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Cooling rooms: three tips for warm and sunny days
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Heat has an impact on concentration and sleep quality. If you are too hot at home, you are looking for help against the high temperatures in your own four walls.
In summer, the temperatures not only rise outside, but also inside, be it during work in the home office or in the evening before going to bed. Not only the concentration suffers, but also sleep. When the heat continues for several days, interior often heats up so that the heat can become uncomfortable. Methods for cooling rooms are therefore required. Read here which tips and technical aids help against the heat.
Tip 1: Close the windows a day
As soon as the temperature is warmer outside, the ventilation does not bring anything against heat, but even contributes to it. So never open your windows in the daily heat, but always in the morning and evening when the temperature is lower. It is important to pull through, it is best to open several windows and doors, this creates a pleasant draft that can cool down the apartment.
Tip 2: Avoid direct sunlight
If you have windows, through which direct sunlight seems to the apartment, you need reflective roller blinds or curtains. Because the sun’s rays heat up heavily. If they cannot penetrate at all, it remains pleasantly cool. Special for this were invented that not only do not penetrate the sun’s rays, but even let them bounce off on a reflective surface. Metallic textiles with highly reflective outside are particularly efficient. Even more flexible can be used practical that you can attach to the window panes as desired.
Tip 3: Technology that helps
Moving air feels cooler, so fans are also popular gadgets to cool rooms. However, fans can only circulate the air that is already in the room, so that it feels subjectively cooler, but the room is not actively cooled and the temperature drops. On the other hand, cool the room actively. Under certain circumstances, however, the devices are not quite quiet at work and cause a permanent sound while they are switched on. If you can live well with it and are sensitive to noise, you can actively cool the room with your own air conditioning system.
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Source: Stern

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