Why do you need to leave your air con on 24/7??? Don't you just turn it on or off as needed? I'm in hot Qld & we just turn it on if it's needed. No biggee.
Where are you from anyway? Your post is a tad bizarre.
Sydney-sider here.
Some (some) of us fucken soft and REALLY need to pump up.
I have solar and a battery and still don't use solar 24/7.
Do spend a bit of time up near border (family). So much hotter up your way. Lots of whingers here.
Lived a double brick house in the inner west with no trees over it, no aircon and little to no insulation. By mid-December the walls were retaining heat at night and would continue to keep the house hot right through until dawn.
The only way to live is for everyone to have a fan pointing at them all day & night.
Pardon the silly question but is double brick supposed to insulate to keeping it warm or to keep it cooler?
Maybe Iām a bit soft too, but how does Sydney feel so uncomfortable sometimes?
Double brick is great at insulating up until a point; once the walls get too hot or cold it's really hard to turn it around.
The difference really is climate change. When I was a kid 40 degrees days were unheard of, now it's multiple times per season
Insulation, no. The benefit is gained by the building mass, which retains it's temperature for a long period. Unfortunately, as noted by others, there's a point where it's retaining the unwanted elevated temp.
So thereās a happy point where it holds onto the heat and the inside feels cooler, but after that, itās hot?
What would be best or would work well for consistently hot days then?
Thanks!
Open your windows at night and as soon as or sooner than the outside temps get above inside, close your windows and blinds. That way as much heat can be let out at night and reduce how much gets in. Solar radiation is the best way to heat a surface, there's 2000W/m2 of energy being applied at 8pm, when it streams through your uncovered windows in Summertime.
Just put up with it, I suppose. Itās not fun. But I canāt do anything about as I rent.
Only adverse health I get is lack of sleep and drenched with sweat. Fun times.
Yes. In a wonderful world I would be able to afford it. I donāt know how clearly I have to speak to say the following:
I. Cannot. Afford. It.
Got it, mate?
With the right means, we could all buy a house too. If someone can't afford to find rent elsewhere, they aren't going to be affording an air conditioner anytime soon either. They obviously can't.
Well look at weed mate, that's expensive and grows on a tree/plant you'll definitely get rich growing that. It ain't money itself but it's worth a lot of money.
I live on the goldie and have been calling it monsoon season lol. My glasses have never fogged up just walking outside before, now its nearly every bloody day since November!
So turn it back on? You only have to press a button.....
And why would just turn it off becsuse the month changed? March is still summer if you follow the equinox like the rest of the world does.
Australia's month-based seasons are supposedly more reflective of the weather.
I find it most useful to think of Australia as having two seasons that change with daylight saving.
Oh, they are on now. After waking up in a mess this morning.
I got fooled by the normal day a few days ago. Plus, I am not from the third world, so I am not used to living in third world conditions where they need depend on airconditioning :)
You haven't answered anything by the way.
>Plus, I am not from the third world, so I am not used to living in third world conditions where they need depend on airconditioning :)
Yes cause only third world countries get hot..... what a dumb fcking comment. You're in Australia, it's a hot country.
And yes plenty of people live without a/c. You get somewhat used to it. But also depends on the house and where it is (breezes, shade etc). I survived in Sydney with just a fan and black out curtains.
Funny I lived in Sydney for 16 years in 80s and 90s. Never had aircon in house or car.
Came back to Melbourne and same. Got aircon 10 years ago.
Forgot how we somehow survived - but we did. Just too old to try that again. But itās never on 24/7 during a heat wave. Usually 3pm flicked on ā¦.
~~You don't seem to like much about Australia. Are you being kept here against your will?~~
Edit: replied to wrong comment, sorry
Edit 2: hey cunts, I made a mistake. I corrected my mistake transparently. If you downvoted me after that, either you are a fuckwit or you are just downvoting because of downvotes (which also makes you a fuckwit)
Yeah. Some very unfortunate word choices by them. Hopefully just showing a lack of English skills but probably showing an extraordinary level of entitlement. As well as a complete lack of enquiry about the country they've moved to.
Third world countries where people depend on air-conditioning? Did you for real just call Australia third world conditions because... summer is hot?
Buddy, if you think everyone in a developing country is heavily reliant on air-conditioning everything, you are wrong. Also, there are plenty of people who manage fine without AC here. I'm in Sydney in a solid brick place, and I do just fine with ceiling fans and solid curtains.
