That feeling you get
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I live in Florida... A/C on all day and night every day, all the time. Run to car, turn on A/C. Drive to wherever store with A/C on. Run into store and store has A/C on. Repeat in reverse.
Funny story: I once had a PM chat with Blondie talking about "A/C", confusing (me) Air Conditioning and (her) Renauda. (Using his previous name.) It actually went on a while quite nicely.
@Tom-K said in That feeling you get:
I live in Florida... A/C on all day and night every day, all the time. Run to car, turn on A/C. Drive to wherever store with A/C on. Run into store and store has A/C on. Repeat in reverse.
Funny story: I once had a PM chat with Blondie talking about "A/C", confusing (me) Air Conditioning and (her) Renauda. (Using his previous name.) It actually went on a while quite nicely.
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I live in Florida... A/C on all day and night every day, all the time. Run to car, turn on A/C. Drive to wherever store with A/C on. Run into store and store has A/C on. Repeat in reverse.
Funny story: I once had a PM chat with Blondie talking about "A/C", confusing (me) Air Conditioning and (her) Renauda. (Using his previous name.) It actually went on a while quite nicely.
@Tom-K said in That feeling you get:
I live in Florida... A/C on all day and night every day, all the time. Run to car, turn on A/C. Drive to wherever store with A/C on. Run into store and store has A/C on. Repeat in reverse.
I had a recent trip to Virginia for 3 days, during the near 100 degree heat wave (lasted for weeks it seems)? I had the though as I walked from an AC building to an AC car... whoever invented Air Conditioning doesn't get enough credit with how comfortable it made our lives.
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@Tom-K said in That feeling you get:
I live in Florida... A/C on all day and night every day, all the time. Run to car, turn on A/C. Drive to wherever store with A/C on. Run into store and store has A/C on. Repeat in reverse.
I had a recent trip to Virginia for 3 days, during the near 100 degree heat wave (lasted for weeks it seems)? I had the though as I walked from an AC building to an AC car... whoever invented Air Conditioning doesn't get enough credit with how comfortable it made our lives.
@89th said in That feeling you get:
how comfortable it made our lives
I don't remember much, if any, of my early years in New York. However, when my parents bought the house I grew up in there was no A/C. I remember sleeping in the basement during heat waves.
Then, it was a miracle - they bought a window unit that they put in the kitchen. All of a sudden the entire first floor (it was a split level) was livable. Finally, they installed central air (the house had radiator/baseboard hot water heat) and it was great.
The first major renovation we did to our house when we bought it was to install central air - it was a "SpacePak" system. The compressor was outdoors, of course, but the blower was hung from the rafters in the attic. From the blower, there was a large-diameter duct, about 14" iirc that was snaked around the perimeter of the attic. From there, small, 3" ducts were snaked down through the stud-spaces to the 1st floor. The second floor was easier, of course.
Cost a TON of money back in 1984, but was totally worth it, and we had the benefit of wonderful radiant heat from the radiators in winter and A/C in the summertime.
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If you don't have A/C you need an attic fan. That's what we grew up with and they are great.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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When I was growing up you opened a window in the summer months. You had to be careful not to leave it open for too long in case you got hypothermia.
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When I was growing up you opened a window in the summer months. You had to be careful not to leave it open for too long in case you got hypothermia.
@Doctor-Phibes said in That feeling you get:
When I was growing up you opened a window in the summer months.
What was the average summer temperature there? Humidity?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in That feeling you get:
When I was growing up you opened a window in the summer months.
What was the average summer temperature there? Humidity?
@George-K said in That feeling you get:
What was the average summer temperature there? Humidity?
Typically about 60 degrees, with 120% humidity if I remember correctly.
You could get mid 80's, maybe somewhat hotter nowadays. The real problem is when it gets really hot, nothing's designed for it. The same if it got really cold. I had a Canadian friend who said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds.
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@Mik said in That feeling you get:
My daughter is headed for Portland and Cannon next month. Can’t wait to see what she thinks.
Where's she staying? We stayed at the Hallmark Inn twice. Loved it.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in That feeling you get:
My daughter is headed for Portland and Cannon next month. Can’t wait to see what she thinks.
Where's she staying? We stayed at the Hallmark Inn twice. Loved it.
@George-K said in That feeling you get:
@Mik said in That feeling you get:
My daughter is headed for Portland and Cannon next month. Can’t wait to see what she thinks.
Where's she staying? We stayed at the Hallmark Inn twice. Loved it.
Don’t know yet. Not sure they will overnight there or go back to Portland.
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@Mik said in That feeling you get:
If you don't have A/C you need an attic fan. That's what we grew up with and they are great.
Same here. No A/C growing up, although we got some window units when I was high school I think? I think as a kid I wasn't as sensitive to temperature. Fan... window...
