There Will Be No Carpet In My Future Home
August 21st, 2010 | Categories: Life | 4 CommentsIt’s been over 85F in Chicago ever since I returned from Europe which is hot, hot, hot. (Today, thankfully, is a little cooler than it was yesterday.) Actually, 85F is typically rather nice weather if there’s a nice breeze and the sun is out and there’s no humidity. But still, in that scenario I picture myself living in a house with air conditioning. Right now, that is not the case.
The air conditioner in my house broke down the day before I left for Europe, right when Chicago was going through an unusually long heat wave. When I returned home, I knew the air conditioner would still be broken (duh) but I hoped that the Chicago weather would have cooled down at least a little. I was wrong. The weather now is actually hotter than what it was in late July, and I am sweltering in this heat. It is hotter in my house than it is outside. I don’t even have fans to help cool off!
It is disgustingly hot both outside and inside my house (the inside temperature almost hit 90F once, which was only two degrees cooler than the outside temperature; right now it is 72F outside and 85F inside) and I constantly want a bucket of ice that I can plunge my head into. It’s bad enough that I don’t have a fan to cool off with, but about 90% of my house is carpeted. I’ve always thought carpet was disgusting (do you know how much dust gets trapped in there? Unless you get your carpets professionally cleaned, you’re not getting any of that dust out when you vacuum) but it does nothing to help cool down the house. The house I stayed at in Germany had no air conditioning but it had wooden and tile flooring, which did wonders to keep the temperature in the house down.
I hereby vow to not have any carpet in my future home. That, and to make sure I have an air conditioner that won’t break down in the middle of a heat wave!
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Yes! Down with carpet! It’s icky in many, many ways.
I feel your pain with the heat, man. I’m DYING here too. I don’t have AC in my apartment and get afternoon sun and it’s like a sauna in my apartment every day. I sit, and I sweat. It’s disgusting.
Here’s hoping we both don’t die of heat stroke! :P
I converted that temperature to degrees Celsius, and it’s really not all the hot. At least not where I am, I don’t know about Chicago, but they do call it ‘The Windy City’ don’t they? We had it a lot hotter over a month ago, and all you really need is ceiling fan and good drapes to make the heat bearable. (Drapes to shut out the sun).
I suppose air-conditioning makes it a lot nicer though :)
I don’t mind the heat so much as I do the humidity, and the humidity here is AWFUL. Not to mention that my house has no ceiling fans or drapes (no fans at all and only blinds).
As for the nickname the Windy City, that actually has nothing to do with the weather. It’s because of Chicago politics and how all the politicians talk “hot air” (aka a load of crap), which makes the city “windy” ;)
It’s actually the opposite here (today at least, the last few days have been crazy hot). I guess I’m lucky enough that we have central air, which basically keeps the temperature in our house constant. I’ve had to take some pretty longs walks, though, in the last week or so and I considered just lying down on the road because of the heat. I love summer, but not when the weather goes above 30C (I think that’s about 85). Montreal had to set up cooling centers and go check on the elderly because too many people were fainting from the heat.