Practical ways to keep a UK home cool in a heatwave, with and without air conditioning: shading, night ventilation, bedrooms, lofts and top-floor flats.
Keeping cool
A room-by-room plan for a UK heatwave: stop the sun before it hits the glass, ventilate at the right hour, and know when passive cooling will not be enough.
Keeping cool
Top-floor flats score highest for overheating of any common UK home type. The physics behind it, what the data shows, and the fixes in order of impact.
Keeping cool
Why bedrooms are hottest at bedtime, the 26°C line overheating tests use, and a bedtime routine that keeps a room cooler, with and without air conditioning.
Keeping cool
Loft rooms sit right under the roof with big windows and little thermal mass. Why a loft conversion overheats, and the fixes, from blinds to cooling.
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