Thinking of selling due to heat

Iam64

I’m north west. My kitchen has huge glass doors snd velux windows. The extension was done 12 years ago. This is the first summer when the heat inside reached 35. I’ve two fans and cool
Mats for the dogs
I’ve got quotes coming for an awning of some kind to give shade where the patio doors are
I sympathise Falling Star, many of us are in the elderly at risk category / I can no
Longer function in high temps

What about a metal pergola that you can crank open the roof, or keep it closed?

My friend bought an air conditioning unit that she says keeps most of the house cool (five bedrooms).
You probably are feeling a bit desperate with the extreme temperatures but see how you feel when it goes cooler. It's a big decision to move from your family and all you know.
I hope you can resolve this without having to move. We don't know if the north will get hotter over time.
Get some advice on keeping your home cool. 💐

FallingStar
This heat is not going to be confined to the southeast for many more years. Sooner rather than later it’s going to the same where you want to move to.

I totally sympathise, how much is air conditioning? The cost of moving is probably much much more,

OP I totally sympathise with how you must be feeling right now, but even with a heatwave in June,July and August, there’s a heck of a lot more of the year when more moderate London temperatures can be seen as a positive.
Think back, if you can, to the dreary days and weeks of rain early this year. I also think moving away from family is a no-no both in your present situation as your DH’s carer and with respect to your DD.
Moving is horrendously expensive and stressful plus it can easily take up to a year.
Are you up to that? Making friends at our age can be very hard and life can be lonely.
Invest in some good fans, maybe heat reflective film and it will soon pass.

Thanks for kind replies.
Always helps.
💐

Oh Fallingstar, I really do sympathise its so hard (I have done this) being a full time carer at the best of times and I don't imagine how I would have coped with these extreme heatwaves.
I think it would be worth finding out if there is any type of funding avaliable for medical/home adaptations that could help. Hope you are both OK

If you truly want to move from London then maybe not quite as far as (beautiful) Lancashire would work better.

Don’t be too hasty but maybe consider coastal towns in Norfolk or Lincolnshire,
Or anywhere you fancy.

Just don’t do anything in haste.

Take care

I moved to the north west from the black country. Not far from the sea. It was 37.1 ° in my kitchen the last heat wave and 32° in my living room with curtains shut and tower fan on full . In Lincolnshire visiting family its 30° with fan on .

Fallingstar

Are you serious?

Read Nannynoodles and take heed.
I presume you are elderly? Moving house is traumatic and depressing and moving so far even more so. What if one of you dies and the other is left alone. Chaging Doctors, Hospitals etc. It really isn't worth it.

And what if your daughter needs her Mum and Dad? And what if she needs you?

It can still be still hot in the North (I'm told by friends there that it is) but winters can be bitterly cold and you are more likely to be killed from the cold than the heat.

The legal costs, furniture transportation etc incurred by a move would easy cover the cost of a couple of free-standing a/c units - one for your bedroom and one for your living-room.

(After an operation when I was too ill - and unsafe - to walk, the Physiotherapist recommended that every couple hours I did a few flights of stairs (has a half-landing). This I did starting with one up and one down each time to eight six months later. This helped my breathing and my stamina and my thigh muscles. I didn't miss walking but later I got some by shopping in a large AIR-CONDITIONED supermarket (aren't they all now?) with the support and reassurance of the trolley and my husband at my side. We didn't always buy anything!!)
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I remember when we lived in NYC in the 1970s summers there were unbearable and many would head for the hills. Just wondering where on earth people head to over here.

Of course we don’t want to move at our ages but worry that our summers especially in London are getting hotter. We have no garden but a small conservatory next to the yard which we thought was a great idea many years ago, now it is a sauna even with the blinds down. I imagine the sales of conservatories had gone down. One good reason why you don’t see them in hotter countries.

Fallingstar, I don’t have portable aircon myself, but I think it is pretty effective. The other issue is that although it may not be as hot on average in Lancashire as it is in London, there are heatwaves there too, so you could potentially move and still struggle with the heat, unfortunately. I guess it comes down to whether you do really ultimately want to move, or not.

I’m north west. My kitchen has huge glass doors snd velux windows. The extension was done 12 years ago. This is the first summer when the heat inside reached 35. I’ve two fans and cool
Mats for the dogs
I’ve got quotes coming for an awning of some kind to give shade where the patio doors are
I sympathise Falling Star, many of us are in the elderly at risk category / I can no
Longer function in high temps

It does sound miserable, coping with extreme heat. As others suggest, portable AC units might help and you could get a garden sail to cover your yard. I’m sure a handyman could help install one. Sorry for the big river link, but this is the type of thing. www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=garden+sail&tag=gransnetforum-21

I’ve just been reading advice from an A&E doctor who says we should alter our routines in extreme weather, which includes tempering out exercise, to avoid overheating. It’s understandable that your Dh wants to get out and about but sometimes we have to accept that temporarily, it’s not the best choice.

I hope you feel more comfortable soon.

Thanks for all replies.❤️

Casdon

I think if you were to do a cost benefit analysis, it would be cheaper to have air conditioning in your present house than it would be to move? You don’t have to go for fitted aircon, you could get a couple of portable units for the rooms you use most, they are about £500 each.

Yes this is something we will do and may have to settle for but it doesn’t feel like the kind of solution that will improve our quality of life overall.
And I know winters in the North can be bad but we have a plan to rent a flat in the Canaries for the wirst winter months.
We could just rent up North now until the heatwave dissipates but it could last all summer and we have a DD who needs us here right now.
I suppose it is just making me fed up.

I am sitting in a room with lined curtains closed at both ends and a fan on and I am in the NW, you truly wouldn’t be better off in my opinion..
It isn’t often we get these extremes , if it does carry on then I think we shall all have to review our needs.

Thing is we only have a back yard, no garden with shade. And the nearest park is a walk away with my DH can’t manage in these temps, he is so slow due to physical disabilities that we remain in the heat for too long, but he needs to walk as part of his physio so we go out after 8pm but then he gets too tired because post stroke fatigue means he can’t stay up too late and getting up early isn’t easy either.
We might be moving away from family but is a circle we can’t easily square right now.

I think if you were to do a cost benefit analysis, it would be cheaper to have air conditioning in your present house than it would be to move? You don’t have to go for fitted aircon, you could get a couple of portable units for the rooms you use most, they are about £500 each.

Why don’t you compare prices with say, having air con in a couple of rooms with the costs involved in moving?
It won’t solve you having to stay in during the heat, but it could make indoors more bearable.
Plus the Winter temperatures are more comfortable in London than ‘up North’

I was just thinking this am as me & the dog came back from an early hot walk, I'm glad I don't live in london now.
We are still South, but on the edge of countryside, shady garden & not far from the sea & I can only imagine what central London is like today.

Hi Fallingstar, I understand totally where you are coming from but would it be a mistake to move away from your daughters?
We have recently had AC fitted in just one bedroom and honestly it’s been a game changer - I practically live in there now and with the door open it cools the bathroom and landing too.
Plus we shop early morning or later in the evening as most supermarkets are open late nowadays.
I know it’s not a perfect solution but I feel moving away with all the stress that involves might not be either.