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Like a few have said, wait till your working on a roll change in a building with no opening windows, wearing a Hat, hairnet, gloves, glasses, mask while wearing Nomex flame retarding workwear.
Temp there at this time of year is 40deg and 95% humidity. your eyes sting with the sweat and you get huge rashes in places you don't want.
On a lighter note I'm on holiday this week so have escaped it for a sweaty job of driving and fixing tractors in Devon 😮
Suddenly I feel a lot better after having to wear level 3 PPE in 31c heat, poor officer workers.
Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
Been there, had the sweat soaked shirt.
In the summer, temps were well into the 40s on the shop floor. Add in wearing thick woollen jacket/trousers, leather gauntlets and full face helmet and visor, and pouring 800 deg aluminium.
I could drink almost at every opportunity, and still lose 5-6 lbs in a day
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Some blokes work in foundries where 32* means you need to put your coat on.
Been there, had the sweat soaked shirt.
In the summer, temps were well into the 40s on the shop floor. Add in wearing thick woollen jacket/trousers, leather gauntlets and full face helmet and visor, and pouring 800 deg aluminium.
I could drink almost at every opportunity, and still lose 5-6 lbs in a day
"Yep and had the kidney stones to prove it :("
The stupid amount I spaffed on a Visionair aircon/heater for my shed is now not so stupid.
we're up to early 40's in't foundry, any one have it harder than that? 😀
If you work in a foundry or any line of work, that's your choice and you sort of know what to expect. Working in an office, you expect a nice comfortable environment. It's partially why people choose to work in an office. So when we have to endure 30+ degree heat, being used to a nice 22 degree air conditioned air, it's not surprising we can't cope.
Plus, Brits melt at anything over 28 degrees, it's been scientifically proven. I'm just a pool of mushy liquid currently.
I’m sure you’ll get by in your home office with your nice cool drinks close to hand.
I've worked on the shop floor in those temperatures and it's far from pleasant. Equally, high office temperatures make it very difficult to concentrate.
Sitting down is hard!
How many of you shade windows, as they do in the med? I find it amazing that most of our street on the hottest day of the year have windows with curtains open through the heat of the day.
Every little helps and all.
only had to put up with 30 plus this aft working on site only bearable cos of shorts, Email this afternoon'It has been bought to our attention that a number of people have been wearing shorts today ...will turn blind eye today but long trousers from tomorrow' ... bugger, much safer though?
It was rare to find air-conditioning in Switzerland and in the summer it got really hot. When this happened all the windows were shut and the blinds went down. Seemed to work.
OP your facilities manager needs replacing. Not up to the job!
When my second son was born my wife went into labour at our sub-tropical home in peak summer it was over 40 degrees C on the deck. Humidity like you wouldn't believe. No air-con.
I had to chase her round the house with ice packs and a pedestal fan. She wouldn't bloody stay still, i was exhausted.
...and God she made a racket.
Blinds down and curtains shut does stop the house from getting hotter than the outside, but in a house where the rooms are all relatively small it gets stuffy very quickly. My office room is about 2.5m x 1.8m and if I work in there when it’s 30c outside it will easily get up to 35c.
I can bear that though. What’s hard is putting a 2 year old and 2 month old to bed when it’s 28-30c inside.
Is the answer not to just go in to the office where they (I assume) have air-con? The government tell us it's perfectly safe now after all... In seriousness, my employer has completely rearranged the office so we have masses of space between people. I think the chances of covid are much outweighed by the negatives of sitting in a 30degC home office right now. That said, my solution was just to start work very early today so I can finish before the sun hits my window.
Don't worry; in a few years, when all the office jobs have either become redundant or outsourced to India etc, you'll all be working in factories making cheap shit for wealthy Chinese people, and you'll be too busy to worry about being uncomfortable. So you do at least have something to look forward to.
Naively, I wasn't expecting to get flamed for my OP!
I have a a can of fridge-chilled aerosol cooling mist which is bloody lovely.
It's 32.3 in here today...
So what did HR say?
Naively, I wasn’t expecting to get flamed for my OP!
