All new buildings should be designed with large roof overhangs. The large overhang provides beauty and protection from the sun, rain and wind. Protection of the doors, windows and siding make for a more durable and comfortable home.
It really is great that the builders that built my house 200 years ago recognised that it should be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Great technology far beyond that of modern developers.
New builds are terribly built and cannot handle hot weather. They will be worthless when climate change really kicks in. Tiny windows, overly insulated, packed in with no trees or cover
The UK building codes are terrible compared to the rest of Europe, start by having proper standards and stop bowing to the huge contractors that have a monopoly on housebuilding!
All building codes are terrible. Those should be just guidance and maybe certificates. You should be able to build anything on your land as long as it does not emit anything and if collapses stays on your land.
The issue is not specifically the heat, but that most of these building were built for a temperate Britain, before the recent climate shifts. British homes are often unshielded, without the thermal barrier which keeps a 35° average week from heating the stone and brick and making the house into a pizza oven effectively. With the present British economy, you will need the government to step up to help, because full retrofitting of these 30-70 year old buildings are not cheap, but simply fitting an air con will not stop the heat.
In the middle, and far east air-con is not the norm for ordinary people, they hang out under shade, open windows, and doors, encourage air movement, and bless our cotton socks, we do too on those odd weeks where we get high temps.....
@@YUDNSAYVery much so. However, like they were discussing the standard British home does not include an air flow. Many homes have one or possibly if they are lucky two faces that can have windows, and the homes are built in a style that does not really allow wind to travel through. This will take time to ajust, and Tudor or Early Victorian era awnings and extentions will be very important.
To the question of which is actually more dangerous... Heat. Cold buildings can be heated up. Removing excess heat from a building is much more difficult, because you have to find ways to absorb that energy... and the common one where the thermal mass of the building does so means the building will be increasingly less livable over a hot week.
@@jonescrusher1 It all dpeends on the design of the prioperty. The reasoning behind closing windows doesnt work when the homes are built to the passivhaus standard, designed to take in heat from the sun and trap it. Worked ok in the past before climate change had kicked in but no longer. Also doesnt work in apartment blocks at all.
Seriously, how many more ways can people that are actually dying of old age and infirmity be labelled as dying of this that or the next thing? Heat, cold, COVID, being overweight, air quality (in the UK) and on and on. At some point people will die, tragic, but true. And trying to prevent all death is pointless, and should not be something we do regardless of cost.
Heat and cold are not natural causes. It's callous and shameful to imply it's okay for a society to let vulnerable older men and women to freeze to death or die of heatstroke because of their age.
Subject of the video is more efficient homes. Saving money is a good thing. After the homeowner checks out, the home will remain and be a more comfortable and cheaper to own home for the new owners.
@@trking649 I'm well aware of what empathy is, and i have it for everyone in society regardless of age and likelihood to go out and vote. Not all death is senseless. As i said natural causes used to be something we accepted, and it still should be. People do not die from a day of warm weather, cold weather yeah, but not warm at Earth's surface temp, particularly not in places like the UK where we are very moderate, and have plenty running water. The trouble with rampant spending of public money is it has to come from somewhere, and that will take it away from other places, like education, like local authority resources such as swimming pools, libraries, roads, healthcare and so on. I am all for empathy, but when you spend public money it should be focused on how to deliver the best result for everyone in society for the longest part of their lives, not ways to extend the lives of super old people for a couple of months. Far better to improve the majority of everyone's lives i would say, than to let them linger on for a couple of extra months at the very end of it when they already have no quality of life. But you cling on to the fake empathy of wokery that is being pushed at present where it is better to virtue signal than think about how to deliver value for public money.
Do you know what else is a big issue right now? I live in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth. And i went metal detecting on the beach yesturday evening. And i collected lots of trash as i usually do. I like a clean beach we are proud of our beach. But when i got to the bins. They where ALL over flowing with trash and it was all over the floor around the bins and blowing onto the beach. And you can see how alot of plastics end up in the sea! The Local Council is to blame for poor services. Especially with the heat the beaches have been packed.
Heat control window films have been around the USA for years. Windows are one of the worst offenders for direct sunlight heating of interior spaces (like a greenhouse! lol)
Trees and eaves, light reflective surfaces.. passive cooling measures don't need to be too expensive. ! And ofcourse, big hats. 😘love yr Aussie cousin!
I am in south facing Housing Association property and am not allowed solar panels because I don't own. Government could bring reduction to CO2 emissions by 'persuading' HA to fit solar where they can. Solar could fuel cooling/heating. Also balcony with awnings or shutters that could vent heat mass away from the external walls. It's a no brainer! It didn't need to cost more...we had new roofs fitted not that long ago it could all have been done then.
