i am going to be making what i hope are some last kitchen purchases today, but i also need to deal with the temperature in here. the tenants above me prefer the temperature around 18 degrees celsius, and i prefer it around 28 degrees. it's warm out, and they have the air blaring. i want the breeze from outside, but there's some kind of negative pressure working down here that's stopping the outside air from coming in. it's very weird. it might just not be warm enough out yet, and the gradient might be too small. but, i'm struggling to get the heat in and keep the air out.

if they set the a/c to 25 i could probably deal with it but they seem to want to set it to about 17. as a tenant, there is nothing i can do to stop them from running the air conditioning. the way a/c works is that it doesn't just reduce the temperature to a warm 25 in the summer, but sucks all of the warmth and humidity out of the air, leaving you with a wind chill like a/c effect. 25 in the a/c is more like 19. 17 in the a/c feels like 10 degrees. i can't tolerate this freezing cold and need to find ways to block it from affecting me.

i have a lot of windows in here but a lot of the screens are broken so i need to get some wire. i can just screw it in from the outside. a cross breeze will help circulate warmer air from outside in here and mute the effect of the a/c.

however, the same area in the back that the rats were in is going to be a problem because there's barely anything separating the units. i can smell their food in there, and the a/c is practically on full blast. the insulation blocks a hole to outside but doesn't address the lack of separation between the units. it's blocked with heavy doors and fairly isolated, so the rest of the place isn't so bad, but it's freezing in there.

i'm going to just tape some cardboard boxes up, but i want to get some insulating tape or something to put over the boxes. that's minimally invasive and should work in blocking both the cold and the smell. i can even take it with me and use it to block the a/c in the next place (this isn't the first time the a/c has been a problem). but i need to look into it first.