Hi there, time to share ways to keep your home cool during hot times

So ok, usual ways I use:

  • open everything during night
  • close everything during day
  • external sheets on windows without shutters
  • some curtains to prevent heat from going upstairs

I was also wondering if plants could also help inside, any ideas ?

Share your advices !

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Not disagreeing but none of my kids are at all fat and one is so hot-natured, it’s not always just insulation. One of their cousins, too, she was just never cold and always hot.

    I did always joke with my ex that I was built spare because I am from the hot part of the world, and he was padded because he was from Michigan.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Interesting anecdotes! There’s actually a bit of truth in the last one, I believe. Bodily fat is more evenly distributed in Inuits and even Europeans than it is in, say, west Africans.