I think we're ready.
Jun. 8th, 2008 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaAC units were put in the windows Friday night before it got too hot. Yesterday in the 93deg heat, we let the house warm up to see just how bad it would be with the blinds and windows shut, and the new light-blocking drapes up. It peaked at 86deg, at the ceiling (where the indoor/outdoor weather station console is at). Not too bad, really. But then it *stayed* at 86deg until we finally relented and turned on the AC at midnight to get it down to 78. It's not too bad today, we'll see how it gets when the temp hovers near 100 in the coming week. (78 on the AC units means that the bedroom is about 78-80, and the living room is about 78, while the study and kitchen are... well... the weather center still says 85 in the kitchen. It's just enough to take the edge off. (Now if there was something we could do about the damned *NOISE*...)
On a related note - we have a funky layout - while we have the third floor apartment, our door is on the second floor, and then there's a stairwell that comes up the middle of the unit into the central landing area. This landing has a railing around the huge hole in the floor for the stairs to come up. Problem in the summer: cold air falls. Which means that we have a huge well of air that's about 70deg doing us no good, but helping our neighbors, and any cool air from the AC units flows into that hole, as its the lowest point.
So today![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginkgo set up a fabric wall around the bannisters, and a fabric 'gate' at the top of the stairs, so we'll have an additional 2.5' of cold air around our feet. We'll see how it works. :)
On a related note - we have a funky layout - while we have the third floor apartment, our door is on the second floor, and then there's a stairwell that comes up the middle of the unit into the central landing area. This landing has a railing around the huge hole in the floor for the stairs to come up. Problem in the summer: cold air falls. Which means that we have a huge well of air that's about 70deg doing us no good, but helping our neighbors, and any cool air from the AC units flows into that hole, as its the lowest point.
So today
ginkgo set up a fabric wall around the bannisters, and a fabric 'gate' at the top of the stairs, so we'll have an additional 2.5' of cold air around our feet. We'll see how it works. :)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-06-09 01:53 am (UTC)That sounds like an excellent oppotunity to decorate using flour paste and cloth.
Find some light cloth (muslin, or handkerchief weight linen). Paint designs, tie-dye, batik, or just go with the cloth pattern.
Use a flour and water paste to stick it to the walls. The beautiful part? It washes off with water. No muss, no fuss, no damage :).
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Date: 2008-06-09 02:31 am (UTC)We've actually been using the 3M Command strips - they're really slick.