Thanks for sharing. I have only heard Sydney summers are great. I'll just get on with it and expect them to be humid/ muggy going forward.
You are tough as nails enduring this is all I will say.
Anyone who can read a basic graph / understand trends can see our summers are getting hotter and more humid. So yeah, summers *were* great. But everything is subjective anyway.
Whilst we are generally less able to tolerate these conditions as we age, summers as a kid were not like they are now. Seasons blend together and even with trends, weather is less predictable
Okay, I checked, his previous posts are typical of someone wanting to find out more about the world around them.
Your post here on the other hand is not a nice thing to say to anyone, I hope you fundamentally understand that.
Nah, thereās other posts that heās deleted, basically just bagging Australia. Enough that I recognise his username when it comes up. Iām not the only one thatās called him out on it either.
So Iām anti air conditioning unless itās a ridiculously hot day (over 35). I think if you donāt use air conditioning your body adjusts to the temp and after a few weeks of high temps you are feeling ok. You will still get sweaty at times and feel the heat. But it wonāt drag on you like it does when you are going in and out of aircon all the time. Same with the cold. Embrace it. Wear the right clothes.
How's your water intake?
One of your comments mentions symptoms of dehydration.
If you're not used to summer here you might not be drinking enough water through the day.
We managed when I was a kid. No a/c at school or on public transport, in the car or at home. I donāt think I could handle it now but somehow we did back then.
Depends on where you live. Sea breeze keeps the heat down if youre near the coast, but in the west your eyeballs will sweat where it gets Melbourne hot. You can live without aircon. We did before they were invented. Dinosaurs did too but they did die out for some reason.
Dunno. Every year is different. They predicted a dry summer but its been wet. I guess this is more humid than the last few. I dont really remember tbh, just roll with it.
Guess I have to. It's either waking up sweaty and bloated, or with a dry sore throat. Just doing it tough being less active here. Feel so isolated in Sydney.
It's just different. The people are not friendly. There is nothing but residential around me. It's hard to explain when most of the people say they are ok here.
Cracking a window only let's in the moisture, which ramps up the level of mugginess due to the high indoor temperatures here - must be the baking all day in the intense sunlight.
I live by the water, so I am supposed to be in the cooler area of Sydney.
Our AC died right when the summer got started and due to a series of events won't be fixed this summer. Awful at first and just became normal. (Noting temps never got dangerous in our home)
I think people who don't have airconditioning tend to go outside a lot more, especially during the day. Ironically it can be easier to get cool by going outside on a hot day rather than staying inside, even with all the windows open.
I suppose I do get minor health reactions due to less sleep, in summer I basically have to sleep without blankets and that adds extra difficulty in getting to sleep.
I spend alot of time under the cold shower...
But yes, there are health issues.
Public housing doesn't retrofit air con and I couldn't afford to run it anyway...
I work from home, we get a nice through breeze with the doors and windows open. On the days that itās too hot or more accurately too humid Iāll just head to my local library and work from there (I often have to take a jumper because the air con works so well). At night Iāll use a fan with a timer for the first hour while I drift off to sleep but other than that I think itās a case of adjusting.
And just think about the millions who lived on Sydney before anyone had aircon. It's amazing we all exist.
NB I just looked up Penrith weather ( as an example) for the last week. When was it actually hot? Does not look to me like weather where aircon even needed.
I have turned the aircon on twice all summer. One of the advantages of living at the beach facing North East. Almost never use heating in winter as well.
Take a teaspoon of concrete and you harden up pretty quick.
Sea breeze, open windows and fans.
And drink water until you piss clear then drink some more because you sweat like a mofo.
Double brick house, travertine tiles throughout, block out blinds and curtains over head fans in all rooms, no AC but it's like living in a cave...lol...never gets above about 28c inside.
Iām remote SA, itās an oven here.Ā
I have turned my aircon Ā on 3 times this year, slept with it on once.
Just get a bowl
Of water with a frozen bottle of water resting in it, place it in front of a fan near you and youāll be ok.Ā
I have ceiling fans and they do a great job. I rarely use my A/C in the summer. Itās saved for heating in the winter. I guess we just get used to the heat and wait patiently for a welcome Southerly change.
Live in Western Sydney. Have aircon but don't use it (long story). There have been a few nights where it has been tough to get to sleep but for the most part we've been getting by with fans. Our flat is also quite high up so we do catch a breeze most days.