Forget where you were? 😉
I used to work in a TGI Fridays style place, on days like this, the fry and grill station were horrible places to work BUT, the walk in freezer was amazing.
Well - it's getting dangerous now:
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I've gone down the windows closed, blackout curtains closed, door closed, fan on circulating air method today and it does seem a lot better.
Closed the curtains before the sun had a chance to hit, dare I say it's actually quite comfortable.
Thanks to whoever suggested that.
Well – it’s getting dangerous now:
Another top tip: Soak a large, absorbent piece of fabric such as, say, a blanket, in cold water, and wrap yourself up in it. Would be quite fitting.
Derek - given its cooler outside my guess is its solar gain. Have you had windows open and blinds closed overnight and all day to a: cool it down overnight and B: prevent solar gain in the day
Have you got a cross breeze running with windows / doors on both sides of the building open?
32.7c really is not dangerous so long as you keep hydrated.
TBH it was 40 here last Monday and that was a tad warm.
Currently a pleasant 32 with a light cooling breeze and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain.
I’m really struggling to get anything done today. I’ve drunk twelvety pints of Coke,
not sure if this is a joke, but coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
not sure if this is a joke, but coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
Not if its fun free decaffeinated 🙂
Still it could have been twelvety pints of Red Bull 🙂
BUT, the walk in freezer was amazing.
I worked for a bit in a support job at a call centre. Open plan office with no air conditioning or opening windows got rather warm during summer. Luckily I was one of a handful with access to the server room so used to find important things to find to do in that air conditioned room.
coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
that sentence has myths in it.
Caffine is a mild diuretic and will make you pee a bit more - but if you are dehydrated other bodily mechanisms come into play to prevent this and anyway the extra it makes you pee is not as much as the fluid volume - thats my undeerstaning of the myths about cola
Its also fairly well isotonic if you get the real stuff with sugar in it.
The reference to it getting dangerous was in jest folks.
Although it did hit a veritably lethal 37.4 earlier.
I have the blinds shut and window open.
I'm 52 and thought this was okay?
The reference to it getting dangerous was in jest folks.
straight over my head - sorry!
another wee tip - wear a sarong. Its all I have on right now in my 30C+ flat. Very comfy.
now there is an image you didn't want 🙂
Cripes - this heat just made me envisage TJ in a sarong and nowt else.
Like a mirage from hell.
You want pictures?
that sentence has myths in it.
it does? i thought caffeine (and sugar) would cause dehydration. happy to be corrected
edit: seen tjagain’s post. thanks
Currently a pleasant 32 with a light cooling breeze and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain.
Are they being chased by a black Labrador, which in turn is being chased by an exasperated and thoroughly pissed off old bloke?
Is "Moon Waxing" some sort of boutique beauty salon?
not sure if this is a joke, but coke has caffeine in it and will dehydrate you.
Caffeine-free coke doesn't. Oddly enough.
It's actually Caffeine-free Pepsi Max I'm drinking. Which given that I thought the whole point of the Max range was to be high caffeine, I find quite strange. It's one of the nicer Pepsi outings though.
Jeepers Cougar - I didn't think you would drink that chemical muck!
It was 46 degrees in the rooftop plant I was working in today, just got the rest of the week working there 🤦♂️
@sandwich Reeksy the youngest ensured I did that for several years anyway 😉
Naively, I wasn’t expecting to get flamed for my OP!
Remind us how your first post to STW went again? 😀
The Spanish way to manage the heat is to close the blinds / curtains (and windows) on the sunny side of the house, and do the opposite on the shady side. Close/open as appropriate as the sun moves round the house. Open everything up to cool the house down once the sun's no longer directly shining on the building. Ideally you want to get a chimney effect going, with as many open windows as possible downstairs and the same upstairs, pushing the hot air out the top and bringing the cool air into the bottom.
Ideally you want to get a chimney effect going, with as many open windows as possible downstairs and the same upstairs,
We open the loft hatch to do this. It does help. When standing on the loft ladder you can feel the air flow.
Jeepers Cougar – I didn’t think you would drink that chemical muck!
Find me a drink that doesn't contain chemicals and you can have my bike. Water? Man that's just full of dihydrogen monoxide.