Take these steps to cool down when temperatures rise
Close drapes or blinds during the day
Keep blinds closed to shield from the sun adding heat to your home. Avoid black or dark drapes to avoid attracting sunlight.
Drink cold liquids
Staying hydrated is the first step that makes the rest of the steps much easier.
Take a cool shower
Possibly the quickest way to cool your body off when exposed to warm temperatures.
Open windows at night
Create a cross breeze by opening a window on the side of your home where the wind is blowing from and one window on the opposite side can create a noticeable cross breeze inside your home.
Run bathroom fan
Your bathroom fan was built to remove heat and moisture quickly after running hot water. Turn on the bathroom fan to exhaust out the hot air.
Run stove fan
Similarly to bathroom fans, stove fans were made to circulate out heat quickly. Running the stove fan can help exhaust out hot air.
Run a ceiling fan
Ceiling fans are great at helping reduce the temperature—they can help a room feel 10 degrees cooler and use only 10% of the energy that a traditional air conditioner does, according to the NRDC.
Unplug unused appliances
It makes sense, right? Anything that needs energy to function generates heat in your home. TVs, computers, phone chargers, microwaves, dishwashers, washing & drying machines are all among the list of things to unplug when it's hot.
Place ice cubes or a cold, wet sheet in front of a fan
This is a basic air-conditioning system that can be very effective in augmenting a fan's cooling capabilities.
Keep doors shut
Shut the doors when rooms aren't used to focus the cooling process in a specific area.
Use energy-efficient light bulbs
Regular light bulbs are not energy efficient, but they produce another problem as well. They radiate a lot of excess heat when they are producing energy. This obviously causes a problem if you have no air conditioning because it is just compounding the problem of heat. Switch to energy-efficient bulbs. They don’t produce as much heat
Hang up damp sheets
Another weird hack for keeping rooms cooler is to hang up a damp or even wet sheet near an open window. This will help cool down the temperature of the breeze as to flows into your room.
Run dryer at night
Although the door on the dryer keeps the hot air contained, the head still permeates the space around the dryer. Bonus points for running high-energy appliances when electrical grid has less demand.
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