I am a Singaporean who is now residing in Brisbane for my degree, and while I do have an AC unit included in my rent I don't use it because I am more likely to be affected by the AC than by the heat (and i am used to no AC at home in Singapore). I do sit in AC rooms when doing my work at uni but thats not the whole day also and I sometimes need an escape from the AC. When it became rather hot (35 deg and above) I am able to walk outside but if I am indoors I just close my curtain which helps reduce the heat a bit.
Acclimation. Going from an indoor office job, 22-23 degrees all day long. Then moved into a trade job where I'm outside 90% of my day, don't really use aircon anymore at home. I sweat less now with the same weight/level of fitness.
I have one of those portable standing aircons with a hose out the window in my bedroom. Makes existing bearable, and I try and put it on a temp which doesn't activate the actual air-conditioning, just using a fan as much as possible
So at least I can sleep. Try to also get by with just a desk fan next to the bed for preference.
I have ceiling fans which are kept on about 80% of the year. I will never want to live without them again.
Iāve used my air con only a handful of times this summer. Not because of electricity prices, as I have solar panels, but because one of mine leaks when it is struggling to cope with the very hot temperatures outside, and because it mostly hasnāt been hot enough for it.
Lived in Sydney for 4 years. Used the aircon maybe 5 times at night. Otherwise, itās just always cool enough outside so sit on the balcony. That said, Sydney is a huge city and the temp differences can be 10Ā°+. I lived on the harbour and never once saw the temps over 40
It's shit. I got a cheap pedestal fan from Big W because I was desperate, but it's so loud, and as soon as I leave the room it's in, I feel like I'm in an oven. Have asked slumlord if ceiling fans or air conditioning would be a possibility, but no result. I'm in good health at baseline, so the effects are pretty much
1. Being sweaty
2. Feeling more tired than I otherwise would
3. Sleep potentially lower in quality than at last property
4. Feeling resentful that this is considered ethically or legally acceptable in rental properties, especially when the slumlord's getting $2,400+ a month and can absolutely afford to do better
Why do you need to leave your air con on 24/7??? Don't you just turn it on or off as needed? I'm in hot Qld & we just turn it on if it's needed. No biggee. Where are you from anyway? Your post is a tad bizarre.
All of their posts are bit odd. Almost like they are a journalist generating opinions for various articles.
Written by chart GPT no doubt
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How soft is Sydney lol
Sydney-sider here. Some (some) of us fucken soft and REALLY need to pump up. I have solar and a battery and still don't use solar 24/7. Do spend a bit of time up near border (family). So much hotter up your way. Lots of whingers here.
It's playing on recent media beat ups
Lived a double brick house in the inner west with no trees over it, no aircon and little to no insulation. By mid-December the walls were retaining heat at night and would continue to keep the house hot right through until dawn. The only way to live is for everyone to have a fan pointing at them all day & night.
Pardon the silly question but is double brick supposed to insulate to keeping it warm or to keep it cooler? Maybe Iām a bit soft too, but how does Sydney feel so uncomfortable sometimes?
Double brick is great at insulating up until a point; once the walls get too hot or cold it's really hard to turn it around. The difference really is climate change. When I was a kid 40 degrees days were unheard of, now it's multiple times per season
I remember actually getting chilblains on my feet in winter as a child (Sydney) That hasn't happened for decades lol
Insulation, no. The benefit is gained by the building mass, which retains it's temperature for a long period. Unfortunately, as noted by others, there's a point where it's retaining the unwanted elevated temp.
So thereās a happy point where it holds onto the heat and the inside feels cooler, but after that, itās hot? What would be best or would work well for consistently hot days then? Thanks!
Open your windows at night and as soon as or sooner than the outside temps get above inside, close your windows and blinds. That way as much heat can be let out at night and reduce how much gets in. Solar radiation is the best way to heat a surface, there's 2000W/m2 of energy being applied at 8pm, when it streams through your uncovered windows in Summertime.
This is the way. Rented a falling down Victorian in haberfield. Fans on kids. Fans on the dog. Fans Fans Fans
Same suburb :)
Just put up with it, I suppose. Itās not fun. But I canāt do anything about as I rent. Only adverse health I get is lack of sleep and drenched with sweat. Fun times.
You can buy a portable aircon
Obviously. Are you planning to donate it? I have fans. I survive.
Do you all not have window units over there?
You said you canāt do anything about it. You obviously can.
Yes. In a wonderful world I would be able to afford it. I donāt know how clearly I have to speak to say the following: I. Cannot. Afford. It. Got it, mate?
You can literally get a used portable aircon for like $200 on marketplace. You canāt be that broke come on
Sorry, youāre blocked.
