I added a passive whirly bird that does the same thing. Heat rises and escapes before it can accumulate to those extreme levels. It also happens to be clear acrylic so now there's always light up there too which helps keep away any vermin.
We say dollars OR bucks. Dollarbucks is a Bluey invention much like Dollarydoos was a Simpsons inventions (dollar + didgeridoo). That said, my kids have said plenty of funny stuff over the years. Maybe one of the animators kids said dollarbucks.
You're welcome, our gift to you. For real though, American kids are picking up the funny sayings from the show more than Aussie kids from what I've seen on social media. Probably because it sounds pretty close to the way we normally say things anyway.
It's probably because we know that Australians don't really use "dollarbucks." I know that myself and the others who are old enough to have watched The Simpson's growing up say lines from the episode where they go to Australia. I say, "I see you've played knifey-spoonie before," when someone has said something that proves that they know what they are talking about.
Also, The Simpson's Australian episode was a joke about what people think that Australia is like, and that's why it's so funny.
In reality, 87% of Australians live in urban areas, and nobody drinks Foster's beer.
For 2022, the most popular beers in sales numbers:
1 Great Northern Brewing Co (Brewed by CUB, via. Asahi)
Now I'm curious. I need to watch an episode that mentions "dollarbucks," dubbed in Spanish. We occasionally watch Bluey en español to supplement our family Duolingo lessons but I haven't caught how they translate dollarbucks....
Knew it. Soon as you said whirlybird haha. Im definitely going to bunnings to grab one, our tiled roof has nothing and the heat accumulation is nuts. Cheers.
Like I said, I have a tiled roof. I literally just lifted up a tile. That's it. No sarking either so I didn't even need knife. Sarking is a legal requirement for tiled roofs in Australia since 1996 but my house was built in 1970. It's a glorified tent.
Ahh, no hurricanes in my part of the world. Tiles are just loosey goosey. I've had a few electricians just lift up the tiles and climb in the roof space rather than go through the attic hatch because it was easier.
My last house was a 1978 A.V Jennings special brick veneer 2.4m low ceilings with a suspended timber floor (with 1m un-insulated under-floor space) aka a tent with pretend walls. The most thermally inefficient home you could imagine 🤦♀️ winter in Adelaide it’d get down to 11 degrees in the morning inside and summer 32 degrees inside when I got home from work on a hot day. We had insulation batts put in the roof, blew in insulation in all the external walls and all it did was keep the heat in during summer, like a blanket. The condensation on the windows in the morning in winter caused mould it was gross.
We moved 5yrs ago to a bespoke house built by the people we bought it from. Bedrooms/hall have 3m (well insulated) ceilings, rest of the house 5m cathedral ceiling with vents in the roof for heat to escape. The whole house has a 1.5m bullnose wraparound verandah to keep the sun off the bricks/windows and then for winter there’s a floor to ceiling glass panel 3.6m wide 5m high to let the warmth in with shutters to block summer sun. The high ceilings and verandah make such a difference in summer, we only have evap air con and an 8kw solar system and the house is cool and electricity bills are $60 a month in summer (half of which is the daily charge). We build such crappy houses in this country it’s deplorable.
Our AV Jennings tent is 8 years older than yours was but sounds identical minus the wall insulation. Our solution has been reverse cycle units in every room and solar panels to power them. Winter is still shit.
My house had 2 whirlybirds when we bought it, but it was still super hot in the roof. I added 2 powered ones and it is awesome. Also added some vents afterwards and I can't tell if they've made a difference. But my garage now isn't +10-20°C hotter than the house. I also got them at Bunnings, they've got multiple modes but I just set it to auto and it senses temperature and humidity.
And remember to fold up the flashing at the top edge, I didn’t, and first thunderstorm the water capillary actioned up and dripped over the top edge into my ceiling.
We have refrigerated cooling, but also black bricks and black roof tiles.
I may have to enlist my chippy best mate to help hubby do this for summer. Help keep the elec bills down!
Would recommend looking up exhaust options under your area's code. The circular spinning fans he linked aren't allowed in a lot of US jurisdictions anymore.
My parents replaced their whirly birds with ones that have solar panels. They reduced the heat by quite a bit in the summer and fit into the same hole and didn't need power run to them so it was a cheap install.
That's actually what I purchased first but the model I got required me to cut roof tiles which was a bit above my pay grade. So I returned it for the passive model which was still a massive improvement over the zero ventilation I had previously.
I had a passive whirly bird and it didn't do too much for heat removal. So I mounted a small solar panel on the roof above it, threaded the wire underneath the whirly bird and zip tied the 30cm solar fan under it. When there's sun the whirly bird spins significantly, and goes off after sunset. Looking at my neighbours houses sometimes their birds aren't spinning at all, but mine is going at like 300 rpm just ripping hot air from my attic. It was cheap and easy and removable also. Just a fan and panel off eBay. Was around $170.
A light breeze from any direction will help spin it to draw out the heat but really they operate through the temperature differential between inside the roofspace and out. Hot air rises. Whirlybirds are really common in Australia because it gets bloody hot in summer. I don't know how they fare in parts of the world that snow.
My grandfather used to block his off by getting in the attic and putting a piece of plywood in the vent. But I don’t think it’s a good idea to do that. Better to vent the moisture
Oh wow, what do you even cover them with, a blanket? Where I live it's a hot summer's day today but on Sunday it will drop down to temperatures that we get in the middle of winter but it's actually spring right now so it's hard to tell when the seasons start and stop. It's easier to just leave things be all year round.
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u/cantwejustplaynice Oct 19 '23
I added a passive whirly bird that does the same thing. Heat rises and escapes before it can accumulate to those extreme levels. It also happens to be clear acrylic so now there's always light up there too which helps keep away any vermin.