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[Sput]

But how long will it last?!

[Lorns]

That is a much better set up to the one i use. I place a bowl of cold water full of ice cubes on the windowsill behind the fan. It works a treat and like Marks ingenious idea puts some moisture back in the air.

Mark try putting the icepack at the back of the fan somehow and patent that idea.

[Lorns]

Never seen one of them before, the Brainiac way is much more fun though.

[Charlie Wells]

A tip for the evenings / at night (taken from BBC Breakfast). If possible open the loft hatch (assuming you have one), as heat rises it will mean that the heat will go into the loft rather than your bedrooms. Though if your bedroom is in a loft conversion I guess you're a bit stuck.

[Gavin Scott]

I feel it necessary to distance Metropol from this Heath Robinson contraption, as I would hate to hear that someone got an electric shock.

But it does sound useful.

We had the loudest thunder rumble over the office today. Most of us ran out into the carpark to see what the heck it was.

I'm lucky that I managed to commandeer a free standing aircon unit from the boardroom at work, and trundle it to my desk.

It goes through an astonishing 9 litres of water over the course of the day, but it keeps me cool as a cucumber.

[James H]

A tip for the evenings / at night (taken from BBC Breakfast). If possible open the loft hatch (assuming you have one), as heat rises it will mean that the heat will go into the loft rather than your bedrooms.

Not in South Shields. I'd probably find most of the study in the loft gone in the morning

[Pete]

A tip for the evenings / at night (taken from BBC Breakfast). If possible open the loft hatch (assuming you have one), as heat rises it will mean that the heat will go into the loft rather than your bedrooms.

Not in South Shields. I'd probably find most of the study in the loft gone in the morning

Maybe they mean opening the hatch from your house into your loft rather than opening a velux in your loft.

[Sput]

Not in South Shields. I'd probably find most of the study in the loft gone in the morning

Maybe they mean opening the hatch from your house into your loft rather than opening a velux in your loft.

Is it those thieving teddy bears?

[James H]

Not in South Shields. I'd probably find most of the study in the loft gone in the morning

Maybe they mean opening the hatch from your house into your loft rather than opening a velux in your loft.

Is it those thieving teddy bears?

I think I might go and visit the cludgey.

That'll be marginally more interesting and humorous than your post.

[Nick Harvey]

I too am currently trying to work out exactly what Keith the Dimwit really means.

I really wish he'd stick to soderating badly, over at the other place, and leave us alone.

I currently sleep in a loft conversion, together with 'er indoors, and the brown chap, if he decides to join us and prostrate himself at the end of the bed.

Are we being told to only open one Velux in the bedroom, rather than all six?

Surely that will considerably reduce the airflow and make the place quite warm?

[Alarsne53]

I too am currently trying to work out exactly what Keith the Dimwit really means.

I really wish he'd stick to soderating badly, over at the other place, and leave us alone.

I currently sleep in a loft conversion, together with 'er indoors, and the brown chap, if he decides to join us and prostrate himself at the end of the bed.

Are we being told to only open one Velux in the bedroom, rather than all six?

Surely that will considerably reduce the airflow and make the place quite warm?

No, the way I interpret the original post was that if you have a normal door into your loft, one that is in your ceiling, you open that, allowing the heat to rise up through your loft door.

Obviously if you have a room up there anyway this is pointless, and Christ knows how the talk got onto only opening one Velux instead of six :roll: