The Great 'Ways to keep cool' Hunt

esuhl

I'm quite comfortable in this heat! It's the cold I can't tolerate!

dandy-candy wrote: »

3) I've old fashioned stoneware hot water bottles I've picked up at car boot sales for a couple of quid. I fill them with crushed ice and cold water and put them in with the rabbit and guinea pigs, they lie up against them and sleep. Could be useful for other furry pets.

I don't have pets, but that's a really good idea!

Otherwise, put bananas in the fridge, or even freezer. They turn into an ice-cream smoothie you can peel! So refreshing!

Have a really hot curry, and then an ice cold shower. Or just a curry. I don't know how it works, but the perceived heat of the curry somehow makes you feel cool.

Gloomendoom

We make sure that the windows and doors are kept firmly shut until the temperature outside is less than the temperature inside. We've had 32 outside today but inside it's stayed at 22.

Slinky

karcher wrote: »

One other thing on the money saving side of things:

I turn down the thermostat on my hot water boiler/heater during hot weather. The last thing I want/need is a hot shower so no point heating the water to a high temperature just to drown it out by turning up the cold tap. :cool:

Don't keep it like that for too long, you need to make sure your water hits 60C in the tank to cut the risk of legionnaires disease.

TiredTrophy

If you can hang something outside your window so the sun does not shine directly on the glass it really helps.....pity shutters are not a thing in the uk.
Go and take your knitting and sit under a big tree....often cooler than the house alslo grass is cooler than tarmac so a tree in the park would be nice.
Always carry a parasol or umbrella and wear long white loose clothing.....no vests and shorts....and a hat.
Visit an old church....thick stone walls and high ceiling or any public building with air conditioning......
If it is really hot lie under a damp cotton sheet with a fan running. .(.switch the fan on with dry hands...)....

Here it is at least 30 during the day....today I lay in the river for an hour in a teeshirt, hat and sunglasses....too hot to sleep though.

melanzana

I do what our Spanish and other Southern Med cousins do.

Close the curtains during the day, but keep the windows open a crack like the little holes in the shutters. I have a blackout blind in my South facing bedroom and do this. It is a revelation.

Wet wipes. Open them and drip a little cold water into the pack. Put pack in the fridge. OMG it is sooo good when the face gets sweaty.

A top sheet is a godsend on its own. I haven't used one in years, just change the duvet cover regularly. But it is great.

Enjoy the heat. It won't last. We will have rain soon..... sorry!

karcher

Slinky wrote: »

Don't keep it like that for too long, you need to make sure your water hits 60C in the tank to cut the risk of legionnaires disease.

I didn't know that, thanks for the advice. How long is too long?

caronc

karcher wrote: »

I didn't know that, thanks for the advice. How long is too long?

It's not an issue if you have a combination boiler only if you are storing "hottish " water. However, my understanding it is more of a risk where water is "stagnant" for a period of time so unless you have a very large hot water tank or you seldom use it, I reckon the risk is fairly small.

Gloomendoom

karcher wrote: »

I didn't know that, thanks for the advice. How long is too long?

Due to the amount of chlorine used in UK mains water, the risk of Legionaires is negligible.

If it wasn't, you'd know about it.

karcher

caronc wrote: »

It's not an issue if you have a combination boiler only if you are storing "hottish " water. However, my understanding it is more of a risk where water is "stagnant" for a period of time so unless you have a very large hot water tank or you seldom use it, I reckon the risk is fairly small.

Ah ok thanks. The water is used very regularly so I doubt it's a concern for me.

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

It's not an issue if you have a combination boiler only if you are storing "hottish " water. However, my understanding it is more of a risk where water is "stagnant" for a period of time so unless you have a very large hot water tank or you seldom use it, I reckon the risk is fairly small.

I rented a flat once with a water tank, which I never used. I never heated the water in that tank, never ran the hot tap. I lived there over two years.

I had little to wash up, so always boiled a kettle - and the shower was electric.