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That's why they call it flat roof disease, tend to leak water easy too, a bad invention - sorry to depress you!

It's ok, the winter aspects I'm well aware of (although it's pretty much isolated in one corner of one room), but hadn't anticipated how the lack of a loft would create such a heat trap in the bedrooms.
 
Our buildings are not designed for this heat. Our roads are not designed for this heat. Our railway network is not designed for this heat. As a Celt I am DEFINITELY not designed for this heat. I would very much like the heat to go away, and the humidity can do one too. It's far easier to warm up a bit when it's cold than it is to cool down when it's hot - I know this because my boss has just looked at me askance due to my request to set up a paddling pool in the office and wear nowt but shorts for the rest of the week.

What strikes me as most unfair is that we had nothing resembling a proper winter. No snow, and it barely reached 0c at any point. I miss proper snow.
 
It's ok, the winter aspects I'm well aware of (although it's pretty much isolated in one corner of one room), but hadn't anticipated how the lack of a loft would create such a heat trap in the bedrooms.
Its just my house insurance ask the question have you got any flat roofs, I used to have one over a bay window in one house I lived in over the years builders or window cleaners use them as a standing platform , and the bitumen cracks also with the heat, and cold it cost me a fair bit to stop it leaking a hot bitumen tar layer over every crack the felt stuff does not work with glue etc , and that's costly, never let any one on it without roofing ladders!;)
 

Its just my house insurance ask the question have you got any flat roofs, I used to have one over a bay window in one house I lived in over the years builders or window cleaners use them as a standing platform , and the bitumen cracks also with the heat, and cold it cost me a fair bit to stop it leaking a hot bitumen tar layer over every crack the felt stuff does not work with glue etc , and that's costly, never let any one on it without roofing ladders!;)

The roof on ours is very sturdy, I've been up there several times. The bitumen is only about 4 years old and in very good nick. If we're still living there we'll probably get that rubber stuff they're selling, but I expect we'll leave in a few years anyway.
 
The roof on ours is very sturdy, I've been up there several times. The bitumen is only about 4 years old and in very good nick. If we're still living there we'll probably get that rubber stuff they're selling, but I expect we'll leave in a few years anyway.
Most roofs are hard to claim for on insurance anyway - Is that Rubber new stuff better then?
 
Most roofs are hard to claim for on insurance anyway - Is that Rubber new stuff better then?

Yeah, much better, as I understand. My insurance has no exclusion for having a flat roof, but that never stopped insurers being asses.
 
Yeah, much better, as I understand. My insurance has no exclusion for having a flat roof, but that never stopped insurers being asses.
Not worth claiming on a house insurance unless its a big claim as any claim even £150 is classed as a claim and boy do you get hammered with a premium of any other insurance if you have claimed by the way three claims in three years =uninsurable!
 

Four hour train journey shortly - wish it would rain heavily now so it's at least tolerable.

Nothing can beat London to Liverpool on a hot day on a Virgin train where the air con broke though. That nearly killed me - couldn't get off and wait for a later train either FFS
 
23C today and its winter. Does cool down quickly mind you as soon as the sun sets at about 5pm.
Only complaint about West Oz no dusk, its either freaking blast furnace sun or dark. No half measures here.
 
23C today and its winter. Does cool down quickly mind you as soon as the sun sets at about 5pm.
Only complaint about West Oz no dusk, its either freaking blast furnace sun or dark. No half measures here.

I've got to be in Melbourne by the 13th. All that keeps being said is that it will be cold. 16℃ or so. That's a normal British summer ffs.
 
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