2007-05-09 09:01:43 · 11 answers · asked by anthony499999 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
I would suggest keeping your blinds closed and buying thick drapes/curtains to put over them to keep out the sun's rays. Also, lots of stores (like Walgreen's) sell cheap fans. Buy a couple of those and place them in areas you usually are in, like near the couch or your bed. Those are the suggestions I could think of.
2007-05-09 09:06:46 · answer #1 · answered by littlelulu200 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An attic fan does wonders. Lots of shade to to block out the sun to. You can also but blankets to help over your windows better if you dont have much shade thats what we do and it seems to help. Use fans to they really do work. Also at night if it gets cool open all the windows and let the house cool down and it seems to stay cool for a while until it gets really hot outside and then it warms up a little bit.
2007-05-09 14:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is your house? Depending on how hot your area is, there may not be a way. However, in the days before a/c they would shut the house up tight during the day. Close the windows, shutters, drapes, everything. Then at night when cooler, they open it up and let the evening breeze come through.
2007-05-09 09:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by catsovermen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep windows and curtains closed during the day time...use fans, heat rises, so, putting a floor fan at the bottom of the stairs pointing upstairs will help to keep your upstairs a little cooler. Open your windows in the evening after dark...ONLY IF the temp outside is cooler than inside.
2007-05-09 09:07:01 · answer #4 · answered by H-Mom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. An AC unit is referred to as a warmth exchanger. the hotter air could be vented to outdoors the living house. If not, it is defeating the purpose. There may be purely as a lot heat air being launch as cool air.
2016-12-11 04:51:01 · answer #5 · answered by mento 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If its your hose just dip it in cold water, if its your house, dont cook, use fans, but the humidity is going to be bad. It will make for a baad hair day.
2007-05-09 09:29:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in FL and rarely use AC. I like the heat however.
I invite any who do the thumbs down; but ask that you step up and state why. My suggestions are no less valid than any others.
First of all you should have drapes/curtains on the sides of the house that get East/West Sun, perhaps even lined, and use window tint.
If you have a general notion of which way the breezes usually blow, open those windows, and have a fan or fans that will take the air from one end of the house to the other, entering and exiting in the directions opposite the SUN shine sides.
BTW... FANS are designed to cool people, not rooms. If you're not going to be in a room for an extended period of time, don't have a ceiling fan (for example) constantly running. The fan motor itself generates a minor amount of heat.
Know when the day is beginning to heat up, and the point at which you know it's cooling down. You can open those windows before a Sun event that begins to beat into a room, and certainly all over after 5 or 6 at night when the reported HIGH for the day is actually happening.
In Summer try to use a Microwave more than a stove or oven. It not only produces less heat, but uses less energy as well. Use the new coiled Fluorescent light bulbs where possible,,, SAME effect, equal light, less heat, less energy used.
On a light hearted note, Do not stand with the Refrig door open for extended periods. :)
Wear light weight clothing indoors.
If you don't have tile floors, you might consider them.
Check your upper house insulation, if possible, and upgrade/add to it. Heat might RISE, but heat in a crawl space or attic does not strictly attract more heat from the rest of your dwelling, If you have access to an attic/crawl space, vent it as well.
If you aren't on a slab, and have access to a basement/crawl space insulate under the first level floor, even tacking up drop ceiling acoustical panels to the rafters. If you have a basement/crawl space that remains cool, allow some of that to vent to the first floor of the house.
Steven Wolf
2007-05-09 09:22:41 · answer #7 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The swamp cooler suggestion is a good one. Another way is a ceiling mounted whole house fan. They can be thermostatically controlled if you are not home to turn it on.
2007-05-09 09:28:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swamp cooler, but only depending on where you live, aka dry climate.
2007-05-09 09:09:31 · answer #9 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could just run cold water thru it!!!! lol
2007-05-09 09:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by gentleretiredworshipper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