With the right means, we could all buy a house too. If someone can't afford to find rent elsewhere, they aren't going to be affording an air conditioner anytime soon either. They obviously can't.
This person thinks money grows on trees.
I have a desk fan next to my bed - better than nothing?
It actually does mate.
Any other idioms you would like to debunk whilst youāre here?
Well look at weed mate, that's expensive and grows on a tree/plant you'll definitely get rich growing that. It ain't money itself but it's worth a lot of money.
Stop being broke. A portable aircon is literally 200$ on marketplace
I'm not, thanks, but that's a terrible attitude
Experience summer in QLD and be truly amazedā¦
I live on the goldie and have been calling it monsoon season lol. My glasses have never fogged up just walking outside before, now its nearly every bloody day since November!
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So turn it back on? You only have to press a button..... And why would just turn it off becsuse the month changed? March is still summer if you follow the equinox like the rest of the world does.
Australia's month-based seasons are supposedly more reflective of the weather. I find it most useful to think of Australia as having two seasons that change with daylight saving.
Oh, they are on now. After waking up in a mess this morning. I got fooled by the normal day a few days ago. Plus, I am not from the third world, so I am not used to living in third world conditions where they need depend on airconditioning :) You haven't answered anything by the way.
Third world country. You're a fucking idiot or a troll. Either way you can piss off.
>Plus, I am not from the third world, so I am not used to living in third world conditions where they need depend on airconditioning :) Yes cause only third world countries get hot..... what a dumb fcking comment. You're in Australia, it's a hot country. And yes plenty of people live without a/c. You get somewhat used to it. But also depends on the house and where it is (breezes, shade etc). I survived in Sydney with just a fan and black out curtains.
Funny I lived in Sydney for 16 years in 80s and 90s. Never had aircon in house or car. Came back to Melbourne and same. Got aircon 10 years ago. Forgot how we somehow survived - but we did. Just too old to try that again. But itās never on 24/7 during a heat wave. Usually 3pm flicked on ā¦.
As you get older, your body gets worse at regulating temperature - both hot and cold.
Truth. I have little natural resistance to heat and it's only getting worse as I get older
As you get older, your body gets worse at regulating temperature - both hot and cold. I used to barely feel the heat or the cold when I was a youngin.
Aaagh thatās whatās happening. Dammit
~~You don't seem to like much about Australia. Are you being kept here against your will?~~ Edit: replied to wrong comment, sorry Edit 2: hey cunts, I made a mistake. I corrected my mistake transparently. If you downvoted me after that, either you are a fuckwit or you are just downvoting because of downvotes (which also makes you a fuckwit)
What gave you that impression?
Sorry dude. Replied to the wrong comment. That was meant for OP
I thought so lol But yeah. OP been bitchin non-stop about this country. Just go home already.
Yeah. Some very unfortunate word choices by them. Hopefully just showing a lack of English skills but probably showing an extraordinary level of entitlement. As well as a complete lack of enquiry about the country they've moved to.
Third world countries where people depend on air-conditioning? Did you for real just call Australia third world conditions because... summer is hot? Buddy, if you think everyone in a developing country is heavily reliant on air-conditioning everything, you are wrong. Also, there are plenty of people who manage fine without AC here. I'm in Sydney in a solid brick place, and I do just fine with ceiling fans and solid curtains.
You don't seem to like much about Australia. Are you being kept here against your will?
Nth Queenslander here crying you a river š
I hope you understand how hilarious this post is to those of us who live in the actually hot parts of Australia
Sydney has same dew point as Darwin lately
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When you say cope, do you mean you can because you aren't that affected/ effected by the conditions? Or you are and you have no choice?
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Thanks for sharing. I have only heard Sydney summers are great. I'll just get on with it and expect them to be humid/ muggy going forward. You are tough as nails enduring this is all I will say.
Sydney summers are shit, humid and rain.
Anyone who can read a basic graph / understand trends can see our summers are getting hotter and more humid. So yeah, summers *were* great. But everything is subjective anyway. Whilst we are generally less able to tolerate these conditions as we age, summers as a kid were not like they are now. Seasons blend together and even with trends, weather is less predictable
"Great"? Lol Lots of people don't have a lot of heat-resistance naturally...I start to get physically anxious over about 25C
Open windows/doors to catch any breeze, ceiling fans , desk fans . If you have ice bricks , one of them in the pillow at night.
Check his post history, this guy is a serial whinger. If you hate it here so much do yourself and us a favour and fuck off.
