Those who want to create a good microclimate in their home should take care of this even when the heat is just setting in, and begin the necessary transformations from the windows. The penetration of direct sunlight through their glass can already make the temperature in the room 3-10°C higher. Therefore, it is important that there is some obstacle in the way of such a heat source.
An excellent option in this regard would be blinds. Now there are a lot of their varieties - including those that are installed on each window sash separately, without preventing them from opening for ventilation. Blinds should be kept closed at all times while the sun is shining through the window. For rooms facing east, this will be the first half of the day, and for rooms facing west, it will be the second half.
If it is difficult to find funds for blinds, you should at least purchase a special reflective film and stick it directly on the glass. This is usually done with a spray bottle and plain water. The purchase of such a film will not be noticeable for the budget, but in terms of cooling, the effect of it will be felt immediately. To enhance it, it is also necessary to close the curtains in the morning, before the sun has time to heat the room. It won't be very light, but it will be cool.
Down with hidden heaters!
Since Soviet times, some Russians have had a certain reverence for carpets, which were then considered a sign of a certain wealth in the family. However, in the summer, it is better to roll up such woolen products and hide them away. They are real enemies of coolness because they accumulate heat on the floor or walls. It's great in winter cold, but not in the heat.
It is also not a sin to turn off electrical appliances that are not currently in use, since they are also capable of heating the air around them. If you unplug the cord from a TV or computer that is running in the background and has been left unattended by the owners for half an hour or an hour, the room will become a little cooler, and electricity will be saved.
“Correct” ventilation
To create a comfortable temperature in the room, ventilation is also important. However, in order for it to really have the desired effect, it is important to arrange it in a timely manner.
Cool air enters the apartment only at night. During the day, when the sun is hot, only air masses saturated with heat come from the street. Therefore, it is necessary to close the windows and balcony doors almost immediately after sunrise and open them again closer to sunset.
It is not a sin to use a fan to move air. Moreover, floor-standing models are preferable, since they are more powerful than their desktop counterparts. In order for this device to cool the room at least a little, you should place bottles of water pre-cooled in the freezer directly in front of it, under its stream, and periodically replace them with others.
This year's offensive summer makes people a little worried, after all, it’s still fresh in my memory how we suffered from the heat and stuffiness on the sultry summer days of last year. For this reason, many people stocked up on equipment in advance to cool their home. But there are also those who do not dare to buy expensive air conditioners and are still racking their brains about how to cool the room. There are several ways to create a comfortable indoor climate. Let's look at how beneficial they are for our health:
1. Air conditioner. Today you can buy a room air conditioner in any store, but they must be used with precautions. After all, an air conditioner, like any household appliances, if used incorrectly, may cause harm to health. If you constantly stay in an air-conditioned room, there is a danger of developing acute viral infections and exacerbation of chronic diseases. You should not be less than 2-3 meters away from the air conditioner when it is cooling the air.
Air flow from air conditioner should not be directed at people. The optimal air temperature in the room when the air conditioner is running is 20-23? C. Reducing the air temperature below this norm is not recommended, as this can cause a cold when entering the room from outside due to a sharp temperature change. The room where the air conditioner operates must be constantly ventilated to ensure a flow of fresh air. It is also necessary to clean the filters regularly indoor unit air conditioner from dust, this will help get rid of mold and germs inside the air conditioner.
2. Fan. A fan can create a cooling effect in a room by moving air. However, a fan cannot reduce the air temperature; it simply moves air from one place to another. Therefore, if you do not direct the air flow coming from the fan towards you, you will not feel the cooling effect from the fan. Depending on where the fan is located, there are floor, table, wall and ceiling models. Desk fans are best for people who work at a desk.
They are convenient because they can be secure on the edge of the table and create the force of a “home breeze”. Floor fans have higher performance and multiple rotation speeds. More advanced models of floor fans are equipped with a liquid crystal display, ionization function and remote control remote control. Ceiling fans are distinguished by the presence of wide and long blades, which can create very noticeable and powerful air currents.
Minus any fan is that it cannot reduce the air temperature and creates air currents that cannot always have an impact positive effect for cooling. After all, along with air currents, dust that has settled on furniture, walls, ceilings and floors also rises. Dust can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases and the development of allergies. In addition, floor fans are dangerous to place in rooms where children play. In this case, they will definitely want to touch it or put something into the blade, which will inevitably lead to injury.
