Can I ask you please. We have had winds today, very windy, but hot tropical wind, it's stifling. Do you keep all your windows shut in these conditions? We cannot help but open our windows, but we keep curtains pulled, yet I feel it's made conditions inside worse, hot winds blowing all the way through, like a furnace..
Nice rose from Eastcroft, considering the conditions. I do hope you are happy with it, it looks really good.  I've only ordered once before from Eastcroft, they are little known but very good I thought.. @Uff
@Marlorena, we were a bit sceptical about shutting all the windows and doors with curtains drawn but tried it this morning and it was definitely cooler inside the house - a difference of about three degrees. Not a huge amount but it did make a difference as to how comfortable we felt. We also tried draping a wet towel over a clothes airer up in the loft where our office/2nd sitting room is.
Our house is north-east to south-west so in morning I keep all s-w windows open with few small north-east side windows open to let air pass through house and in the afternoon opposite of that. If you open all, then yes a really warm draft goes through house. Always curtains down on sunny side windows, that also controls how much air passes through.Â
I have put awning on the large glass roof and hung dark cotton sheets in front of large sliding doors.Â
Following the recent discussion of Help Me Find personal rose lists, I have made mine up. Registration took about five mins, making the list took another five. Free and easy to do. A very useful resource. A good cause to donate to as well.
@Marlorena, the hot wind is horrible isn’t it, worse than the actual heat.. my siestas are getting longer and longer, not much else one can or should do..
Yes is the answer -  apart from the shutters open on one east-facing window in the kitchen where I sit, all doors and windows are tightly shut, shuttered and even the draught excluder curtains pulled over. Upstairs and downstairs. When the sun sets, all windows are flung wide open and left that way overnight, until the sun heats up the next morning.
Downstairs has been a steady 23c (73F) as opposed to 39c outside, but if we slack off or forget to shutter up, the indoor temperature rises rapidly. Not pleasant living under (minimal) electric lights but it would be an inferno otherwise. Upstairs still gets a bit steamy, but it cools down enough be around midnight to be comfortable enough to sleep.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena, having spent my childhood in a much warmer climate -- even all "non-sunny" windows shut ( as well as curtains/shutters/whatever) unless outside temp is no more than about 5 degrees higher than indoors or if humidity indoors causing the bigger issue - (so assuming today indoors you woke to something similar to me in the 25ish region -- sorry, i work in C not F-- we shut ours by a little after 9 this morning. )
Following the recent discussion of Help Me Find personal rose lists, I have made mine up. Registration took about five mins, making the list took another five. Free and easy to do. A very useful resource. A good cause to donate to as well.
Thank you! Very interesting. I think I have added you as a friend on there (WAMS). Suspect the interface is very easy to use when you get the hang of it.
I got Augusta Louise / Rachel from Eastcroft after seeing (I think) @newbie77's . Like Rumwood... good and a little easier on the pocket.
All doors, windows and curtains shut on the sunny side of the house, Marlorena. That wind was like opening an oven door. Hope you're all right!
Next time I will try keeping windows shut. Hopefully it won't be required soon. I am looking forward to rain predicted tomorrow. I love smell of rain after a sunny spell.
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I'm glad you're Lady H is doing so well.
Can I ask you please. We have had winds today, very windy, but hot tropical wind, it's stifling. Do you keep all your windows shut in these conditions? We cannot help but open our windows, but we keep curtains pulled, yet I feel it's made conditions inside worse, hot winds blowing all the way through, like a furnace..
Anyway, we're down to 98F..Â
I have put awning on the large glass roof and hung dark cotton sheets in front of large sliding doors.Â
Yes is the answer -  apart from the shutters open on one east-facing window in the kitchen where I sit, all doors and windows are tightly shut, shuttered and even the draught excluder curtains pulled over. Upstairs and downstairs. When the sun sets, all windows are flung wide open and left that way overnight, until the sun heats up the next morning.
Downstairs has been a steady 23c (73F) as opposed to 39c outside, but if we slack off or forget to shutter up, the indoor temperature rises rapidly. Not pleasant living under (minimal) electric lights but it would be an inferno otherwise. Upstairs still gets a bit steamy, but it cools down enough be around midnight to be comfortable enough to sleep.
Thank you! Very interesting. I think I have added you as a friend on there (WAMS). Suspect the interface is very easy to use when you get the hang of it.
I got Augusta Louise / Rachel from Eastcroft after seeing (I think) @newbie77's . Like Rumwood... good and a little easier on the pocket.
All doors, windows and curtains shut on the sunny side of the house, Marlorena. That wind was like opening an oven door. Hope you're all right!