(that's a word I learned in college in the 1990s).
One of the things that surprised me in the US is when our scottish friends visit and talk about the tonnage of hay they can make per acre there, but they can't grow corn (due to lack of heat).
Yesterday, I was cold-fingering it in the shop over lunch (which is usually just a matter of moving around more) and it was 21F outside. 41F inside. You get used to this pretty quickly. In the coldest depths here (when it may get once a year for a couple of days below zero F and then around 6-10F during the day), the middle of my shop may get close to freezing. But I've never lost any glue or anything (PVA being sensitive to failure to work after freezing).
I thought about you guys over there, as it'll be mid to high 90s a couple of days next summer and then I'll be groaning about the dewpoint in the shop (mid 70s F in the summer sometimes - which is a real bear, even if the in-shop temp only gets to about 85).
As I was checking the temps yesterday moving my fingers around, I saw that london was 54F. On the bright side (no pun intended), my valley region is one of the least sunny areas in the states, and we still have about 50-60% more sunshine hours per year than london - just need to endure some booger crisping temps a couple of times a year, and some stinky pits temperature about 6 months from then. In the winter here, when you want to glue something, you either have to haul it to another room or make a tent or heat box (Depending on the size). Common when I was a kid for people to put a 100W light bulb in animal housing outside in the winter, and then a blanket across the door. I could never understand why animals needed light all night at a very young age (of course the point wasn't the light). Same with wells, a well house is built over a well and the well head covered with an incandescent light where it exits the well. we can still get those types of bulbs here, but they're special order.
As a kid, I lived somewhere warmer (about 3F warmer on average during the year) and perhaps a quarter of the population locally back then had air conditioning. Now it's close to 100%. We've all gone a bit soft.
What are the crappiest places to have a shop in England? All things considered, where I am is a pretty good place as the local wood supply is just about endless and anyone really wanting to can get a split system and heat and cool a fairly large shop to something workable.
One of the things that surprised me in the US is when our scottish friends visit and talk about the tonnage of hay they can make per acre there, but they can't grow corn (due to lack of heat).
Yesterday, I was cold-fingering it in the shop over lunch (which is usually just a matter of moving around more) and it was 21F outside. 41F inside. You get used to this pretty quickly. In the coldest depths here (when it may get once a year for a couple of days below zero F and then around 6-10F during the day), the middle of my shop may get close to freezing. But I've never lost any glue or anything (PVA being sensitive to failure to work after freezing).
I thought about you guys over there, as it'll be mid to high 90s a couple of days next summer and then I'll be groaning about the dewpoint in the shop (mid 70s F in the summer sometimes - which is a real bear, even if the in-shop temp only gets to about 85).
As I was checking the temps yesterday moving my fingers around, I saw that london was 54F. On the bright side (no pun intended), my valley region is one of the least sunny areas in the states, and we still have about 50-60% more sunshine hours per year than london - just need to endure some booger crisping temps a couple of times a year, and some stinky pits temperature about 6 months from then. In the winter here, when you want to glue something, you either have to haul it to another room or make a tent or heat box (Depending on the size). Common when I was a kid for people to put a 100W light bulb in animal housing outside in the winter, and then a blanket across the door. I could never understand why animals needed light all night at a very young age (of course the point wasn't the light). Same with wells, a well house is built over a well and the well head covered with an incandescent light where it exits the well. we can still get those types of bulbs here, but they're special order.
As a kid, I lived somewhere warmer (about 3F warmer on average during the year) and perhaps a quarter of the population locally back then had air conditioning. Now it's close to 100%. We've all gone a bit soft.
What are the crappiest places to have a shop in England? All things considered, where I am is a pretty good place as the local wood supply is just about endless and anyone really wanting to can get a split system and heat and cool a fairly large shop to something workable.
When that humidity is warmed up to room temperature it gets a lot dryer. It’s generally a dry climate around here year round. Average rainfall is around 10”/250mm. I do understand wet weather as I used to live on the West Coast where the rainfall was 4’/1.2 meters a year.
