How do you cool off your apartment without air conditioning?
Question:I bought 2 fans and I have tried pointing them every postion to get things cooled off and nothing works. Its so hot in here, help!
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One thing I have done for years is to put a boxed window fan facing outward (blowing outside) and opening a window on the cool side of the house just slightly about 1 or 2 inches, not much more is needed. If you open the window too much the fan will not be able to pull large volumns of air. The pull of the fan will create a breeze from the cool side to the fan side. If you have an attic you might consider a whole house fan or a ventalation fan up in the attic ... cooling off the attic will reduce the heat in the house and actually make it as cool as air conditioning.
Open a window during the day (i wouldn't do it at night because you don't want somebody to climb in or something lol)
Opening all the windows.
The wind kicks in and it feels like your at the beach.
Try the old school way of putting aluminum on your windows. It really does help. Make sure you're window blinds are closed, turn off all electronic devices, except of course your fridge.
Fans can only do so much. I would buy a window unit.
Get an block of Ice and place it in front of a fan , that's how they did it in the olden days...
Pray for a breeze and buy a lot of fans. :)
Run around naked.works for me
point the fan outside...this will let out the hot air and make it a little more cooer...
Get a box fan and put it in your window and turn it on high. Once it cools down in your apartment, close the windows, shades and pull the curtains, and keep as many lights off as possible. This will help keep some of the cool air in.
Put some ice in a tray in front of the fan. Change when it has melted.
Try opening your windows and put the fans in front of them.
i was gonna say open a window but that wont work either. by bigger fans i guess
a fan
Take a towel and wet it down (not dripping, but soaked). Hang it directly in front of one of the fans. the evaporative effect of the water will cool the air passing by it. it will only work for a few degrees, but is better than nothing.
Open two windows on opposite sides of the room. Put both fans in one window pointing out so the hot air blows out and this will suck cool air in from the other window.
Also, tape aluminum foil over as many windows as you can to block the light and heat from getting in.
on the fan before going to atleast for a half -hour and open ur windows and wipe ur floor and live it like that only then u can feel good try it.
You're not going to get it any cooler then it is outside. So if it's hot outside, it's going to be hot inside. However, what will help is getting crossflow through the apartment. Basically, pull air in through one window and out through another. The further apart the better. Put a box fan in the window to suck the hot air out is the easiest way, with another window open too.
One fan blowing air in the other blowing air out. And one blowing air through the core of the house to make it so it circulates. Works reasonably well up to about 90 degrees.
I don't think you can if you live in an urban city.
close your blinds (to keep the sun from heating your place) and if you have skylights (windows on the ceilings), open those since heat rises but keep your regular windows closed.
Get a small cloth wet and wring it out and place it over the fan. Make sure it is not dripping wet though. It will act like a mini swamp cooler. It won't do too much, but it will help.
You might want to put tin foil in the windows that get the major sunlight of the hottest part of the day. That really did great for me in a house I lived in w/o air conditioning.
You need to get a cross current going. That is, have two fans blowing toward each other, preferably over a long distance. It does depend on how your apt is shaped, though, unfortunately. Try putting the fans at opposite ends of the area where you spend the most time. And have one of them near a window so that you're circulating fresh air.
Good luck. I hate hot weather and I feel your pain.
Apartments are purposely built to be air tight, at least newer ones are. If it is at all hot outside, or you have an apartment receiving a lot of sun, this will be very difficult. Think about it. How can you cool something with nothing cool around it and nothing generating cool inside?
You can try to open all the windows and draw fresh air in at night and then seal it up in the day, but again, the sun will cook it by noon.
Turn on the A/C or complain to your landlord! :)
That's a hard one. Well, lets see make sure all the binds are closed, the shades and or curtains are closed. Don't have a lot of lights on, cuts off T.V.'s and Radio's all but the one you are looking at. Take a cool shower, wear light to hardly nothing around the house. Drink plenty of cold ice water.
Open your refridgerator.
If you get extremely hot, for a quick solution, run your wrists under cold water. The under area of your wrist contains a high amount of veins that go throughout your body. Cooling down the veins and the blood flowing inside will cool your whole body.
Open all the windows in the day, and in the night have the fan pointing right at you so you can feel the breeze all night. =)
tonight open your window and have a fan blowing in
then in the morning shut the window and cover with dark heavy blankets.
Buy a bag of ice and put it in front of a fan.
keep your shades drawn during the day, in the evening open the windows to let in the cooler air, thin mid-morning shut everything back down, try not to use the stove or oven and unplug computers and other appliances that have exhaust (not the fridge though) basically that is all you can do. you can put a fan blowing out a window to draw the hot air from in the apartment out also. good luck if it gets too hot go to a cooling shelter or buy a small window air conditioner for the room you will be in the most.
When it's hot, close the apartment to heat sources. Close the blinds or curtains. Turn off lights you don't need. Circulate the air with those fans. If the humidity is low, putting a block of ice or even damp furnace filters (<$1) in front of the fan helps.
Find something cool to do during the heat of the day--clean the fridge, scrub down the bathroom in your undies, take a cool shower and dry sloppy, sit in front of a fan with a book or the remote control and a spray bottle of cool water, or go someplace air conditioned.
Once the sun goes down, open up your windows. Set your fan to draw in outside air. Create cross-ventilation wherever possible. If you're on an upper floor with no outside access, leave it this way overnight. If not, lock up just before you go to bed.
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