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A PROFESSOR at a UNIVERSITY has done some RESEARCH.

He has discovered that in warm sunny weather the inside of houses get warm. Those houses with good DG, wall insulation and loft insulation get even warmer. This, he has concluded, is dangerous and between 2,000 and 5,000 people could die. The government agrees with him and has said that it is looking into the potential problem!

Has nobody suggested to these fools that people might open a window or two?!

Probably not. I fully expect a government initiative of grants to be given to install air conditioning.

This is a prevalent problem in Sweden too. Opening the windows doesn't fix the problem as the heat is locked up in the home and there often isn't enough breeze to get it out. Especially in their flats which only have a door and a window.

Of course the ever pragmatic Swede's just go and jump in the sea, or a lake.....

Perhaps the professor should take a cold shower and then contemplate the body cooling capacity if he doesn't towel the water off.....

This is what we used to call the wobblyhead syndrome when I was in the army. The cleverer they are, the more "wobbly" their head.....

Workingman wrote:A PROFESSOR at a UNIVERSITY has done some RESEARCH.

He has discovered that in warm sunny weather the inside of houses get warm. Those houses with good DG, wall insulation and loft insulation get even warmer. This, he has concluded, is dangerous and between 2,000 and 5,000 people could die. The government agrees with him and has said that it is looking into the potential problem!

Has nobody suggested to these fools that people might open a window or two?!

I think the Sybil Fawlty award for Stating the Bl**din' Obvious should be a huge yearly event. They could hold the ceremony at the Albert Hall and televise it!

There would certain be lots of entrants and hot competition!

And just how much did Einstein get paid to come up with this earth-shattering piece of news??

wonder what salary is p.a.?

Here's another candidate for the Sybil Fawlty award for Stating the Bl**din' Obvious.

Research carried out on 11,000 children shows that poor bedtime routines, late nights, and bedroom TVs, makes it harder for them during the school day.

Well, we never knew that, did we?

I NEVER open my windows in this weather!!!

I have black out blinds and curtains on all my windows (except for our attic bedroom windows - they are black out velux blinds - and the dining room and bathroom - which are just a slatted blind).

The blinds in the lounge come down just before I go to bed and stay most of the way down all day until around 5pm when the sun goes off the front. The same with S's bedroom as that is on the front of the house. The rooms on the back (L's bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom and the dining room) also have their blinds down but I don't tend to pull them down until later in the day - around 2pm - when the sun moves around to the back of the house. If I am likely to be out all day then I will pull them down in a morning before we go out. Our bedroom has the blinds down and windows shut all day long.

The dog is a nuisance wanting to go in and out the door all the time, letting the hot air in so I make her go quickly, or I shut all the inside doors and just leave the front door open.

We have fans in the bedrooms - a huge ceiling fan in our room and desk fans in the girls rooms.

I open the windows in the evening, closing them before I go to bed.

Our house stays lovely and cool.

Now, why has no one paid me for finding all that out!!!!

Debi - good point about the blinds. We stayed in a hotel in Lido di Jesolo (Italy) years ago and they had blinds for the windows and the door as well! They were pulled down after the rooms were cleaned in a morning and kept the rooms really cool.
WM - yes, I saw that story too!
Next week - Professor Albert Micklethwaite of the University of Castleford says that heavy rains last spring may have led to the softening of the ground and in some cases, even mud!

Mrs S has the typical Scottish attitude to the sun and heat. On the hottest of days when the house is overheated, she opens the shutters and the windows and lets the scorching heat in. It's taken more than a decade but she's finally beginning to understand that if you keep the hot air OUT, then the house stays much cooler.

Our insulation is a blessing. The house has 2 foot thick walls on the front, but in 2003 the walls were hot to touch at 11pm in the bedrooms. Now they have insulated plasterboard on them, the heat stays in the walls and the bedroom is much cooler. So long as you shut the shutters and keep the hot air out.

Let the heat in though and you just can't get it out. Insulation and Double glazing sees to that.

Whole house heat management is an art and much more so than in non insulated days. Perhaps they should teach that instead of looking for other means.....

It's hardly rocket science.

Of course Britain is not used to ambient temperatures in the 40's with nighttime temperatures hitting the high 20's or low 30's all night. Even in the height of summer. This will become an issue as the decades roll on.