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6. Light clothing against heat. Besides using light colours during summer, wear fabrics like cotton, linen and silk, which allow bodies to perspire better than synthetic clothing, and no doubt it is much fresher. ‘In addition, light wood furniture, helps to regulate the humidity of rooms’, as is suggested by Construcción21, the social network for buildings and sustainable cities.


7. Cooking is forbidden! Yes, mothers can take time off from the kitchens. Cold and barely cooked meals go hand in hand with summer. Cold “gazpachos are


soup” for example the best. Kitchen appliances


are a huge source of heat. Where possible, on very hot days you should avoid using the oven, the dishwasher or washing machine, or


do it in the cooler hours or when no one is in the kitchen. And, of course, close the door to this room so that the heat given off does not spread through the rest of the house. 8. Salt and a fan = Air Conditioning!! You can create air conditioning with a metal bowl, ice, salt and a fan. The salt makes the ice water below freezing, and a fan blowing on the bowl filled with ice will lower the temperature of the room. In addition, you can also use my grandma’s methods to create natural air currents - if the house faces two streets or an inner courtyard and the street, let the air circulate only if the current of air flows from the inner court yard inside and not vice versa. Ohh grandma...how I miss you!!


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