Summer heat making your apartment stuffy?
Difficult to sleep at night and it's not really more livable during the day?
Don't wait until September for a bit of freshness to reappear.
Discover our tips for cooling your home, even during the worst summer heat waves.
Contrary to Julien Clerc's song, "Let the sun in", in summer it is not advisable to let it in, if the heat outside is unbearable.
To avoid bringing in the sun, the techniques, you know them:
- leave the shutters slightly ajar so that a slight current of air is created without the sun's rays being able to illuminate your interior. Fold down the hook on the shutters to prevent them from opening at the first gust of wind...
- leave your windows ajar and close the curtains to block the heat and prevent it from entering your home.
- if the heat is too high outside and the outside temperature greatly exceeds the inside temperature, also close the windows to preserve cooler air. Open the windows at night to let in cooler air.
Once the sun's rays have been neutralized, we need to create a current of air, otherwise the heat would end up infiltrating your home and our trick would not be effective for long.
For this, the technique is to leave the windows of several rooms ajar. Block them with a chair or an old rag to prevent them from banging.
Similarly, block the doors between each room, this will also avoid door slamming which can cause paint chips...
Now that the draft is created and the doors and windows are secured, place a bottle of frozen water on the window sill where the draft is in the room you want to cool.
This simple trick will help you get the heat out of the room.
The coolness of the frozen bottle will cool the warm air coming into your home!
A variant is to place the frozen water bottle in front of a fan if you have one. This will allow you to refresh a room even faster. This is a great trick to cool a room with a fan!
It's practical for refreshing your bedroom in the evening before going to bed or that of your children who will sleep better.
The only problem is that you're not going to leave the fan running all night.
Once you have cooled the room and are going to bed, move the bottle to the windowsill so that the room does not heat up during the night...
To sleep well at night when it's hot, we have a tip for you.
If the heat is stifling. Don't stop there.
The best trick, the icing on the cake, is to hang dampened fabrics across the windows.
The air is thus refreshed with the passage of each current of air. Be careful not to over-soak the fabrics. If you use something other than an atomizer:the water may leak on the ground!
It is an effective method for freshening the air in an apartment.
Finally, last tip, if you like vegetation, you can also install some green plants in your apartment.
Mist their leaves or moisten them with a damp cloth and they will magically spread a bit of freshness in your room. That's some clever decoration!
Have you tried these grandma's tricks to freshen up a room? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!
