yesterday a friend told me I should keep doors and windows shut in hot weather, she says that I am letting in the heat and whirling it round with my fans, its my first thought on a hot day, to open up and let out stale air and let in fresh, I can't bear to not have them open, who's right?
open windows to allow movement of air. If you live in a two storey house, open bedroom windows to allow hot air to rise and escape, drawing in air downstairs. Close loose curtains or blinds over open windows to keep out the sun.
Its easy to check, get a thermometer, close all the doors and windows and see the temperature rise.
If it's 20C inside and 28C outside, open the windows and doors.....and it becomes 28C INSIDE as well. So, close windows and curtains during the hottest part of the day...a fan stops it feeling stuffy.
Or do what I do....shut everything and turn air-con unit to 20C (curtains closed on sunny-side, of course).
The problem with having a cooling breeze blowing through the hous is that although it may be cooling you through evaporetion of perspiration it will be warming the house up on the inside. When the breeze stops you roast. Whre I live it gets up to nearly 40C every August(it has already been up to 37C on 2 occasions). Most people shut everything up during the day, except for the inevitable sceptics..So today it is 30C out and 24C in.
Don't overexert yourself.
Drink a quart of fluids an hour.
I can't see my supply of wine lasting more than another, hic, two hours and I don't want to overexert myself by going to buy more. Perhaps there is a considerate ABer who will drop by my house with, hic, a few crates of plonk...