Keeping your house cool, this is one of my favourite methods of keeping your house cool in summer, if you own a car you might have a cover that you use for your car or something to cover your window screen you can put this over your house windows if you have very thin curtains I would not recommend doing this if you have a black cover but shiny grey or just shiny is brilliant to use.
Simple but efficient opening windows at night, now because you have covered your windows it should trap the cool air in but you need to first get this cool air in you can do this by opening your windows at night and your attic door.
Closing doors you don’t do this at night as you want cool air to circulate now closing your doors will allow you to keep cool air in each room now as the day progresses its good to move from room to room. If you have all the doors the heat you produce will be spread around the house meaning you can’t take advantage of your cool rooms.
Turn off as much electrical appliances as possible, at mid day too at least 4 you want too keep your appliances off I would recommend only using one thing in a room if you want to watch TV turn off your computer so try to only have one appliance on in the whole house and if you use CRT TV’s or monitors try not to use them at all they produce the most heat.
So what can you do if you don’t want any thing turned on well if you have kids check out this website Printables 4 Kids or you can go in your loft and blow the dust off some of your board games.
If you have any more methods of keeping your house cool or keeping busy in summer please post your comments.
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