Putting stuff in the Attic...in Texas
 

We've been in this house since October 2020. Back then I didn't know the old lady put a bunch of stuff in the attic. When I found out I about went through the roof. I complained and tried to tell her that those temps are not good for stuff you want to keep. Then took my stuff out and found another location for it.

One of our kids came home from college yesterday and had a bunch of stuff, a bunch. This afternoon, the old lady is up there putting stuff in the attic.

Hopefully it isn't stuff that we paid good money for. I guess I'm going to sit here and bite my tongue and try to make more money to pay for this. SMH

It is sort of like when she 'cleans up' and then I can't find my stuff but it is now better organized and clean.

Edit 1: Last week we had 2 consecutive days over 100 degrees, IN MAY. This week is mid to high 90s every effin day.

I feel your pain, brother.

My wife will put things "away" in a spot nobody would ever logically think to put things. I've found my slides (flip flops) in her wrapping paper closet before. I just don't even try to understand her rationale anymore.

Pro Tip, TX attics are the perfect environment for making Jerky, tell the wife to keep her crap out'a your man meat cave.

Throw it away now, or throw it away later.

My problem is a little different.

Just when you decide to clean off the workbench in the garage and get everything sorted, it magically turns into the dumping ground for everything that there isn't room for in the house.

Got that problem too. A few weeks ago I just brought that crap back into the house.

What's this she says. It's the stuff you just dumped in the garage in my work space.

In the mood for a fight, were we? :eek:

Mrs. Rocket is constantly cleaning up the house. That means putting away things that are mine.

I’m a creature of habit and like to put things in the same place every time (ok maybe OCD). This way I obviously know where to find them. When they’ve been moved, such as car keys or wallet, I either forget them or I’m scrambling to find them.

Truer words have never been spoken! :D

I have a small single story house - with a low slope gable roof. Not much of an attic but it's there.

Used to keep stuff in there like all my Christmas stuff but when I got a new roof I evacuated everything and now it's empty. Most of the stuff I left up there was OK but I just don't like the idea of putting stuff in that kind of environment.

As an aside.....my old roof was asphalt shingles and now it's aluminum (silver) so it doesn't get nearly as hot as it used to.

I have a temperature sensor in there for monitoring purposes.

Amazing the difference from the shingled roof.

I was asking my HVAC guy recently if he ever worries about scorpions in the attics here. He said nothing can live in the attics in AZ in the summer, so it's totally safe.

I once had ski boots stored in the attic for a while before taking them down for an early-season ski trip. When I pulled the first one onto my foot, the entire shell shattered like a potato chip. Second one too. I figured the attic heat probably baked the once-flexible plastic and made it really brittle.

Nothing of any value gets stored up there now...

I just keep toys in the attic.

:)

In the attic lights
Voices scream
Nothing's seen
Real's a dream

(I've heard) the leather dries out and the silicone gets sticky.

I keep toys (like my slot cars) in a 'conditioned' space, much to my wife's chagrin.

:)

Heh heh.

It was building. My garage space on occasion gets messy, like after I'm finished doing head gaskets on the kid's Land Rover and too FFFIN tired to put crap away.

So the answer in her mind (and sometimes verbally) is that it is a big mess so it doesn't matter if things are just thrown into my mess. Problem is when I get ready to clean up for real there is a bunch of extra stuff that has been thrown into the mix.

Like all good Army wives, she has a couple dozen Rubber Maid storage boxes and those have to be put in the garage. Heaven forbid Christmas and other decorations go in the attic.

Right, always put your stuff in the same spot, and you never have to wonder where it is.

She never puts her stuff in the same spot, and we always end up looking for glasses, phone, keys, etc....

I don't doubt that, between the insane heat (that's probably 10x worse in an attic) and the lack of moisture, I would think most stuff would avoid your attics.

I went to the Phoenix area once, I think it was Jul or Aug, for 2-3 days. "But it's a dry heat." Yeah, so is my oven, but you won't find me hanging out in there.

What they fail to understand is we know what everything in the mess is and exactly where in that mess something is buried.

When they add to it they throw our mental inventory off.

After she asked me what the stuff in middle of living room was and I told her it was the crap she just tossed in my AO, she couldn't even remember buying it or putting it there.

