It’s because you don’t know how to manage it. For a short term, few hot days, the trick is to air all night and shut everything up early in the morning as soon as the temperature starts rising. Your house will trap cold just as well as warm. But British people think that open windows = colder so they mess this up every time. I lived in the UK for the last three summers, in a perfectly ordinary row house from the 70s. It was fine with normal heat management strategies that one would use in eg Germany. Yes, if a heatwave lasts a long time this strategy will start to fail, if you can’t cool properly at night, but it works for at least three days of over 30°.
There’s only so much that can do. I have the silver windscreen things on my windows, foil, white paper. Close the windows and curtains when it starts getting warmer outside than inside. Keep my bedroom door open to encourage air from the cooler part of the house to flow. Maybe it makes a difference, it’s hard to tell. All I know is, even with the door open, the moment I step from the hallway into my room, it goes from mild to hot and stuffy. I’ve tried putting the fan in the doorway facing into my room to help suck the cooler air in, it makes little difference. A spray bottle and fan blowing directly on me is the only way to keep cool. Then in the evening, if we’re lucky, all windows open.
I have a second floor (3rd floor to the Americans) bedroom facing almost directly south.
Also I heard, I think it was on a documentary some years ago, it takes about 2 weeks for the body to fully adjust to big changes in temperature, and we rarely get two weeks of consistency, so we can never adapt. I’ll have to go look up if this is true.
Wow, well, you are doing the right things. Are you sure there’s not some serious heat source inside your room? Gaming PC with a big monitor or something? Being on the south side is obviously not helping but it’s surprising that it’s that much hotter than the rest of the house, which is staying cooler.
Nope, no big heat sources. Just south facing and high up with terrible air flow. Doesn’t help that everyone on our street is turning their lawns into patios and chopping down the trees. Next time we get a heat wave (I think we’re due another soon), I’ll measure the temp difference between my room, the hall and the next door room which faces north. It’s probably only a degree or two, but it feels so much worse.
It’s because you don’t know how to manage it. For a short term, few hot days, the trick is to air all night and shut everything up early in the morning as soon as the temperature starts rising. Your house will trap cold just as well as warm. But British people think that open windows = colder so they mess this up every time. I lived in the UK for the last three summers, in a perfectly ordinary row house from the 70s. It was fine with normal heat management strategies that one would use in eg Germany. Yes, if a heatwave lasts a long time this strategy will start to fail, if you can’t cool properly at night, but it works for at least three days of over 30°.
There’s only so much that can do. I have the silver windscreen things on my windows, foil, white paper. Close the windows and curtains when it starts getting warmer outside than inside. Keep my bedroom door open to encourage air from the cooler part of the house to flow. Maybe it makes a difference, it’s hard to tell. All I know is, even with the door open, the moment I step from the hallway into my room, it goes from mild to hot and stuffy. I’ve tried putting the fan in the doorway facing into my room to help suck the cooler air in, it makes little difference. A spray bottle and fan blowing directly on me is the only way to keep cool. Then in the evening, if we’re lucky, all windows open.
I have a second floor (3rd floor to the Americans) bedroom facing almost directly south.
Also I heard, I think it was on a documentary some years ago, it takes about 2 weeks for the body to fully adjust to big changes in temperature, and we rarely get two weeks of consistency, so we can never adapt. I’ll have to go look up if this is true.
Wow, well, you are doing the right things. Are you sure there’s not some serious heat source inside your room? Gaming PC with a big monitor or something? Being on the south side is obviously not helping but it’s surprising that it’s that much hotter than the rest of the house, which is staying cooler.
Nope, no big heat sources. Just south facing and high up with terrible air flow. Doesn’t help that everyone on our street is turning their lawns into patios and chopping down the trees. Next time we get a heat wave (I think we’re due another soon), I’ll measure the temp difference between my room, the hall and the next door room which faces north. It’s probably only a degree or two, but it feels so much worse.