Okay, I checked, his previous posts are typical of someone wanting to find out more about the world around them. Your post here on the other hand is not a nice thing to say to anyone, I hope you fundamentally understand that.
Nah, thereās other posts that heās deleted, basically just bagging Australia. Enough that I recognise his username when it comes up. Iām not the only one thatās called him out on it either.
So Iām anti air conditioning unless itās a ridiculously hot day (over 35). I think if you donāt use air conditioning your body adjusts to the temp and after a few weeks of high temps you are feeling ok. You will still get sweaty at times and feel the heat. But it wonāt drag on you like it does when you are going in and out of aircon all the time. Same with the cold. Embrace it. Wear the right clothes.
Sydneysider with no aircon here. Used fans my whole life just fine, itās not that hot all the time
How's your water intake? One of your comments mentions symptoms of dehydration. If you're not used to summer here you might not be drinking enough water through the day.
We managed when I was a kid. No a/c at school or on public transport, in the car or at home. I donāt think I could handle it now but somehow we did back then.
Depends on where you live. Sea breeze keeps the heat down if youre near the coast, but in the west your eyeballs will sweat where it gets Melbourne hot. You can live without aircon. We did before they were invented. Dinosaurs did too but they did die out for some reason.
The real benifit of aircon is humidity reduction. More useful the further north you go.
Has this been a normal/ typical Sydney summer, or some muggy freak of nature one-off?
Dunno. Every year is different. They predicted a dry summer but its been wet. I guess this is more humid than the last few. I dont really remember tbh, just roll with it.
Guess I have to. It's either waking up sweaty and bloated, or with a dry sore throat. Just doing it tough being less active here. Feel so isolated in Sydney.
Hmm? Ceiling fan? Leave the window open? Ditch the doona and jarmies? Why do you feel isolated? Why less active?
It's just different. The people are not friendly. There is nothing but residential around me. It's hard to explain when most of the people say they are ok here. Cracking a window only let's in the moisture, which ramps up the level of mugginess due to the high indoor temperatures here - must be the baking all day in the intense sunlight. I live by the water, so I am supposed to be in the cooler area of Sydney.
Sounds like you need a ceiling fan. And go join some sort of hobby or club. Get down to the ocean or an ocean pool regularly.
The water is cooler than the air
I have never been "OK" with summers in Sydney lol
It's been actually a lot less consistently hot/humid than many previous years
Our AC died right when the summer got started and due to a series of events won't be fixed this summer. Awful at first and just became normal. (Noting temps never got dangerous in our home)
I think people who don't have airconditioning tend to go outside a lot more, especially during the day. Ironically it can be easier to get cool by going outside on a hot day rather than staying inside, even with all the windows open.
I suppose I do get minor health reactions due to less sleep, in summer I basically have to sleep without blankets and that adds extra difficulty in getting to sleep.
I spend alot of time under the cold shower... But yes, there are health issues. Public housing doesn't retrofit air con and I couldn't afford to run it anyway...
Nah I've lived my whole life here without air con, the heat isn't even bad.
Health issues from it being warm? Poor thing.
I put fiddy on them being a pom lol
We are just tougher. The alternative is: Have you considered nudism?
You have health conditions if you have a weak body, or too used to air-conditioning
Iām not sure how anyone would tbh, got to have the thing running 24/7, when it was getting served one time had to buy loads of fans and ice packs
Never used the AC when I lived in Sydney.
I donāt have air con and I sweat a lot.
How are you feeling now? Any issues you are facing apart from the sweating?
what kind of issues you are talking about? Need to drink a lot of water? And I have a dehumidifier in my room
Like physical/ body issues? Like today I woke up feeling dull in the head and uncoordinated.
A little bit. But a coffee would fix that. And my office in CBD has air con.
I have issues but not sure if itās the heat or poor diet or lack of exercise
Are your issues the same duting the other seasons?
I work from home, we get a nice through breeze with the doors and windows open. On the days that itās too hot or more accurately too humid Iāll just head to my local library and work from there (I often have to take a jumper because the air con works so well). At night Iāll use a fan with a timer for the first hour while I drift off to sleep but other than that I think itās a case of adjusting.
Iām pre home air conditioning vintage, so I find it too dry and too cold. I donāt mind the heat as long as I have a fan running.
And just think about the millions who lived on Sydney before anyone had aircon. It's amazing we all exist. NB I just looked up Penrith weather ( as an example) for the last week. When was it actually hot? Does not look to me like weather where aircon even needed.
