the entire east side of my apartment is made of glass. im expecting I can cover roughly three fifths of it with highly reflective material, reducing radiant contributions to heating by about 50% in the earlier part of the day
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related: if you use a portable AC unit the plastic exhaust hose gets hot, which means some of the gains from the unit are dissipated immediately. always use the minimum hose range. I further mitigated this with improvised insulationpic.twitter.com/0Y8EWuu8Kw
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ok final treatment of the main room. the Chinese plastic foil was a pain to cut with precision given my tools, so I used that for large areas and touched up with aluminum foil (ht
@petergodofsky for the idea) its hard to see the plastic foil but itll be obvious in daylightpic.twitter.com/HbTsuqxVzP
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further picture post-tidying. if you are doing some home improvement project to impress your wife its important to clean up afterwardpic.twitter.com/WbianymgTY
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I may unplug our refrigerator at peak heat tomorrow and replug it in at night. can pack the important frozen stuff into the deep freeze in the other room. Everything should keep for a few hours at least, and it would take pressure off the AC.
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shit i did not realize aluminum was chiral ok break and then I fix this where there were errorshttps://twitter.com/FunkyDuffy/status/1409398430305116162?s=19 …
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further problem to mitigate: for some reason the AC unit blows up sometimes. going to make a device to stop directing air at the ceiling, using the vault instead to trap hot air. convection seems like my enemy here given how much the roof is gonna bakehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1409461775838289921?s=19 …
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I genuinely appreciate the metis from Sunbelters. I have not needed AC for my entire adult life and I am kind of going on half-baked episteme here
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went back and checked which way the aluminum was facing nearly every piece is facing dull side outward because of fucking course slowly and painstakingly reversing it sunrise was 5:00a 45m later it's almost 80 outside this is going to be an awful day on the west coast
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the problem is not the temperature per se, it's that nothing is built for this, maybe excluding some office towers. but not older buildings especially AC remains relatively rare in seattle the usual heat advisory is "stay indoors" but that doesnt work if "indoors" isnt cooled
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starting to think the foil is counterproductive. it's really heating up, even when correctly-oriented. might try to replace it with the plastic.
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i am not buying anything else there is literally nothing on sale in the city of seattle at 6am and air conditioners have been sold out for a week and i have not slept. the tools on hand are the tools I am using
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ok im going to bed this is the stuff i got hope it workshttps://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W7JWTL8/ …
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a related thread. what a great story. my dad's was probably The Flood when our city was mostly destroyed by a catastrophic flood he saved our house and most of our furniture and got us evacuated and drained the basementhttps://twitter.com/redoatz/status/1409552949886521352?s=19 …
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most importantly he was one of the like 2% of homeowners in the city who had looked at the river and thought "yes I believe I will purchase flood insurance this year" do not underestimate the value of such prudence! I am grateful for his careful stewardship
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anyway, its upper 90s in Seattle, feels maybe mid-upper 70s inside. looks like I made it through the early morning sun assault on the eastern window. going to call this a smashing victory. thanks everyone who came along for the ride--I hope everyone else in PNW is holding tight
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