When it's not hot. It's hot at home in the summer: what to do? Cold drinks at home

What do we usually complain about to city utilities when winter comes into its own? Right, most of complaints regarding heating. Often it becomes too cold in apartments, and we start asking utility companies to do something to make the radiators at least a little hotter.

As a result, many residents of Russia were faced with such a problem as “overtopping” for the first time. This word refers to a situation where heating network employees work too hard, resulting in the temperature inside the apartments exceeding all established standards causing discomfort among citizens. By the way, the normal temperature in an apartment is 22-24 degrees above zero on the Celsius scale. Fluctuations of plus or minus two degrees are considered acceptable. If the temperature does not meet these standards for quite a long time, you can make a fuss with a clear conscience.

The situation, to put it mildly, is atypical for Russia, and therefore few people know what can be done in such cases. And there can be several exits at once. Which one to choose will depend on the specific situation.

The simple way

The easiest way to cope with elevated room temperatures is for those who have a radiator system with flow control installed in their apartment hot water. It is enough to simply cover or completely shut off the water supply to the radiator, and the thermometer in your apartment will creep down before your eyes.

The balancing valve can also be installed on the heating riser. As a result of its complete or partial blocking, the temperature in the home will decrease. Having found the best option, you can easily bring your home climate to the required standard.

This will, of course, solve the problem of high temperature in your apartment. However, this is only suppressing symptoms when you can pay attention to the cause of the problem. There is another unpleasant aspect of overheating - every extra degree by which our radiators heat up is money that we overpay for heating.

We complain to all authorities

In order to avoid paying extra money for heating, it is necessary to draw the attention of utility companies to the problem of too hot radiators in the apartments of your building.

First, you should try to influence the situation through your management company. Formally, the residents of the building are not directly connected with the employees of the city heating network, therefore, it is not the apartment owners who should communicate with them, but the management management company, which is responsible for a specific house.

If a complaint is written to the management company, but it does not bring any results, you can contact higher authorities, which are the housing inspectorate and Rospotrebnadzor. It is important to draw the attention of officials to the fact that it is hot in the house, and contacting the management company did not lead to any results. It is not a fact that even such measures will be able to quickly solve the problem. Rather, it will have to be resolved due to natural conditions or a planned reduction in temperature in the network. But by doing this, you will show the management company that you do not intend to put up with their dishonest work, guaranteeing careful consideration of your future requests.

There is one nuance in this solution to the problem. It is important that you are not the only one who contacts the management company, and later higher authorities. You need to make sure that the other residents of your home also face the problem of overheating. After all, there are often cases when apartments on the first floors of a house are too hot, and residents of the upper floors complain about the cold, which forces utility workers to work harder. This is how it turns out.

In this case, simply adjusting the heating intensity will not solve the problem - the management company will be forced to carry out work to balance the heating system in the house so that the temperature in the apartments on the upper floors is the same as on the first floors of the house.

Extreme measures

But it often happens that there are no control valves either on the risers or on the radiators in the apartment, and it’s too hot to wait for the actions of the management company and answers from the housing inspections and Rospotrebnadzor.

In such cases, you will have to use “folk” methods. The most popular way to regulate the temperature in an apartment is open windows. You can try to find the optimal solution using this move. This will be much easier to do if you have modern plastic windows with micro-ventilation installed in your home. Such windows leave only a small gap through which cool air enters the apartment. Fresh air. This will prevent the apartment from cooling down and the temperature dropping too much.

There is another case - blankets. It is believed that by covering radiators with blankets you can reduce average temperature in his apartment. The logic is simple: the material from which the blanket is made has a minimum heat transfer coefficient. It will receive heat from the radiator without “giving it away” to the atmosphere in the apartment. The solution, to put it mildly, is not the most reliable, but, as they say, in the absence of fish...

When it's hot, many people feel low energy. I just don’t want to do anything, I don’t have the strength to raise my hand. I often experience this condition, especially when the air temperature exceeds 26 degrees. Typically, this condition occurs due to the body losing important salts of magnesium, potassium and others. But we lose salts through sweat, and we sweat because it is very hot, and the body cannot cool down and remove excess heat. What to do if it’s hot and there is no air conditioning?
In fact, air conditioning is not an ideal solution.

Firstly, because many people get cold very quickly when using air conditioning, even pneumonia.
Secondly, because the air conditioner can become a breeding ground for bacteria if it is not regularly cleaned and antibacterially treated.
And thirdly, while air conditioning is still a rather expensive luxury.
And if any of the above reasons prevents you from cooling the room using an air conditioner, can be easily applied simple ways cooling the body. They do not require any financial investment, are easy to use and can be controlled in much the same way as cooling equipment.