If it's too hot, then it is difficult to cool down, but if it's too cold it is easy to warm up.....just put on extra layers of clothing. This is why, if you google map Tel Aviv for example, and virtually walk anywhere, what you will see is air con units everywhere on sides of flats etc....The problem of course is overheating and without air con it would be unbearable for much of the time. Air con units consume lots of power as well and they require electricity...lots of it. If climate change is real then the change that we are seeing is at lightning speed and even in a very short timespan of say 10 years, we will see dramatic changes in rising temperatures everywhere. We wait and watch.....Is it too late to do anything about climate change?
Generally speaking based on those comments the UK first of all need better schools so they can eventually elect politicians who push less fake news and conspiracies.
We have always had heat waves. In fact, we haven’t had a decent heatwave for years. I think 1977 was the last big one we had. If we get one that last a week or two these days it is like the end of the world is upon us. The climate has always been unpredictable. The northern hemisphere was once tropical and of course the several ice ages that lasted thousands of years. These climatic events happened long before humans left their mark. If by some chance there is a major climatic change, our planet will continue and life will go on, perhaps in another direction. Let’s stop all this fear mongering.
Yeah, and the earth has gone through plenty of periods of being completely uninhabitable to humans too mate Nobody is saying that literally every single human being is going to die, they're saying we have a fragile global trade of 8.4 billion people, and increasingly strained shrinking ecosystems could lead to a world war 3 like scenario. Saying that climate change has always happened is like saying that disease and famine has always happened, " oh why are you so worried about starving to death? Don't you know that the problem always fixes itself eventually" oh gee I dunno mate, maybe because I, personally, want to LIVE?
Mate, saying that climate change has always existed is like saying that famine has always existed, or war has always existed, or disease has always existed, like "oh, I guess I don't have to worry about my life ending because death has always existed too" okay mate.
Wasn't it 76?! I remember getting to the UK in September of 76, and we drove up the M6, the yellowing grasses and dry fields looked incredibly reminiscent of what we'd left in Australia..it didn't get much above 90 d though . ah to be young again 😢😅
Is that since they changed what height to take temperature ,150 years above ground around 600 mm from ground . since 2022 its taken from the solid ground
Have the polar ice caps melted yet and are the Maldives under water yet, should we start bringing wild animals in from Africa, Lions, Hyenas, Wild Dogs, we just can't leave them down there to die if the planet is getting warmer
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How come they don't go to India or Pakistan or India or China I can keep going but it's okay stay in Great Britain God help you if you ever traveled you would see the same pollution that I cannot believe I've seen and yes I hope everybody can see this because I know I'm right I have been there
London is hot but Scotland has had the coldest summer I can remember and I can remember about 70 of them. The sea ice is still there in the Arctic despite the alarmists saying it would be gone by 2013.
Are you serious?? Every summer I endure temps of 45C+, 38C+ for days on end find something else to whinge about. A “heatwave” “tropical night” 🙄 Go to the mall
Very few british homes have a thermal barrier under the ceiling... Which means that it will absorb heat during the day... and only a few windows that open. We in the southern US would never build like that... and I presume Australia is the same, because it would cause our homes to pass 40° by mid spring.
Yeah but their houses aren't built for it. My house doesn't get over 30 in the living room when it's 43 outside. Show me a house in the UK than can keep itself 13 degrees cooler inside than out in a heat wave and I'll show you someone living in a walk-in freezer.
Jesus! Can't we cope with anything in Britain any more. One day of hit weather and it's top news and everyone has another reason to panic and collapse into fits of anxiety. I don't think that climate change ( a couple if gegrees of change, wow!) wil, bebthe end of Britain, natural selection will ensure that we all expure from anxieties over every little thing!! What an expert, apparently ONE HOT DAY, YES ONE DAY, counts as a heatwave, utter balderdash and shame on Times Radio for sensationalist reporting of a non-event.
An inefficient energy guzzler temporary stopgap. Good in a pinch for an individual or family, yet compounding the problem for all in the long term by contributing to rising temperatures.
@@tomw.6757That's simply not true, all sources of energy have various environmental impacts, even the "clean" ones like nuclear, wind and solar. Energy transport is inefficient, energy is lost. AC units are inefficient, more energy is lost. Without passively changing building codes to account for the drastic incoming changes they are even more wasteful than they need to be.
All new buildings should be designed with large roof overhangs. The large overhang provides beauty and protection from the sun, rain and wind.
Protection of the doors, windows and siding make for a more durable and comfortable home.
