This mistake is made by many people during the hot summer. IMGW warns: “Do not cook your apartment for the heat”

When it’s hot, sometimes we don’t know what to do with ourselves. It’s hard for us, we get tired quickly, and in addition, we function worse in terms of cognitive – we have a problem with focusing, counting, and even reading or speaking fluently. Interestingly, women tend to have it worse in hot weather. Why? Read more about it.

Sounds intuitive, and it’s a common mistake that will make you “boil”

We use various methods to protect ourselves from overheating the body. Most often it is drinking a lot of chilled drinks, hiding from the sun or taking cold showers. In houses, we put fans everywhere and open windows and doors to create a draft. As it turns out, this last patent may do more harm than good. A post has recently appeared on Twitter in which experts from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management drew attention to how we cool our apartments.

According to the research they cited, opening windows and doors is one of the worst things we can do if we want to cool down our home. We cannot avoid the fact that during hot weather with the windows closed, our apartment will heat up. However, according to research, it heats up much less than if we open the windows. Scientists talk about up to 2 degrees difference between the temperature in an apartment with closed versus open windows. This difference seems small, but in the case of heat above 30 degrees in many cases it really matters.

Cover your windows properly instead of opening them

So, to somehow survive the hot temperature in the apartment, other methods can be used. One of them is to cover the windows, thanks to which less sunlight and heat will fall into our homes. An interesting idea is also to assemble air conditioning in the “do it yourself” version. You can read about various other methods of cooling your home in the article that we placed above this paragraph.