'Turbo boost' your fan to keep cool tonight in 3 simple steps

With temperatures set to be a stuffy 20C tonight for large parts of the UK it may be hard to get a good night's rest. Glorious as this weather may be, it often amounts to a night of tossing and turning in bed.

Heat invariably gets trapped in the bedroom, hampering the sleep-cycle and can cause you to feel fatigued the next day potentially disrupting your day to day tasks. To beat the bedroom bake millions of us will turn to our trusty fans. However, during a heatwave electric fans can make you swelter more as they just blow hot air around adding to the humidity as a result UK households are being urged to carry out a few simple steps to 'turbo boost' your fan.

There are three simple things you can do to make your fan blow out cool air tonight.

Three steps to make your fan blow cooler air:

Strategic placement

When its hotter inside than outside, point your fan slightly towards the windows to push out the hot air from the room. This creates a current of air, drawing in cooler air from outside.

This creates a current of air, drawing in cooler air from outside and how to lower the overall room temperature.

If you have a ceiling fan, set them counter-clockwise to pull the hot air away.

Bowl of ice

By positioning the fan in front of a bowl of ice it should create a cool mist.

As the fan blows air over the ice, the ice melts and cools the air, creating a refreshing breeze and circulates the cooler air throughout the room.

Strategically placing fans around a room can create a pretty nifty cross breeze that should lower the room temperature.

Simply place one by the window, another in the middle of the room and together they’ll work to circulate the cooler air around.