Oh, the bliss of a fan!

We've put a fan , actually a small-ish one in the bedroom overnight to make things more tolerable. Because it's small it's not that noisy. Pro-rata its size it's made a real difference.Who knew ??

izzibear

WHAT are snotmonster flies and where do you live, TheWeirdoAgain60??

You took the words out of my mouth! I too was mystified

I just sit in the room that faces North in this house. It's always shaded and it costs me nothing.

Apart from keeping a few soaked flannels around to cool my face and neck, I don't do anything else.

I'm not keen on noisy fans, the boiler getting in to gear and ticking clocks. I am a silence freak!

It works for me.

If you have that many flies in the room TheWeiroAgain60 I think you should investigate - could there be something rotting nearby, eg a mouse?

Slimswim When you use your portable AC, do you have to have the window open?

WHAT are snotmonster flies and where do you live, TheWeirdoAgain60??

We bought a portable air conditioning unit from Amazon in last year's heatwave. It's a life saver! Noisy, but makes the room comfortable to live in. We have fans in other rooms but they don't reduce to temperature. We've heard it's expensive to run so only use it in extreme temperatures like these past few days, but yesterday it was on all day and evening.

We purchased a portable air conditioning unit a few weeks ago when we had the last spell of hot weather. When the weather changed after a few days I thought we had wasted our money. Now we’ve been sitting in the living room with it on and I’m pleased we bought it. Only negative thing is, it’s noisy and too heavy to carry up the stairs. Our neighbour has just had air conditioning installed, £15,000 but it will heat the house too.

I rather like my neck fan bought from Amazon

At midnight it was 30c inside as well as outside, first time I slept with the tower fan on. Opened the windows for cooler air this morning but everything retaines the heat so no real joy before closing everywhere. 39 yesterday, only 36 today.

No one hasn’t mentioned what I think is a very best fan almost silent… Meaco. Bliss!

I have a floor-standing one in the bedroom, living room, kitchen, and home office, all whizzing around at supersonic speed for hour after hour!

I can't abide summer/sun/heat anyway, never could, but this particular wave is evil! Trying to lie on top of the duvet last night, sweating so much it was like I was swimming in it, being constantly buzzed by snotmonster flies - I absolutely hate them - they kept hitting my face and head, arms and legs, so I was forced to pull the duvet up to my chin, lie on my right side and put a pillow on the left side of my face.

I tried spraying the beasts with Raid, but for every 2 I kill, there's another 2000 to take their place! They were crawling on the bed, the pillow, and the duvet, too!

We ordered from Argos late on Sunday evening. Collected 9.00am Monday morning.

We live a couple of hundred yards from Argos and just parked close to the entrance and shoved the boxes in the boot.

I ordered from Amazon Monday, they said delivery Wednesday but it arrived mid day Tuesday. No wonder we use the evil empire

Dh said he checked on Amazon for fans the other day - all the highly rated ones* were out of stock, or only for delivery e.g. 28th July.
*IIRC he’d checked Which?

We have a tower fan on at the moment and it's quite pleasant. Apparently it's 90°F outside but I haven’t been out long enough to see if that's correct.

Must take a look at the Black and Decker 👍🏻

Our air con moveable unit is a Black and Decker one. Pleased witb it. Came via Amazon. Keeping our big bedroom nice and cool today where we are spending all of out time. Temp is probably 19 but outside 33 plus. We are west of London.

Need to keep the door closed. So I wouldnt use it in an open plan area.

I have 3 in various locations in the house.

The best one is quite big but we put an ice block in the back and it's brilliant. It's like a small air conditioning unit.

We have a good Dyson tower fan but will be researching mobile air con units and buy one as soon as possible as it’s still only June 🥵

I have a tower fan, which is quiet and effective. However, the thing that has made the most difference is a ‘sail’ that throws shade onto my rear ground floor windows. My house is almost exactly east / west. I get sun on the front in the morning, a brief respite in the middle of the day while the sun is overhead and then, when it is at its hottest, it shines straight into my kitchen and living room. The sail is an awning that can be fixed in any position, usually either rectangular or triangular in shape. Mine shades my French windows and kitchen door perfectly and makes a huge difference. A cheap and adaptable way to help reduce the heat. I got mine from Amazon.

We bought an air con unit last year and 2 tabletop fans to replace old small ones. Both very quiet. The air con is noisy but effective. So glad I bought them. It has made the last 3 days manageable. I will think about shutters on the kitchen window and a curtain rail above the kitchen patio doors to hang something on. Not sure what yet.

Just seen a photo of massive queues outside a Lidl store today, for an air conditioning unit which was going on sale in their 'middle aisle' this morning.

Had one delivered within twelve hours of order from the evil empire. Reviews said easy to assemble. Well it was for my daughter 🌞. Now have two going in the big kitchen. It’s got velux windows and double patio glass doors. Ill need blinds if the heat becomes frequent

Just ordered two, as our one is very old and cumbersome.