Improvised air con

[Der Amf]

(1) Take an empty plastic bottle, three quarters fill it with water, put it in the freezer.

(2) Once it's frozen solid, place it directly in front of a small desk fan.

In badly-ventilated spaces, it makes a genuine difference. Someone showed me it when we were stocking up a hot cramped cellar, and I was deeply grateful!

[jaytip]

Another similar one is to put a bowl of ice cubes in front of the fan, or so I'm told. Never tried it myself.

[Brighty]

On a similar vein. A tip i picked up and have used back in my fishing days. If you are stuck with warm bottles of beer on a hot day, and no fridge or freezer to hand. Take a sock, wet thoroughly, put beer inside sock, leave in the sun. Voila, cold beer. Magic

[Jega]

Just another little tip in this warm weather,take the hatch cover off the loft access.
Let's all the hot air in the house rise into the loft

[RJM25R]

On a similar vein. A tip i picked up and have used back in my fishing days. If you are stuck with warm bottles of beer on a hot day, and no fridge or freezer to hand. Take a sock, wet thoroughly, put beer inside sock, leave in the sun. Voila, cold beer. Magic

Gonna taste funny and run through the fabric, surely???


;-)

[AlphaOmega]

Gonna taste funny and run through the fabric, surely???

;-)

Wring it out into a shoe. Then add a slice of lemon for a stylish footwear-based cocktail.

[Pretzel]

(1) Take an empty plastic bottle, three quarters fill it with water, put it in the freezer.

(2) Once it's frozen solid, place it directly in front of a small desk fan.

In badly-ventilated spaces, it makes a genuine difference. Someone showed me it when we were stocking up a hot cramped cellar, and I was deeply grateful!

Better still if you put the bottle on a tray to catch the condensation.

[yumma]

On a similar vein. A tip i picked up and have used back in my fishing days. If you are stuck with warm bottles of beer on a hot day, and no fridge or freezer to hand. Take a sock, wet thoroughly, put beer inside sock, leave in the sun. Voila, cold beer. Magic

This works. I was camping in Provence last year and had no power or communal fridges, we had a brick built stand to a sink, we'd keep wetting the bricks and soil beneath the sink and store our beer/wine/food here. It was by no means a fridge, but due to evaporation made the beer/wine more tolerable in the 30+ degree heat, it worked a treat.

[IAmATeaf]

For the fan/air con tip, I've heard that it works better with the ice behind the fan?

[Der Amf]

For the fan/air con tip, I've heard that it works better with the ice behind the fan?

Oh, that makes sense