Sleeping In This Heatwave

[nailit]

Anyone else find sleeping difficult during hot weather?
I have my bedroom windows open in the winter, never mind the summer!
Insomniac at the best of times but this weather is killing my sleep pattern (not that I have one to start with) Just want to sleep without waking up several times a night soaked in sweat, turning my pillow over repeatedly trying to find a cool side, and moving over to the other side of the bed for a bit of 'dry' sheet to sleep on.
God, its doing my crust in!

[nailit]

I sweat a lot at the best of times, I bath twice a day most days but this heat is unreal...

[gness]

Freeze some hot water bottles, Nailit....x

[Baldric]

We have large ceiling fans fitted above all the beds, sleeping is not a problem at Chez Baldric.

[choux]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49073972?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health&link_location=live-reporting-story

[woofgang]

I hate it. Its not as bad as being in the Gulf in the hot season in a crude oil tanker with no AC though. The tanker bit is important as we were not allowed to open any of the portholes or doors. The cold water pipes ran through the engineroom ceiling so the cold water came out of the taps hotter than the hot. We all had collections of buckets to fill with water then let it sit and cool down to luke warm. Looking back I have no idea how we coped with it.

[david small]

I tried one of those pillow coolers. I woke up to find it hot, I’d cooked it. I gave it to my wife. Incidentally when at sea a donkeyman I knew decided to sleep on deck. I have never seen a body so covered in mosquito bites in my life. He only did it once.

[nailit]

//Incidentally when at sea a donkeyman I knew decided to sleep on deck.//
Whats a donkeyman?
I don't half learn some stuff on this site :)

[woofgang]

He was in charge of the donkey engine which was used to run derricks and so on when the main engines were off.

[nailit]

Thank you woof.
Like I said, I don't half learn some stuff on here ….

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Pardon the duplication but I have just posted this on another thread - may help.
A "sleep expert" on the BBC news this morning advised people to open their loft doors a couple of inches to let the heat rise into the loft and keep the bedrooms a bit cooler.

[nailit]

Might have a job following that advice BD.
I live in a multi story block of flats with 8 other stories on top of me :-)

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Oh now you're just being picky! lol

[nailit]

LOL :-)

[margarettom]

I find the best way to sleep better in the hot weather is an electric fan. After all, if you live in a flat you don't have a loft. And some vulnerable people in ground floor flats and bungalows can't open windows. I good quality, reasonably quiet fan is really helpful in keeping cool and sleeping.

[DTCwordfan]

want to borrow a good drill, nailit, the sort that can bore a good 3" hole and then slide some cut-down drainage pipe through it?

[DTCwordfan]

or come down here, currently 20C......

[nailit]

//want to borrow a good drill, nailit, the sort that can bore a good 3" hole and then slide some cut-down drainage pipe through it?

Sounds like heaven DTC.... ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Bedrooms are quiet cool, possibly because I'm next to water.

[nailit]

//I find the best way to sleep better in the hot weather is an electric fan//
Or sleeping in the fridge!

[DTCwordfan]

perhaps - until someone decides to use the 'down-pipe' for other fluid disposal.....