It's hot. Are you windows open or closed?

[Slow.Patrol]

Must admit that I am in the windows and curtains closed.

Close them in the morning and then open in the evening when the temperature drops. Our bedroom door is also closed to stop the warm air entering.

I've just got home. The other half has all the windows wide open.

[Puggit]

The science is clear - when it's considerably cooler (early hours of the day), everything open. When the sun starts hitting the south of the house, curtains and windows closed.

Once the sun is low and not hitting the house, and the outside air is cooler than inside, fling everything open again.

[jonysan]

"Fling those curtains wide"

[119]

Tightly closed until around 5am then open for a couple of hours.

AC on.

[paulwirral]

Open on the cooler side , bedroom doors open throughout and loft hatch open

[98elise]

Windows open. My house feels cooler with airflow all day, especially upstairs. If we haven't opened the windows its uncomfortably hot.

[fttm]

Windows and doors wide open here 29C , if the house gets too warm this evening we'll turn on the furnace fan with sends cooler air from the basement up through the vents to the main floor . Not a fan of AC and only use it when temps are early 30s for a few days in a row .

[normalbloke]

Closed. Air con is on.

[s m]

jonysan said:

"Fling those curtains wide"

One day like this a year would see me right…..

[wombleh]

Closed up from early morning until late evening

[Slow.Patrol]

98elise said:

Windows open. My house feels cooler with airflow all day, especially upstairs. If we haven't opened the windows its uncomfortably hot.

Our previous house was Victorian with thick walls. The kitchen was always a good 10 degrees cooler in the summer. It was like having air con.

[119]

s m said:

jonysan said:

"Fling those curtains wide"

One day like this a year would see me right ..

“Throw….”

Pedant/

[T1547]

Slow.Patrol said:

Our previous house was Victorian with thick walls. The kitchen was always a good 10 degrees cooler in the summer. It was like having air con.

That’s like ours. Victorian house with kitchen in the north-facing side of the house. Lovely and cool when the weather’s hot like this.

[White-Noise]

Windows closed ac on. There's a bit of an art doing it without ac but it's just what part of the house is coolest at any given time I find

[Sway]

Three storey house, so it's good at acting like a chimney and drawing air through.

We're happy with heat as long as there's airflow, so windows open on top floor, big floor fan on the landing helping draw.

Windows open, but curtains closed on south side, on ground floor.

Lovely. I've never experienced a time when I've been too hot.

[dandarez]

Sway said:

Three storey house, so it's good at acting like a chimney and drawing air through.

We're happy with heat as long as there's airflow, so windows open on top floor, big floor fan on the landing helping draw.

Windows open, but curtains closed on south side, on ground floor.

Lovely. I've never experienced a time when I've been too hot.

It's not hot anyway, it's very warm. I love it very warm too, certainly over the 'cold'.

Here's a tale. We were in Cyprus about 25 yrs ago, that was 'hot'! 40+ at the hotel pool side.
My wife, me, and our friends all with our teenage kids). We were near the Archbishop Makarios III statue in Nicosia when our friend's son, then 18, keeled over.
We had all been drinking water (free bottles at hotel) but he overdid it, bottle after bottle as he'd read all the stuff about keeping hydrated in the heat.
Long story short, taken to hospital quickly. Parents told he had Hyponatremia.
Sorry, please explain said his dad.

Simply put, he had 'water poisoning' - who knew, eh?

[thegreenhell]

Windows closed and AC on during the day, then windows open and AC off overnight.

[silentbrown]

I made the mistake of putting a thermometer in the loft. Max of 51.5 degrees today.

[geeks]

Windows open in the evening and shut during the day. Blinds and curtains shut on the south side of the house when the sun is up. Ceiling fans run 24/7 this time of year and if it really gets too much we have a portable AC unit but have used it only a couple of times due to the noise

[Blue Oval84]

Windows closed. A/C system on in whichever room I happen to be in at any given point of the day.

Genuinely the best money I've ever spent, because of the solar gain in my flat I tend to use the system every day in summer.