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| Topic Started: May 27 2016, 08:37 AM (980 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Jun 1 2016, 12:03 AM Post #16 |
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That's a good slogan...if it's TRUE. |
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| haili | Jun 1 2016, 12:19 AM Post #17 |
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It's so not true! Southern Ont. has some hot humid days and nights. I remember living in Toronto in the 50s and 60s and going to sit by the lake in the evening for a bit of breeze. Sometimes there is no breeze here at night and the air is pretty still and stale. I used to take a cold bath before bed time and it worked because I was young and tired from getting up with kids. I can't sleep like that now. It's different a bit farther north and west where there always seems to be a breeze and there are very few nights when it doesn't cool off a bit. |
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| angora | Jun 1 2016, 01:47 AM Post #18 |
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I used to get up around 4 am and read in a cold bath until I had to get dressed for work. I also took midnight walks until the time someone followed me back home on one of them. I sure sweated that night and was grateful to climb to the 4th floor apartment we lived in at the time. |
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| campy | Jun 1 2016, 02:23 AM Post #19 |
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Southern Ontario is on the same level as the U.S. In fact parts of Southern Ontario are farther south than many U.S. cities. I'm talking about the True North . The average temperature where I live rarely goes above 90 degrees F and it cools off at night. The humidity is low compared to cities like Toronto or New York in the summer time. Many Texans make their summer home in Northern Minnesota. |
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| Darcie | Jun 1 2016, 02:28 AM Post #20 |
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That slogan sure doesn't fit my 78 years (76 in Canada). |
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| Dialtone | Jun 1 2016, 03:40 AM Post #21 |
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Every house we have owned has had a basement and a basement bedroom, most times when it was unbearable upstairs, we slept downstairs in the cool and dark. Our present house has central AC, and in SW Alberta you need it in the summer when temps get around 35C. I close the vents to the basement, since when the AC is on the upstairs is kept at about 22C, downstairs it's 18C.. with open vents its about 16C. I don't particularly like the feel of AC, I hate cold air blowing on me as it seems unnatural, but I don't like the feel of a house that is 30C either. |
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| angora | Jun 1 2016, 03:49 AM Post #22 |
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In the early 60s my husband and I lived in a 4th floor apartment in a flat roofed building. That's all we could afford and why I sat in a cold bath every morning until I had to go to work, also unairconditioned. (the Bell business office at Bloor and Yonge) |
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| Dialtone | Jun 1 2016, 04:32 AM Post #23 |
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I spent a couple years working at the Bell equipment office on Adelaide street downtown Toronto (it was nicknamed "The Big House") , lots of AC to keep the equipment heat down, but still pretty warm. |
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| haili | Jun 1 2016, 05:14 AM Post #24 |
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I worked in downtown TO many years ago and we would be let out early in the afternoon when it was hot since that building had no a/c. The packed streetcars were pretty uncomfortable on the way home. |
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| angora | Jun 1 2016, 05:16 AM Post #25 |
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Yes, I worked at an insurance co to make money for tuition. It would have been 1959 or so. None of the building was airconditioned except for the computer floor. The computer took up the whole floor and it was the only floor air conditioned. We used to love to get on the elevator with the computer staff so we could bathe in the cool when the doors opened. Incidentally the only woman on the computer staff was my to be sister in law. |
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| swing | Jun 1 2016, 05:33 AM Post #26 |
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. I don't particularly like the feel of AC, I hate cold air blowing on me as it seems unnatural, but I don't like the feel of a house that is 30C either. My sentiments also. We've lived in this house 28 years. We put A/C in last year ( top floor only) when we put in new furnaces. I run it to cool down the house when temps reach +30, but open the windows when it cools at night. I find the cool air aggravates my arthritis and my legs ache, likewise in the car. My daughter has only one A/C unit for her house in Calgary. It does not cool the upstairs properly. DH closed all the vents in the basement, benefited the lower and main levels only. I think the builder went cheap ( surprise) when it was built 10 years ago. |
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| Trotsky | Jun 1 2016, 08:13 AM Post #27 |
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Balancing Central air conditioning is an art. Lots of trial and error before you get it right. |
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| swing | Jun 1 2016, 11:26 AM Post #28 |
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I think she should have two A/C's or just one for the top level like we had installed. |
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| goldengal | Jun 1 2016, 02:08 PM Post #29 |
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Or a bigger unit. This house is 14 years old, and the original a/c was not big enough in any of these houses. About 6 years ago a new larger one was installed which does a much better job. Here too the vents are closed in the basement. Need to be or I would be freezing. Take care, Pat |
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| wildie | Jun 1 2016, 02:19 PM Post #30 |
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Would the Bell Office that you mention be on Asquith Ave. (one block north of Bloor St) I was sent there for training back in the 60s. At that time I worked in a central office that was air conditioned in order to keep the equipment from over heating! Not for we humans ! Edited by wildie, Jun 1 2016, 02:21 PM.
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