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Post by icecontroller2529 on Aug 14, 2022 10:30:37 GMT -8
For this heatwave - I have experimented with a trick from France - although not quite as rustic! I thought that although I stop the sun coming with with sheets of wood and/or blackout curtains - but the end of the day the thermal build up in the window area does seep into the room - so I thought - why not outside? Places in France and Southern Europe all have shutters on the outside as they stop the sun even coming in through the glass and so they are not even allowing heat into the room in the first place. So, as my gerbil room faces the side garden than no-one sees - I made some shutters out of sheets of double-layered cardboard (too many gerbil stuff deliveries!!). Anyway - they aren't the most attractive things - but they are only a trial idea. That seems to have done the trick! Although the temperatures in the gerbil room are still above 25 (apparently 31 outside today) - the room actually FEELS cooler when you walk into it. I am certainly liking it after just 1 and a half days!! I might start to get a quote on making it a permanent thing?? That's brilliant! Hope you and your gerbils made it through another hot day.
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Post by Markpd on Sept 5, 2022 11:43:07 GMT -8
I was thinking earlier on of creating a new thread in the OT section titled something like 'energy usage and tech' for that discussion, then it went quiet so I didn't bother , but after it revived I've done that now and we can continue the discussion unabated and without sidetracking this thread . New thread here. LMK if you prefer to have a different title for it.
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