180 replies to this topic

[joz]

So hows the weather in your part of town.

I'm at work and this onset of heat is getting to me.
Working near the foreshore I went for a drive along the highway to the local Safeway.
Along the way the sites were.....ummm....nice.
Well thats until I tried to get car park.
Sitting in the sun with indicators on finally for a long time someone is pulling out....yippee!

Well that is until some local cromagnon female tears up to letting out all the F's and C's which are native to their local tongue.

Anyhow after the barage and exchanging some words I won.

Felt sorry for cromagnons mate actually in this case which just sank beneath the window line in the passengers seat.
Anyhow I'm sure there are trolls everywhere,( I think this one just ate her young)

Just waiting to get back on the tools now. counting the minutes.


So guys hows your day ?

[Bear72]

So hows the weather in your part of town.

Bright and sunny, about 35C, slightly humid, light breeze.

Same as yesterday, and the day before, and the one before that...

So guys hows your day ?

Great day! walked the dog, listened to some tunes, cleaned the oven, and cleaned up a very dirty tuner and replaced the fixed output leads to find it now looks, and works extremely well! Just need to find a blue globe for the tuning indicator...

[cableconnoisseur]

Its raining here...........finally.

An end to the opressing heat of the day

Unfortunately, I've only just sprayed RoundUp on all the weeds an hour or so ago............

[56oval]

So guys hows your day ?

Spent it in bed ,woke up around 2pm now at work counting the hours down .

Cheers

[Nude]

So guys hows your day ?

Spent in my most frequented place of late

Bloody Hospital again, now I'm told my elbow is infected

So another 4 needles to drain the bastard, and a drip full of antibiotics

My body is falling apart

Not all bad news though, an IM shot of Pethadine has left me a little gaga and at least I missed the heat!

[JohnA]

damn, Nude, not good

Personally, i am loving this weather, and a full week of it to look forward to

BRING IT ON

[Jake]

Seems when it's hot in Mexico it's cool in paradise!

The day started with a 50km ride in the rain, then a bit of watery work, followed by some long phone calls, music, PC work, and tidying of the house, and finally a visit to a mate to try and help him fix his lack of TV reception in his new house around the corner.

All in all, a pretty good day.

[lamtran]

I don't know how i am going to sleep tonight. the evap cooler has been on all day and now it is humid as the tropics in the house. Damm I hate evap coolers!!! bring on the AC

[JohnA]

hehehehe, i am glad we put refrigerated coolng in this house. Though the power bill with 3 phase sky rockets during the summer months.

However its all about comfort

[56oval]

Though the power bill with 3 phase sky rockets during the summer months

Not if you have a tarrif meter .

Cheers

[Nude]

Not if you have a tarrif meter .

Cheers

We need to talk!

[56oval]

We need to talk!

Hi Tim
The last I heard the Gov stopped supplying them 9 years ago .I would ring Origin and ask if they are still on offer ,don't bother with AGL .

Cheers

Mal

[Nude]

Hi Tim
The last I heard the Gov stopped supplying them 9 years ago .I would ring Origin and ask if they are still on offer ,don't bother with AGL .

Cheers

Mal

Thanks Mal

[ENIGMA]

Spent the day in Anakie, near geelong, nice breeze didn't feel as hot as it was.

Cruised home with climate controll set at 21 deg, car was telling me it was 33 deg outside the whole time.

Got home, too nice to sit inside, so i oiled & buffed Jasper's plinth.

[andythiing]

Nude sorry hear you having a bad run!!!

Spent the day workng on mabel (the caravan!!!!)

Hot hot hot - Im not as young as I used to be - still had a great day - came in at around 10pm after starting at 8am -got heaps done over the weekend - we are almost ready!!!!! gunna be a hot hot week

[Nude]

Nude sorry hear you having a bad run!!!

Spent the day workng on mabel (the caravan!!!!)

Hot hot hot - Im not as young as I used to be - still had a great day - came in at around 10pm after starting at 8am -got heaps done over the weekend - we are almost ready!!!!! gunna be a hot hot week

Thanks Thiingy

Must've been hard work

You got AC in the van?

[andythiing]

Nope we going nude nude!!! - could be a fun trip - I did buy 2x $10 little fans from Kmart and have an old 60's fan from the dump - the landcruiser has aircon - might just keep driving!!!!!!