Everything is good in moderation. Despite the fact that “the heat does not break the bones”, in winter period Too warm and, therefore, dry air brings discomfort. In addition, problems with skin, hair, and sometimes cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Summer overheating is fraught with even more serious health problems.

In many regions, already at the end of May it becomes hot during the day, and housing does not have time to cool down at night. Discomfort both night and day interferes with normal rest; the heat “exhausts” you, depriving you of strength and performance.

If the thermometer in your home shows more, it is better to take simple measures to correct the air condition than to use a lot of products to moisturize the skin, deal with dry hair or other, more serious health problems.

Curtain the windows

To reduce the penetration of sunlight into the room, you need to curtain the windows. For this we use:

• foil;
• light thick curtains;
• special reflective curtain.

Foil on the windows will reflect the sun's rays, keeping the room cool. Lightweight, light-colored fabric is best suited for summer curtains. Bright or dark fabrics will absorb rather than reflect the sun's rays. You need to choose a material that is resistant to color: it will protect the house from hot rays, and will also prevent furniture or wallpaper from fading.

A simple and easy way to reduce the temperature in your home is to use mirrored windows by purchasing a special solar control film (it has an adhesive surface) with the effect of reflecting the rays of the sun. This option cannot be called very affordable. It’s even easier, but much more economical, to use regular foil. For example, take a 15-meter roll of packaging, it is enough for one window. It is enough to moisten the inside of the glass with plain water and you can sculpt the foil. Surprisingly, it will last quite a long time. Of course, you can add a little tape around the edges.

Advice: when it is very hot outside, when leaving the house, you need to close all the windows, otherwise the heat will be inside the room. It is worth ventilating only if the temperature outside the window is not much higher than room temperature. Ideal ventilation in summer is at night.

We use modern technology

A modern way to combat elevated indoor air temperatures is to use an air conditioner and a fan. But, despite the fact that progress does not stand still, more and more air cooling systems are appearing, and they have many opponents. Air conditioners and split systems are accused of being sources of various diseases. Is it really? If so, how can you reduce the risk of getting sick under air conditioning?

Pros and cons of air conditioners and split systems

Without air conditioning it is impossible to imagine modern shops, efficient work in offices, coolness and comfort in houses and apartments. In addition to their main purpose - to optimize the air temperature, they can clean the air from dust and exhaust gases, disinfect the air, trapping microbes, and move air in different directions-patterns, eliminating drafts.

But, at the same time, the air conditioner can cause illness if:

• the equipment did not undergo technical inspection and preventive cleaning of the indoor unit on time;
• a person stays for a long time in close proximity to a continuously operating air conditioner;
• equipment operates under conditions not recommended by manufacturers.

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Cool from the fan

Many people prefer to use a fan rather than an air conditioner. Sometimes this device is the only one affordable. Modern modifications have “bells and whistles” in the form of sprayed tiny particles water. A traditional fan does not cool the air, but moves it around the apartment, creating a breeze effect. It's better than nothing, better than no air movement at all. When using the device, you also need to take precautions, do not fall asleep under the air flow from the fan, and do not come in steamed from the street. The greatest effect can be achieved if:

• Place large pieces of ice in front of the fan. Cool air will spread throughout the apartment.
• blow a breeze from a fan onto the hanging wet fabric – it humidifies and cools the room well.

Be careful with the fan: studies have been conducted, as a result of which it became clear that at temperatures above 35 degrees, a fan can have unpleasant consequences for the body. Hot air directed at a hot body does not cool, but causes dehydration. This is how heat exhaustion occurs. This is a painful condition caused by overheating.

Using a humidifier

Modern air humidifiers are excellent helpers for maintaining an optimal indoor environment, a healthy balance of humidity and temperature. Ultrasonic models are the most popular. They are the most efficient, compact, and economical in energy consumption. The traditional cold steam humidifier has its pros and cons. The saturation of the environment with moisture during operation of such a device occurs due to a special filter of cold distilled water. Another type of air humidifier is a steam model, which operates on a pair of electrodes immersed in water to heat and evaporate it.

Which device to choose is up to you. The efficiency and long-term use are directly reflected in the cost of the humidifier. When the temperature is over 30 degrees, a humidifier is not a help. A reflective roller blind doesn't help either. Air conditioning only.

We install open water in the house

But it is not always and not everywhere in a country house or country house that it is possible to install an air conditioner. When it's very hot, deal with the main side effect high temperature air - its dryness - simple and long-term help will help known method. You need to put several buckets or basins with cold water. It will have to be changed as it warms up. Cold water reduces the heating temperature of the air.

