Hot House!

Chris123_2

If you have a fan put it in the window so it can suck in the cooler air from outside. I do this at about 9ish in the evening and have it on full to suck in the cooler air and then when I sleep I put the fan on the landing to move the air around.

Our house is a converted bungalow and upstairs is like an oven at the moment, but keeping the curtains closed during the day (apart form the window) helps a lot, I changed my lining on the curtains from a dark colour to white and they has made a massive difference.

bozzy_2

my house gets incredibly hot too. its four years old and I noticed that the floors upstairs gets really warm from the hot water and heating pipes under the floorboards. The heating is off. what should I do about this. When I walk around barefoot I noticed how warm the carpets are and items I leave around such as clothes are incredibly warm when I pick them up!

Kereveur

We have same problem. We live in a chalet style house and when you walk upstairs the heat really hits you! We have found that installing a skylight has helped enormously. We keep this open during the hottest times but have to remember to close it should there be a sudden thunderstorm!

Mr_Warren_2

Heat rises, we all know this. So try to keep your windows locked if they are double glazed (it works both way) and draw the curtains. Why do you see houses with shutters closed in hot countries. It's to keep the heat out.....unfortunately due to the window design, houses in the UK do not have shutters, some might have plastic rollers that would act the same. Open the windows wide when not in the sun and close them + close curtains when sun comes. Re-open fully at night to get fresh air throughout.

AceCobra

Its typical isn't it.

We complain about the cold then when it gets hot, its 2 hot!

Our insulation is that fibreglass straw looking stuff. Its all over the floor in the tiny roofspace. The eves are finished with plasterboard, i'm not sure whats behind them but I think its just tiles.

We survived as suggested by leaving the curtains closed but leaving some windows downstairs on that semi locked position and the upstairs skylight open. That seemed to cause a bit of a flow upstairs and helped a little.

I looked into swamp coolers but the humidity is much to high, i'll hopefully get some sort of aircon soon.

Cheers.

Martin.