How are cooling your bedrooms tonight?!

[Cones]

The outside temp is set to remain around 25 overnight.

bedrooms feel like ovens. Besides multiple fans and cool sheets/towels as covers, how are you keeping cool in the bedrooms tonight?!

Crikey where are you?
I'm near Edinburgh and still very warm here. Definitely not duvet weather!

29.7 degrees in our bedroom and it's half 11 at night (Surrey) I will probably be ok, fan on, no covers ,vest and shorts, but hubby won't sleep.

i filled our bath up first thing with cold water and been soaking kids T-shirts and our vest tops and putting them on - amazingly cool. Kept our bedroom window open and fan on but I hate the noise of the fan always wakes me up through the night
. Some great tips I will be trying tomorrow night😩

No, don't. It was a marvel to read!

Got wet top on. Too hot.

Fan on full blast all night. Blinds and curtains closed, window tiny bit open for some breeze. Cold shower before bed - frozen tea towels are a good instant reliever. Frozen “hot water bottle” under the pillow. None of its really helping!

Air con. I also have the dogs so they’re keeping cool too. Dd is fine with the heat 😱. Her room is the hottest and the a/c was for her when she was a baby as her room gets pretty roasting. Window now open everywhere. Red zone.

Sleeping downstairs 😴

I've had the window wide open for a few hours, and my room has 'cooled' from 28 degrees to 27.2 degrees.

It's still 26 degrees outside , so I don't think that I'm going to get it much cooler!

I'm in London, not going to bed yet, pointless trying. I'd rather get a few hours good sleep instead of tossing and turning for hours trying to get to sleep. It's 28 in my room at the minute.

We're sleeping downstairs. Tried the usual advice - closing windows, blinds, etc, fans, creating a cross-breeze etc and our bedroom is still hovering around 30c.

I have a ten week old, so we're spending the night in our slightly cooler iving room.

2 paracetamol to lower temp (I was prescribed this in hospital for this reason when I had to stay during summer a few years back because I can't control my body temp )

A frozen bottle of water on a small table in front of the fan (standing on a towel to soak the condensation up) an old coke, squash or milk bottle will do fine. Do two so you have one in the freezer whilst one is out.leave room for the water to expand a little as it solidifies in the freezer so don't fill right up to the top.

Water spray to keep spraying my face and upper body (only lasts a few minutes whilst it evaporates but it works).

Several cooling towels soaked in cold water and then placed into sandwich bags and then put in the freezer. Within minutes they're super cold. One around my neck and will be draped across my face when I finally try sleep (not knotted or tangled!) and one around my hair like a turban. When they warm up I 'snap' (like the pull pull motion in wind the bobbin up song) them to cool off again. When they warm up for the final time I resoak, put them back in the sandwich bag and into the freezer and take out the other two.

Wetting your hair also helps if you don't have cooling scarves.

Laying on a dog cooling mat with a special pillow sizedone for my head too.

Just before I get into bed for the final time I'm going to shower tepid or lukewarm (not too cold or your body will panic and overreact to warm you up) and not dry myself off properly. I'll soak a short nightie in the same temp water and put it on. It will evaporate overnight (so no wet patch) and helps keep cool. Fan on all night also helps keep cooler as the fan 'chills' the water.

Also keep drinking as annoying as it is to pee frequently and get out of bed to pee. I also use electrolyte tablets in this weather too (hi5 zero ones with a glass of squash)

Keep the curtains and windows closed all day and the windows too as the air outside is not cooler than the air inside until the evening.

I have a medical condition where I can't control my body temperature so sweat profusely all year round. This heatwave is pretty much my normal life, including winter so I'm full of "useful" ideas for cooling off 😂

Kept window, blinds and curtains drawn all day. Will have cool shower before bed. Always sleep naked and have fan on all night. If I get too hot in middle of night I will jump back in shower.

My husband wanted to open the hatch to the attic, but I would rather be too hot than invite all the spiders down and he agreed that all it would do would make me paranoid.
He isn’t British and he is off on one of his rants about why we don’t have fly screens fitted to windows here, as we get moths and daddy long legs in. With those dangly bastards, there is no way I’m having spiders down from the loft too.
plant mist spray has really helped today. I’ve been spritzing all over the place!

@Muffster but you know it's not safe to use fir hot water afterwards don't you?!?!

Our windows are firmly shut as l’m a light sleeper. Luckily, the house has stayed at a reasonable temperature inside throughout the day, despite a 38 degree peak outside.

but you know it's not safe to use fir hot water afterwards don't you?!?!

l’m curious. Why would that be?

After working a 10 hour shift in a kitchen anywhere feels cooler. My DH who works in an air-conditioned office is struggling more than me and will probably have to sleep on the sofa because it's cooler downstairs.

Window is open a tad and I'm not under the covers

In a very well insulated new build 3rd floor flat in London with floor to ceiling south facing windows. Great in the winter, but. arggghh in the summer! Kept all blinds
and curtains shut in my bedroom all day so my room is now an ok-ish 27 : not half as bad as i had feared.

Have caved in and ordered an air con unit for next day delivery, but it had better mean actually next day as in tomorrow and not Wednesday or I’m going to be really annoyed!!

I would be worried to about the fire hazard of leaving a fan on all night

Haven't. Moved downstairs as much cooler. On sofa with dog. Dog covered in wet tea towel. Fan on full blast. Just made popcorn as desperately needed salt.

Aircon- invested in a new portable unit last week so DS could have the old one to share with the dog.
We have had one for the last 20yrs. Worth every penny.
I’m looking forward to work tomorrow, fully air conditioned and will be there from 8-6.30. We invested in aircon 20 yrs ago (dental surgery) because it was unbearable even during the average summer due to the autoclaves we had in the surgeries. We used to get so many patients fainting.

@wobblyweasel @gamerchick & I can't remember who else, sorry.

just don't use the hot water for hot water bottles come the winter or you risk scalds from them exploding or at the very least leaking. Freezing them makes the plastic/rubber degrade.