Keeping Your Home Cool In Summer: What Can You Do?

While we all love the warmer summer months – think: family beach days, strolls in the park and cookouts in the garden – there’s nothing worse than having to live in a house that just doesn’t seem to cool down. It’s hard enough as an adult being in a house that’s overly hot throughout the summer months, but for kids it can be a real nightmare, especially as it can cause them to become unwell. 

So, what can you do to keep your home cool this summer? Are there steps that you can take to ensure that your home stays as cool as possible throughout the warmer summer months? Below is a guide to the steps that you can take to try and keep your home a little less hot during the summer months, and how you can make it easier for your family to keep cool.

Keep your air con on low 

Instead of blasting your air con on high every so often when your home starts to get uncomfortably hot, consider keeping your air con running on low in the background. Run your air con on low constantly or for recurring periods of time throughout the day and night, helping to keep your home consistently cool. Don’t have an air con? Consider having a system fitted. Or, if this isn’t an option, utilise fans to keep your home cool instead. 

Upgrade your windows 

A simple cause of a property becoming too hot is having old or outdated windows fitted. The issue is that if a window isn’t designed to be energy efficient and to prevent the cool air inside your home escaping and the hot air from outside coming in, it can make cooling your home in the summer a real nightmare. That’s where having the most energy efficient window fitted in your home can be so important, as although it comes with an initial outlay cost, in the long-term it will not only help to keep your home cooler, but it will also help to cut your energy costs. 

Keep your blinds closed

It’s lovely having a bright, sun-filled home but the sunlight will heat up the place, which is why it’s a good idea to keep your home’s blinds shut during the warmer summer months. If you can keep the blinds shut for most of the day and then open them at night, you should be able to prevent excess heat from entering your home. 

Open the windows only at night 

If you want to help to keep your home cool, it’s a good idea to keep to opening the windows only at night, as during the day the heat will heat up your home. However, at night when the breeze is cooler, opening your windows can help to keep your home feeling a little cooler and can prevent overuse of your air con, if you have one that it. 

There you have it, a guide to how you can make it easier to keep your home cool in the warmer summer months.