40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
Just finished fitting two cheap awnings over the windows on the south side of the house, a 2m wide one and a 1m wide one. Started installing the first one about 07:30, finished the second one just after 10:00, so around two and half hours to fit them both.
Impressed with the quality for the price, the total bill was about £148 inc VAT and delivery, from Primrose Awnings. All the bolts and rivets look to be stainless steel, the cassette and arms are powder coated aluminium with a decent finish.
Should be a good test for their effectiveness today, as soon as the sun gets around to that side of the house later. I'll report back on how well they work later today.
Impressed with the quality for the price, the total bill was about £148 inc VAT and delivery, from Primrose Awnings. All the bolts and rivets look to be stainless steel, the cassette and arms are powder coated aluminium with a decent finish.
Should be a good test for their effectiveness today, as soon as the sun gets around to that side of the house later. I'll report back on how well they work later today.
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
We have a big awning covering the rattan furniture set on our patio. It happens to shade the kitchen window really well and makes a huge difference to the temperature in the kitchen.Oldgreybeard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:28 am Just finished fitting two cheap awnings over the windows on the south side of the house, a 2m wide one and a 1m wide one. Started installing the first one about 07:30, finished the second one just after 10:00, so around two and half hours to fit them both.
Impressed with the quality for the price, the total bill was about £148 inc VAT and delivery, from Primrose Awnings. All the bolts and rivets look to be stainless steel, the cassette and arms are powder coated aluminium with a decent finish.
Should be a good test for their effectiveness today, as soon as the sun gets around to that side of the house later. I'll report back on how well they work later today.
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
Thanks, but I was thinking of a display of actual current temperatures across the country to compare with the forecast. Very few are shown on the Met Office map.marshman wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:33 amAE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:06 am I wonder if there is a way to get a picture of temperatures like we can see on the rainfall radar: the temperature offering is nowhere near as good.
xcweather has forcast maps which you can select to show predicted temps, wind etc.
https://www.xcweather.co.uk/GB/forecast
Still showing max temp of 41 dec C on Tuesday afternoon.
(It's been a lovely cool morning here so far, the sun has just come out...)
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
The awnings seem to be doing a good job so far, made a big difference in the kitchen as by now the granite worktop and window sill would be getting pretty hot and acting like radiators.
Been playing around with an idea stolen from another forum this morning, where a chap managed to get his heat pump to run in reverse. After a fair bit of digging around on the web I have discovered that our ASHP has the same feature, there is just zero information about it in the UK manual for some reason. The US manual for the same model (with a different brand name) has details of how to make the thing run in cooling mode. I've managed to bodge together a switch to activate this on ours and it's now pumping cold water through the UFH. To avoid the risk of condensation I've programmed the ASHP to only cool the flow water to 12°C to start with.
I'll monitor the floor temperature and see what happens. As long as the floor surface doesn't drop below about 14°C everything should stay dry (that's about the dew point for 22°C air temperature and 60% RH). Whether it has any effect in terms of cooling the house down much I don't know, be an interesting experiment if nothing else and hasn't cost anything so far. It's even running for free as the ASHP only seems to be drawing around 600W and the PV is generating over 4kW already.
Been playing around with an idea stolen from another forum this morning, where a chap managed to get his heat pump to run in reverse. After a fair bit of digging around on the web I have discovered that our ASHP has the same feature, there is just zero information about it in the UK manual for some reason. The US manual for the same model (with a different brand name) has details of how to make the thing run in cooling mode. I've managed to bodge together a switch to activate this on ours and it's now pumping cold water through the UFH. To avoid the risk of condensation I've programmed the ASHP to only cool the flow water to 12°C to start with.
I'll monitor the floor temperature and see what happens. As long as the floor surface doesn't drop below about 14°C everything should stay dry (that's about the dew point for 22°C air temperature and 60% RH). Whether it has any effect in terms of cooling the house down much I don't know, be an interesting experiment if nothing else and hasn't cost anything so far. It's even running for free as the ASHP only seems to be drawing around 600W and the PV is generating over 4kW already.
Not sure if you spotted it, but that XC Weather site does have current observed temperatures as well as the forecast:AE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:38 am Thanks, but I was thinking of a display of actual current temperatures across the country to compare with the forecast. Very few are shown on the Met Office map.
(It's been a lovely cool morning here so far, the sun has just come out...)
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
Something like: https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather ... L=C&SI=mphAE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:38 amThanks, but I was thinking of a display of actual current temperatures across the country to compare with the forecast. Very few are shown on the Met Office map.marshman wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:33 amAE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:06 am I wonder if there is a way to get a picture of temperatures like we can see on the rainfall radar: the temperature offering is nowhere near as good.
xcweather has forcast maps which you can select to show predicted temps, wind etc.
https://www.xcweather.co.uk/GB/forecast
Still showing max temp of 41 dec C on Tuesday afternoon.
(It's been a lovely cool morning here so far, the sun has just come out...)
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
great, thanks for both suggestions
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 27MWh generated
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Rain water use > 520 m3
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 27MWh generated
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105kWh EV storage
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40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
Thanks again - Scorchio is part of our family vocabulary now - and our friends of a similar age. I wonder how many younger people would know it if their parents didn't use the term? I suppose it is obvious really, so easy to pick up.
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Most travel by bike, walking or bus/train. Veg, fruit - and Bees!
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Re: 40 degrees next weekend, mid July ?
I think its a generation thing as my partner (from South America) had never seen the show, but she understood and laughed at it the same as myself when I have shown it to her in the past.AE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:35 pm Thanks again - Scorchio is part of our family vocabulary now - and our friends of a similar age. I wonder how many younger people would know it if their parents didn't use the term? I suppose it is obvious really, so easy to pick up.
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But I showed this to my 30 year old daughter and Italian SIL a couple of weeks ago after I said it was Scorchio and they looked blank. They looked even more blank after I showed them the clip and I and SWMBO were rolling around in laughter.
Although my daughter and SIL speak several languages they could not work it out and said it was all total nonsense, I spent the next 5 mins trying to explain it to them. Both my daughter and my SIL just continued starring at me.
An imbalance of Prosecco intake may have also played a part, again possibly another generation thing.
18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 27MWh generated
6 Other RE Coop's
105kWh EV storage
60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 520 m3
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 27MWh generated
6 Other RE Coop's
105kWh EV storage
60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 520 m3