[fatgen]

So hows the weather in your part of town.

I'm at work and this onset of heat is getting to me.
Working near the foreshore I went for a drive along the highway to the local Safeway.
Along the way the sites were.....ummm....nice.
Well thats until I tried to get car park.
Sitting in the sun with indicators on finally for a long time someone is pulling out....yippee!

Well that is until some local cromagnon female tears up to letting out all the F's and C's which are native to their local tongue.

Anyhow after the barage and exchanging some words I won.

Felt sorry for cromagnons mate actually in this case which just sank beneath the window line in the passengers seat.
Anyhow I'm sure there are trolls everywhere,( I think this one just ate her young)

Just waiting to get back on the tools now. counting the minutes.


So guys hows your day ?

Hi Joz,

over here (7 hours behind Melb) is around 28-35, not bad at all comparing a couple of mths ago it was 45-50 degree easily.

as usual, being away from home (for work) is always not cheerful, but this is life - men bring the bread to feed the family

cheer, FG

[Jake]

Its a lot cooler up here Andy, and you will be camping near the water at Hervey Bay so you will be fine once you're out of NSW

[gainphile]

We were swimming.. very nice as the water is still somewhat cold

Was not too impressed with the number of jetskis. They're awfully loud!

[lamtran]

hehehehe, i am glad we put refrigerated coolng in this house. Though the power bill with 3 phase sky rockets during the summer months.

However its all about comfort

We are getting a 22kw refrigerated cooler in the next place running off 3 phase. How much extra does it cost you roughly in electricity during summer?

Also need to look into this tariff thing mentioned.

[seano]

North West Vic has begun its Nov heatwave period so we are expecting well into the forties until this time next week.

Those of you with refridgerative money burners will perhaps be interested in the new 'smart' meters that have begun to roll out. They are time of use meters (which are also available in NSW and probably other states ) so you'll get walloped for your power depending on the time/amount you use.....handy for hot water but hopeless for refridgerative air-cond. Mainly because power will be most expensive in high demand periods- like during the day in summer. Unit pricing is also a more expensive service than the current bulk entitlement method.

The other feature of the new meters is the ability to cope with feed-in from wind & solar....apparently. Naturally, unit pricing doesn't work with respect to feed-ins.

If Vics want more info then go to http://www.dpi.vic.g...A2572B20004C403
and follow the links

In the meantime.......I'll keep my swampy and work on improving the solar performance of my house rather than resorting to excessive kilowatt hours

[lamtran]

Those of you with refridgerative money burners will perhaps be interested in the new 'smart' meters that have begun to roll out. They are time of use meters (which are also available in NSW and probably other states ) so you'll get walloped for your power depending on the time/amount you use.....

Our house is the only house on the street that has a digital electricity meter. All the houses that are coming up still have analogue meters? did I just get shafted somehow??? Or is it because our house is the only house that has 3 phase power?

[seano]

If you did the 3 phase connection recently then you may have had one of the new meters fitted in the process....or you may find that your digital meter gets replaced in the near future for yet another new digital meter.

Ask Citipower or Powercor.

[JohnA]

Our house is the only house on the street that has a digital electricity meter. All the houses that are coming up still have analogue meters? did I just get shafted somehow??? Or is it because our house is the only house that has 3 phase power?

not sure about that one mate, we have it also, ( almost 3 y.0 house now) and most around us have the analogue ones.
Then i have seen a few others with the digital ones, but did not look to see if they had 3 phase power.

Our house is 5 star rating, no doubt yours will be 6 star.

They are fairly good at keeping the cool in, but damn i love my refrigerated central energy guzzling air con

[lamtran]

They are fairly good at keeping the cool in, but damn i love my refrigerated central energy guzzling air con

Amen to that. I can't wait! I want to walk around the house during summer with a house coat on. hahaha.. Wife is really going to hate the cooling, I can just tell

[JohnA]

Amen to that. I can't wait! I want to walk around the house during summer with a house coat on. hahaha.. Wife is really going to hate the cooling, I can just tell

oh yea baby. and with the pergola now underway, next step, a nice lap pool the length of the back yard, so no garden at all

swim, sip a latte or better still and afogato in this weather, then back inside in the refrigerated house

[Tony M]

We've gone from needing heating last week to cooling this week:( I thought there was supposed to be a month or two in between when we wouldn't be sucking power through our newly-installed 3 phase line.

