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Technology
Jenny Haward

Experts reveal the bedroom window heatwave mistake making your sleep worse — and the 4-step cooling fix

The image shows a wooden bedroom window open wide, with a bed with a red blanket on it below.

We've seen heatwaves in the US and the UK already this year, and while that might be great for a day at the beach or park, it's not ideal for sleeping. Especially if you're one of countless people making a common yet key mistake with your bedroom window that unintentionally makes your bedroom even hotter during a heatwave.

After staying in a beautiful, but particularly hot, rental property in the UK for a week as temperatures soared during a record-breaking May heatwave, I learned a bedroom window hack that can help keep you cool at night. And here I've spoken to sleep and home experts about why it actually works.

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