Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Front-loading thermos
Odd observation.... The back wing of this house (about 6 feet by 20 feet) was built as a screened porch, and turned into rooms in 1956. It has a simple leanto roof with no attic, and very little insulation. I close it off from the air-conditioned and heated part of the house, so it gets hot when the outside is hot and cool when the outside is cool.
This morning I went in the laundry room to load up the washer. Outside temp was 62, and the laundry room felt like 70. Normal. I opened up the front-loading washer, and it was HOT in there, probably 85.
Far as I could tell there wasn't any hot water leaking in; no indication of wetness, no overflow. So it must have been acting as a thermos. Picking up heat during the previous 18 hours, and holding it when the room dropped from 85 to 70. Might have been some solar effect as well, because the sun comes in and hits the front of the washer in the late afternoon.
[This was really just an excuse to make a picture with Polistra and friends. I hadn't included them in a while and they were starting to get restless.]
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Far as I could tell there wasn't any hot water leaking in; no indication of wetness, no overflow. So it must have been acting as a thermos. Picking up heat during the previous 18 hours, and holding it when the room dropped from 85 to 70. Might have been some solar effect as well, because the sun comes in and hits the front of the washer in the late afternoon.
[This was really just an excuse to make a picture with Polistra and friends. I hadn't included them in a while and they were starting to get restless.]
¶ 2:37 AM
