The effect of global warming caused lengthened warm weather. Summer heat has never been so hot before, so you want your home cool all the time. Turning on your air conditioners to cool your home may bust your budget with your electric bills, but there is a way for cooling your home without the use of air conditioning. Read further to learn how you can keep cool indoors without using your energy-hogging air conditioners all the time.
For traditional homes, your other option 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 lets the cool air to get in. This makes your home 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 way is very effective in high altitude areas.
Aside from the standard electric fans, putting ceiling fans help in making you feel comfortable. Just keep in mind that ceiling fans can make you feel cool, not the whole house, so do not forget to turn it off when you go out of the room. Setting up a sensor that automatically shuts off the fan is very useful if you often forget to turn off things. You can find this sensor in your local market.
In areas where the humidity level is low, it is best to use evaporative cooler or swamp cooler. These kinds of coolers not only works well for areas with low humidity level but more economical as well. Though it consumes a lot of water particularly during summer times, these coolers are sure to bring the temperature down.
Shading the windows helps keep the heat out. Solar screens prevent up to 80 percent of solar heat from getting inside your house. One more way to lessen 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 lessen the heat as these are areas facing direct sunlight. The shade plants provide can keep your home cool. Do not plant trees that have weak limbs like Chinaberry and Hackberry. Make sure that you plant trees that have hard branches.
If you are still in the process 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. Build your home more energy efficient by using insulated concrete forms such as cement coated straw bale construction and adobe.
For quick 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 help cool down your body.
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