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How hot is too hot to work?

The temperature in Seattle has broken 90!  That may not seem hot to those in Texas but without A/C it gets old after a while.  Since my office is upstairs in a converted attic it gets hot so I moved my office downstairs and have been working from there the past few days.  When it's hot out or in the late afternoon moving my "remote" office downstairs is common.

So, when is it too hot?  Well today I was forced into the basement.  The temperature in my upstairs office was 95 and the downstairs was 89.  It's nice and cool in the basement and with a makeshift desk it's quite pleasent.  I think I'll leave it for a while.

My biggest problem now is that odd basement funk smell.  However, I'm sure it's my kayaking gear that was left at my buddies house in a closed tupperware tub WET for 6 days.  Oops.  Can you get sick from mildew?  Ah, probably not. Wink 

**EDIT**

I grew up in Texas so I know heat.  I've just adapted to the Seattle weather.  90 is only hot when you don't have A/C.
 


Posted Jul 11 2007, 04:59 PM by crakins
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sweltering wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-11-2007 8:44 PM

90? Wuss. Come down and work in Phoenix for a day. Last week it was 118 here.

crakins wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-11-2007 11:41 PM

BUT I bet you have A/C.  I don't!  

I went to dinner tonight and they had no A/C either.  What a drag to eat when sweating.

Rich Mercer wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-12-2007 1:00 AM

I feel your pain Ryan. It's the same here in the summer as we don't have A/C either. The worst of it is at night when it's 80+ in the bedroom and you can't sleep as it's too hot and humid!

James Shaw wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-12-2007 5:51 AM

sure, go ahead and breath in all those spores. Won't make you sick at all :D  (seriously, mold is very nasty stuff)

jon.akins wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-13-2007 8:16 AM

Speaking of basements, our new place is on the basement level and I have only turned the a/c on a couple times. It is for a couple minutes after I get home after riding...and it was in the low 90s last week.  We have awesome windows and a great fan.

Mold and Radon are major health hazards in a basement.  Radon is a radioactive gas and it seeps through the cracks in the foundation.  Luckily, it takes years of inhalation to cause lung cancer.

Ryan wrote re: How hot is too hot to work?
on 07-13-2007 1:04 PM

Man, you guys are scaring me. Radon sounds like a Transformer name or something.

Radon... over and out.

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