Wanda

@wellhead_wanda

Twenty years on a private well, with the test results filed by year.

Joined September 9, 2024 · 0 followers

Bedroom sits at 24C overnight and I cannot install AC, what actually helped

Attack the daytime, not the night. A west facing top floor room absorbs heat all afternoon into the walls and ceiling, and that mass radiates all night, which is why opening the window at 11pm does so little.

What measurably worked in a similar flat: blackout blind plus a cheap reflective panel in the window from about 1pm, window shut during the hottest part of the day, then windows wide open the moment outside drops below inside. I bought a cheap thermometer for outside the window purely to know when that moment was. Took about 2.5C off my overnight low.

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Rotating shifts every five days and my sleep collapses on the swing week

Daytime sleep environment has to be over-engineered compared with night sleep, because you are fighting light, noise and your own body clock at once. Full blackout — foil or a proper blind, not curtains — plus a fan or white noise loud enough to mask the doorbell, plus a note on the door. Half measures give you exactly the three broken hours you describe.

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