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PT6A posted:It may work for a house, since you can open windows on more than one side to get airflow through the house, It doesn't even do this. If the air temperature outside is hotter than you'd want the inside to be, you'll never cool your house with airflow, not even with hurricane force winds blowing through. The high temperature on Monday was 27C. Go ahead, open a window. Great, now the INSIDE of your house is also 27C.
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What the gently caress who doesn't get taught by the time they're old enough to open a window that the way you keep a house cool in Canada is to open all the windows in the evening and button everything back up right after breakfast?
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EvilJoven posted:What the gently caress who doesn't get taught by the time they're old enough to open a window that the way you keep a house cool in Canada is to open all the windows in the evening and button everything back up right after breakfast? This works a lot better when the average high is closer to 28 C than 35 C.
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ductonius posted:It doesn't even do this. If the air temperature outside is hotter than you'd want the inside to be, you'll never cool your house with airflow, not even with hurricane force winds blowing through. The high temperature on Monday was 27C. Go ahead, open a window. Great, now the INSIDE of your house is also 27C. Obviously, but in my condo it's not even possible to get cooler air in during the night/morning.
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Jul 2, 2015 05:50
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Buy a condo on the roof of a building and you can open the deck and front door (assuming the front door opens to outside) and get air flow through. (This is what I have. It is great.)
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Shofixti posted:There's a lot of talk here about how lovely things are (or will be) and how dumb people are. So what should a young, working university grad be doing these days? I read this thread and think "I guess I'll keep renting and save up a larger downpayment until the market cools" but, again, I feel I don't have enough knowledge to know and I'm sure I'm missing something. Save money, read up on which type of investments make sense for which stage of your life, and keep an eye on the housing market in your area. Read about municipal affairs and understand how your local neighbourhoods are going to develop over time. Even in a crash scenario, certain areas are going to hold their value better than others. Be an optimist. Being a bear might give you the satisfaction of being right when the crash comes, but cautious and savvy bulls are probably going to come out on top over the long term. (This is my longabout way of saying go ahead and buy a place if you think it makes sense)
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vis a vis Vancouver and no AC it's worth noting that for 99% of the year it's very cold at night even during the summer, so opening the window at night genuinely is a good way to cool your place.
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Femtosecond posted:vis a vis Vancouver and no AC it's worth noting that for 99% of the year it's very cold at night even during the summer, so opening the window at night genuinely is a good way to cool your place. It goes down to 11 or 12 at night here, too. There's still the issue of getting and keeping the cool air in the apartment, which is difficult to impossible in a building with positive pressure. I have the balcony door open right now with a big fan in front trying to suck as much cold air in as possible, as well as all other windows in the apartment open. I had a similar configuration last night. It was still 26 degrees when I woke up. I'm not sure what else I can or should be doing, other than not living in a south-facing condo with lovely airflow. It's not like I've never considered opening the loving window, you know.
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Jul 2, 2015 07:00
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What sort of pleb doesn't have a corner unit to get a sick cool cross breeze going through?
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I'm in an East facing unit on the 18th floor, and it's so well insulated thanks to LEED that I can't get it under 28 inside with A/C running constantly. If I turn off the A/C it'll heat up to 33. 
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Jul 2, 2015 08:35
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Seriously you are trying to argue that you need air conditioning in Canada?
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Why not? It's going to be 30c for three months in Vancouver, it would be nice to be comfortable during that time.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Why not? It's going to be 30c for three months in Vancouver, it would be nice to be comfortable during that time. How the hell can it get so hot there? Is this an abnormally warm summer?
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OhYeah posted:How the hell can it get so hot there? Is this an abnormally warm summer? It's probably the hottest on record, but Vancouver has been steadily getting hotter for the last decade or so. And I mean, it'll be 30c on average. Lots of places hit 40c the other day, and shattered something like 70+ records. Global Warming is mounting Vancouver, no lube.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=11180738quote:Pete McMartin: If Australia’s bubble bursts, is Vancouver’s far behind?
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I think the real story here is this report came from the vancouver sun.
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Quite a few of my friends in lovely Vancouver apartments bought their own little window AC units. It was that or not sleep a few months of the year (or more). It doesn't have to be that hot for an older building, specially if you're up in an attic or top floor, to get ridiculously hot. It could have been a 25 day but at 11pm when you're trying to go to bed it's 26 in your apartment despite being 19 outside and all you have are 3 tiny double-hung windows to open, 1 of which is painted shut, and the building's boiler is on for some reason.
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Cultural Imperial posted:I think the real story here is this report came from the vancouver sun. Isn't that the one that's not part of the Sun Media awful chain of newspapers? Or am I thinking of something else.
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Jul 2, 2015 15:28
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Here's an eastern European trick the A/C manufacturers don't want you to know about. Take a cold shower and go to sleep immediately to sleep to beat the heat. Alternatively buy a house proper, but Vancouver.
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Jul 2, 2015 15:33
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triplexpac posted:Isn't that the one that's not part of the Sun Media awful chain of newspapers? Or am I thinking of something else. No the sun is loving garbage.
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Jul 2, 2015 15:57
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AC is kind of necessary if you're in a unit with poor circulation like mine. Even then I've only got a window in my bedroom to use for AC so you've got to position the unit straight at the ceiling fan to get the air to circulate to the rest of the condo.
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Cultural Imperial posted:No the sun is loving garbage. I can't speak to the quality of the paper, but it's not the Sun that has sexy lady photos right?
