Summer nights made cooler

[Stevi]

Not sure how many of you have tried this, but it has helped me over the last few hot highveld nights:

Put a hot water bottle in the freezer for the day and put in in your bed (under the blankets) to make your bed nice and cool. Also helps with the restless tossing and turning in the heat

Any other ways to keep cool at night besides the conventional fans and aircon?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Get a water feature. Let it run, it'll cool the air down.

Bonus points if you can get it to work with a 12v pump and have the battery charge through the day, so at night it will draw no current except from the battery.

 

[Necropolis]

Not sure how many of you have tried this, but it has helped me over the last few hot highveld nights:

Put a hot water bottle in the freezer for the day and put in in your bed (under the blankets) to make your bed nice and cool. Also helps with the restless tossing and turning in the heat

Any other ways to keep cool at night besides the conventional fans and aircon?

Won't the bottle perspire and make the sheets wet?

 

[ShaunSA]

Not sure how many of you have tried this, but it has helped me over the last few hot highveld nights:

Put a hot water bottle in the freezer for the day and put in in your bed (under the blankets) to make your bed nice and cool. Also helps with the restless tossing and turning in the heat

Any other ways to keep cool at night besides the conventional fans and aircon?

Blankets in summer? :wtf:

 

[Stevi]

Won't the bottle perspire and make the sheets wet?

It does slightly, but not too bad that it soaks them

Blankets in summer? :wtf:

That's for before you get in bed so it traps the cold air in

 

[mister]

Blankets in summer? :wtf:

well spotted. problem solved!

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

I sleep with the sliding door onto the balcony open, but that introduces the problem of mosquitoes Still, easier to deal with the mossie problem than not being able to sleep due to the heat...

 

[LazyLion]

I sleep with a sheet. Sometimes without.
Two fans going.

 

[skeptic_SA]

I sleep with the sliding door onto the balcony open, but that introduces the problem of mosquitoes Still, easier to deal with the mossie problem than not being able to sleep due to the heat...

Oscar? Is that you Oscar??

 

[Rickster]

I sleep with the sliding door onto the balcony open, but that introduces the problem of mosquitoes Still, easier to deal with the mossie problem than not being able to sleep due to the heat...

You have never made a DIY mosquito trap?

 

[Stevi]

You have never made a DIY mosquito trap?

Explain please

 

[Electric]

Oscar? Is that you Oscar??

My thoughts exactly.

 

[sand_man]

I put in an aircon years ago, best money I've ever spent.

 

[seanyp00h]

Explain please

Also interested

 

[mister]

I put in an aircon years ago, best money I've ever spent.

My best purchases:

1) aircon
2) ssd

 

[pinball wizard]

Ceiling Fans in every room works for us.

 

[Hemps]

Not looking forward to the humidity coming our way in Slummies soon.

Going to invest in a ceiling fan above the bed I reckon.

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

Ceiling Fans in every room works for us.

That doesn't work. Just redistributes the heat even more.

 

[Archer]

120mm PC fan + power of some kind. I set the fan to move the air just above me, if it blows directly onto me then I'll get cold around 02h00

 

[pinball wizard]

That doesn't work. Just redistributes the heat even more.

Like I said, it works for us with the windows open. Of course I don't buy into this heatwave piffle, so maybe it's a psychological thing as well.