How are you cooling the house down?

[Toleman]

How is everybody cooling their houses down?

We have aircon in the conservatory which means it's lovely downstairs but roasting upstairs.

We have the bathroom extractor on, a fan blowing towards the window and the loft hatch open but nothings having a noticeable effect.

Anybody have any ingenious ways of dealing with this heat?

 

[Wallace]

Not been in the house much, slaving away in the workshop with all the doors open. Did see the thermometer up to 98F at one point. Was a tad warm when I shut the doors to do a bit of shot blasting!

 

[123hotchef]

open the bi folds at rear and the windows at front get a through breeze

 

[gaz1]

a way ive learnt over the years

keep dark curtains up in one room keep them shut all day also keep door shut

rest of house will cook but that room at night relax in that room as so cool as neighbours loved coming to mine as loverly and cool in winter exact opposite liked in nice and warm

 

[zzr1200]

Tried going out in the garage earlier today, just gave up it's to hot for me. Fan on, windows open, several cold drinks and waiting for Swmbo to come home from work.......

 

[wookie]

We live in an old stone cottage, the walls are vary between 2ft and 3ft thick, it's lovely and cool in here.

 

[optima21]

I normally sleep in the bedroom upstairs at the front of my house, but on the hotter days in summer I sleep in a downstairs room at the back of my house. its 5C cooler there at night.

 

[brightspark]

How is everybody cooling their houses down?

We have aircon in the conservatory which means it's lovely downstairs but roasting upstairs.

We have the bathroom extractor on, a fan blowing towards the window and the loft hatch open but nothings having a noticeable effect.

Anybody have any ingenious ways of dealing with this heat?

yes open the upstairs windows and I use a blower out of a warm air heating unit at the back door it can empty the house of heat in 15 minutes then I use a portable air conditioner in the bedroom

 

[Toleman]

30 up here.

22 down there.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Must have reached 18 degrees here today............

 

[angellonewolf]

put up with it if you let your self try to get cooler all the time you will not get used to it

 

[rikrobson]

leave the windows open till late and cross vent
shame we don't do window air con units here

We'd only use them a cople of days a year up here

 

[Brad93]

Don't know about the house, but it was a bit hot out on site today!

Overalls, boots, full work positioning harness, 30 degrees no shade. The river looked very inviting!

 

[GW8IZR]

one of our friends just told us that their little girl just asked Daddy to turn the warm down! awww :-)

 

[Gwil]

39.5c on my terrace in the shade today after lunch. No humidity though so ok to work in for an hour at a time (mostly in the shade....), then indoors and on with the aircon for a bit. You get used to it. You go native like old guys in the days of the raj, skinny and wrinkly!

If I'm ever in the Uk in winter I'm only warm in the car or the bath!

 

[GW8IZR]

39.5c on my terrace in the shade today after lunch. No humidity though so ok to work in for an hour at a time (mostly in the shade....), then indoors and on with the aircon for a bit. You get used to it. You go native like old guys in the days of the raj, skinny and wrinkly!

If I'm ever in the Uk in winter I'm only warm in the car or the bath!

we have been hearing of big forest fires in Portugal today, I've seen the results of a forest fire here in the uk and it was horrendous to see how it destroyed some structural steel and antenna supports. Hope the risk reduces for you there.

 

[Bullet2012]

Been working today and the lake water was 27c. Home now and as house has been closed up all day it's still 36c and struggling to cool it down, have followed some of the suggestions.
We do like a moan about the weather us Brits, too hot, too cold, too wet, too snowy etc etc

 

[angellonewolf]

the hot weather slows me down thats what gets on my nerves

 

[pedrobedro]

It's been 35° on our back yard today. We put the gazebo up and sat out but opened the house windows. Went in for tea and spent 15 minutes shepherding flies out and closing windows .

 

[doubleboost]

I am going to the states in the morn
It looks a bit toasty out there
At least i am not working