How to cool your house during a heatwave

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Millions of Canadians are grappling with high temperatures - and not everyone has an air conditioner. CTVNews.ca spoke with an energy expert for advice on how to keep your home cool during the heatwave.

rather than cold ones and taking hot showers rather than cold ones to help maximize the effectiveness of the fan.

“What that does is it actually brings all of the blood flowing closer to the surface of your skin and it makes it easier for your body to actually reject that heat with the breeze.” “Nature abhors a vacuum, so any air that you push out of the house is going to be replaced with air from the outside, so if you don’t want that air coming into your house, don’t run those fans unless obviously you’re cooking or you need to,” McArthur said.

, awnings over the window can reduce solar heat by as much as 65 per cent on windows that face south and as much as 77 per cent on windows facing west.“The gold standard for passive design is actually to have deciduous trees outside so that they don’t block the sun in the wintertime and they do block the sun in the summertime,” she said.

 

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No AC,? Sit in tub with cool water or cooling showers

Trudeau should buy us all a/c units and stop whining about what we should do to beat the heat.

CTV over here posting like it doesn’t get about 30 in Canada... this is literally the week of summer I always wait for, as it gets to high 30’s low 40’s... every year.. same time... this is my “hang by the pool week”

CTV are about to call the heatwave racist, transphobic and Islamophobic

Ask the top 100 mega corporations to stop pumping the air with 71% of all human co2 emissions.

all the things people already know and do, Thanks CTV! ffs

Lose weight dont eat bugs

I’m just going to leave that here: An air conditioner provides cold air inside your home or enclosed space by actually removing heat and humidity from the indoor air. It returns the cooled air to the indoor space, and transfers the unwanted heat and humidity outside.

69th booster will do the trick. Hurry up to your local pharmacy. 😂

Keeping up-to-date with all vaccinations and having a hair style that allows for proper aerodynamics is the only way to stay cool during the global warming crisis being fueled by the Unvaccinated.

That is just called summer in South Africa.

It is called AC.

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