Hi all,
thought this may help some of you & any elderly folk you maybe keeping an eye on, to keep cool or have a good night sleep.
Ingredients
1 small ventilator
+/- 5 plastic bottles full of water full to 1” from the top & air partially squashed out of them.
1 washing bowl to accommodate the bottles
1 deep freeze to freeze the bottles of water.
Method
Freeze bottles of water in deep freeze
Place washing up bowl in room required (at night in the bedroom ½ hour before bedtime) don’t forget to close window & doors.
Place frozen bottles on bowl
Place ventilator in front of bowl with frozen water bottles & set at lowest speed.
Hey presto you have your own air-con unit.
5l of frozen water ventilated in a room of 20m² will bring the room temp down replace bottles of frozen water a frequently as required.
It’s simple thermo dynamics but may help some elderly folks that you know.
Mat,
you can put the frozen water bottles on a plate, the plate or bowl is just for trapping the condensation coming off the bottles.
Better to put the bottles just above & behind the fan as cold air falls & as such cold air is sucked into the fan & ventilated out into the room. Of course the more bottles of frozen water the better cooling.
I said 1/2 hour before bedtime, but better a few hours before (don’t forget to keep the doors & windows closed in the room) & change the bottles for new ones at bedtime (if needed) as the walls floors etc will all have heat radiating from them.
Let us all know how you get on.
I fill my rubber hot water bottle with water and put it in the freezer. At bedtime I wrap the frozen ‘hot’ water bottle in a tea towel and, when cuddled, find it keeps me cool during the night.
@Wozza. - right experiment started at 22:10 temperature was 31.6 degrees. Room is approx 12m2.
6x 1.5 litre bottles of frozen tap water.
Fan is Rowenta Turbo Silence pedestal fan - these are absolutely superb fans - fairly quiet for the breeze they create but a bit pricey, bought from Amazon Germany a couple of years ago.
On Jeremy Vine this morning, Amanda Prowse - one of the panel - suggested placing icepops under her boobs as a way of keeping cool with the added benefit that when the icepops melt, you can simply drink the contents