Still, things are an improvement on the previous house (well, log cabin) on this site. Andrew couldn't run the Xindak monoblocs at the original Woodstock GTG due to the electicity supply limitations:(

Cheers
Tony

[joz]

It seems Melbourne is set for its hottest November for 100 years.

Just when I though we made a little progress with our water reserves.
I'm sure now that'll all just disappear again.

Anyhow no A/C at our place only evap.
I actually wish we had both for the different occassions.
The` evep works a treat when all the bi-folds are swung open during the day.
But at night when you want to secure the house for sleep A/C would be nice.

[Stump]

We have 39c for the rest of the week ( WHAT THE )

[mr-happy-pants]

Another hot day in Melbourne

Fortunately, I can find plenty to keep me busy in a cooler (?) office on hot days.

I feel for the people in our factory on the powdercoat line (huge gas burner drag line). 36 degrees C all day inside

Keep up the fluids!

[JohnA]

Another hot day in Melbourne

and loving it

[lamtran]

and loving it

Thats because you have aircon!

[handysteel]

Darn hot in classroom and workshop today, nearly impossible to get students (Apprentices) to do any work....Happy I have air at home.

[norpus]

It was very pleasant 24 in Sydney last two days

[emesbee]

And 39 here in Adelaide too. I dunno, we keep trying to get rid of the heat by packing it off to Melbourne, but it just keeps on coming.

[Nude]

And 39 here in Adelaide too. I dunno, we keep trying to get rid of the heat by packing it off to Melbourne, but it just keeps on coming.

Thank Crikey, some of it gets lost along the way

[56oval]

There's a nice southerly coming off the bay .

Cheers

[Benje]

And 39 here in Adelaide too. I dunno, we keep trying to get rid of the heat by packing it off to Melbourne, but it just keeps on coming.

MSB

We send the heat to Victoria, but damn Queensland keeps sending the heat down to us. Why won't New Zealand let that high pressure system that is sitting in the middle of the Tasman go past the land of the long grey cloud? Are they expecting a toll to be paid?

I would much prefer Queensland to send some water down the darling than the hot air we are receiving. But that is probably another thread.

Re airconditioning - if you are using a 5kW input unit and it is running flat out, you will be consuming 5 kWh every hour. At around 20 cents, that is a $1 an hour. Smaller units cost less, larger units in larger houses (read Mawson Lakes MacMansion) cost more. Better than feeling Grumpy in the heat though.

Benje

ps apologies Grumpy, no offence intended

[hgholden]

Its so hot (38.9) that the outdoor staff have all been sent home. And well deserve also. 39 again tomorrow and on Friday!!!!

[Grumpy]

I think it's time to move the mattress in the lounge room where the A/C is. It's was a hot night and I woke up feeling Grumpy (hello benje)- hope I don't go blind:nana

[Chickenism]

Adelaide's hottest November spell for 115 years, and Melbourne's hottest November spell for 103 years. Apart from a seabreeze, we won't get much relief until Monday, and that will be brief as temperatures start to rise again as the next big high moves across (from weatherzone.com.au).

A typical summer pattern, it's just a few months early. Victoria still has three months to go until it's warmest month of the year

33.6C in Ballarat right now - and I've had quite a few heat-related cases across my desk today.

Getting me an air-conditioner for the bedroom tomorrow (one of those portable ones) to last me until I have the $ for a split system in a few more weeks. My place seems to heat up during the day and then trap the heat in at night. Only managed a broken couple of hours sleep.

Stay cool all (and keep up the fluids)

Dave

[zipstartcanoe]

You guys are making me jealous - I'm stuck in far northern China on business for the next few weeks. Last night it was -17c. Should see -25c by mid December when I come back again!

Edited by zipstartcanoe, 11 November 2009 - 03:12 PM.

[Grumpy]

You guys are making me jealous - I'm stuck in far northern China on business for the next few weeks. Last night it was -17c. Should see -25c by mid Decemer when I come back again!

Any pics so we can all cool down would be appreciated.

[4heckssake]

So does anyone not believe in global warming now?...