Tip: water frozen in water can cool a room by several degrees. plastic bottles. This ice can be spread around the apartment - it will become cooler. A thawed bottle can be placed back into freezer The refrigerator is a source of ice in any season.

And it gets hot at the dacha in summer

In a city filled with concrete highways and high-rise buildings, summer heat it feels especially hard. It's good if there is Vacation home ik, where you can go during the hot season. Working city dwellers more often go out of town on weekends, and here you can also encounter a problem: it can also be hot in the country, especially during the day. To ensure that your country house retains its invigorating coolness for your arrival next weekend, you need to curtain the windows and leave containers of water in the room.

Heat / Heating, heat supply - payment

With the beginning of the heating season, the eternal disease of the Russian communal apartment has worsened again - there is a thaw outside the window, and the radiators are running at maximum. You have to open the windows, the heat goes outside. Along with it - the apartment owner’s money paid for heating. Is it possible to receive compensation for this? The Housing Supervision Inspectorate provided clarifications Volgograd region about this question.

The radiators are too hot: is it possible to return the money overpaid for heating?

“The air temperature in the apartment should not be lower than +18 °C, and in corner rooms - +20 °C. In this case, the permissible excess of the standard temperature is no more than 4°C; permissible decrease in standard temperature at night from 00:00 to 05:00 hours - no more than 3°C; a decrease in air temperature in a residential area during the daytime from 05:00 to 00:00 is not allowed,” the housing supervision clarification states.

For each hour of deviation from the norm, the utility fee is reduced by 0.15% of its amount.

If you have “fire radiators” at home and you are forced to regularly open windows to cool the rooms, then you can write a corresponding statement to the Criminal Code. Then she will have to record this in a special act. Only after this can you go to seek a reduction in heating fees. By law, specialists must measure the temperature in the apartment within two hours after you contact the Criminal Code or at another time by agreement with you.

The act is the basis for reducing the amount of payment for low-quality public utilities. Moreover, in case management organization on the basis of the above application does not draw up a corresponding act, then this act is drawn up by the owners and signed by the chairman of the apartment building and at least two owners of the premises of this apartment building.

Separately, the supervisory agency draws attention to the fact that the measurement of air temperature in residential premises is carried out in a room (if there are several rooms - in the largest living room), in the center of planes spaced from inner surface external wall and heating element at 0.5 m and in the center of the room (the point of intersection of the diagonal lines of the room) at a height of 1 m.

Measuring instruments must comply with the requirements of the standards.

Excessive sweating is a problem characterized by hyperfunction of the sweat glands; a person cannot leave the feeling that he is always hot. It is worth noting that sweating itself is a natural process. You need to be able to distinguish between normal sweating and excessive body sweating. Sometimes a person wonders why I sweat if I’m not hot.

Sweating is an important physiological process, because pathogenic microorganisms and metabolites (products of chemical reactions) are always removed from the body along with sweat. Due to sweating, the body maintains a constant temperature, which does not allow the human organs to “overheat”.

Increased sweating occurs in both women and men

Doctors call excessive sweating hyperhidrosis. The disease occurs in both men and women, in which they are constantly hot and sweat frequently. This deviation causes great psychological harm to the patient. Normally, human sweat does not have a sharp, “repulsive” odor and is produced (i.e., produced) when normal conditions in small quantities.

If left untreated, hyperhidrosis progresses in men and women, and the patient develops difficulties in relationships with those around him: colleagues, friends, relatives, etc. This condition is often accompanied by depression and irritability. So, the problem can develop into a psychological disorder.

Without understanding the physiological meaning of sweating, it is difficult for a person to understand “why I sweat if I’m not hot.” U healthy person abundant moisture on the body is formed in response to changes in external or internal conditions.

So, during some stressful situation, for example, severe emotional shock, difficult physical activity, adrenaline is released into the blood, healthy man feels like “I’m hot.” This hormone inhibits the production of fats and, on the contrary, stimulates their breakdown, reduces glucose consumption, affecting the cellular receptors of insulin-dependent organs (fat and muscle tissue, liver), increasing blood sugar levels and heat production due to the breakdown of fats.

In addition, with a strong increase in temperature environment The body maintains a constant body temperature due to profuse sweating.

In hyperhidrosis, sweat is bad smell

Attacks of hyperhidrosis appear regardless of changes in external conditions or a person’s condition. Abundant humidity is felt almost constantly. Sitting at the workplace, resting or even while sleeping, under comfortable circumstances for the patient, produces an excessive amount of sweat. It is customary to distinguish several types of hyperhidrosis:

• local, or local;
• general.

