Aibu to ask how you all plan to cope with the heat on the next few days?

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What are your ideas to cool the room down to get some sleep? We have pedestal fans they are not helping much.

It’s soo fcuking hot!!

I just put a cold wet flannel on my son!

Have a tepid bath before bed, then leave the water in. Open all the upstairs doors and windows. Don't dry off with a towel after the bath. Have fresh 100% cotton sheets

Wear kaftan. Long proper free kaftan. It gets drafty underneath and it's ammmmazing.

My husband swears by hot tea. They drink it in middle east. 🤷

Pedestal fans don't help much imho. They just move the hot air around.

Frozen bottle of water and keep it on your wrists. That's how I survived 40 degrees.

We are in the Scottish Highlands and it’s been 28 at its hottest today. There is a fair breeze so we’ve had all the doors and windows open all day and it’s not too bad in the bedrooms. The poor dogs have found it really hot though.

I've got the windows open and am a bit chilly now. Just about to close them.
I laugh at all this overreaction every year.

You can buy small air con units really cheap

Can you? Where from?

I laugh at all this overreaction every year

You and me both. I've still got the 13 tog duvet on the bed.

Take an ice pack to bed to put your feet on, like a reverse hot water bottle.

I am still wearing bedsocks and have winter duvet on . I do sometimes kick the duvet off for a little while but will then get cold again! I am rubbish at regulating my body temperature

Towel over the back of the chair with the bottom in a bowl of water. Put a fan in front to blow moisture around the room.

My brother suggested putting ice (or an ice gel pack thing) behind the fan, instead of in front of it. He reckons it's more effective than putting in front.

I haven't tried it yet though.

I've managed so far by having the fan on before I go to bed, with the windows wide open, to cool the air before I get up there. I have these www.amazon.co.uk/Oypla-Electrical-Chrome-Standing-Hydroponic/dp/B00NFLF5QU/ref=sr_1_5?s=gateway&crid=1VQFZYLGQUZNE&keywords=oypla+fan&sprefix=oypla%2Caps%2C278&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1563914654&sr=8-5 which are much better than the pedestal fans I used to have.

Another thing to do is to swoosh an ice pack/ hot water bottle filled with cold water over the sheet before getting into bed. Like a warming pan in reverse.

And wet your hair. Works especially well if you have long hair

Ice on the inside. Same as a hot drink warms you in winter. Same principle for ice lollies and icy drinks in the summer.

I lived in a non-air-conditioned house in Sydney a decade or so ago, and the fans weren't much use when it got above 40. I learned to always, always keep frozen berries and juice in the fridge to make smoothies, and to buy bagfuls of ice, and to keep tap water in bottles in the fridge. If you fill and leave on the side for a few minutes with the top off, the chlorine evaporates, and then when chilled it tastes like any other bottled water.

Right now I have two bags of ice, lots of home-bottled water, and about 20 ice lollies in the freezer (Pip ones, and Jude's milk lollies, which are very low in sugar and calories and, as small, come in boxes of six so last a lot longer), as well as frozen smoothie mixes and chilled juice. Lots of chilled apples and satsumas in the fridge as snacks for the kids, too.

I also draw the curtains through the midday on any windows that get full sun, and open all windows I can as soon as it starts to get dark.

Oh, and I can't sleep without covers, either. So I just use a sheet in hot weather.

Close up the sunny side of the house, windows and curtains, and open the shaded side, change this as the sun moves around.
When it got really hot when my boys were very young and living in a hot country, they used to request Christmas snowy movies to watch.
We also eat lots of lollies bonus

A thermos of iced water is really good as a bedside supply at night.

All these people sleeping/ sitting in damp sheets and T-shirt's etc- don't your soft furnishings then end up wet? Surely continued sleeping in a wet blanket/ T-shirt will result in damp smelling mattresses and sofas?

Have sex? I’m a bit reptilian..can only get in the mood if the temperature is hot enough.

It's annoying because it's too hot for covers but without covers you are vulnerable to monsters

Oh shit

Or do as dd2 does and go to bed in full pajamas, socks and a dressing gown as she was cold apparently! She’s on the 3rd floor- it’s roasting

I’m in London and my room temp is showing 30 degrees!

To combat the heat we are going to wear linen, will keep the house cool by closing the blinds and we will likely spend most of our time at the lido in Hampstead and London Fields. There’s also a splash park near me which my dd loves.

Oh and I’ve got a handheld fan for my dd to cool her down.

Stayed inside. All doors and windows open - gorgeous breeze

Take huge pleasure in it: plenty of fluids, loose clothes, stay in the shade and paddle in the paddling pool.

Mid week bbq, late evening cycle ride. I love summer !

Another winter person here... I'm thinking of moving 😂

One got 2 fans on me at night. I'm finding it hard to manage in the day at work to be honest

Hot country tip:

have a shower

Wet the sheets

Direct the fan on to the wet sheets

That is a built in air conditioner

For those of you sleeping in wet clothes...recipe for thrush?