Oh, the bliss of a fan!

Slimswim When you use your portable AC, do you have to have the window open?

If you have that many flies in the room TheWeiroAgain60 I think you should investigate - could there be something rotting nearby, eg a mouse?

I just sit in the room that faces North in this house. It's always shaded and it costs me nothing.

Apart from keeping a few soaked flannels around to cool my face and neck, I don't do anything else.

I'm not keen on noisy fans, the boiler getting in to gear and ticking clocks. I am a silence freak!

It works for me.

izzibear

WHAT are snotmonster flies and where do you live, TheWeirdoAgain60??

You took the words out of my mouth! I too was mystified

We've put a fan , actually a small-ish one in the bedroom overnight to make things more tolerable. Because it's small it's not that noisy. Pro-rata its size it's made a real difference.Who knew ??

I've used a duux floor standing, silent tower fan. I like it. But read yesterday in GH that we are using them wrongly..who knew? We should be facing them towards an open window in the morning and evening/night so that the hot air in the room goes out the window. And to place a frozen bottle of water wrapped with a pillowcase in front of the fan. Otherwise we are just circulating hot air which isn't cooling the room. I did it last night and this morning and it did help with cooling.

It's definitely cooler here today and the breeze is cooling, rather than a wave of warm air.
I don't think we'll get an AC unit & our old fan is still doing the job but as others have said, a way of covering the kitchen window (I have clip-in blinds on patio doors, but there's a wide very shallow window high above the sink which I've never felt needed covering before)

I wish we had a small courtyard! A house we looked at had one off the kitchen, surrounded by walls on all sides. So shady. I hate being indoors so much.

We have a very good shark fan. However our house is so very hot, I am thinking of getting airconditing installed in the sitting room, kitchen/dinner and the bedroom, my husband had dementia and is much worse in the heat and I hate the heat. Has anyone had ac installed and if so do you think it’s worth it? I believe the new units are very efficient and can be used as a heater in winter as well.

We have those silly windows where you can only open the very top - which I can't even reach in the downstairs rooms!
I have hung a piece of blackout material over the non-opening part.
Before we had the cats I would have left doors and windows open for a through breeze but now keep the bedroom door shut as one of them sheds so much (and I can't sleep with a cat coming and going at night!)

One of the fans I bought was also a Meaco as a PP said its so quiet you have to have a good look to see if its on. So you can keep it on overnight whereas the air con unit is too noisy for night time.

I have inverter air conditioning for downstairs. Great in the winter if needed fir heat but definitely doing its job in the current heat. Don't need it on all day long, think as it's pretty powerful and cools the whole area down quickly. Just as well as air conditioning is not cheap to run.

For me it has to be an air conditioning unit which we have in our bedroom (we do not move it about) currently 31 degrees in there but it should get down to 18/19 degrees. Fans circulate air but do not reduce room temperature whereas an air con unit works on a refrigeration cycle and reduces the temperature in the bedroom. Definitely works for us!

My cat lies in front of a little fan on a cool mat. She's a fan of a fan!

valdali

I wish we had a small courtyard! A house we looked at had one off the kitchen, surrounded by walls on all sides. So shady. I hate being indoors so much.

That’s exactly what we’ve got, a lovely large courtyard surrounded by walls on all sides.
Sun when you want it and shade when you want it.

Some of you may find this useful...
These cooling products/fans all have the "Quiet mark"

www.quietmark.com/products/certified-products/quiet-air/cooling

Meaco has indeed been mentioned previously. It absolutely excellent. Best fan ever.

Duux whisper flex 2 👍🏼

We bought a portable aircon unit this week and it’s been good enough to bring down the temperature to a bearable level. It’s a bit noisy and the tube has to go out of a window of course.

mernice

No one hasn’t mentioned what I think is a very best fan almost silent… Meaco. Bliss!

I read a which report recently which recommended the Meaco fans

Electrical cut again third time today.

Boadicea shouldn't that be white to reflect the heat out/ away again?

White reflects the heat but black will absorb it and act like a radiator.

About 10 years ago we did a total refurbishment of our house. New kitchen, bathrooms etc, but one of the best decisions was to have a ceiling fan fitted in the bedroom. It's on low all night and keeps the whole room bearable. We have 2 ceiling lights in the living room and I'm really tempted to replace them with fans.

I would not have survived the past week without 2 fans, one up, one down. Ordinary desk fans, I bought one new when we knew the heatwave was coming and it cost £17.
Dog and I have been bored stiff, sitting in front of a fan all day, but we have not been unbearably hot.

The house bricks absorb the heat, so it gets more challenging to stay cool as the heatwave continues. Thankfully it’s cooled down now in mid Wales, but I tried a tip I’d found on the internet, and put frozen water bottles about 6 inches in front of a fan, which cooled down the air blowing out, and it did work, although you need a plentiful supply as they defrost in about an hour.