3. Air ionizers and humidifiers. From a medical point of view, excessively dry air in a hot room prevents oxygen from entering the circulatory system. Therefore, in the heat, people’s performance decreases, they become more tired and feel unwell and uncomfortable. Humidifiers and air ionizers are designed to reduce the negative impact of air composition on people's health. They create healthy and comfortable air for breathing. In hot weather, they provide excellent relief for people suffering from bronchial asthma, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular system and allergies. Ionizers and humidifiers are especially necessary in rooms where computers, televisions and radiators are constantly running.
4. Draft. Many people escape the heat by arranging cross-ventilation of the room. However, although this method has a good effect in cooling the room, it can also cause many diseases. Drafts are especially dangerous for people who are prone to colds and have chronic diseases. Frequent consequences of drafts are otitis media, sinusitis, herpes on the lips, acute respiratory viral infections and tonsillitis. To avoid this, open the doors and windows in the room for a quick draft of air, while you go to another room at this time. In this case, the room will be ventilated, and the draft will not harm your health.
5. Independent procedures. You can cool the room yourself. So, a special reflective film will help protect you from the scorching sun through windows that face the sunny side. Stick it on the windows with the sun protection side facing the sun. To keep your room cool at night, close the windows in the morning. Spray the windows, curtains and floor with water from a spray bottle. Hang terry towels at home, after wetting them with water. While they dry, the humidity in the room will increase and the temperature will drop slightly.
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Summer often comes suddenly. It would seem like just yesterday we were wrapping ourselves in jackets, but today the air temperature has exceeded thirty. The season of heat, sweat and suffering has begun. Why suffer? Our tips will help make it easier to stay in a room where for some reason there is no air conditioning. ICE
If you have a fan, you can quickly get rid of the heat by placing two plastic bottles with frozen water. Point the blades at them - and after 5-10 minutes the room will become much cooler. In the absence of a fan, place several open containers of ice around the room. This will help reduce the air temperature by several degrees - although not as quickly as in the first case.
HUMIDIFYING
This method has a short-term effect, but can provide a sense of relief when summer temperatures begin to soar. Pour into a spray bottle very cold water and periodically spray it in the room you want to cool.
Warning: Don't over-hydrate so you won't have to deal with mold later!
A similar effect can be achieved by using an automatic humidifier or nebulizer that produces cold steam.
CURTAINS
Thick curtains that do not allow light to pass through will help protect the room from direct sunlight and prevent the room from overheating. And if you also wet them with cold water, they will give a feeling of freshness and coolness in a stuffy room.
If you're literally melting from the heat, here's a little trick that will make you feel better. Lightly stroke the skin on your hands with your fingertips, causing goosebumps. Do you feel a wave of cold running through you?
FRIDGE
What better way to cool the air than cold-producing technology? Of course, you can’t keep the refrigerator open for a long time, but it will help you escape in a hot kitchen (especially if you decide to cook something).
TEXTILE Freeze sheets or bath towels in the refrigerator and hang them around your apartment. You can keep your apartment cool all day long by exchanging “warm” textiles for cool ones.
WET CLEANING
During the hot season, carry out wet cleaning as often as possible. Wipe the floors, window sills, shelves, doors - you will see that breathing will become much easier.
AROMATHERAPY
Try to deceive the body with essential oils, giving a feeling of coolness and freshness. Place containers of water around the room, dropping 2-3 drops of oil into them peppermint, lavender, jasmine or orange blossom.
ELECTRONICS
You can’t imagine how much operating equipment heats up the air in the room! During the hot summer months, try to disconnect unnecessary equipment from the network - the temperature in the apartment will become much more comfortable.
LIGHT BULB
Replace regular light bulbs with energy-saving ones. Incandescent lamps get very hot, giving off 95% of their heat, which means that in an hour of operation, a 100-watt light bulb can increase the air temperature in a small room by more than 1 degree.
DRAFT
Disperse the stagnant hot air in the apartment with a draft by opening as many windows as possible. And if you install two fans in a room, pointing them at each other, the air temperature in the room will drop by several degrees in a matter of seconds.
What do we usually complain about to city utilities when winter comes into its own? Right, most complaints regarding heating. Often it becomes too cold in apartments, and we start asking utility companies to do something to make the radiators at least a little hotter.
But in the winter of 2016, many regions of Russia experienced a surprisingly warm winter. At times, the average temperature outside the window was ten degrees higher than normal. And utility services do not always have time to quickly respond to such changes.
As a result, many residents of Russia were faced with such a problem as “overtopping” for the first time. This word refers to a situation where heating network employees work too hard, resulting in the temperature inside apartments exceeding all established standards, causing discomfort among citizens. By the way, the normal temperature in an apartment is 22-24 degrees above zero on the Celsius scale. Fluctuations of plus or minus two degrees are considered acceptable. If the temperature does not meet these standards for quite a long time, you can make a fuss with a clear conscience.
