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It's hot here
Topic Started: Jul 20 2009, 08:14 PM (601 Views)
Jolly
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kenny
Jul 21 2009, 08:41 AM
I agree.
We do not have their humidity.
True.

I just walked over and looked at the RH. It was 54%.

Inside a climate controlled building... :lol2:
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CrashTest
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if I didn't have AC I'd probably give up on life and become a priest or something.
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musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
Aqua Letifer
Jul 21 2009, 06:30 AM
DivaDeb
Jul 21 2009, 06:28 AM
oh...I would MUCH rather "face nature" in nature than live with the heat indoors during a hot city summer. It's always 20 degrees cooler, breezier and infinitely more manageable under trees near a creek where there is grass around to cool the ground. Un-air-conditioned houses, or worse yet, apartment buildings, are a special kind of hell, much more brutal than camping in the wilderness in August.
True dat.

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Always hotter, always more humid, breezes few and far between.
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musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
Where I grew up and where I live now, AC is a necessity. We didn't have it in Berkeley, nice climate.
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NAK
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CrashTest
Jul 21 2009, 09:01 AM
if I didn't have AC I'd probably give up on life and become a priest or something.
Just because you're an ACist doesn't mean everybody else has to. (Be one, that is.)
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dolmansaxlil
Jul 20 2009, 09:31 PM
not this summer. It's been cool and lovely.
I hate you... Posted Image (Smiley used in lieu of one in 30°+ cloudless weather wearing thick black pants and a long sleeve black shirt with a 350° propane torch kicking heat back into its face.)
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jgoo
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It's hot here today too. And muggy. Will be in the 80s and even a couple of days of 90s for the rest of the week. I wonder if it will continue into next week as well.
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jgoo
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Just checked my indoor/outdoor digital thermometer. It got up to 91.9 degrees today 71% humidity. Currently it's 78.4 degrees with 41% humidity. Currently it's also hotter inside than it is out.
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Steve Miller
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Jul 21 2009, 07:02 PM
dolmansaxlil
Jul 20 2009, 09:31 PM
not this summer. It's been cool and lovely.
I hate you... Posted Image (Smiley used in lieu of one in 30°+ cloudless weather wearing thick black pants and a long sleeve black shirt with a 350° propane torch kicking heat back into its face.)
I once had a building roofed over July 4 weekend. Record heat - 110F degrees +. 12 man crew replacing 20 squares of hot mop and gravel roof - old school stuff.

I was supposed to be supervising but my job settled in to water delivery man - 20 gallons per pallet in 5 gallon Sparkletts bottles that I delivered to the roof by forklift. As fast as I would fill them and hoist them up, they'd send down the empties for refilling.

Never have I seen a crew work as hard as they did.
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Steve Miller
Jul 21 2009, 09:34 PM
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Jul 21 2009, 07:02 PM
dolmansaxlil
Jul 20 2009, 09:31 PM
not this summer. It's been cool and lovely.
I hate you... Posted Image (Smiley used in lieu of one in 30°+ cloudless weather wearing thick black pants and a long sleeve black shirt with a 350° propane torch kicking heat back into its face.)
I once had a building roofed over July 4 weekend. Record heat - 110F degrees +. 12 man crew replacing 20 squares of hot mop and gravel roof - old school stuff.

I was supposed to be supervising but my job settled in to water delivery man - 20 gallons per pallet in 5 gallon Sparkletts bottles that I delivered to the roof by forklift. As fast as I would fill them and hoist them up, they'd send down the empties for refilling.

Never have I seen a crew work as hard as they did.
Tar & gravel must be brutal. Our company limits itself it torch-on SBS material, but we still mop on the base layer. Tearing off the old T&G roof is as close as we get to the stuff, and as close as any of us *want* to get to it.
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Phlebas
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I don't think we've hit 90 yet this summer.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

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Steve Miller
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Jul 21 2009, 09:57 PM
we still mop on the base layer.
You do?

Some of the most spectacular roof failures I have ever seen involved mopped-on base layers. The base sheet can't slip as the roof expands and contracts and the whole roof tears at the plywood joints. I've seen them where you can see every plywood joint telegraphing through the roof.

Maybe its a regional thing - or maybe the new torch-on systems tolerate movement better. It's been a long time since I got much involved in roofing and I'm not up to date on torch-on applications.
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