Daughter is in halls in Uni, the place is like a furnace. Although the radiator is off in her room, the whole building is so hot she has been ill all week and can’t sleep. I know she’ll acclimatise eventually (and then freeze to death at Christmas in our old Victorian house) but for the next week or two she needs something to help. Rooms are limited in how much power they can draw(< 1kw), so I think an actual a/c unit is out. There are these air coolers in Argos, you add water or ice and it blows air across them. Anybody used them? Worth the extra over a decent fan? Cheers.

We’ve got these at home. They’re brilliant for cooling the house down. Cheap to run too. Highly recommended 😀

We bought one a while ago. It was noisy and also the unit kicked out a lot of heat that supposed to be funnelled away through a pipe to the outside. It soon went back and just used a ceiling fan instead which won’t be any use to you either as you’ll not be able to fit it.
The Argos one will soon melt the ice if it’s that hot and you’ll just create a humid as well as hot room.

Window is only a small top opener with a restrictor, unfortunately. Opening it and propping the door to the (hot) corridor does help a little, but we’re trying to boost that.

The problem you have is that moving the already hot air in the room doesn’t solve the problem. You need a reliable method of introducing cooler air in to the environment.

Get a roll of duct tape and a cheap small desk fan.

Screwfix 90 degree elbow £3.29 – stick it out the window

4″ flexible ducting – £4 quid – Tape it to the elbow at one end and on to the back of a cheap desk fan at the other

Sit the fan at low level and with the high level window open this should help.A bit.

Not pretty but it’ll draw cool air into the room 😀

Has she pulled the ‘elf n safety / health and wellbeing card? If it it genuinely is overly hot, this is an issue. Someone in the building needs to turn the thermostat down…and save money.
Has she a thermometer to check the temperatures?

It’s definintely overly hot, but that seems the norm for many halls. She’s got freshers flu and struggling, so we’re trying hard to keep her going so she can at least attend the first lecture in every subject without having to come home and recuperate.