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[bizzybabe]

Since we're all fighting a battle to keep cool whilst doing our bit to save the rationed energy, i thought maybe we could all share ways to fend off the heat?

Heres my tip which has worked well for me: I can't claim credit for it, it came from a friend, whose house i noticed was so cool! Despite constant power cuts? Turns out she has "wallpapered" her windows with tin foil. The type of foil you use to roast the chicken with, just normal foil from the supermarket really. I stuck the foil up using blue tack, covering the windows from the inside with it. Shiny side facing out. The temperature in the house has dropped dramatically. The sun and heat is now being reflected straight out. It has turned the temperature from something awful to something very bearable indeed!

Anyone else have a tip?

[CBBB]

Since we're all fighting a battle to keep cool whilst doing our bit to save the rationed energy, i thought maybe we could all share ways to fend off the heat?

Heres my tip which has worked well for me: I can't claim credit for it, it came from a friend, whose house i noticed was so cool! Despite constant power cuts? Turns out she has "wallpapered" her windows with tin foil. The type of foil you use to roast the chicken with, just normal foil from the supermarket really. I stuck the foil up using blue tack, covering the windows from the inside with it. Shiny side facing out. The temperature in the house has dropped dramatically. The sun and heat is now being reflected straight out. It has turned the temperature from something awful to something very bearable indeed!

Anyone else have a tip?

That doesn't help the world aluminium shortage!

[Mikiko]

If you have external window shutters then this will block the sun and will keep the house cool . If you install these you may not need an airconditioning. It may be bit costly to install but if you think for the long term it will be worthwhile.

[bill cobbett]

If you have external window shutters then this will block the sun and will keep the house cool . If you install these you may not need an airconditioning. It may be bit costly to install but if you think for the long term it will be worthwhile.

Yes, window shutters are brill for cutting out the Sun, failing those, very heavy curtains lined with a woolly fleecy material (can't remember what that is called).

In the past CY houses were built for the heat of the Summer with such features as small windows with shutters, high ceilings etc ... nowadays too much reliance on air-con.

[juliesewell]

We have external metal shutters and the sun comes onto the front of our house from first thing in the morning until around 1pm. Then we can slowly start to raise the shutters at the front to let any slight breeze into the living room.

Unfortunately, we're in a flat roofed bungalow built of concrete and even with the shutters it isn't bearable inside after 11am. We record temperatures of 35c and above over these next few weeks on a yearly basis.

At night we go to bed anywhere between 11.30pm to 12 midnight and it's rare that the temperatures drop below 30c before we leave the living room for bed. So, we're suffering at the moment.

We haven't used the AC unit in the living room but we do have to put it on in the bedroom at night just to get some respite from the heat for us, our old cat and 2 big dogs.

It's going to be a long, hot summer in Cyprus this year!

[Mikiko]

If you live near coastal areas then you probably have high humidity levels so its not only the sun . Have air fans on around the house so they can circulate the air and not cause this suffocating environment.

[Mikiko]

In the past CY houses were built for the heat of the Summer with such features as small windows with shutters, high ceilings etc ... nowadays too much reliance on air-con.

Yes In the past all houses were built with these shutters but now in order to keep the cost down the builders do not install them and you can see apartments now without them But it is a waste of energy as it requires to have fans or airconditioning on to keep the house cool and at the end you pay on excess electricity.

[yialousa1971]

You can get reflective plastic for windows, this still allows you to see out of the window.

[yialousa1971]

Since we're all fighting a battle to keep cool whilst doing our bit to save the rationed energy, i thought maybe we could all share ways to fend off the heat?

Heres my tip which has worked well for me: I can't claim credit for it, it came from a friend, whose house i noticed was so cool! Despite constant power cuts? Turns out she has "wallpapered" her windows with tin foil. The type of foil you use to roast the chicken with, just normal foil from the supermarket really. I stuck the foil up using blue tack, covering the windows from the inside with it. Shiny side facing out. The temperature in the house has dropped dramatically. The sun and heat is now being reflected straight out. It has turned the temperature from something awful to something very bearable indeed!

Anyone else have a tip?

Don't be so bizzy and you won't get so hot.

[yialousa1971]

We have external metal shutters and the sun comes onto the front of our house from first thing in the morning until around 1pm. Then we can slowly start to raise the shutters at the front to let any slight breeze into the living room.

Unfortunately, we're in a flat roofed bungalow built of concrete and even with the shutters it isn't bearable inside after 11am. We record temperatures of 35c and above over these next few weeks on a yearly basis.

At night we go to bed anywhere between 11.30pm to 12 midnight and it's rare that the temperatures drop below 30c before we leave the living room for bed. So, we're suffering at the moment.

We haven't used the AC unit in the living room but we do have to put it on in the bedroom at night just to get some respite from the heat for us, our old cat and 2 big dogs.

It's going to be a long, hot summer in Cyprus this year!

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