But I knew it was stuff she had bought at garage sale for our kid's college apartment.

I had the same attic issue with my wife. I insulated the rafter bays and installed two gable fans, one at each end of the attic. Both are activated by the same thermostat. One fan sucks in outside air and the other blows hot air out. Now it doesn't get hot enough to ruin stored stuff and the house stays a little cooler too.

My wife is on notice not to expect me to store any stuff of hers in the garage unless it is put in the space above the garage. I still haven't got a good answer re. why we are saving the kids old artwork and some of their old clothes.

We stored Christmas decorations in the attic above the garage when stationed in Austin (Bergstrom AFB). Quite a bit of damage after only one year. The candles all melted. The ones that were large and shaped like Santa looked like caricatures (grotesque "evil" Santas) from someone's nightmares. Of course, in Vegas, even the garage was too hot to store much in. It was even hard on the cars, but outside (during the day) was worse.

I was in San Antonio last week. That was the most miserable weather I’ve ever experienced.

I’d take Phoenix heat over San Antonio any day of the week. The humidity is just stupid.

Yeah, it sucks pretty bad. But having lived in DC, I will say the humidity is worse there, which freaks out people that live here as they believe this is the worst.

I put in fans
one in each gable and a blower pointed at the exhaust turbine spinner

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I spent my last 2.5 years of HS in Woodbridge. It was hot and muggy up there. I was surprised when I went down to Tampa, FL for my college orientation. I left Virginia and it was 108º and when I got to Tampa it was just barely over 90º.

I wouldn't think SA would be that humid. I know that Austin usually seems far less humid than Houston, and the one time I was in SA I don't remember it being that humid. And El Paso was even less humid than that. Texas seems to get drier the farther west you go or maybe the farther you get from the Gulf of Mexico.

Hide her ladder

Dude, WTF? Are you off your meds or something? This is the second non-PARFy thread that you seem intent on PARFing up.
That guy is a serious nutter!

The Balcones escarpment is north of SA. The theory I've heard from weather folks is that the humidity rolls up from the Gulf and hits the escarpment then rolls back over SA and the rest of South Texas, sort of like a wave. So it traps the humidity here. No idea if that is sound but it sure feels like crap here so I believe it.

We lived in El Paso for a couple of years. It gets stupid hot there but the humidity is super low so it isn't that bad. If you get out of your car/truck with a sweaty shirt it dries up pretty quickly. Here, not so much...it just gets more sweaty.

We left San Antonio to visit family in Allen (North Dallas) and I couldn’t believe the difference in humidity. Dallas felt close to what NorCal is like. Aside from the fact that just walking in the yard is treacherous with the fire ants, chiggers, and occasional copperheads, I would like Allen. San Antonio not so much.

I walk from my office to courthouse (about 2 blocks in shade) about 8:30am. Lately it has been soupy and I start sweating the minute I get in the building. Yesterday wasn't soooooo bad though.

Today, thankfully was on Zoom.

When I was little
 

My mother had a saying "A place for everything, and everything in it's place"

Don't fight with yours wives, guys, it's useless.

Just wait, the shyte has not hit the proverbial fan up here yet.

The biggest problem with N Texass, the weather is downright biblical. Rarely a perfect day. If it's not torrential monsoon rains during spring it's blistering heat. If it's a nice clear day with moderate temps you've got gale force winds for days on end.

My mother in law recently moved in and coincidentally I’ve been spending a lot more time “putting tools away” in my garage. During the hot summer days my garage can become too hot and uncomfortable to do anything in there. So I decided to install an attic fan to see if it will keep the garage comfortable during the hot summer days.

The garage is drywalled and insulated. On Mother’s Day I installed a gable mounted attic fan. I also put a wireless thermometer in the attic to monitor how hot it gets up there.

Today, 5/13/2022 the peak temperature inside the attic was 122.9 degrees F at 3:00 pm. The outside ambient temperature at 3:00 pm was 90.3 degrees F. A difference of nearly 33 degrees F. Inside the garage it was a comfortable 75 degrees.

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I will be curious to see what temperatures I get when the outside ambient temperature reaches 100 degrees F.