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I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?

I’ve searched around and mostly seen people create custom radiator builds attached to their water supply, but that’s beyond my skill level and I’m not sure if linking it directly to the water supply via piping would violate the lease or not. Are there any solutions a bit more DIY that I could take advantage of?

MeanEYE ,
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There are.

Hikermick ,

Get a kiddie pool, fill it, soak your feet in it

somethingsnappy ,

One of the best feelings in my life was returning to camp, consolidating coolers, and plunging my feet into the water in the leftover water in one of the coolers.

intensely_human ,

One time I took some instant release adderall and some MDMA and played Burnout Revenge on my friend’s playstation.

Fedizen ,

Ice machine + box fan

Put ice in a container with a large surface area, aim the fan at it. Empty the container when fully melted. Put ice in all your drinks

Brkdncr ,

Just run your shower with cold water. Open a window on the otherwise of the house and get a fan to blow air from the bathroom to the open window.

As the water turns from liquid to gas it absorbs heat. As long as it doesn’t get too humid it should feel cool.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Dehumidifier.

downpunxx ,

little realized fact that dehumidifiers produce heat

Lost_My_Mind ,

:O

Notyou ,

If you say so. The air just feels a lot more cool and crisp in my apartment when I have my dehumidifier on. Of course I live in a swamp so without it if feels like I swimming through stank ass when I walk somewhere.

I’m not doubting the science behind your statement. I just prefer feeling like I’m not being sous vide, so I’ll stick to a dry heat in my apartment.

Brkdncr ,

A dehumidifier would return heat to the room. Best you can do with swamp cooling is draw the humid air out.

Bye ,

Use the water pressure to power a turbine generator, then use the electricity from that generator to run a window AC unit

BeatTakeshi ,
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What a waste of water that would be. Pressure comes just once

BackOnMyBS ,
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Pressure comes just once

unlike your mom. ha! gottem

MintyFresh ,

Nice

peopleproblems ,

Bottle it, sell it for profit, use the profits to buy a better place to live?

Thorny_Insight ,

Or buy ice

LostWanderer ,

A swamp cooler would potentially be a solution; those could be used in conjunction with your ready access to water in order to keep your home cool! Sadly, this is not great for areas of the world which already have high levels of humidity in the air. I don’t know if it would work well for you based on not knowing your climate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Swamp coolers only really work if humidity is low. If it’s already humid then any drop in temperature is negated by the increased humidity.

Honestly I get the most “cooling” by putting a dehumidifier in front of my fan. Dry air will feel a lot cooler than super humid air.

meekah ,
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Dry air will allow more sweat to evaporate, providing the cooling effect right on your skin instead of in the air you blast at yourself. It’s basically the better swamp cooler.

Nikls94 ,

My in-laws swear on their swamp cooler, meanwhile I am gasping for air because of the sudden change in humidity.

Seriously, we got their old apartment and everything just feels wet. The wardrobe has a weird smell, but it’s built into the wall and part of it, and I just spent the first year to get it all dry. It’s still not completely dry. All thanks to this swamp cooler 🐂💩

I get it cool by opening the windows at night and keeping the air circulating with fans everywhere.

zephr_c ,

Take a cold bath?

ipha ,

I’ve done this!

Turn the shower on just high enough to get a good mist going then put a box fan on high as close as possible pointing out of the bathroom.

Skezlarr ,

You could try and make a DIY swamp cooler? There’s lots of instructions online for how to make them, and basically the only consumable is water. The only caveat is that they work by drawing hot air in from an open window to evaporate water, so it’s not very effective in high humidity or low temperatures.

Glowstick ,

Is there a reason why you can’t get an air conditioner? There’s tons of valid reasons why it wouldn’t be an option, I’m just wondering what your situation is. Because nothing is ever gonna work anywhere close to as good as an air conditioner. If you can afford even the smallest air conditioner then it’ll beat every single diy method in most situations

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