Cooling the house

Throughout the blog are entries about the way this house becomes an oven during the summer months. It has taken a while but a number of simple steps seem to have alleviated the worst of the heat. The problem was that there is no insulation in the walls and the sun bakes them on three […]

Hot, hot, hot

Most of the electrical equipment used in this house has anti-overheating systems. They all cut out when it looks as though the unit’s guts might melt. They are working it seems. Looks like it was over 40C in the bedroom so the big stereo was off. It gets hot on cool days. The computer died […]