I need to whine about the heat

[hamster]

I have yard work that I needed to be doing all week, but I haven't been able to step outside without sweating my balls off. So in order to get it down before the mulch blower shows up, I've been doing yardwork since 530 this morning. Ugh.

And our ac inside isn't working so I can't even hide inside. Wyatt is miserable too.

It's just not right to go from 60s and rain to 90 in a week. I'm not acclimated!

[Deleted]

We've spent $2200 since September fixing our damn HVAC unit. I feel your pain on living without air.

[explorer2001]

I can empathize for once. It's 105 today with 70+ percent humidity and a chance of thunderstorms. Whee!

[hamster]

Jul 9, 2014 9:22:04 GMT -5 @misschevious said:

We've spent $2200 since September fixing our damn HVAC unit. I feel your pain on living without air.

It was going to be like, 4k to redo ours. So, I sweat.

[jewel]

It's been 95-110 here for the past month, at least, and we still have another 2 months of this to go. The only thing I'm thankful for is that the humidity is usually less than 40%.

I'm 7 months pregnant. I think I'll move to Alaska for the summer.

[hopenotlost]

We don't have central a/c in our house. We have a wall unit in the living room which is on the main floor. A window unit in our bedroom, and then a portable unit in my two oldest daughters' room that they share. I would put another unit in my youngest's room, but we are afraid of tripping a breaker in this old farm house. So we blast our a/c, and we have a powerful fan in our doorway that blows the air across the hall to her room.

I can't wait to buy a house. UGH.

[libbride]

I'm with you. In Seattle, very few people have A/C and yesterday it was 87 degrees in one room in my house, 85 everywhere else. This is supposed to be the beginning of a long stretch of hot days and I really don't know how I will cope.

We'd install A/C, but it isn't allowed by the HOA (because of the equipment that would have to be outside).

[mich1]

Jul 9, 2014 12:14:04 GMT -5 libbride said:

I'm with you. In Seattle, very few people have A/C and yesterday it was 87 degrees in one room in my house, 85 everywhere else. This is supposed to be the beginning of a long stretch of hot days and I really don't know how I will cope.

We'd install A/C, but it isn't allowed by the HOA (because of the equipment that would have to be outside).

I'm about 100 miles north of you and yesterday wasn't quite as warm here as it was in Seattle.  We don't have a/c but yesterday afternoon was horribly muggy.  All the fans in the house are on right now and it is fairly comfortable in here now though.

[StJess80]

I could not handle that. I love sleeping with my pjs on and a blanket on me in the summer. Window units make me anxious because I fear they won't cool enough.

[audette]

It is after 11pm, and it's still in the high 80's in our apartment, with humidity high enough that it's causing my hair to form ringlets... We have two poorly functioning a/c units (one very inefficient and undersized for the main living room, and one that seems to give me allergy attacks in the bedroom.

Oh, yeah, and they do gradiant billing here, so adding in the electric to run a/c quickly gets us in to territory where the rater per kWh is nutbar...


I'm now happy when I can keep the apartment from staying in the 90s for more than half the day...

[Pom]

Jul 11, 2014 9:19:46 GMT -5 audette said:

It is after 11pm, and it's still in the high 80's in our apartment, with humidity high enough that it's causing my hair to form ringlets... We have two poorly functioning a/c units (one very inefficient and undersized for the main living room, and one that seems to give me allergy attacks in the bedroom.

Oh, yeah, and they do gradiant billing here, so adding in the electric to run a/c quickly gets us in to territory where the rater per kWh is nutbar...


I'm now happy when I can keep the apartment from staying in the 90s for more than half the day...

Oh God, I would puddle.  I could never get to sleep.   We keep it 73/74 during the day and 71 at night.

Of course, it is HOTTER than shit here, but rarely humid.   I used to poo-poo people and their "dry heat makes you feel so good" theory.  Now I am one of them.