It really is great that the builders that built my house 200 years ago recognised that it should be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Great technology far beyond that of modern developers.
Solid walls. I`ve put 50mm of insulation on the inside. Really helps out in hot and cold.
There should be more laws and rules to govern builders. There are many unscrupulous builders.
New builds are terribly built and cannot handle hot weather. They will be worthless when climate change really kicks in. Tiny windows, overly insulated, packed in with no trees or cover
Insulation keeps heat in during the winter and heat out in the summer. Shade, glass, cross ventilation and draft proofing works in all seasons
Climate change? You’re already doomed with that neo-liberal brainwashing.
The UK building codes are terrible compared to the rest of Europe, start by having proper standards and stop bowing to the huge contractors that have a monopoly on housebuilding!
All building codes are terrible. Those should be just guidance and maybe certificates. You should be able to build anything on your land as long as it does not emit anything and if collapses stays on your land.
The issue is not specifically the heat, but that most of these building were built for a temperate Britain, before the recent climate shifts. British homes are often unshielded, without the thermal barrier which keeps a 35° average week from heating the stone and brick and making the house into a pizza oven effectively. With the present British economy, you will need the government to step up to help, because full retrofitting of these 30-70 year old buildings are not cheap, but simply fitting an air con will not stop the heat.
In the middle, and far east air-con is not the norm for ordinary people, they hang out under shade, open windows, and doors, encourage air movement, and bless our cotton socks, we do too on those odd weeks where we get high temps.....
@@YUDNSAYVery much so. However, like they were discussing the standard British home does not include an air flow. Many homes have one or possibly if they are lucky two faces that can have windows, and the homes are built in a style that does not really allow wind to travel through.
This will take time to ajust, and Tudor or Early Victorian era awnings and extentions will be very important.
To the question of which is actually more dangerous... Heat. Cold buildings can be heated up. Removing excess heat from a building is much more difficult, because you have to find ways to absorb that energy... and the common one where the thermal mass of the building does so means the building will be increasingly less livable over a hot week.
It's only warmed by one degree ffs!
External shutters will be the most cost effective option for many homes in the UK
External roller shutters are the future in the UK, it's amazing how effective external shading is.
Its impossible because the windows open outwards in the uk. Everything works the other way round than it would be logical.
@@gaborhertelendy windows shouldn’t be open during daylight hours in heatv
Luckily heatwave is not a present danger in the uk.
@@jonescrusher1 It all dpeends on the design of the prioperty. The reasoning behind closing windows doesnt work when the homes are built to the passivhaus standard, designed to take in heat from the sun and trap it. Worked ok in the past before climate change had kicked in but no longer. Also doesnt work in apartment blocks at all.
@@gaborhertelendy Are you dumb? We hit 40c last year.
34c lovely. Got 2 air conditioners and a large pool , happy days
I paid a lot of money to get my flat heavily insulated. It was worth every penny as I am not sweltering even today. My flat is over-warm but bearable.
Is that because you live in Iceland or you’re old and don’t feel the heat? My house isn’t particularly insulated and it’s sweltering.
@@jimthompson9370 insulation keeps summer heat out. Poor insulation makes inside of home hotter
New builds don;t even have to incorporate solar panels or renewables we're still behind the times in England.
Seriously, how many more ways can people that are actually dying of old age and infirmity be labelled as dying of this that or the next thing? Heat, cold, COVID, being overweight, air quality (in the UK) and on and on. At some point people will die, tragic, but true. And trying to prevent all death is pointless, and should not be something we do regardless of cost.
Heat and cold are not natural causes. It's callous and shameful to imply it's okay for a society to let vulnerable older men and women to freeze to death or die of heatstroke because of their age.
Subject of the video is more efficient homes. Saving money is a good thing. After the homeowner checks out, the home will remain and be a more comfortable and cheaper to own home for the new owners.
Look up Empathy. This is about senseless death not a protest about death itself.
@@trking649 I'm well aware of what empathy is, and i have it for everyone in society regardless of age and likelihood to go out and vote. Not all death is senseless. As i said natural causes used to be something we accepted, and it still should be. People do not die from a day of warm weather, cold weather yeah, but not warm at Earth's surface temp, particularly not in places like the UK where we are very moderate, and have plenty running water. The trouble with rampant spending of public money is it has to come from somewhere, and that will take it away from other places, like education, like local authority resources such as swimming pools, libraries, roads, healthcare and so on. I am all for empathy, but when you spend public money it should be focused on how to deliver the best result for everyone in society for the longest part of their lives, not ways to extend the lives of super old people for a couple of months. Far better to improve the majority of everyone's lives i would say, than to let them linger on for a couple of extra months at the very end of it when they already have no quality of life. But you cling on to the fake empathy of wokery that is being pushed at present where it is better to virtue signal than think about how to deliver value for public money.
