How to cope in a heatwave - according to you
Bethan Earley, from Rugby, tries to keep her home cool by putting foil blankets on the outside of her windows before closing them. "The house
Bethan Earley, from Rugby, tries to keep her home cool by putting foil blankets on the outside of her windows before closing them. "The house does still get warm," she told BBC Your Voice, "but it takes much longer to warm up." John Turbefield, 38, from Chichester, says he has placed white bed sheets on the outside of the windows in some of the hottest rooms in his house.
Over the weekend he bought a pack of survival blankets - often used to help athletes regulate their body temperature - and placed them on the remaining windows. "They're designed to reflect heat and they are large, so they're ideal for taping to the window frame to reflect most of the light back out," he says.
John says he has also stocked his freezer with two-litre plastic bottles of water, which he places in front of and behind the five fans he has set
up around his house. However, he says anyone who wants to copy him will need patience: large bottles may take a couple of days to freeze, he adds.
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