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jm20 posted:Here's an eastern European trick the A/C manufacturers don't want you to know about. Take a cold shower and go to sleep immediately to sleep to beat the heat. Alternatively buy a house proper, but Vancouver. So what happens when its 3am and its still 28*+ in my apartment? *28 is as high as my thermostat goes and its buried there from March through October. In Calgary where it usually drops off to mid teens at night.
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Jul 2, 2015 16:10
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You should be sleeping with a light sheet in your underwear at 3am. If you are again too hot, have a 2 minute cool shower and repeat.
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Either that, or buildings should install a proper HVAC system with air conditioning because it's loving 2015. That's an option too (honestly, I'd jump at the opportunity to pay a "special assessment" to install proper air conditioning, I'd be getting the money back when I sell anyway). Another reason why it sucks when there are too many owners simply renting their units out -- they have every motivation to be cheap assholes, and no motivation to improve the quality of life in the building. EDIT: You sleep in underwear? Why?
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PT6A posted:Either that, or buildings should install a proper HVAC system with air conditioning because it's loving 2015. lmao if you dont have a giant man-sized storage bin filled with salty icewater ineffectually wafting cool air over you with a desk fan
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:lmao if you dont have a giant man-sized storage bin filled with salty icewater ineffectually wafting cool air over you with a desk fan ...I actually did buy an "evaporative cooler" last year, yes. It's minimally exceptional.
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Franks Happy Place posted:AC is building code mandatory in Richmond for large strata buildings, as a noise abatement strategy (ie, people can leave their windows shut, meaning you have fewer noise complaints). I thought that had more to do with 747s flying 50 feet overhead. They have a very strict building height limit for the same reason.
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Reverse Centaur posted:I thought that had more to do with 747s flying 50 feet overhead. They have a very strict building height limit for the same reason. Airplanes are noise. They are covered under "a noise abatement strategy".
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triplexpac posted:I can't speak to the quality of the paper, but it's not the Sun that has sexy lady photos right? Not the Vancouver Sun, its owned by the National Post not Sun Media.
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Franks Happy Place posted:AC is building code mandatory in Richmond for large strata buildings, as a noise abatement strategy (ie, people can leave their windows shut, meaning you have fewer noise complaints). since when? i lived in a building built in 2012 in richmond and definitely did not have ac
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Crashing Asian LNG prices could deliver a body blow to Christy Clark's economic fantasy http://www.straight.com/news/479606/crashing-asian-lng-prices-could-deliver-body-blow-christy-clarks-economic-fantasy We all saw this coming, but man oh man are the BC Liberals terrible at business. How the hell does this "right wing governments are good for the economy" meme still get kept alive? Why yes, lets invest in a low-return market that's over-saturated with product priced lower than we can produce. That's runnin' government like a business! Treatin' finances like a household.
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Franks Happy Place posted:Airplanes are noise. They are covered under "a noise abatement strategy". How you worded it was misleading. And I think you're wrong about mandatory ac too. p.s. and kassian lol
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Bilirubin posted:Not the Vancouver Sun, its owned by the National Post not Sun Media. Same company now. I wonder what all the Sun readers are going to do when Post Media closes down the Sun Chain (they already closed QMI)
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PT6A posted:Either that, or buildings should install a proper HVAC system with air conditioning because it's loving 2015. "Proper" air conditioning requires central air though, and it's physically impossible to install that after the fact, and you almost never see that in condos anyways. The only real aftermarket solution is the the window units, or the portable units you run a hose out a window. Of course, most condos don't want those either, because god-forbid people be comfortable in their own homes, people on the street might see an air conditioner or hose in a window and property values would be destroyed!!! No to mention I find Vancouverites older than about 50 have some sort of psychological block against air-conditioning. It's like they can't accept that even though this is Canada, it's gets gently caress off hot here now. So they sit sweltering in their homes, sweat sheeting off of them, but refusing to install A/C because "..... this.... this is Canada, we can't get A/C, don't be silly." Bloody Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 2, 2015 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:"Proper" air conditioning requires central air though, and it's physically impossible to install that after the fact, and you almost never see that in condos anyways. The only real aftermarket solution is the the window units, or the portable units you run a hose out a window. Of course, most condos don't want those either, because god-forbid people be comfortable in their own homes, people on the street might see an air conditioner or hose in a window and property values would be destroyed!!! It's not impossible to retrofit, just expensive. I talked to the building manager, and the study was done and then rejected as being too expensive by the board. I bet if we had our AGM in July or August instead of early May, people would be more amenable to it. EDIT: Regarding portable A/Cs: I have one, but the adapter kit doesn't fit onto my balcony door properly (a gust of wind will push it out, and there's constant leakage of the hot exhaust air back in), and the window in my bedroom swings out horizontally, and thus cannot admit the venting hose. If I had a simple window that just slid open and closed, I'd be on that like stink on an ape's rear end. PT6A fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Huh, so a cousin who just two weeks ago told me that there was no way he could afford a house, and that we shouldn't compare our lives to our baby boomer parents, is now updating Facebook that he and his wife are looking to buy. I wonder what bank decided to give them a mortgage, the guy has no career path whatsoever. I guess his wife makes more than I thought she did.
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Yeah, I held off on bringing my portable A/C unit to my new place for a while now. The building doesn't allow them, but after the crazy high-temps this year, and the fact that virtually every window in my side of the building has one installed at this point, I just said gently caress it and picked it up from my parents place. It's nice to be able to sit here, dressed in regular clothes, with my computer and TV on throwing out heat, and have cool air blasting me at all times. I almost feel human again.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I almost feel human again. Whoa, whoa, let's not get carried away. You are Canadian.
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