with help no longer available. I tried the fan thing to blow the cold air into the rest of the house, unit was just too small at the other end of a 60' house. All my windows are tall sliders, so impossible to pop one in. Have considered cutting a hole in the wall to put one in...but I just deal with it, and bitch most the whole time , during the heat waves. Luckily my house is a north facing walkout, so it's stays pretty cool down there most the summer for a bit of respite. Hot water baseboard heat or I would have put a central system in 20 years ago when I bought the place. Looked into 2" high velocity systems but they were like $15K, I'd need two compressors for house size, and not too efficient anyway.
<shrugs>

We don't have air conditioning here in any of the buildings. Most houses in the towns have it these days.

 

[Perris]

For a holiday we once rented a fantastic palazzo in a fantastic location, on one of the seven hills of Rome, in July. What do the kids remember about it? - its lack of air conditioning...
(To be fair, it was really hot, and all sensible Romans try to get out of the city at that time of year)