{"id":720733,"date":"2026-07-31T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:33:11","slug":"is-air-conditioning-the-answer-to-unbearable-heat-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720733\/","title":{"rendered":"Is air conditioning the answer to &#8216;unbearable&#8217; heat in the South?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oliver bought his home in 2020, one year after it was built, and said he had heard it had been well insulated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t really any concern about the summers being too hot,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that&#8217;s really what pushed us over the edge is how often and how hot it has been recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tristan echoes this point and says his company, TRS Cooling, has seen a particular rise in owners of new-build homes requesting the need for air conditioning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;New builds are really well-insulated. Which is great in the winter but as soon as summer comes and you have prolonged periods of heat you can&#8217;t get the heat out of the property,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Retained warmth in brick and concrete can push night\u2011time temperatures in urban centres up to 7C higher than the surrounding countryside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the urban heat island effect, and it is at its most dangerous in the early hours, when bodies need cooler air and cannot find it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tristan said that was where air-conditioning is a &#8220;great solution to removing heat from a property&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver bought his home in 2020, one year after it was built, and said he had heard it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}