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I see there is no legal MAXimum temperature but this is extremely uncomfortable. I have two fans moving hot air around and feel a bit headachy and sick.
It's an interesting H&S/DSE conundrum.
I'm finding frequent breaks and cold drinks are helping me, if not productivity
Any reason you cant take yourself away? Either just for regular breaks or somewhere else to work?
There may be no stated max temp, but your employer still has health and safety obligations! Heat stress is a real thing, if you were doing manual labour then the environment should be monitored using a wet-bulb globe temperature instrument, (WBGT) and appropriate work/rest regime as a minimum implemented.
However, if you do complain to your employer about the temperatures at your home office. the answer might be for you to resume commuting to the air-conditioned office, so be careful what you wish for!
29 here. Going to move to the front of the house soon where it's a bit cooler. Just don't have a desk.
Roll on Autumn!
Roll on Autumn!
To be fair, the forecasts suggest we only need to wait till the weekend.
Though I'll take the heat compared to what the jet stream has thrown at Germany
Room temperature is around 27 today.
I'm wearing swim shorts and light shirt, sat on a plastic chair in the shed. When the heat gets a bit much, I go and lie in the paddling pool for a bit, still dressed. Light towel off so I'm not actually dripping, then sit in cool, damp clothes until they dry off, then repeat. Working well so far!
Run your wrists under the cold tap.
Or turn on the air conditioner for the first time this year. My loft office is 34C.
ned - that doesn't sound too practical for me!
tthew - an excellent point - TY
32.1 here, not too bad with a fan going. 11% relative humidity helps.
In my old classroom, peak of summer heatwave a few years ago with 34 sweaty teenagers we measured the temp at 36 degrees. It was unbearable. To be fair, it was the most docile they had been throughout the year. Most poorly designed school. They only had aircon in one of the buildings...guess where the headteachers office was?! He also insisted on male staff wearing their suit jackets around the school in that heat as he once worked in Dubai for a year and still wore a full suit throughout.
Luckily, now my home office is OK, 22 degrees.
Temperature is still a bit low for me considering where I came from the normal daily outside temperature is 32c to 34c. Room temperature is around 30c.
It's almost as though UK residents are designed for 15 to 16 degrees C all year round.
I'm sat in a part of our house that doesn't get sun directly and has a double open door to the garden. About 25 where I am now with lovely occasional breeze.
Trouble is, this is my personal laptop in the kitchen. Work one needs extra screens, work crap and other mess that really isn't suited to anywhere other than its own room.
As a result, it is in the top spare bedroom. When I left it with both large windows wide open, it was 32 degrees. Have a fan to move the air a bit and a huge 20" fan for the turbo that is also in the same room - but that is a tad loud for work.
Seem to be wearing shorts all year round now since lockdown started last March. So much so that 'long' trousers feel awkward now. Shorts and a tee are ok in the 'office' up to about 34 degrees, as long as I don't move much.
MTFU and get a proper job.
Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
No malice intended btw. 😉
We're an odd nation. We spend 50 weeks of the year whining that it's too cold, wet, grey and miserable, and the other fortnight whining that it's too hot.
I'm really struggling to get anything done today. I've drunk twelvety pints of Coke, I still have what feels like a dehydration headache and I've got shitloads to do for work and around the house. My scrotum is seemingly molecularly bonded to my right thigh. I've got a Big Daft Fan on order from Meaco but it doesn't get here till tomorrow.
@cougar - A Maeco fan in the bedroom has been great for us. I bought it last year in desperation because our old bedroom fan was like a Chinook
Yeah. We've already got one, I've just bought its baby brother. They're spendy but certainly for a bedroom they're worth it.
Though I bought it from Curry's as it was ten quid cheaper.
Bowl of cold water under your desk. Maybe add some ice, even. Put your bare feet in it. Makes a huge difference.
I’m finding frequent breaks and cold drinks are helping me, if not productivity
cold beer is hindering my productivity too...
I'm just sat in my pants working in the dining room.....
I’m just sat in my pants working in the dining room…..
