The sun shines from the blue sky and it still has a bit of heating power left but long gone are the hot days of summer and soft warm nights. Autumn is a reality and winter is coming too, forecast just said we might even see snow here in Split next week. That would be a humorous happening for sure. And rare, the previous case of snow was several years ago, but it is still often mentioned and the pictures of those wonders of snow are been showed from the phones to anyone more or less interested.
While the weather is getting chilly it is once again time to dig long sleeves and trousers out of the cupboards. And thick woolen stocks. Cause together with this start of cooler season floors are starting to feel particularly cold under your feet. Our apartment has largely tile floors and they already start to cool off quite badly. The locals use the shoes also inside, but I do not find myself local enough to do that. In our home the shoes are left in the hallway when entering inside just like in any other Finnish home. However, I also found some kind of indoor slippers quite comfortable cause even the thick socks don't really have what it takes to break the cold chain from the floor to the bottom of your feet. Last winter, our apartment in Murter had wooden floors which were slightly warmer but in the coldest days of winter there was a great need for slippers in there too. Now that season has already started here.
Getting and staying warm is, however, a topical issue just now. In this apartment, the only solid heating system is those two air-to-air heat pumps: one downstairs in the master bedroom and the other one upstairs. For example, neither of the bathrooms has any heat source. And when talking about the whole house there are no isolation of any kind which is very typical for houses here. So it is getting rather chilly when night temperatures drop to less than 10 degrees and during daylight it does not get too much over that 10 degrees especially when the bura wind is howling around the corners. When I returned from a long weekend trip on Monday evening, the indoor thermometer in upstairs had 18.5 degrees in its screen and the downstairs was clearly even cooler. So it was time to start up the machines to blow some warm air. That blowing is, however, not a good thing as the air moves a little too much and becomes unpleasant. For the same reason, I didn´t use the air con so much during summer, mostly only so much that Tiuku was more comfortable. Well ok, when the thermometer screamed continuously over forty degrees the cool air did feel good to myself too.
Yesterday we went on to get a relief from the hardware store: a couple of radiators and one small fan to the downstairs bathroom. In the bathroom the fan is convenient not only for heating the room, but most importantly it makes it easier to ventilate the moisture out of the window after showering. The only ventilation system in this house are the windows and it is especially challenging to extract the dampness out. With quick cross-draught it´s easy to get the air inside freshened but after two warm showers there is so much moisture in the bathroom that it does not go out of the small window so quickly. When you have a fan blowing warm air from the floor level, it will help a lot as we already figured out last winter when struggling with this same matter. Our landlord himself suggested this shopping trip to buy heaters, I will just deduct the costs from the next rent. They have some old heaters, but those are consuming so much electricity that getting new ones is more reasonable.
And how wonderful it was to wake up in the nicely warm bedroom this morning and then come to upstairs to cook the breakfast without the draft. Slippers are still needed, but that´s ok.
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