With local hyperhidrosis, a person notices that when normal temperature his palms, feet or other parts of the body sweat a lot. When it comes to general hyperhidrosis, a person notices that he is hot all the time and sweats incessantly.

Symptoms of hyperhidrosis, in addition to the cause of excessive moisture and causeless sweating, include an unpleasant odor of sweat and the appearance of color in sweat.

Causes of hyperhidrosis

Severe and constantly increased sweating can be an independent disease (primary) or developed against the background of other abnormalities (secondary).

Primary excessive sweating develops mainly due to a genetic cause. Such people experience an increase in the number of sweat glands or their hyperfunction.

Secondary pathology is a consequence of diseases such as:

• diabetes;
• neuropathy;
• depression and other mental disorders;
• pregnancy and menopause;
• overweight;
• endocrine diseases;
• hyperfunction of the thyroid gland;
• skin diseases (dermatitis, fungus, etc.);
• lack of personal hygiene;
• abundant consumption of garlic and onions, spicy and hot foods, spices.

Hyperhidrosis can be treated with Botox

Currently, in the treatment of excessive sweating, diet therapy, physiological procedures, Botox injections, as well as medication and surgery. If hyperhidrosis was caused by a genetic predisposition, Botox injections, curettage, liposuction for local excessive sweating, or resection of the sympathetic nerve trunk for general sweating are used.

Hyperhidrosis during pregnancy

To treat hyperhidrosis that appears due to pregnancy, medication and especially surgical treatment are not used. This is a normal reaction of the body to increased load. To eliminate excessive sweating, expectant mothers are advised to use underwear made of cotton or other natural materials, take a bath several times a day, or use a damp towel to clean problem areas. Avoid foods that trigger bouts of sweating.

This is due to the fact that after childbirth, hyperhidrosis completely disappears. But if excessive sweating is caused by another disease, it is urgent to find the cause and eliminate it, since the pathological process affects not only the mother’s body, but also the child.

Today, endoscopic removal of the sympathetic nerve bridge is considered the best solution.

Before Botox injection, a Minor test is performed. This test is based on using a 2% iodine solution and then applying starch. This way you can confirm and determine the extent of sweating. After the test, Botox is injected into problem areas. Botox interacts with the sweat glands and inhibits them.

This reduces the amount of moisture released. When giving an injection, no anesthetic is used, but if the pain threshold is high, the cosmetologist can use an anesthetic cream. The effect of Botox is temporary, symptoms disappear for 5-6 months.

People suffering from excess weight, liposuction is indicated. In this case, the sweat glands are removed along with the skin-fat fold, which also reduces hyperhidrosis.

The curettage method is based on “scraping out” the sweat glands.

The last step is sympathectomy. This is an operation during which the sympathetic nerve bridge is removed or clipped (this section nervous system responsible for sweating). Sympathectomy is performed when other methods are powerless against hyperhidrosis. The operation is performed under general anesthesia, there are several options:

1. By pushing back the ribs through a skin incision.
2. Removal of the sympathetic bridge by current or chemical. drug.
3. Through an endoscope.
4. Using a laser.

The 1st method of surgical intervention is the most traumatic. It is characterized by the presence of postoperative pain and a long recovery period. Resection by means of current or chemical influence. the drug is less painful.

Endoscopic removal of the sympathetic nerve bridge is currently the best solution. The operation is performed through small punctures into which an endoscope is inserted. Thanks to the presence of a camera, the doctor can accurately carry out the resection, the risk of injury to nearby tissues is minimal.

Removal of the sympathetic bridge with a laser is not performed so often, although this method is the best of those listed. This is due to the high cost of the operation, as well as the lack of a sufficient number of relevant specialists.

Poorly informed about the risks of sympathectomy, a person with recurrent hyperhidrosis thinks that “I’m out of luck.” After performing a sympathectomy, it is possible to develop compensatory hyperhidrosis, i.e., the occurrence of even more profuse sweating, which cannot be cured. This defect is observed in 1-2% of cases after surgery.

When a function is lost, the body tries to compensate. Thanks to this property, people can live with one kidney, since the second takes on part of the functions. Compensatory hyperhidrosis can be “cancelled” only if a section of the nervous system has been clipped. So, by removing the clip, the compensatory increased sweating soon goes away.

Preventing excessive sweating

Prevention of hyperhidrosis and sensations constant feeling that “it’s very hot all the time” is to observe, first of all, healthy image life, quitting smoking and drinking alcohol. Avoiding foods that cause sweating. Regularly undergo medical examinations, and immediately consult a doctor at the first appearance of symptoms.