Any tips to maintain the house cool in this summer?

Hey fellow summer hater, nice to meet you. I only meet those who love summer and inside everytime I hear it I'm like 'Then YOU have the d summer', lol. I can't stand it, I'm all wet right a way indeed. That's a refreshing idea and only to think about it I'm sure it will work. Now that you said it I remember starting from last summer I wet my face, whole arms and neck with water many times a day and just stay like that, I'll do the feet for sure when I'm in the computer. Thanks a lot!

I envy you, there's no such thing as cool summer here, sometimes in my fevered mind I actually wonder if I'm melting! lol.

I like cool summer.as I can sleep well hee heee!

I have done this is the past and it works really well. I don't have any windows taped up like this now because I keep my windows open most of the time, but I will use it during the summer when it starts getting really hot.

Wow! Thanks genious. Did you use that too? I'm doing it tomorrow first thing, even before cooking, can't wait to see the results! I guess is faster than if I started to collect the soy milk boxes, even if I start now I'll have a curtain only in the end of the year! LOL.

Hi there! Thanks for coming back, I see. Be sure I'll follow your advice, this really interest me, I think it makes a lot of sense. In youtube if you type summer heat cool summer house home, or what else keywords you can think of (I think those were what I could think of ) you'll find excellent ideas, besides your amazing idea I'll make another one which is to take the heat from our bedroom with a fan turned to the outside and down stairs to open a window in a different direction so the heat from upstairs will come down (which happens naturally: cold temperature rises and the heat comes down to the ground) so in a while that room will be fresh, can't wait to do this on the summer. Again, thanks and have a nice weekend!

Wow thanks a lot. Fortunately there are many trees around, I guess we just live in one of the hottest provinces ever. I like the idea of sealing shut, thanks a lot for coming.

@ katie0: your Idea is better

Oh thanks, I saw that on tv and found it fun specially because it gives something to do with the soy milk it would just go to the trash can. Plus I'm into DIY right now, it's really fun and is saving so much money.

Wow, a ceiling fan in the bedroom would be just great . From all yours and these nice MyLotter's advices I see I done almost nothing in the previous summers, I feel like I'm ready for the bad weather to come now, thank you.

I also think that sun cool paints will lower the temperature. I think it is good to paint roof with paints that helps to decrease the temperature.

@sanahaseeb Wow, thanks I got find that. I heard about it and hubby said is too expensive to paint the whole house from the outside, but now that you mentioned again he never actually looked for the price, let's see... I also heard that white is a great color to cool down, that there is a city that painted their houses and the whole city is cooler than others... I wonder if it's true.

Hello there! Wow that is too hot! We reach 37 in the summer as well, that's why I am worried about. Because of the use of air conditioner and also my girl dogs are getting old (they came here and rescued old already but are even older, poor babies ), all these advices are great and I feel ready for the summer,

Oh gardening is so great as a hobby and in growing our own food and being self sufficient and more healthy. We don't have a terrace but thanks for the advice, hubby is the one that loves to plant things so I'll ask him about an alternative to planting on a terrace.

Never thought about fans in every room, we only have two, nice idea! That's really interesting, we should buy more. Only one has high velocity. Thank you dear.

You splash water inside too? I imagine it will evaporate quickly, makes a lot of sense! While refreshing could be cleaning up the house altogether, lol. I've heard about dark curtains, hope it works for you. I'll try the nice aluminium foil idea and if there's need for more I'll buy a dark (maybe even black? Gothic, lol) curtain too. Here is so very humid too! That's why is so hot. I need to come up with ideas soon cause now I have not just one rescued but two old lady dogs (poor girls came from breeders) and they get sick with the heat and every year I'm so worried, they even vomit. So I've been using air conditioner but only in 30 degrees celcius, which is still very hot because it's not good for the enviromment so I have to find another way. Someone mentioned also to put our feet on water while sitting in front of the computer, I wonder if I put the girls on water if they'll like, LOL!

Thanks! The enviroment affect I read the air conditioner have in the world concerns me, plus it spends a LOT of electricity! lol, thanks anyways.

Yes I have to use the air conditioner too, it's a shame but when I turned off (because of the enviromment, it seems it's bad for the planet) my dogs vomited, not once and I know it's not a coincidence, they are very old. Sorry about the wool I cannot use, being vegan and loving sheeps, but thank you.

lol,The rockwool is not wool from sheeps,which is made of rock. It is actually a mineral wool.

Oh cool! Well these nice MyLotters gave some free ideas, I really trust it will work but if it doesn't I'll have to buy stuff like your window shade idea and the paint to cool down the house, which I heard it is expensive but now that I think of I'm not sure.

Ah showering, yes last summer there were many days I showered 3 times, that's a lot! lol, it feels great. I have cold showers, that's how unberably hot it is here when it's summer. Nice tip on the underground thing, that must be very expensive, if I was rich I'd love indeed to have more space going down, maybe more rooms, grow plantations underground, it would be lovely.