Working in this heat

[rmaynard]

is anyone else unlucky enough to be inside working during our glorious summer we so deservedly need?
iv been in a greenhouse working in 50+ heat for the last week


going onto nights next week thank god

 

[Sharpend]

I get the sun on my bedroom windows from about 12 until it goes down, tried leaving the blind and windows shut all day yesterday and it wasn't too bad, went out and boiled when I got back. It was then I realised that the kitchen just sucked all the air in, heated it up, then gave it to me.

As for windows, I shut them at about half 11 on Tuesday, and then spent 10 minutes killing 57 little mosquitoes, so they're staying shut haha.

Crumbs next you'll be praying for rain!
bet you're a barrel of laughs on holiday?!

 

[Engineer54]

You're complaining about a few days working in high temperatures!! Been doing that for over 30 years now, 45 to 50+ c is neigh on the norm in most parts of the Arabian peninsula, and not much different in Southeast Asia. As has been said earlier, it's the heat combined with high humidity that's the real killer!! The worst i've encountered is being down in Hong Kong's metro tunnels, ...4 years of it!! . You literally can only go down, in boots, the thinest of shorts and a hard hat, and always come out a good few pounds lighter than when you went in!! lol!!

 

[i=p/u]

Re wiring commercial kitchen and having to pipe and trunk in hardest of places, up through grid ceiling...sweat dripping constantly of end of nose. But even went a cycle tonight after 12 hours at work and 1 hr travelling each way .
Started wearing shirts today with tool belt.. And yes work boots.
Nightmare but getting £3.50 an hour more on this job ...

La la la de da

 

[Kate]

The Lady electricians probably won't agree with that tip.

Ive succumbed to the heat. Been working in a roof. Spent £70 satday on shorts for work. Tried wearing just a hi-vis instead of t-shirt but it was brand new and too rigid...so ive ended up nicking some bf vests. There big but sports bra saves me.

next weeks meant to be even hotter!

 

[Dave 85]

Isn't it strange how we are expected to work in any temperature, but they send office workers home if it gets uncomfortable...

I know right....Life is so unfair for electricians...everyone is out to get us. If only we lived in a world where people were free to choose the career that suited them and weren't just lumbered with one that sees them penalised and picked on at every turn and generally treated no better than animals and all they are able to do to relieve the situation is moan about how unfair it is on the internet. That would be an awesome world....

 

[NDG Elecs]

And! If you're lucky enough to be working in a city centre location the girls wear less clothes.
What's not to like, you miserable gits!

Not just city centres Trev, I nearly crashed my van at The Nook today! And the lass I saw at the park in Shields with the train and pond etc by the amusements last week was a sight to behold!

Back to OP, I was installing a fan light in a conservatory today with new wiring to it so took a few hours.....I found it ironic that I was sweating away installing the very thing that could cool you down! Had loft lights to put in last week, that was no fun either!

But I would love 10 weeks of this weather guaranteed every year.

 

[dan86]

Please enlighten us to what you define cracking weather to be? I note you're in Scotland! The weather man this side of the border says Scotland's wet?

wet?! far from it! this last week, the thermometer in my spare room in the shade hasn't read less than 29!

 

[richy3333]

I'm rewiring a holiday home at the mo, 20 yards from the sea/beach. Watching dolphins, gannets diving. Life just doesn't get better

 

[Engineer54]

In Cyprus, as well as quite a few other Med countries, virtually the whole building trade comes to a stop during the month of July or August, when the Temp' and Humidity are at their highest!! ..lol!!

 

[Sharpend]

wet?! far from it! this last week, the thermometer in my spare room in the shade hasn't read less than 29!

Perhaps he wasn't referring to the weather?

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Swimming room plant room yesterday. Came out looking like i had just been for a swim fully clothed. Went to the Mcdonalds next door 5 (Five) times for a drink!!

 

[Englishman]

Crumbs next you'll be praying for rain!
bet you're a barrel of laughs on holiday?!

I have air conditioning on holiday, and I don't have to get up for work. Makes a big difference ;-)

 

[dan86]

just taken this from in the shade in my spare room.

 

[dan86]

just seems to be going up!

 

[Farmelectrics]

Is it faulty lol