Cooling Orf

[Bazile]

Did I read some where that in this hot weather the thing to do is close windows and draw curtains to keep the heat out ?

[Canary42]

I've found that it tends to work on the first day, but during an extended heat wave like the current event it becomes less effective as the house progressively absorbs the extreme solar radiation.

[davebro]

I keep windows & curtains closed on the sunny side & open on the shaded side. Open the windows at night to get the cooler air in.

[zebo]

Windows and doors open of opposite rooms is helpful, as long as you remember to close them when the heavens open as they did an hour ago!

[Buenchico]

From the Northern Ireland Government Services website:
"In hot weather, stay inside the coolest rooms in your house as much as possible. These are probably the rooms that get little sun during the day. To help keep all rooms in your house cool, you can:

> close pale-coloured curtains – closing dark curtains and metal blinds can make rooms hotter ;

> keep windows closed when it’s hotter outside than inside, but open them if the room gets too hot ;

> open windows at night when the air is cooler, but close ground floor windows when you leave the house or go to bed."
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/hot-weather-advice

[jno]

the thing to do is fling open your curtains and bask. It'll be snowing again soon enough.

[sunny-dave]

I have deployed my portable aircon unit - a real one, not just an evaporative cooler.

It means we can have one cool room throughout the day and then open up everywhere after dusk to move some fresh air around.

Gness laughed at me for lugging the thing from the UK when we moved (an aircon unit in the coolest, wettest corner of Ireland, indeed) - and for 28 months she was right - but right now I'm chilled ...

[pastafreak]

I have east and west facing windows. My bedroom is a furnace in the morning, my lounge and other 2 bedrooms verge on grill temps about now. Curtains are closed in all rooms...just a tiny bit of sun for Cleo who basks in it. Silly cat ;)

[ummmm]

My living room has the sun all day. Nightmare.

Add to that that the water pipes go from here to upstairs it's stifling hot and stuffy.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah draw duh curtains
dark room warms more slowly
( old India saw but true if you look at black box physics and Wiens law)

Egypt on the mudhuts - small windows that dont open much

[Peter Pedant]

oh come up to manch
warm enough to go outside
usually you need the garden heater

[dannyk13]

That is the advice given to COPD sufferers in this heatwave.

[naomi24]

Yes, you read it from me. Look at the way they do it in hot climates. Blinds and shutter are closed during the day keeping the heat out.

[dannyk13]

jno//the thing to do is fling open your curtains and bask. It'll be snowing again soon enough.//
That is the exact opposite of advice given by medical experts.I suppose it was posted with tongue in cheek?

[Khandro]

Good lord, what snowflakes you all are, I wondered what you were all talking about & just looked up the temperature today in London & it's a mere 29° I consider that to be a bit chilly.

[carolegif]

I pull blinds down and draw curtains on the sunny side and open the windows on the shady side of the house.
I was told by an Indian boss that the English were mad when it was hot. He said that back in India you shut out the heat like you shut out the cold in winter. Close all the windows and draw the curtains, but they also have shutters too which we don’t have.
We don’t have enough hot days here to warrant air conditioning, although we did in our Spanish home.

[ichkeria]

It is of course.

On the other hand if you know there might be a breeze then open up …
This can be good if a room has got warm and stuffy with blinds etc closed

[dannyk13]

Khandro,it is not the temperature that is the problem, it is the high humidity.From what I remember of by 4 years in Germany the summers there were hot but not stifling.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

The issue for me is that I open my window and then a lot of flies come into my house. I am a bit OCD and I panic at the idea of maggots in the house so I try to get the flies out which costs me lots of energy and I get hot and bothered!

So sometimes I just leave the window shut

[naomi24]

Opening windows in rooms that are in the sun lets the heat in too. Best to close the curtains to keep the heat out, and open doors and windows that aren't in the sun - hopefully to get a bit of breeze blowing through the house.

[Smowball]

I imagine different things work for different houses/locations. I e got every single window in the house open so if there’s any chance of a breeze it will flow through. Venetian blinds on relevant windows are tilted very slightly shut, not closed. Fans on in bedrooms and Mr Smows office on top floor, which is a complete heat trap - it’s horrendous up there!