Hot nights

Jem8472

How about this website if you want a cheapish way to keep cool but you have to make it yourself

DIY air con

Rebob

Hubby is used to hot nights married to me! lol

Mustang

I just turn down the temperature of my waterbed.

AussieLass

Jump in a cold bath or have a cold shower.
Don't wear any clothes, ok then just your undies.
Put a damp but not soaking pillowcase over the fan. This will blow cooler air onto you. Dampen regularly as it dries off.
Cool off in the town pool.
Work on your tan and enjoy.

The_Biff

Used to live in Toronto & it gets mighty hot & humid there. Only way I could get to sleep was with a cold wet towel all over me.
If you opened the windows wide, the noise of neighbours air conditioners would keep you awake.

Austin_Allegro

Here's my hints for keeping cool on summer nights:

Keep your windows closed and curtains/blinds drawn if you are out at work during the day. This keeps out glare and seals in the cooler air from the night before.

If you have sash windows where both sashes open, open it so that there is open space at the top and bottom of the window, so that cool air can come in and hot air (which rises) can go out.

Get a lightweight duvet. Take it out of your duvet cover and roll it to one side of the bed. Go to sleep under the duvet cover, then if it gets cold in the night you can just pull the duvet over you.

Put coolbag cooling blocks in your bed an hour before bedtime to cool off the bed.

Fans don't actually cool you down much, but use them to circulate air - so put them near a window to draw in cool air from outside.

Get a full blackout blind or blackout curtains. This will stop the bedroom warming up too much in the morning and will stop you being woken by early morning sunlight (sun rises around 4.30 in midsummer)

If you have a dehumidifier, run it during the day while out at work. This keeps the air dry which makes it feel cooler.

Galtizz

maryb wrote:

Also place a washing up bowl with ice cubes floating in water in front of a fan so that it cools the air before the fan circulates it. Probably best on days which aren't quite so humid as at present (they have very dry heat in Texas)

I remember seeing something (probably in an inventions catalogue) that used this idea. They were selling very small cups that you attached to the fan and filled with ice cubes (there were about 4 cups on each fan) I thought you could probably make one of these using cheap plastic tea light holders fastened on with cable ties. Obviously be careful using water near electricity.

katiepops_2

I used to spray my bottom sheet with a fine mist of cold water before I went to bed - but then I am known to do strange things.

Kate

steam16

Hello this is my first post on this gr8 site. Just discovered the site an hour ago..

Anyway, an old indian man once told me that in old days when there was no electricity, they would make rectangular bags of straws woven together and held by a plastic string or two, then they would hang them on windows directly and pour a mug of water on them... so any air coming from the outside would have to pass through the wet straws and therefore cooling the air...

Straw bags I'm not sure where one could find them but you can hang jute bags in a similar manner and wet them..

Hope this helps

love

steam

HappyIdiotTalk

I can never sleep in the mid summer heat (hey that rhymes!). I think my metabolism generates pure heat rather than energy!

In the summer its not unusual for me to have 3 or 4 showers a day. Including a cold water only shower before bed. But despite having the bedroom window wide open, and sleeping only in boxer shorts under a single sheet (I have to sleep under something), I still get too hot within 20 minutes of getting into bed.

So I'm definitely going to try some of the suggestions here. I might buy half a dozen hot water bottles and fill them with cold water and ice-cubes to take to bed with me... Anything to stay cool!

PS. That expensive cooling spray from boots is a waste of time, the effect last for about 7 seconds! Dont bother with it!