New homes should come with solar panels, a rain water collection system and an electric vehicle charger in the garage.
Maybe just start with all homes being homes and having a garage.... not just loads of HMOs and flats.....
Do you know what else is a big issue right now? I live in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth. And i went metal detecting on the beach yesturday evening. And i collected lots of trash as i usually do. I like a clean beach we are proud of our beach. But when i got to the bins. They where ALL over flowing with trash and it was all over the floor around the bins and blowing onto the beach. And you can see how alot of plastics end up in the sea! The Local Council is to blame for poor services. Especially with the heat the beaches have been packed.
Some estates like my one simply won't allow shutters on the outside of windows because it's not on the deeds.
Heat control window films have been around the USA for years. Windows are one of the worst offenders for direct sunlight heating of interior spaces (like a greenhouse! lol)
Next ten-day-average daily temperature in UK: 25°
Chill out. Keep calm and carry on, FFS!
1 day of high temperatures and we strike fear and panic- media cat nip- amazed climate emergency and skin cancer haven’t been rolled out!
I know, it's ridiculous. I live in a country where it's 35°C plus almost every day of the year and people aren't exactly dropping like flies 🙄😅
I bet you voted for Reform & Brexit… Confusing weather & climate shows your ignorance…
1976 was hotter and in Roman times we grew grapes for red wine in England. Get a grip.
Trees and eaves, light reflective surfaces.. passive cooling measures don't need to be too expensive. ! And ofcourse, big hats. 😘love yr Aussie cousin!
I am in south facing Housing Association property and am not allowed solar panels because I don't own. Government could bring reduction to CO2 emissions by 'persuading' HA to fit solar where they can. Solar could fuel cooling/heating. Also balcony with awnings or shutters that could vent heat mass away from the external walls. It's a no brainer! It didn't need to cost more...we had new roofs fitted not that long ago it could all have been done then.
If it's too hot, then it is difficult to cool down, but if it's too cold it is easy to warm up.....just put on extra layers of clothing.
This is why, if you google map Tel Aviv for example, and virtually walk anywhere, what you will see is air con units everywhere on sides of flats etc....The problem of course is overheating and without air con it would be unbearable for much of the time.
Air con units consume lots of power as well and they require electricity...lots of it.
If climate change is real then the change that we are seeing is at lightning speed and even in a very short timespan of say 10 years, we will see dramatic changes in rising temperatures everywhere.
We wait and watch.....Is it too late to do anything about climate change?
😂Honestly scaremongering at its best.
Is this the comedy portion of the show?
Its already alarming specially in tropical country like here in philippimes..its boiling hot
So summer then.
When did the seasons become new worthy?
Generally speaking based on those comments the UK first of all need better schools so they can eventually elect politicians who push less fake news and conspiracies.
I ❤ my aircon unit 👍 I detest heat it makes me ill, new homes should have aircon built in as well as solar power ect...
We have always had heat waves. In fact, we haven’t had a decent heatwave for years. I think 1977 was the last big one we had. If we get one that last a week or two these days it is like the end of the world is upon us. The climate has always been unpredictable. The northern hemisphere was once tropical and of course the several ice ages that lasted thousands of years. These climatic events happened long before humans left their mark. If by some chance there is a major climatic change, our planet will continue and life will go on, perhaps in another direction. Let’s stop all this fear mongering.
97% of the scientific community would disagree with you. The ones who actually know what they're on about.
Yeah, and the earth has gone through plenty of periods of being completely uninhabitable to humans too mate
Nobody is saying that literally every single human being is going to die, they're saying we have a fragile global trade of 8.4 billion people, and increasingly strained shrinking ecosystems could lead to a world war 3 like scenario.
Saying that climate change has always happened is like saying that disease and famine has always happened, " oh why are you so worried about starving to death? Don't you know that the problem always fixes itself eventually" oh gee I dunno mate, maybe because I, personally, want to LIVE?
You have a selective memory
Mate, saying that climate change has always existed is like saying that famine has always existed, or war has always existed, or disease has always existed, like "oh, I guess I don't have to worry about my life ending because death has always existed too" okay mate.
Wasn't it 76?! I remember getting to the UK in September of 76, and we drove up the M6, the yellowing grasses and dry fields looked incredibly reminiscent of what we'd left in Australia..it didn't get much above 90 d though . ah to be young again 😢😅
Hot!!!!!! I put a jumper on when I got home from work at night.
How did people cope over 100 years ago no such thing as a climate crisis then.
