How do you escape the heat?

Setox said:

Man, i just realized i don't recall how summer is, i too used to spend whole days in beach, hiking in mountains, road trips in july, with the car glass wide open, dinning and partying with strangers, now i can't walk away from my AC, wether in house or office. I gotta change that.

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LuckyNow said:

Changing the region to a more northern location for the duration of the summer is the best option

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mancunian said:

To keep your house cool I recommend doing these things which most people do the opposite of as they are a tiny bit counter intuative

If you do not have air conditioning

1. Keep your windows, blinds and curtains closed from early morning to early evening. You want to keep cold air in and hot air out.

2. Open you windows late evening and keep open throughout the night.

So many people leave their windows open during a hot day which makes your house hotter!

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notNewB said:

Keeping your windows closed during the day works when talking about apartments made of brick. Brick walls barely transfer heat and they can keep cool air inside your room with windows closed.

However, this doesn't work for concrete. Concrete doesn't insulate your room as well as brick does. So if your walls are made of concrete and you keep your windows closed on a hot day, you will end up with a personal sauna.

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nakamura said:

cold water + towel
ice cubes + coke or beer

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LuckyNow said:

When traveling and renting housing, you have to deal with different things


From my youth I remember wet sheets hanging indoors.

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• Get a mattress cooler pad. They're these systems that come with a pad for the top of your bed and a miniature evaporative cooler. Trust me, it makes a huge difference when you sleep at night.
• Get a water cooling vest. They work similarly to the mattress cooler pad in the sense that it transfers heat away from your body. They're cheaper than they were in the past, but if you have some sewing and basic engineering skills, you can build this yourself for less than fifty dollars with vinyl tubing, a shirt, some thread, a water pouch, and a small water pump.
• Buy a dual-hose portable AC. My home office gets the hottest out of every room because of the computers, so I still have one of these set up in here that I run alongside the central AC during the Summer. They're portable, so you can take it with you when you move.
• Buy a portable evaporative cooler. If it's dry where you live, these are great, but if it's humid where you live, don't bother getting one. I keep one in my living room, and it also works as a giant fan to keep air circulating around the room.

Zwielicht said:

All right, I have some advice for you.

I live in the desert, and whilst I originally acclimated to the heat here, a medication I take has affected my body's ability to regulate temperature, so I've needed to accommodate myself these last couple of years so I'm not burning up.

These are some things that helped me:

• Get a mattress cooler pad. They're these systems that come with a pad for the top of your bed and a miniature evaporative cooler. Trust me, it makes a huge difference when you sleep at night.
• Get a water cooling vest. They work similarly to the mattress cooler pad in the sense that it transfers heat away from your body. They're cheaper than they were in the past, but if you have some sewing and basic engineering skills, you can build this yourself for less than fifty dollars with vinyl tubing, a shirt, some thread, a water pouch, and a small water pump.
• Buy a dual-hose portable AC. My home office gets the hottest out of every room because of the computers, so I still have one of these set up in here that I run alongside the central AC during the Summer. They're portable, so you can take it with you when you move.
• Buy a portable evaporative cooler. If it's dry where you live, these are great, but if it's humid where you live, don't bother getting one. I keep one in my living room, and it also works as a giant fan to keep air circulating around the room.

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persius35 said:

you can go to the north pole

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