Tips on keeping the house cool without air conditioning? Moved from Texas to Western Europe where A/C isn’t common in homes, yet it’s all I knew growing up! Ideas beyond the obvious of keeping shades drawn during peak sunshine and windows open at night?

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Cross air current if you keep your front door cracked open and windows open concurrently.

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Menthol cigarettes

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Buy a portable A/C unit for your bedroom. For cheaper you can get what in the US we referred to as a swamp cooler.

I moved from the US to the UK- you don't get used to it just pay for one.

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Buy a portable fan and suffer like the rest of us.

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Lol, that’s where we’re at right now!

Hang dry your laundry. Makes a difference.

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Live in a house which is built to be cool in the summer. The nice stone buildings cool the air throughout the day, as the stone gradually heats. Then keeps the place warm in the evening. The Greeks worked this out like 4000 years ago.

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ACD1: exactly. The housing stock in America is laughably bad. The concept of ‘punching the wall’ doesn’t really exist in Europe because you’d break your hand.

Ugh, I couldn't live without ac. I know privileged.

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Totally not European, but drink lots of ICE water

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My brick building is an oven during peak sun hours. I’m on the top floor and the sun just roasts it

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Dehumidifier and/or evaporative cooler

look up 'swamp cooler'

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A swamp cooler only really works well if the relative humidity is low. We use a portable a/c unit for cooling and dehumidifier. But the reason it’s not prevalent in Western Europe is probably the cost of electricity is high.

Get a Vornado fan - they actually push air and have higher CFM.

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