Less technology. Duh. 🙄
95 degrees Fahrenheit as a high is sweater weather here.
Please leave us to take responsibility for ourselves.
Is that since they changed what height to take temperature ,150 years above ground around 600 mm from ground . since 2022 its taken from the solid ground
dam I overslept i have missed it i am sure i can panic next year
I'm still waiting for this so called "boiling". It's a yellow alert, it's a yellow alert. Damn I have to change the light bulb from red to yellow.
Can't King Chuck make a royal decree or some kingly such thing??
Yes, we need some rain
Your channel. Censored me. It has been over 32 Celsius in Central Ontario , Canada
What do you suggest about existing houses?🇺🇸
Have the polar ice caps melted yet and are the Maldives under water yet, should we start bringing wild animals in from Africa, Lions, Hyenas, Wild Dogs, we just can't leave them down there to die if the planet is getting warmer
Look at how man made climate change affects temperatures on Mars, Jupiter and Venus..... Oh wait🤨
Gosh! I hope you all manage to survive....
BBC› news › uk-...
Wennington wildfire probably started in back garden - report
Jul 13, 2023 - A London Fire Brigade investigation has concluded the Wennington wildfire was likely to have started in a garden
Fire Brigades Union › news › l...
London wildfire response failures were "negligence driven by cuts"
Jul 10, 2023 - London wildfire response failures were "negligence driven by cuts". July 10, 2023. Aerial view of Wennington in aftermath of 2022 fire
Install air. Conditioning.
Open windows
What heatwave? All the 23 degrees?
It is August. It is called 'summer'. Get a fan.
😂😂😂 did I miss it 😂😂 two days of sun 🌞
25 Celsius is 77 f
How come they don't go to India or Pakistan or India or China I can keep going but it's okay stay in Great Britain God help you if you ever traveled you would see the same pollution that I cannot believe I've seen and yes I hope everybody can see this because I know I'm right I have been there
London is hot but Scotland has had the coldest summer I can remember and I can remember about 70 of them. The sea ice is still there in the Arctic despite the alarmists saying it would be gone by 2013.
Overt la fenestra
Are you serious?? Every summer I endure temps of 45C+, 38C+ for days on end find something else to whinge about. A “heatwave” “tropical night” 🙄 Go to the mall
Reactivity over pro activity that’s our Government😡
Theyve only been going a month.
@@jonescrusher1 6 weeks and counting
@@pauloakes5718 😂
Hahahahahahaha UK heatwave. Talking about creating panic out of nothing😂😂😂
from Australia: huh?
Very few british homes have a thermal barrier under the ceiling... Which means that it will absorb heat during the day... and only a few windows that open. We in the southern US would never build like that... and I presume Australia is the same, because it would cause our homes to pass 40° by mid spring.
Come over, see how you cope
@@jonescrusher1 no it's too cold lol
Yeah but their houses aren't built for it. My house doesn't get over 30 in the living room when it's 43 outside. Show me a house in the UK than can keep itself 13 degrees cooler inside than out in a heat wave and I'll show you someone living in a walk-in freezer.
34⁰C? Lol🇦🇺
Ololol @ brits losing their mind over 25 degrees.. That's a cool Summer evening in the tropics
More climate histeria 😂
*hysteria
93 degrees. 😂
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Jesus! Can't we cope with anything in Britain any more. One day of hit weather and it's top news and everyone has another reason to panic and collapse into fits of anxiety. I don't think that climate change ( a couple if gegrees of change, wow!) wil, bebthe end of Britain, natural selection will ensure that we all expure from anxieties over every little thing!!
What an expert, apparently ONE HOT DAY, YES ONE DAY, counts as a heatwave, utter balderdash and shame on Times Radio for sensationalist reporting of a non-event.
One day? More like a hundred years of unending record breaking.
It’s a discussion, who’s not coping? You’re the one ranting tbh
Air conditioners are cheap and effective
An inefficient energy guzzler temporary stopgap. Good in a pinch for an individual or family, yet compounding the problem for all in the long term by contributing to rising temperatures.
Not in the uk they’re not
@@Ofasia777 you can always produce more energy. There's no reason it has to be environmentally damaging
@@jonescrusher1 easy way to fix that
@@tomw.6757That's simply not true, all sources of energy have various environmental impacts, even the "clean" ones like nuclear, wind and solar. Energy transport is inefficient, energy is lost. AC units are inefficient, more energy is lost. Without passively changing building codes to account for the drastic incoming changes they are even more wasteful than they need to be.
We arent getting mote extreme weather events. You are lying to your audience.
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Climate has always even changing Watch. Dr. Judith Curry and get educated. Please
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