Ice box

[jethrien]

At work, I work in one room which is separated by glass from the room most of my colleagues work in. They have the big windows. But I've found the advantage of my side - I'm not freezing.

For months, the other room has been at least 10 degrees colder than my room (and the rest of the office). No one could explain why - the building maintenance guy swore it was all in our heads. Then in the last few weeks (after we'd changed air conditioning units), the air conditioning in the server room started failing.

It turns out that the server room air conditioner is pumping half the cold air...into the room next to mine. No wonder it's always so damn cold! We've been air conditioning it for months.

Of course, they're not sure if it can be fixed...

Comments

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

They should just get a little heat fan. That's what I do at work--it's often too cold in my office, especially in the winter, and not only can I not control the airflow, it's tough given the building design for people who have control to get it right. So I heat my own little office myself, and it all works out. :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The big problem, really, is that the server room is overheating because the air conditioner is trying to cool an extra room.

[katertoticus.livejournal.com]

At my work, when we were having weird temperature fluctuations in our office (divided into 4 cubes), we set up a temperature/humidity meter and plotted out both for a few days. So we knew it wasn't in our heads!

It was a funny situation ... things would be pretty normal until around noon-ish, and then it would get progressively colder through the day and into the night. And our new officemate, poor guy, was really getting it bad because his schedule had him coming in around 11-ish and working into the night, and it seemed to get colder and colder while he was there.

Eventually, we/maintenance figured out what the problem was: the thermostat was in a corner of the room directly above the new guy's computer tower, and he ran his computer really hard, so it turned out to be no coincidence that the air conditioning was trying to make the room colder the longer he was working. We eventually got the thermostat moved, and all was well.

The end.