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Post by WDB on Nov 24, 2020 11:41:50 GMT
Not sure I follow the reasoning there, Esp. One day a week of WAH won’t motivate anyone to move house. What people seem to be thinking, in the Southeast at least, is that many employers will treat WAH as the norm, with office visits just for meetings and specific events. This was certainly the view of the Sussex Coast estate agent I met last week, who says he’s seeing huge demand from the Surrey commuter belt for places with space, greenery and office rooms — one of which I still have to sell.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 24, 2020 11:54:08 GMT
I think it's mainly the outdoor space that is the driver from people stuck in small, 'investment fodder' flats with windows that all face the same way, so no through drafts to cool the place down on a hot day. And yes an additional room for WFH. As they move up the scale, their vendors move up the scale further and end up with your Sussex Coast situation.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 24, 2020 11:56:40 GMT
This is an argument I often have with the missus - how does a through draft on a hot day cool anything down? You are just introducing hot air from outside. Keep the windows and curtains shut, that's the only way. Open windows after dark if the outside air temperature drops.
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Post by WDB on Nov 24, 2020 12:18:11 GMT
Two conflicting effects: yes, if it’s 35°C outside, you don’t want to be introducing air at that temperature to your interior at 25°C. But if it’s moving and it’s passing over a moist surface, such as skin, you can benefit from evaporative cooling that won’t happen in still air.
Better yet (but not better still!) is a convection current, which requires a difference of level that you won’t get in a flat. Design your house to vent warm air from the top and draw in cooler air at ground level. You’ll see it all round the Mediterranean where they’ve known the principle for centuries, but we English would rather design our houses to look like it’s still the 1920s.
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Post by Avant on Nov 24, 2020 23:28:10 GMT
"....how does a through draft on a hot day cool anything down?"
Agreed - it doesn't. Go to the air-conditioned office to do the draft (avoiding sitting in a draught) and write the final version at home.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 25, 2020 7:04:43 GMT
But if you have a small South facing flat with Windows only at that side, you are living in a large oven. Better the oven door is open, but even better if the heat could exit to the north...
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Post by WDB on Nov 25, 2020 7:31:38 GMT
But if you have a draft to complete, you’ll need to be near the Windows— unless you have studIOS, or possibly patIOS, instead.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 25, 2020 9:10:13 GMT
Groan....
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Post by Alanović on Nov 25, 2020 9:58:44 GMT
"....how does a through draft on a hot day cool anything down?" Agreed - it doesn't. Go to the air-conditioned office to do the draft (avoiding sitting in a draught) and write the final version at home. Whoops. I do of course know the difference, but the fingers and the brain are sometimes disconnected.
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 27, 2020 23:08:56 GMT
Never really gets hot in the UK though does it?! Just a few days/year. Might as well bunk off work and go to the garden/beach/park for those odd days!
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