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cheap tips for cooling down room temperature ......?

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  • 2 years ago

    One of the simplest ways to cool down a room is to make sure that you keep the sunlight coming to a minimum. Close the windows and draw the blinds if there is a window facing the sun and open any windows that are not. Using fans and cooking outside also has a notable impact on internal temperatures. Fans, in particular, can be made more effective if placed correctly to create a cross breeze.

  • 2 years ago

    Open windows at night to cool off the house, close windows during the day.

    Do not boil water for cooking or cook anything. Eat cold foods.

    Dress in cotton clothing, shoeless. If you have long hair, tie it up and off of your neck.

    Use fans throughout your house. The frozen jugs in front of the fan idea you received from another poster is a good one.

    Draw the curtains so the sun does not shine into your home.

    Drink plenty of water.

    If you have a leather couch, line it with a cotton sheet before you sit down.

    Avoid alcohol.

  • 2 years ago

    Freezing a bunch of 20oz bottles or gkind jugs. Put half in a bin in front of a fan keeping small gaps maybe a half a cm between each for air to travel through. Once they have fully melted swap them out with the frozen ones

  • 2 years ago

    Need to know how to cool down a room during brutal temps? We've got a list of tried-and-true tips and tricks, none of which involve an air conditioner. keep a bedroom at the optimum sleep temperature,Wear loose cotton or other natural fabric that breathes.

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  • Lv 7
    2 years ago

    keep lights off, curtains or shade drawn, to keep light out. light = heat.

    update and/or improve your insulation.

    check doors, windows & walls for cracks that might let heat seep in.

  • 2 years ago

    Ensure all your window blinds are shut to keep the sunlight out. Place a fan pointing outward towards the outside to blow the hot air in your house to the outside. Turn off all unnecessary electric devices (e.g., computer, lights, fans).

    Walk outside. If the air outside is cooler than the air inside open the windows so the cooler air can come inside. In which case blowing the inside hot air out with that fan will also facilitate the cooler outside air to come into the house.

    Note on the fans; fans create heat, they only cool you when their wind blows across your skin and accelerates evaporation of your sweat. So you want to keep the number of electric fans down to a minimum. If it's not blowing on you to keep you cool or blowing the hot air to the outside, turn that fan off.

    To cool yourself, not the room, place moist cloth over your forehead and sit in the wind of a fan. The evaporation off the cloth will make that cloth and your head cool. Don't need a big fan (that emits lots of heat); a small one will do just so there is a bit of breeze across that cloth.

    Drink plenty of cold/cool water or water products, like iced tea. Also drink oxidant drinks like Gatorade to replace oxidants lost through sweating.

  • 2 years ago

    air conditioning..... open windows

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hang your carpet from the ceiling and waft it back and forth.

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