Having grown up in the deep south (St. Thomas, Ontario) where the summers were hot and humid, the recent spell of days and evenings of ongoing sun and heat in my now moderate environment (Victoria, BC) reminded me of one way of keeping the house cool: keep the open windows shaded from the sun when it is directly shining on that side of the house; unshade the open windows when the sun is not.
And it is all in the angle of the blind.
Downward slanted……….
……….or up.
The breeze can flow through but the hot rays are halted.
We did not have these nifty wooden narrow blinds. The ones I recall were called venetian blinds and you had to be careful not to bend them too much while peering between them or they would crack.
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To clean those dreaded venetian blinds we put a heavy woolen sock on each hand, soap them up and wash the individual piece of each blind..one hand on top and the other on the bottom!..my sister would have her socks wet with vinegar water to rinse the blinds and make them streak free….aw yes…it was called spring cleaning.
What a wealth of memories!
We have blinds to block out the hot sun (not that we have had much of it lately). I hate cleaning them and devised my own way … take them down, hang them on the washing line and squirt the hose at them!! and watch the dirty water flow off.
Hi Linda That is a great idea! And what a lovely image of the blind on a clothesline dripping water in the sun.