London Buses are far too hot

Square Eyes · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.02

In true Ant Alldritt style, I thought I'd resurrect this classic topic. I can't specifically talk about London buses (I just don't do public transport dear) however, how hot was today ? I'm feeling quite giddy and nauseous actually at the thought of those hot sticky buses.

The local Asda couldn't seem to cope with the heat, and had mobile air con units plugged in all over the place which I thought was a bit poor. Personally I find that WHSmith always have a fab air con system so I was tempted to spend the afternoon in there.

That's it, I know a topic about the weather. Lame.

iSon · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.09

The office at work today was incredibly warm today, so I decided to spend as much time by open windows and high powered fans as possible.

Also, under the guise of delivering information to the studio, I would pop in and take advantage of the wonderful air conditioned environment for 15 minutes at a time. Was lovely!

I did receive a txt from someone today (no joke) that said "Am on bus to work. Far too hot." - so it seems the passion lives on!

johnnyboy · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.27

Dunno why I should say this, but my underpants are far too tight, and create crimping around my testicles in the hot weather.

God forbid this situation should happen on a London bus. It would be likely an unholy alliance of EVIL.

That thought frightens me.

Cheese Head · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.39

Download on Sunday was far too hot. Chucked half a pint of water over myself.

I plan to get some school trousers and rip em off at the knee then wear them to school. Wont last long of course. Dumbasses. For some reason our school has central heating instead of some form of a Reverse Cycle air conditioning system and there's only two water fountains that have filterd water in them so we have to wait for like a litre of water to filter before we can get a decent amount of water. There's two of these in the changing rooms, but they arn't accessible. God damn stupid backwards school...

Hmm, either way, I've been in worse but i can't stand it. My room has the boiler in it and I have to go sleep on the couch sometimes because the heat is unbareable.

The school bus today was so nice, they had all the air con on, and it was just so comfortable - I didnt want to get off.

nwtv2003 · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.43

I was rather pissed off this afternoon as I had a 3 hour Business Studies exam in a room with only a few windows with the radiator turned on!

Though buses I've never actually found that bad with the heat, the windows are usually open on Warrington's, though you can feel the heat during the winter when they have it on.

dvboy · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 21.41

Why aren't more buildings in this country built with air conditioning installed like many on the continent and in America? I would love to have air conditioning in my home.

Chris · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 22.53

Cheese Head wrote:Hmm, either way, I've been in worse but i can't stand it. My room has the boiler in it and I have to go sleep on the couch sometimes because the heat is unbareable.

How about switching off the boiler. That's what I do during the summer as I only need hot water then as the heating doesn't need to be on for obvious reasons. The boiler isn't left on all the time during the summer either.

Why aren't more buildings in this country built with air conditioning installed like many on the continent and in America? I would love to have air conditioning in my home.

Probably because a) it costs a lot of money to implement and run, b) causes lots of distruption whilst suspended ceilings have the tiles pushed up, holes hammered in the wall whilst builders put in the gear inside and outside and c) aircon isn't needed for most part of the year because it's more comfortable. You're probably looking at a maximum of 4/5 months use per year for the aircon.

Also not all buildings are able to have aircon put into them for various reasons.

rts · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 23.12

I was in my local Topman today, and the air conditioning was off as they were having repairs to the roof. The temperature was 38/106....

Gavin Scott · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 23.38

The evenings lately have been uncomfortably warm and muggy. Especially around this time of night making it impossible to sleep. I can't have my thinnest bed linen over me, but psychologically speaking I just can't sleep without a cover.

I nabbed one of those freestanding air conditioning units from the boardroom at work for our office. Knew it had a vent on the back but it didn't occur to me that it had to be piped outside. We have discussed removing the puny and innefective extractor fan from one of the windows to get the hose through.

The question is, do we go to the effort for what might be a short spell of heat, or are we in for a long hot summer?

cwathen · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 00.03

The question is, do we go to the effort for what might be a short spell of heat, or are we in for a long hot summer?

Well with global warming, hot spells in this country will only increase. Perhaps it's time to reconsider the big hole in UK building design in that they think about heating, but never about cooling.

I mean, 9/10 high street shops will have big space heaters installed above the doors to keep the heat in during cold spells, but not even 1/10 shops will have similarly apportioned cooled air systems at the big of the shop for when the heat needs to get out during hot spells.

Similarly, every new home built today will have a comprehensive central heating system installed to keep the house piping hot, but hardly any of them will have a similarly appointed aircon system to keep it freezing cold for when you want it like that.

There were a couple of days last year when I borrowed my parent's car and went out for a drive - not because I particularly wanted to drive it or had anywhere in particular to go, but because it was so hot that I'd had enough of sweating in front of ineffective fans and wanted to get into an environment which had real, proper, cooled air conditioning - but in the UK cars are pretty much the only place where such an environment is commonly found.

I do predict that aircon will greatly increase in popularity here over the next few years.

Chris · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 00.46

Gavin Scott wrote:I nabbed one of those freestanding air conditioning units from the boardroom at work for our office. Knew it had a vent on the back but it didn't occur to me that it had to be piped outside. We have discussed removing the puny and innefective extractor fan from one of the windows to get the hose through.

The question is, do we go to the effort for what might be a short spell of heat, or are we in for a long hot summer?

Couldn't you have opened one of the windows and slung the hose out through that?

If there is one thing I hate about the new trains is that they are all bloomin' sealed and you have to put up with the forced aircon. Personally I'd rather prefer fresh air compared to stale air wherever possible. Why didn't they ever think of having some windows that you could open?

However on the flipside, there are some places which I would like there to be aircon, for example in the computer area within the library. That has a low suspended ceiling and all the walls at the side of the room don't have any windows. There is 1 small-ish window at the end of the room and even that can't be opened unless you tinker around with the handle through the anti-theft shutter.

There are some fans on poles but they're useless for cooling such a big room!