What are some creative ways to cool my home? It has arched ceilings next to a 20 foot bank of south...
It has arched ceilings next to a 20 foot bank of south facing window.. There are no trees and because it is on a steep slope, the trees would take YEARS to arrive at a useful largeness.
It does not have nouns conditioning....
are there some alternative verve ways to retro fit this home to keep it cooler??
any planning welcome!!THANKS!
HEY-IF YOU GOT A BIG BACK YARD--DIG A DITCH BOUT 30 OR 40 FEET LONG--AND BOUT 4 FEET DEEP--INSTALL A 12 IN PIPE IN IT-- DUCT THE PIPE IN SIDE OF HOUSE--IN STALL A FAN AT THE OTHER END---AIR IS COOLER AT THAT DEPTH AND WILL BLOW COOL AIR IN TO YOUR HOME
Swamp coolers work all right in dry climates. If it's humid where on earth you are, if may not be as effective. Heat pumps can work ably. an expensive to install, but cheap to run alternative may be geothermal cooling & heating.
And I hold to say, you don't usually see this query in January (unless you're South of the Equator). You're probably looking ahead, and there's no injure in that.
Answers: Swamp cooler. It uses hose down that goes through fins for the cooling and electricity for the motor on the blower. Very simple device and can be homebuilt. They actually do cool things down, not approaching ac but if your looking for something cheap to run, this will help. Other than that a windowpane air conditioner will work. Doesn't hold to be in a glass, could cut out a hole in the wall.
1/ install summer/winter ceiling fan
2/ unless you like to clutch a sauna, stay away from water coolers.
3/ South facing window should be ok (I am in Australia, and its apposite here)
4/ If you get direct sun on any window, find a way to shade the fanlight. One way is to use 85% proficient shade cloth as flyscreen. flyscreens are cheap to trade name and this is quite powerful.
5/ Do you get a breeze respectively day from some direction?
amenable those windows and droop a nicely chilly towel from the top. works like a charm
6/ A dais fan, a remnant of water surrounded by front with a towel flaccid in front of the disciple, and dropping into the container with the dampen.
If you do go for an nouns con, get an inverter (more reorganized and much quieter)
On a arched ceiling, there is usually a space between the ceiling and roof itself. In that space you can install right higher than the current insulation, a reflective foil coated plastic sheet barrrier. This is space age technology and info on this is also available on the Dept of Energy site Energy Star.
What this does, is reflect the boil back and doent allow the insulation and house structure to involve heat during the daytime hours, thus that constant flow of high temperature from the outside in is greatly retarded. Look on the internet, its sold contained by rolls and is not expensive. You simply unroll it and staple it in.
In winter, this reflective foil plastic sheet keep the heat contained by by reflecting it downward into the home. So it has both beneifit contained by summer and winter.
On windows, you can also buy a plastic over sheet that looks profoundly like auto windowpane darkners at that is deeply effective on the south side of a home.
Where I live within Chicago, a lot of homes hold an attic whole house disciple and turn that on at evening and open up the window. Those work well on some days.