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How do I cool a bedroom - that has a ceiling & standing fan, but is still hot?

Ideally, the cheaper the better.

I live in Jamaica - where the climate is warm most of the time, and the summers are very hot. Even the nights.

I have a Zinc roof, and a wooden ceiling....so in the night, it feels like it is just releasing from the roof.

The both fans don't make the room too cool.

An A/C is too expensive right now.

P.S. I was thinking that maybe if I could make some thing that is water based, that I put behind the fan, then the fan would be blowing cool air and that would cool the room? Not sure what I would make, or how I would do that...so that is the type of answer I am looking for. Not "buy X wall-mounted A/C unit". That is out of the question.

Tester101
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You have got to get the most amount of outdoor air in your bedroom at night. This is the most important thing you can do. Make sure the windows are open and the fan(s) are sucking in the hot air. The ice works but it needs to be in front of the fan and you need to do some pretty big chunks. Fill a bucket up and put it in the freezer.

So the windows need to be open from sundown until the morning. After that your room needs to go into lockdown. Put a blanket over your window (better is put something over bedroom windows from outside), no lights (and switch to fluorescent), no shower humidity, no electronics, nothing.

There are other things like insulation or adding trees around the house but these cost a lot of money.

An easy cheap thing that has worked for me is putting a semi-wet towel in the freezer. Keep it around your neck and head. Keep an extra in the freezer if your house is really hot. I went a summer without AC in Fort Worth doing this!

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