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I live near brussels, and in my home i reside in the attic. It is hot as hell in here day in and out, 34c right now.

What are some solutions of diy cooling I should explore when taking my environment into consideration?

>> No.1432323

>>1432319
Buy a freezer, take off the door and route the exhaust to the outside.

>> No.1432331

>>1432319
evaporative cooling.

>> No.1432342

>>1432319
Think about brexit backwards. The inverse thermo nuclear effect will seem like hell freezing over.

>> No.1432343

Place ice and cold water from the freezer in a shallow bowl beneath the fan and that should bring the room temp down while cooling you as well.
t. britain 34 C

>> No.1432376

>>1432323
Kek

>> No.1432382

>>1432319
Pop over to the local shoppe and queue for one of those "conditioned air" bangers they have over in the colonies.
>Please note that I am assuming you understand the Queen's English since Belgium is relatively small and nondescript

>> No.1432384

Get nude and drink water. A fan will help.

>34
If you said 43 now that would be hot.

>> No.1432422

>>1432319
Tere are small portable air conditioner in Europe they cos about 50-200 euros, maybe one of this will be able to solve your problem
But i've never used this so i'm not sure if they actually work

>> No.1432426

>>1432422
They are approaching the hottest day of all time apparently. I highly doubt those would actually be in stock there. Hell, they probably sold out of fans!

>> No.1432432

>>1432343
Nah mate, this shit is too expensive to run in central europe. Think of about 30 Euro Cent per Kilowatthour in Germany.
Idk about Belgium.
and you'd need quite a decent ac unit (at least 1kW of electric power consumption), to really cool an attic..

>> No.1432433

>>1432422
>>1432432

I guess i have responded to the wrong posthi

>> No.1432438

>>1432426
Yeah. Europe is having a really bad heatwave. Just washed myself and already I smell of sweat again. Horrible!

>> No.1432451

>>1432319
>34c
34x2=68 (double C temp)
68-6=62 (minus first digit)
62+32=94 (add 32)
94F (actual 93.2 but breddy close)

>> No.1432485

Get a kiddie pool and fill it with water. Dunk yourself periodically.

Expert mode: Make a custom pool that fits your indoor living space.

>> No.1432487
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1432487

Google evapritave cooler . these work much better in low humidity though fyi

>> No.1432793

>>1432319
you're gonna die today mate, 37°c announced in bx today

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1432830

>tfw only 30c in Hawaii

>> No.1432918

>only 35C in Utah today
Won't be too terrible

OP look into building evaporative cooler buckets, cheap fix out of a 5 gallon bucket. Your humidity isn't too high. Hell if you don't have a water pump and need it RIGHT NOW you can just ghetto it with towels and keep pouring water over things yourself, and I think some people use two buckets and a tube to siphon water in.

>> No.1432919

>>1432451
>subtracting first digit to get closer to the 9/5 with headmath
You have opened my eyes

>> No.1432924

If there is an attic window then make yourself a row of 2l bottles with the bottoms cut off that you can wedge under the window with the tops pointing inward, use expanding foam to seal gaps. Any wind will now jet in under pressure and at least move the air around more than a slightly open angled attic window. It's DIY after all.

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1432925

>>1432319
>tfw 30km from Brussels
I feel your pain fellow /b/elgianon. Running a fan 24/7 is working out faily well for me but my bedroom is still under 30°, don't know how bad you have it. Try to keep your windows open all night.
I've seriously considered putting a matress in the basement but i live next to a fairly noisy street.

>> No.1432927

>>1432924
I highly doubt this would result in an increased airflow from the outside. Open everything as wide as possible+fan sounds like a better idea.

>> No.1432929

>>1432319
I just lie on the kitchen floor when it's like this. Kitchens are all hard surfaces and they're generally designed to dissipate heat more so than other rooms in Europe at least, which are all designed to insulate. The floor is hard and fairly uncomfortable but it's cold. Perhaps I'm more ascetic than you though, a book/phone and a cold floor does me fine in summer.

>> No.1433015

>>1432919
Shit me too. Never thought of it that way.

>> No.1433111

A guy on here posted his macgyvered aircon setup a few weeks ago. It involved half a laptop charger, wooden plank, the swivel base from an office chair, and an aircon unit. You could probably skip the first three of those and it would work fine.
In my experience, you can get along fine with just a floor fan or two until about 37 C. Do you have those going and still want to upgrade?