With horribly high temperatures predicted for most of the country this week, I thought I'd share a few tips on keeping your home as cool as possible without having to use expensive electric fans.
First, close all windows and curtains on the south or sunward side of your house.
Put up a door curtain if you have one too if you have glass in your doors.
Silver car windsreen Sheild's are very cheap, and you can use these on your house windows to reflect heat out of the room as you would with a car.
Open the loft hatch to allow warm air to rise into the loft, and keep the house cooler.
Open windows at night if it's cooler to allow cool air in, but if you have a house cooler than the outside temperature, this won't work unless there is a good breeze.
Wet sheets hung over the window will cool any breezes that are about even more.
Open an upstairs window and leaving doors open, a downstairs window on opposite sides of the house to create a through draught at night.
Have a jug of water by your bed at night to take a few sips if you start to dehydrate.
If you are using a fan, put a dish of water in front of it at fan level, say on a few books, to evaporate into the atmosphere.
A cool bath, or shower before bed and allow yourself to dry naturaly will cool you down nicely.
Let's use the free energy.
Use the sun to cook with a home made solar cooker..plenty of yt DIY vids, using cardboard, pizza boxes and tinfoil, or old satellite dishes. Great home Ed fun with the kids,
Solar drying of herbs and veg, fruit. perfect weather right now, put away the dehydrator and use the trays to dry things in the sun. I rest the trays on a couple of bricks to allow air flow. Or use cake racks on a baking tray, and a muslin cloth to keep pests off.
Solar shower bags, heat water for washing up, washing yourself etc saving you having to put the hot water on, saving cash..
Charge your phones etc with that Solar charger you only use camping!
Drink water! It's nice to sit with a bottle or two in the cooler evenings, but don't drink during the day. Alcohol dehydrates the body, and you may not notice how dehydrated you actualy are untill it's a problem.
I don't need to tell about hats sunglasses and sunscreen.
Or hang your hammock in some nice cool woodland, and chill out.
Have fun in the sun, and stay safe.
First, close all windows and curtains on the south or sunward side of your house.
Put up a door curtain if you have one too if you have glass in your doors.
Silver car windsreen Sheild's are very cheap, and you can use these on your house windows to reflect heat out of the room as you would with a car.
Open the loft hatch to allow warm air to rise into the loft, and keep the house cooler.
Open windows at night if it's cooler to allow cool air in, but if you have a house cooler than the outside temperature, this won't work unless there is a good breeze.
Wet sheets hung over the window will cool any breezes that are about even more.
Open an upstairs window and leaving doors open, a downstairs window on opposite sides of the house to create a through draught at night.
Have a jug of water by your bed at night to take a few sips if you start to dehydrate.
If you are using a fan, put a dish of water in front of it at fan level, say on a few books, to evaporate into the atmosphere.
A cool bath, or shower before bed and allow yourself to dry naturaly will cool you down nicely.
Let's use the free energy.
Use the sun to cook with a home made solar cooker..plenty of yt DIY vids, using cardboard, pizza boxes and tinfoil, or old satellite dishes. Great home Ed fun with the kids,
Solar drying of herbs and veg, fruit. perfect weather right now, put away the dehydrator and use the trays to dry things in the sun. I rest the trays on a couple of bricks to allow air flow. Or use cake racks on a baking tray, and a muslin cloth to keep pests off.
Solar shower bags, heat water for washing up, washing yourself etc saving you having to put the hot water on, saving cash..
Charge your phones etc with that Solar charger you only use camping!
Drink water! It's nice to sit with a bottle or two in the cooler evenings, but don't drink during the day. Alcohol dehydrates the body, and you may not notice how dehydrated you actualy are untill it's a problem.
I don't need to tell about hats sunglasses and sunscreen.
Or hang your hammock in some nice cool woodland, and chill out.
Have fun in the sun, and stay safe.
