I've just ordered a fan to use in the bedroom during this warm spell. We've never used a fan before, or even owned one. In the past, sleeping downstairs has been our way to keep cool during warm nights.
Might get to use it once before the weather changes.
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You can also use a fan to get cool air into the house in the morning and evening. Wot I do: open windows in the front and back bedrooms and wedge the doors open. Check which direction the natural draft flows in. Amplify it with one fan blowing air into one room and the second fan blowing air out of the other.
In the middle of the day we use Australian rules: close all the windows and close the curtains. When it becomes cooler out than in, it's fan time.
In our first Australian house we slept perfectly well under ceiling fans even when the peak day time temperatures were in the 40s. No air con for us. No need; the humidities were low - desert's edge climate.
Just one of those catastrophic changes caused by global warming. You'll be needing a cold drink soon, or even sitting out in the garden. We can't keep on like this!
We invested in a bedroom ceiling fan a couple of years ago. Not one of those Casablanca ones, a more modern enclosed one. We have not yet had to run it throughout the night (saving that for when it is *really* hot) but we run it for a couple of hours in the late evening to mix the incoming colder air from outside with the bubble of heat built up in the bedroom during the day.
Good thing it’s cool again Monday then.
dearieme - I'll probably try something like that because just opening the windows doesn't make much difference even when the air outside is cooler.
Sam - it was quite pleasant sitting outside with a coffee, but I could almost sense a catastrophe lurking just beyond the shade. Sure enough I realised the lawn needs mowing.
DJ - I like the idea of a ceiling fan but the few we've come across in the past have tended to be wobbly. I'd like a Casablanca one to create a slightly tropical effect, although I'd have to avoid looking out of the window or it wouldn't work.
James - I hope so, we want to get out for a walk.
"Sure enough I realised the lawn needs mowing." Our Bosch lawnmower, of no great age, has died. So much for German engineering. The repair prices we are quoted absurd. (£38 just to inspect it!)
Presumably we'll throw it away and buy a new one. Not our instinct but there you are.
My wife is looking into a cordless one but apparently the battery lasts only a (claimed) 28 minutes. Hmph!
dearieme - our Bosch lawnmower has been very good, if it gave up tomorrow I'd get another on past performance. I'll avoid cordless though. The cable is a nuisance, but I don't see a cordless version hacking through the grass as it was after our recent holiday.
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