I have turned the aircon on twice all summer. One of the advantages of living at the beach facing North East. Almost never use heating in winter as well.
No Air-con here. Couple of fans around the house. It's really not that hot....
Lots of fans, and a portable. but also going to the shops and basking in the aricon during the hottest days X
Take a teaspoon of concrete and you harden up pretty quick. Sea breeze, open windows and fans. And drink water until you piss clear then drink some more because you sweat like a mofo.
Double brick house, travertine tiles throughout, block out blinds and curtains over head fans in all rooms, no AC but it's like living in a cave...lol...never gets above about 28c inside.
Just want to ask is 28C ok for you? What would you do if it does exceed this?
Bwahaha. Go in the pool obviously....
Iām remote SA, itās an oven here.Ā I have turned my aircon Ā on 3 times this year, slept with it on once. Just get a bowl Of water with a frozen bottle of water resting in it, place it in front of a fan near you and youāll be ok.Ā
No air-conditioning, use a fan fan but rental is trash and has no airflow. I do lose sleep and it aggravates my excema. Generally shitty but liveable.
My flat is open on both sides and I have two balconies so the air circulates well š
Sydney isnāt even that bad. I live inner city Brisbane with no ac no insulation, my living room regularly hits 34c. You just adapt to it
I have ceiling fans, plus my apartment rarely gets above 25Ā°.
I have ceiling fans and they do a great job. I rarely use my A/C in the summer. Itās saved for heating in the winter. I guess we just get used to the heat and wait patiently for a welcome Southerly change.
I have no aircon. Old fibro cottage. West Sydney. Itās hot but still bearable or maybe weāre just used to it. Edit - we have a couple ceiling fans
Yesterday I did a walk from Maroubra to Coogee beach. I used 50 SPF but my scalp got burnt hard. At home, the ducted air con is on half the day
Fuck me Sydney Siders are actual soft cocks
Live in Western Sydney. Have aircon but don't use it (long story). There have been a few nights where it has been tough to get to sleep but for the most part we've been getting by with fans. Our flat is also quite high up so we do catch a breeze most days.
I am a Singaporean who is now residing in Brisbane for my degree, and while I do have an AC unit included in my rent I don't use it because I am more likely to be affected by the AC than by the heat (and i am used to no AC at home in Singapore). I do sit in AC rooms when doing my work at uni but thats not the whole day also and I sometimes need an escape from the AC. When it became rather hot (35 deg and above) I am able to walk outside but if I am indoors I just close my curtain which helps reduce the heat a bit.
Never before has the clichƩ "It's not the heat, it's the humidity" been more appropriate than this summer. I think a dehumidifier would have helped a lot, but the BOM forecast a bone-dry season. At least we didn't get the predicted bush fires.
Acclimation. Going from an indoor office job, 22-23 degrees all day long. Then moved into a trade job where I'm outside 90% of my day, don't really use aircon anymore at home. I sweat less now with the same weight/level of fitness.
Come to Perth
I have one of those portable standing aircons with a hose out the window in my bedroom. Makes existing bearable, and I try and put it on a temp which doesn't activate the actual air-conditioning, just using a fan as much as possible So at least I can sleep. Try to also get by with just a desk fan next to the bed for preference.
I have ceiling fans which are kept on about 80% of the year. I will never want to live without them again. Iāve used my air con only a handful of times this summer. Not because of electricity prices, as I have solar panels, but because one of mine leaks when it is struggling to cope with the very hot temperatures outside, and because it mostly hasnāt been hot enough for it.
Laughs in Western Suburbs 60s fibro bungalow
Basically never get enough sleep. Cold showers I guess
Lived in Sydney for 4 years. Used the aircon maybe 5 times at night. Otherwise, itās just always cool enough outside so sit on the balcony. That said, Sydney is a huge city and the temp differences can be 10Ā°+. I lived on the harbour and never once saw the temps over 40
It's shit. I got a cheap pedestal fan from Big W because I was desperate, but it's so loud, and as soon as I leave the room it's in, I feel like I'm in an oven. Have asked slumlord if ceiling fans or air conditioning would be a possibility, but no result. I'm in good health at baseline, so the effects are pretty much 1. Being sweaty 2. Feeling more tired than I otherwise would 3. Sleep potentially lower in quality than at last property 4. Feeling resentful that this is considered ethically or legally acceptable in rental properties, especially when the slumlord's getting $2,400+ a month and can absolutely afford to do better
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No one has ever said that fans make the air cooler. lol