Same as every other day then?
I've got the turbo fan blasting at me in the home office, its keeping me fairly cool but I think I will be deaf when I turn it off.
Haha, glad to see I'm not the only one in pain. I'm just doing frequent cold showers while working topless in my shorts. Not sure what to do about phone and laptop overheating.
And, it's here. Off to Curry's for collection, smell y'all later.
Working from a sofa today with fan to the side. Fancied a change from the home office.
Missus is working from the conservatory which is proper scorchio, but she at least had a fan for company.
Seems like temps will be dropping by Thu.
Same as every other day then?
Well it's a work day, so I made an effort and put pants on.
Is that 6” Meaco fan honestly enough to cool a bedroom? £50 and £70 variants available at Currys.
One of the benefits of being a Zwiftaholic...
I've all manner of fans at my disposal...
Currnetly have brought one of the gentle Honeywell fanst into work - nice a quiet, and keeping air flowing...
At home i've the 40" metal floor fan sat by the open front door, blasting air through the flat...
And my Cleva air gun thing in the kitchen blowing a beam of air at my groin...
mmm
DrP
If anyone's got a fan that's noisy, try balancing the blades with a dob or two of blue tack. I ordered a well-reviewed but cheapy one off Amazon, it felt like it was going to vibrate off the worktop. 10 mins experimenting with size and position and it's smooth and quiet.
Can I get the worlds tiniest violin out? try working under a uniform code with physical activity. Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
I remember regularly drinking 5l of water a day and still getting dehydrated at work. Not a couple of days a year but regularly all summer
OP - you need water. You sound like you are mildly dehydrated
and the other fortnight whining that it’s too hot.
Heat is the killer, not the cold. And COVID too of course.
Can I get the world's tiniest violin out?
FTFY
Have a 2l bottle of ice in front of the fan here.
Bowl of water with ice cubes in front of the big fan and smaller fan on desk
It’s lovely. Working from home with window open and some music on. Beats when I worked in a textile mill with a Tenter machine (basically a massive oven for drying fabric) blasting out heat whilst I was throwing massive rolls of carpet and fabric about.
Christ knows how some of you would cope in an actual warm climate (let alone hot), doing actual manual work.
Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
Just not cut out for actual manly* work, some of these office wallahs. 😉
*The vast majority of women would just get on with it. Tends to be mainly men who whine and moan about how hard life is...
Is that 6” Meaco fan honestly enough to cool a bedroom?
I suppose it's rather dependant on the size of your bedroom. It's killing it here in my office which is probably the size of a single bedroom, it chucks out about as much air as the traditional 12" desk fan it's replaced which was top of the range when I bought it 25 years ago.
Its big brother annihilates it, but that was twice the price.
Try doing manual labour FFS guys its a bit warm
only if you try counting to more than ten 😉
based on how much you've saved just on fuel/train fares, sort some proper aircon out & you'll still be quids in!
I've got a proper air con unit sat right beside my desk, but due to the layout of the room, I can't use it!!!
No access to the window, and can't run the exhaust out the door as it would pump hot air into the rest of the house.
I'm moving in a few weeks and will be able to set it up permanently right by a window, will be utter bliss. The new office will also be 12ft x 12ft vs the 7ft x 8ft sweatbox I'm currently in, with 2x monitors, a laptop, desktop PC and the smallest opening windows know to man, but facing directly into the afternoon sun...
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this is extremely uncomfortable.
The flame retardant boilersuit, sleeves, gauntlets and welding hood I've had on all day have been pretty uncomfortable, over 30° in the workshop but that's just part of the job unfortunately. No offence to op but it makes me laugh when people complain of it being too hot to work in an office
It's half past 5. You can stop now.
I remember when living in Oz mid-teens, we'd get sent home from school when it hit 38.5C... hope we don't get to that here over the coming years, with our humidity it'll finish a lot of folks off.
The shop floor at work is between 35°c to low 40°c. In a very physical job.
I'm sure you'll get by in your home office with your nice cool drinks close to hand.