2012年1月21日 星期六

The No AC Way to Cool Your Home During Warm Weather


The effect of global warming caused prolonged warm weather. Summer has never been so hot before, so you want your home cool all the time. Using air conditioners to cool your home may bust your budget with your electric bills, but here is a way for cooling your home without the use of air conditioning. Read further to know how you can keep cool indoors without using your energy-hogging air conditioners all the time.

For traditional homes, the alternative to an air conditioner is your standard electric fan. It works best at late afternoon and night time. An electric fan helps the hot air come up more swiftly out into your window and attic and it allows the cool air to get in. This way your home becomes a lot cooler and it helps minimize radiant heat getting in from the ceiling because it also makes the temperature in the attic cooler as well. This method is very effective in high altitude areas.

Other than the standard electric fans, installing ceiling fans help in making you feel comfortable. Just keep in mind that ceiling fans can make you feel cool, not the entire house, so do not forget to turn it off when you go out of the room. Installing a sensor that automatically shuts off the fan is very useful if you often forget to turn off things. You can get this sensor in your local market.

In places where the humidity level is low, it is best to use evaporative cooler or swamp cooler. These types of coolers not only works well for areas with low humidity level but more economical as well. Though it consumes plenty of water especially during summer times, these coolers are sure to bring the temperature down.

Shading the windows helps keep the warm temperature out. Solar screens prevent up to 80 percent of solar heat from getting into your house. Another way to reduce heat inside your home is painting your house with light colors. Light colors deflect the solar energy coming from the sun and dark colors absorb heat from the outside going to the inside of your home.

Planting trees on the south and west side of your house can create shade that can minimize the heat as these are areas facing direct sunlight. The shade plants create can keep your home cool. Do not plant trees that have weak branches like Chinaberry and Hackberry. Make sure that you plant trees that have hard limbs.

If you are still in the event of building your home, it is important that you put more insulation, radiant barrier attic insulation, solar-powered attic fans, low E windows and planting trees. Make your home more energy efficient by using insulated concrete forms such as cement coated straw bale construction and adobe.

For immediate relief, wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water and keep them cool by holding an ice cube wrapped in face cloth on those spots. This will cool down your body.




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