[mbcdefg]

I'm miserable in the summertime. Even when I wasn't overweight, the sun and humidity made me feel like crap. I get headaches when I'm out in the sun too long, and I can't stand being covered in sweat all day. And it's tough to find plus-sized summer clothes that are comfortable since I don't like shorts.

We have one air conditioner in our house, in the guest bedroom on the first floor. We turn on the AC and shut the door about an hour before we're ready for bed. Our master bedroom is on the second floor, so we abandon it once the weather gets too hot. Our second floor is just a converted attic, and once heat starts rising in the summertime it's just sweltering.

Luckily our (finished) basement is usually pretty cool, and we have a TV and a hand-me-down sectional couch in it, so we spend a lot of time down there in the summer.

[Pom]

Jul 11, 2014 9:25:56 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Luckily our (finished) basement is usually pretty cool, and we have a TV and a hand-me-down sectional couch in it, so we spend a lot of time down there in the summer.

I get this.  When I still lived in Michigan, I used to spend the hot summer nights over at a friend's house with her 3 boys-my godsons and we'd all watch movies and fall asleep on the sectional down there.   We called it "the lair" and the underground coolness was fantastic.

[audette]

Jul 11, 2014 9:24:44 GMT -5 Pom said:

Jul 11, 2014 9:19:46 GMT -5 audette said:

It is after 11pm, and it's still in the high 80's in our apartment, with humidity high enough that it's causing my hair to form ringlets... We have two poorly functioning a/c units (one very inefficient and undersized for the main living room, and one that seems to give me allergy attacks in the bedroom.

Oh, yeah, and they do gradiant billing here, so adding in the electric to run a/c quickly gets us in to territory where the rater per kWh is nutbar...


I'm now happy when I can keep the apartment from staying in the 90s for more than half the day...

Oh God, I would puddle.  I could never get to sleep.   We keep it 73/74 during the day and 71 at night.

Of course, it is HOTTER than shit here, but rarely humid.   I used to poo-poo people and their "dry heat makes you feel so good" theory.  Now I am one of them.

We have finally given in, and run the bedroom wall unit at night.  Makes me cough and snore, but better than not sleeping at all...  And, we use the inefficient main room unit when we have guests over.  (DH and I can suffer the heat during the day, but we're not going to inflict that on company...)

I expect our electric bill to be in the $1k territory for July and August.  God knows what it would be like if we ran the a/c more during the day!

It's funny, but we have come to totally tell the difference between dry and humid heat.  Most of this afternoon was above 90 in the apartment, which sucked, but as evening rolled in, so did the higher humidity.  The temps dropped (I misspoke - we might be down to the mid-80's now), but the humidity kicked up so much that it felt hotter than the afternoon.

Blech.

[Pom]

audette

OMG, now I feel like an asshole for bitching to H about our $244 electric bill yesterday. We were on vacation for 12 days so I had turned both of the a/c units up to 80 and shut off our 2 hot water heaters, so I thought it was still high.  I don't know that we get over $300/mo during the extreme hot months.  

So sorry for your suffering during the hot spells.  I wouldn't want to pay that for a/c either. ::gulp::   

[audette]

Jul 11, 2014 9:38:33 GMT -5 Pom said:

audette

OMG, now I feel like an asshole for bitching to H about our $244 electric bill yesterday. We were on vacation for 12 days so I had turned both of the a/c units up to 80 and shut off our 2 hot water heaters, so I thought it was still high.  I don't know that we get over $300/mo during the extreme hot months.  

So sorry for your suffering during the hot spells.  I wouldn't want to pay that for a/c either. ::gulp::   

DH's housing allowance for here does include some money for utilities (it doesn't in the continental US), so we're not horribly screwed with the cost.  It's enough that the summer months don't kill us.  But, it's still painful to see...

Electricity is expensive here.  It doesn't help that many of our US-plugged items have to run on transformers, too, which wastes power...    (the a/c units are 220V, though...)

And, with that, it's time to head to bed.  DH set the a/c unit to around 75 when he went to bed.  It's going to feel downright chilly!