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Well I got a fairly big room out of my extension... and this summer.. is making it unbearable.
My room is continuously over 25C even at night and in the mornings, and somehow it's really humid too...
I can't open my windows a lot because otherwise I get loads of insects as the climate is tropical... (I've already got a beetle and a huge moth -.-)
Also, not doing my PC any good...
Idle
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And finally, it's GCSE time, I can't sleep in this humidity, and the wildlife wakes me up -.-
got 3 hours last night, and i've got an Economics exam tomorrow.
Ideas?
PS: I have 2 tower fans (used to have 3) continuously on full power.. and they don't seem to make a difference.. :(
Open a window and get some fly netting type material to cover the open space with.
Err, I dunno if I can, I have blinds :s
Get a fan
I've got 2
Turn your pc off
:(
get a mach II gt
yeah, i have £300 odd to burn -.-
since when is reading Tropical :p
The only other options if you cant open your windows would be desk fan , humidifier and / or an air cooler, all costing money Im afraid :/
since when is reading Tropical :p
The only other options if you cant open your windows would be desk fan , humidifier and / or an air cooler, all costing money Im afraid :/
it isn't, my room is somehow :S
it's really humid, and cause the room is big, and the fans are kinda really bad... airflow is terrible
all the desk fans will be doing is moving hot air around quicker, they won't be doing anything to solve the problem unless you find an exhaust or intake.
Treat your room as a giant pc case, you need intake and exhaust to cool. The £1 shop on friar street had some of the insect netting the last time I was in there, as someone else has said open a window and use some of that :)
DT.
Get a cheap aircon unit, i think aria do them?
He would need to still open a window to exhaust the heat from the cooler exchanger.
I have a southfacing bedroom and I'm forced to keep the curtains shut during the day to try and keep the heat out, then open at night with th window open to get a breeze, seems to work fairly well. If your room is well insulated it works both ways, the heat cant leave through the walls, but also can't enter through the walls, so focus on the windows as this is where most of it will be coming in
get one of those reflective silver things that people put in car windscreens to keep their car cool when it's parked and attach it to your windows/windows
ok, I guess i'll find some netting. and leave my windows open..
i'll tell you how it goes :)
Use your girlfriends Fishnet stockings. :D
Sniperdude
06-06-10, 12:47
what's all this gayness about insects getting in I have all our upstairs windows open and have done for some time
just open the windows man FGS insects come in you pick them up and chuck them back out end of
tropical reading ?
currently my ambient case temps in bham are 31 so you think you got problems? lol i had to drop my oc as it was pushing 80 at 4.5 -.- around 45's now
Open the feckin door lol.
My room was boiling at midnight last night, even with my window wide open, slept well as I have a tower fan aswell and put that on medium almost directly next to my fase as I put it on an office chair next to my bed. Left it on continous and had a great night sleep :).
what's all this gayness about insects getting in I have all our upstairs windows open and have done for some time
just open the windows man FGS insects come in you pick them up and chuck them back out end of
tropical reading ?
like i said before, tropical room -.-, no idea. but it's muggy and humid.
lucky you about the insects....
currently my ambient case temps in bham are 31 so you think you got problems? lol i had to drop my oc as it was pushing 80 at 4.5 -.- around 45's now
my ambient case temps are 49c? look at the screenshot :)..
I dropped my oc from 4ghz to 3.8ghz :cool:
Sniperdude
06-06-10, 13:06
I have a portable air conditioning unit in my pc room :ninja:
buy a container of liquid nitrogen and every so often pour some on your floor
buy a container of liquid nitrogen and every so often pour some on your floor
i quite like that idea lol
as others have said before get some sort of netting and put that around your windows while its wide open. that way you get no bugs and cool breeze.
i quite like that idea lol
or have it pumping through an array of metal tubes, with a fan behind the tubes
Be and man and open up the window. Last night, i has this weird beetle bug thing with wings on, i've never seen it before and the little S.O.A.B landed next to me on my pillow.
Al you do is go to the window and a "little" flick will send that "thing" into the abyss,
Be and man and open up the window. Last night, i has this weird beetle bug thing with wings on, i've never seen it before and the little S.O.A.B landed next to me on my pillow.
Al you do is go to the window and a "little" flick will send that "thing" into the abyss,
I HAD THAT TOOO lol, though it landed on my hair lol. in the end it started flying around then decided to settle on my lampshade...
I just got the vacuum cleaner :)
A bit ott dont you think?
I dont think they're going to kill us though but it landing in my hair would **** me off. i have long hair and i'd probably loose it in there tbh.
A bit ott dont you think?
I dont think they're going to kill us though but it landing in my hair would **** me off. i have long hair and i'd probably loose it in there tbh.
same.. it annoyed me cause it was 5:30 and i only got to sleep at 3. :@
Lol.
How'd you get it out? It was like it was glued to my pillow
Lol.
How'd you get it out? It was like it was glued to my pillow
do a dog thing... you know shake your hair around loads lol.
I could tell it was out because i could hear the really heavy buzzing
I love doing that with wet hair...erm...moving on :)
Move the family fridge freeze combi to your room and leave them open.
And trust me regardless of blinds, double glazing, wooden frames, bars on your windows w/e you can put some netting in the way.
But if you have blinds I'd shut them and leave the window open. Should stop most insects. My window has been open for hours and hours this past month and I have only gotten one wasp.
This wont work, any cool air will be negated by the heat from the cooling fins on the rear.
Air con unit, get a portable one.
Air-con = Very expensive. windows is natures air con
He would still need to open a Window for Portable Air con for the Exhaust tube.
Alexceptional
07-06-10, 03:33
This wont work, any cool air will be negated by the heat from the cooling fins on the rear.
I was about to mention that.
As for warm rooms, I have the same problem. My window is a little small (the bit that opens) so I was thinking of rigging some kind of DIY air con; fans blowing through a box with ice in it, that sort of thing. We have an auto ice maker so no ice shortage problems.
Sniperdude
07-06-10, 03:49
I stick the tube out of the window on my aircon but am going to get someone to core drill a hole in the wall because after owning a aircon unit i couldnt live without it
this room is like an oven otherwise so its well worth me doing this .
but it will have to wait till i sort out some other things with this room (new desk tv wall bracket and stuff.)
Alex the air coolers that you can buy that you stick ice in are not very good but you can pick them up cheaply
Can't you drill your own hole? lol :)
Can't you drill your own hole? lol :)
They dont let him near power tools :rolleyes:
They dont let him near power tools :rolleyes:
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