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Today on stating the bleeding obvious…

Very bad advice for a lot of Irish homes, other than very old ones. Most are built for cooler temps and low sunshine and have huge windows compared to hot countries. Keeping windows closed here on a “hot” day is a terrible idea in most modern houses. They heat like greenhouses and trap heat.

In most locations it simply won’t be that hot either. 27°C is a normal summer warm day in most countries, it’s unusually warm in Ireland. The vast majority of Ireland won’t be any warmer than about 24° on Friday if it even gets that hot. It’ll be a very pleasant day. A lot of the hype around this in the media applies to southern England, where it will get well over 30°C

The best advice is to create shade — keep blinds down in south facing rooms and stay in cooler areas of the house, like not upstairs in attic rooms etc.

It all depends on what kind of setup you have, what way your house faces, lots of factors. We open the windows and close the curtains on very hot days. Used to leave front door open too (there’s no back door) but having felt the outside of it one day I realised that was only letting more heat in because it’s south facing, so we close that and it definitely helps. All internal doors are then left open.

Curtains and blinds closed. I have a curtain rail and curtain in the hall to isolate the heat at one end obviously whether this makes sense depends entirely on the way your house is situated etc.