The situation, to put it mildly, is atypical for Russia, and therefore few people know what can be done in such cases. And there can be several exits at once. Which one to choose will depend on the specific situation.
The simple way
The easiest way to cope with elevated room temperatures is for those who have a radiator system with flow control installed in their apartment hot water. It is enough to simply cover or completely shut off the water supply to the radiator, and the thermometer in your apartment will creep down before your eyes.
The balancing valve can also be installed on the heating riser. As a result of its complete or partial blocking, the temperature in the home will decrease. Having found best option, you can easily bring the home climate to the required norm.
This will, of course, solve the problem of high temperature in your apartment. However, this is only suppressing symptoms when you can pay attention to the cause of the problem. There is another unpleasant aspect of overheating - every extra degree by which our radiators heat up is money that we overpay for heating.
We complain to all authorities
In order to avoid paying extra money for heating, it is necessary to draw the attention of utility workers to the problem of too hot radiators in the apartments of your building.
First, you should try to influence the situation through your management company. Formally, the residents of the building are not directly connected with the employees of the city heating network, therefore, it is not the apartment owners who should communicate with them, but the management of the management company, which is responsible for a particular building.
If a complaint is written to the management company, but it does not bring any results, you can contact higher authorities, which are the housing inspectorate and Rospotrebnadzor. It is important to draw the attention of officials to the fact that it is hot in the house, and contacting the management company did not lead to any results. It is not a fact that even such measures will be able to quickly solve the problem. Rather, it will have to be resolved due to natural conditions or a planned decrease in temperature in the network. But by doing this, you will show the management company that you do not intend to put up with their dishonest work, guaranteeing careful consideration of your future requests.
There is one nuance in this solution to the problem. It is important that you are not the only one who contacts the management company, and later higher authorities. You need to make sure that the other residents of your home also face the problem of overheating. After all, there are often cases when apartments on the first floors of a house are too hot, and residents of the upper floors complain about the cold, which forces utility workers to work harder. This is how it turns out.
In this case, simply adjusting the heating intensity will not solve the problem - the management company will be forced to carry out work to balance the heating system in the house so that the temperature in the apartments on the upper floors is the same as on the first floors of the house.
Extreme measures
But it often happens that there are no control valves either on the risers or on the radiators in the apartment, and it’s too hot to wait for the management company’s actions and answers from the housing inspections and Rospotrebnadzor.
In such cases, you will have to use “folk” methods. Most popular way adjusting the temperature in the apartment - open windows. You can try to find the optimal solution using this move. This will be much easier to do if you have modern plastic windows with micro-ventilation mode. Such windows leave only a small gap through which cool air enters the apartment. fresh air. This will prevent the apartment from cooling down and the temperature dropping too much.
There is another case - blankets. It is believed that by covering radiators with blankets, you can lower the average temperature in your apartment. The logic is simple: the material from which the blanket is made has a minimum heat transfer coefficient. It will receive heat from the radiator without “giving it away” to the atmosphere in the apartment. The solution, to put it mildly, is not the most reliable, but, as they say, in the absence of fish...
Air conditioner installation- This is an excellent solution to keep your home cool in the summer heat. But it is not always possible to install it. There are several solutions to lower the room temperature in other ways.
Window protection
Through glass, the sun's rays can heat the air in a room by up to 10 degrees. In order to block the path of direct rays of the sun, you can use windows. In order to open a window to ventilate the room, it is not necessary to move the blinds, because to fulfill their intended purpose they must cover the window completely.
A more economical option for protecting windows from direct sunlight is a special reflective film. It is glued to the glass using water and a spray bottle. The effect of the protective film is quite high.
Avoiding additional room heaters
Since Soviet times, many people have retained the habit of using carpets for beauty or to create warmth in winter. But in summer it is better to refuse wool products and store them rolled up. They retain heat well on the walls and floor, so they are not comparable to the hot season. Consider the fact that running electrical appliances also heat the air around you. You should not keep the TV on unnecessarily - this will not only save energy, but also keep the room cool.
Thoughtful ventilation
To prevent the room from getting hot, it is necessary to ventilate it in a timely manner. It is best to do this after sunrise and towards sunset, when the sun is not shining brightly and the air is cool. There is no point in ventilating during the daytime, because only hot air will come from the street at this time.
A floor fan is suitable for creating coolness. Tabletop models have too little effect. For greater effect, it is recommended to place cooled water in front of the ventilated air flow and periodically change it as it cools.
By following these tips, you can create a more comfortable room temperature during the summer season without air conditioning. Then the house will be pleasantly cool, which promotes rest and relaxation.
