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Well, it seems the window film by itself is not sufficient to maintain inside temperature.   Exeter has suffered several days and nights in the mid to upper twenties and the inside temperature monitor – probably combining conducted and radiant values … Continue reading →

Summer is here. Outside 22, inside 26 degrees.   My normal hot beverage is too heating but I found the following in Rachel Roddy’s column in the Guardian. The third option is caffè shakerato, which involves hot coffee, sugar to taste and ice, … Continue reading →

Having failed to secure consent for erecting external shutters or sunshields I have fallen back a stage and arranged for solar reflective film to be fitted to the inside of my windows. The film is called Sterling 40, is neutral … Continue reading →

A lot has happened to me,  but not much to the flat. It’s 25th January, so it’s winter. The temperature outside is 6.4oC, inside in the lounge it’s 21.7.  I do have one of the two storage heaters on, but … Continue reading →

As I write this in mid-June, summer has arrived with a bang and a blaze. With blinds down all day, by mid afternoon the temperature in my lounge reads 26.5 degrees C, and, attired only in a pair of shorts, … Continue reading →

One facet of sustainability is to live in the same place for as long as it’s feasible to do so, thus avoiding the waste of packing up, moving from one place to another, dismantling the new place and furnishing anew.  … Continue reading →

All the energy entering this flat – aside from sunshine – is electric.  This is essential for high-tech kit like TVs and computers, but is also used for less complex activities like heating water for cooking and bathing. This is … Continue reading →

Last week was terrible. Following the medical symptoms I described below I moved in with my wife (we have separate flats in the same block). Her flat is on the north-west side and has three outside walls, so was much … Continue reading →

My weather station reads temperatures inside and out. Yesterday evening the indoor temperature was 29ºC and outside it was 27ºC.   I only kept going by stripping to underclothes and sponging my skin with a wet cloth in the beam of … Continue reading →

British housing needs to be heated to be healthy, but should it also be cooled? Global heating is here and getting worse. We should all do what we can to combat it (see under Energy), but we need to get … Continue reading →