Are you ready for the UK heatwave? Already sunbathers are basking in the year's highest temperatures to date, so we've got some tips for keeping cool from experts at MyBuilder
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00:00Hiya, my name's Andy Sims, I work for MyBuilder and I am their Trade Advocacy Manager.
00:05So MyBuilder is a place where homeowners meet tradespeople.
00:09We try and help homeowners find the tradespeople they need and we try and help tradespeople
00:13succeed.
00:14Looking at this week then, we've only got a couple of days to prepare, do you have any
00:17sort of those quick and easy cheap hacks that we can implement at home to keep ourselves
00:22cool just in the next couple of days?
00:24You can obviously just shut your windows, that's the number one thing that you could
00:27be doing.
00:28Creating shade is another one, so if you've got sun sails or awnings that you're thinking
00:33about putting up, you can get those up.
00:35Obviously shutters over windows for example.
00:38You can also buy some relatively inexpensive film that goes over your windows which will
00:44keep the heat out and also you can get some kind of reflective finishes and things on
00:48those as well.
00:49When it comes to our windows, we think that keeping them open would be what's advised
00:53but that's not the advice, so why should we shut our windows when it's hot?
00:57I know it's counterintuitive but actually keeping your windows shut is blocking out
01:02that heat.
01:03So if you're opening your windows sporadically throughout the day or leaving them open, yes
01:07you might get a nice breeze every now and then but actually you're allowing that heat
01:11to build up in your home and actually what we want to do is obviously keep those windows
01:15shut and block it out.
01:16With the hot summer becoming the norm, we might want to look at some of those longer
01:20term things that we can put in place, maybe in our gardens and stuff.
01:23Do you have any recommendations there?
01:27For outside in particular, you can do a few things, sun sails, awnings, also pergolas
01:35can give you a bit of shade.
01:37It's basically anything to block out the sun, particularly where the sun is coming through
01:40the windows or French doors of your house and then if you wanted to go a bit further
01:45down the rabbit hole, air conditioning and there is a myriad of different kind of options
01:53for air conditioning, anything from 200 to up to 5,000 pounds if you're living in a big
01:57place and getting everything done.