Summer Home Cooling Tips

Keep your Blinds Closed
The sun shines through your home throughout the day, especially during longer daylight hours and intense heat of summer. By closing your blinds or curtains, this can help deflect sunlight and keep the heat out. This can also help to reduce heat gain by around 45 percent in recent studies. 30% of heat that is not wanted comes from windows, shades, and curtains. You can save you up to 7% on bills by closing your blinds and you can reduce your indoor temperatures by up to 20 degrees. The best investment you could install are blackout blinds as it completely blocks the sunlight. If you are finding the room too dark, you should only close blinds in the rooms that you are using.Invest in a Proper Fan
With the many types of fans to buy on the market, some may be better and perform better than others. Here are some fans that are available to choose from:- Room Fans: Position a room Fan in a place where you will get maximum air circulation.
- Ceiling Fans: Ceiling Fans (Peddle Fans) are a very popular version and can help cool down a room in your home. They can also be costly to run and a bit ineffective in very hot weather. One advantage they have is that they consist of a reversible motor. You can control the direction of the blades, you can pull colder air up in the summer and push warm air down in the winter.
- Whole House Fans: The whole house fan is the most popular, effective, low-cost cooling system for your home. These are larger fans and can be mounted to the ceiling. They perform by drawing air from the open windows in the house, into the attic, where it is then realised through large vents to the exterior of the house. When the temperature drops at night, it will automatically switch off.
Focus on regulating your body temperature better
- Some tips to regulate and cool your body temperature are as follows:
- Stay hydrated by drinking a lot of cooled iced water.
- Cool your skin with a cold face cloth placing on your neck, feet, and forehead.
- Take cooler showers. Shower in the late afternoon or evening time rather than the morning time.
- Wear lighter clothing around the house.
- Eat colder foods rather than hot. Things like smoothies, salads, fruit, etc. This will help keep the temperatures a bit lower than normal. Eat ice cream also. Avoiding the oven or grill as this will heat up your home.
- If you happen to feel a bit warmer at night, have a bowl of cold water ready to dip your feet into.