{"id":57838,"date":"2026-07-10T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=57838"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:16:57","slug":"twenty-eight-point-eight-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/twenty-eight-point-eight-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Eight Point Eight Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning I woke at 4 to have a shower, have breakfast, and then drive to Morges for a 6am run. As a result I had no opportunity to open windows, aerate or anything else. I kept every room closed so each room is a compartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result, is that the temperature in my flat has been completely flat, varrying by .01 of a degree throughout the day, rather than huge fluctuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I blast in the morning, then the temperature plummets, before flying back up to within half a degree. If I open windows, to vent the hot air I also end up heating the apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intuitively you want to open windows, you want air to flow but by doing this you get warm air to enter, rather than exit. It&#8217;s counterintuitive to trust the building to control its own temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I checked the hallway and it is at 29.5\u00b0c. Meanwhile the bedroom is at 30\u00b0c or more. In all there is a 2 degree difference from room to room, and from one floor to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netatmo and other apps have a clear message. 28.8 is too warm and most humans will agree with that, especially when there is no movement of air, or very little. The temperature is uncomfortable unless you&#8217;re wearing very little. Trousers and t-shirts are sweaty. Shorts are fine. Being shirtless is fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s interesting that pouring water on arms, neck and face have a refreshing effect, even if the tap water is warm. Instead of relying on evaporation from the body alone, helping it with a splash of water every so often feels good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We read about taking several showers during a heatwave but that wastes water. If you cool strategic parts, like the neck, arm, and scalp then you&#8217;re cool. The static heat becomes more comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end we have to trust the machine to do what it&#8217;s meant to, without micro-managing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>This morning I woke at 4 to have a shower, have breakfast, and then drive to Morges for a 6am run. As a result I had no opportunity to open windows, aerate or anything else. I kept every room closed so each room is a compartment. The result, is that the temperature in my flat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[7745,653,4408,6307],"class_list":["post-57838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-closed","tag-experiment","tag-minergie","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57839,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838\/revisions\/57839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}