The summer is coming soon to the Northern Hemisphere. How do you plan to combat the heat? I live in a regular apartment without air conditioning, and installing a full-scale system is not an option. I wonder what my options are, and how other people are planning to deal with the issue.
Fan.
It really just depends on your climate, geography, and infrastructure.
Where is I was raised, it would be consistently 90-100 Fahrenheit throughout the summer. And one week that was always up to 110.
I had no ac, but a constant broken swamp cooler. So basically no real ac.
In the mornings and night when it did become cool, you would open all the windows and doors for the air and wind to blow through, and then about 9am you would close the windows and blinds and deal with the heat.
Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.
Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.
In 2021 when the heat got oppressive here, we couldn’t sleep through any of it. it was 45c in one daytime, and with 90% humidity it was an actual killer. There was no sleep at night, no sleep all day, it was all just counting the hours until it was over – or we had an excuse to go to work where - for me - it was a cool basement attached to a cooler datacenter. We joked we should move desks into there, but our little group may have left a door open to the DC and let the chiller do an extra 10% space on those days!
Last year we swore we were going to by an AC. We didn’t.
Basically keeping all the windows open through the night and closing them in the morning. I also sleep upstairs directly below the roof during the colder months, but move to the ground floor in summer, where it gets much less hot.
Things will creep in at night, I mean spiders not Nosferatu. Although maybe Nosferatu. You don’t often hear a monster work the word enmity into a sentence.
Funny you’d say that, as we actually get what we call “Nosferatu spiders” in Germany quite often in our house. I don’t really mind them though, the occasional mosquito is much more annoying. We have nets on some of the windows though.
“Nosferatu spiders” in Germany
Apparently they’re called Fox Spiders in other places. It looks like a ‘wolf’ spider from here, but that’s apparently a common mis-identification. The two species love to hang out in wood piles and in corners and chase prey.
It looked like a few of the formerly-Tenegeria spiders we have here - Domesticus, Agrestis and Gigantica - which now all have new groupings I don’t care to learn. Thankfully none of those jump. But, then again, the jumpers are the only cool ones (eg Salticus scenicus and other spider-bros).
I didn’t mean for Pyotr to be my roommate but it just kind of happened. He’s pretty chill though. My place used to be pretty messy but he cleans it while I sleep. He’s totally silent too so I don’t even wake up! Really the only downside is the anemia but I’m taking iron supplements now and that might help a bit.
AC mainly. I have a ceiling fan as well.
