LiviusBy blocking heat from your home or apartment, you can lower the temperature in your home by a large number of degrees. Which is welcome if you don’t have air conditioning. But how exactly do you do that? Livios Builder site He guides you through the day and offers affordable and feasible advice.
1. Close the windows and draw the curtains
Even if a nice morning breeze seems to be coming in, close the windows on time. Especially if you sleep under the roof. Depending on the orientation of your house, you can open a few windows for a while, but after 9 am it’s best to keep everything tightly closed. It is best to close the curtains to protect them from the heat.
You probably won’t reach the comfortable ideal temperature of your living room (19°C) and bedroom (16°C) during a heatwave, but every little bit helps.
2. Keep it cool under the roof
Do you sleep under the roof? Then the roof insulation actually provides a barrier. But if the sun has been shining on the roof tiles for a long time, you cannot avoid heating the roof insulation.
So how do you avoid sweaty summer nights? By applying sunscreen. Therefore, it is better to quickly equip roof windows with external sun protection. You can install this yourself in no time. Shutters are another option. They block heat, reduce the sound of rain on skylights and are blackouts.
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3. Cover your windows with foil (right)
If outdoor sun protection is not an option, you can look for a cheaper alternative. With sun protection film, you can keep the heat out. Tape aluminum foil to the outside of the windows. UV window film reflects sunlight and thus reduces glass heating. It is best not to use aluminum foil, as the foil can stain the glass.
4. Go for the plants and trees
Plants against your facade or in pots on your balcony, a strategically placed shade tree or group of shrubs, … Your garden can also help make it feel cooler at home. Trees and plants extract water from the ground and let the water evaporate through their leaves. Water vapor naturally pushes warm air upwards. Therefore, greenery in and around your home is recommended. When making your choice, consider soil type and climate change.
Read also: Seven tips for a beautiful and wonderful garden in the summer.
5. Create as much shade as possible
Open your umbrella and point it strategically toward your home. Install outdoor sun blinds or consider patio cover, pergolas, screens, blinds, awnings, outdoor slats or shutters. The more shade or the more you can keep the sun out, the better.
Don’t have time to waste? Then make your own pergola in six steps.
6. Provide “air cubes”
Is it really blowing in the house? Then you can choose a fan. The principle of the fan is that it circulates air. As soon as the heat enters the house, it will begin to distribute warm air. To avoid this, you can place a frozen water bottle in front of the fan to cool the air a bit.
Bonus tip: There are fans with integrated cooling elements, but they do Air conditioner or reverse heat pump Make your home really refreshing.
7. Floor cooling
A quick tip that helps is to pour a bucket of cold water on your patio, in front of your front door or on your balcony. It is preferable to use rainwater from a rainwater barrel or well. Indoors, a cold water mop can help. This way you can provide a little coolness, especially on the windows.
8. Cook ‘Minimally’
Potato gratin, lasagna, steak on a grill pan? It’s all delicious, but that’s how you get the temperature in the kitchen/house. So minimize oven and stove use and cook “to the bare minimum.” Read: During a heat wave you feel more like salads and dishes require less effort, right? It is best to turn off other electrical appliances when not in use because they emit heat.
9. Move your bedroom
Do you find it difficult to fall asleep at night and stay asleep during the hot summer night? Then, if possible, move your bedroom to a cooler location, such as the north or east side of your home. There is almost no sun there, there is more shade and therefore it stays cooler. The bedroom on the ground floor is cooler than the bedroom under the roof, because the heat rises. Do you still have to build? Why not put your bedroom in the basement?
Look inside: Koen Dergent’s bedroom is downstairs, but still flooded with natural light.
10. Night Ventilation: Open everything up
Is the sweltering heat gone and is the sun slowly setting? This is the time to open all windows and any skylights and interior doors. The natural flow of air will ensure that your home is ventilated. Warm air rises and gives way to cooler air. Be sure to close the windows in time in the morning, so that the house remains cool.
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