Hi there, time to share ways to keep your home cool during hot times
So ok, usual ways I use:
- open everything during night
- close everything during day
- external sheets on windows without shutters
- some curtains to prevent heat from going upstairs
I was also wondering if plants could also help inside, any ideas ?
Share your advices !
Hot showers at night or when you’re feeling extremely overheated. Trust me, that’s way better than cold showers. First shower warm, then get soapy, and then shower as hot as you feel comfortable. I do this for over 10 years now and it’s amazing. My theory is that it heats up the body and due to the outside being cooler, it actually cools your body down - albeit 35°C. By the way I shower with ~42°C regular lol
Biologically: being hot all over makes your capillaries close to the surface of the skin expand so you can dump heat into the air quicker
A hot shower raises this above ambient, giving you even better capillary cooling for a while, plus hot water tends to evaporate quicker, taking more heat load with it.
This seems like a really bad idea and a great way to get someone to pass out and die in the hot water
Sheesh there is literally no thing so harmless that some internet rando won’t claim its deadly
Upvoting for visibility, but this seems insane and impossible to me. When I take a cold shower, I can feel the water stealing the heat from my back, because it’s warmer when it hits my legs. It’s crazy.
It’s definitely taking heat away, for me, and I would die if I tried to take a hot shower on a hot day.
I start with a warm shower, like normal, then slowly turn it down until it’s nice and cool, almost cold. But not ice cold. Feel way better afterwards.