Keeping yourself cool during this heatwave means your home needs to be cool too. Check out 5 ways to keep your home cool…
- Close curtains and blinds during sunny hours
A great way to keep your home cool is by closing your blinds and curtains during sunny hours. This keeps the sunshine out of rooms helping them to stay cool.
It can be more difficult to cool your home down so shielding rooms from the sun is a great way to keep them cool.
- Open windows in the evening/night
Opening your windows during the evening / night helps keep rooms cool. Keeping your windows closed during the day can help keep the hot air entering rooms and heating them up.
- Know how to use your fan
A fan can typically cost between £0.15 – £0.31 for 24 hours continuous use (Energy Savings Trust). While fans don’t create cold air, they create air movement that evaporates sweat and helps you feel cooler. Fans are a great inexpensive way to keep cool. Positioning your fan by a window during the evening or in a cooler part of your home can help the fan move around cooler air to help you keep even cooler!
- Switch off appliances that create heat
While switching these appliances will help you save money, it can also keep you cooler. During the hot weather, if you can, cook with an air fryer rather than an oven as ovens make your kitchen even warmer.
- Extra tip: Improve your homes insulation
While insulation helps to keep the heat in during the winter, it can also help to keep the heat out during summer. This works by keeping outdoor temperatures, outdoors. If you’ve followed these tips and still find your home to be uncomfortably hot, then improving your homes insulation could be an option for you.
Visit the ECO4 Scheme on our website to see how the government funded scheme could help you.
