Beat the heat with these tips on how to keep your home cool without air conditioning. Read more: http://cbc.ca/1.4778478 …
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To keep your house cool during the summer without relying on AC, there are several effective strategies you can employ. Firstly, it is crucial to block the sun’s heat by keeping windows covered with curtains, blinds, or shades during the daytime. Utilizing light-colored or reflective window treatments can help reflect sunlight away from your home. Additionally, creating cross ventilation by opening windows on opposite sides of the house can promote air circulation and reduce indoor temperatures.
Another key method is to reduce heat-generating activities and appliances. Limiting the use of devices that emit heat, such as ovens, stoves, and dryers, can help keep your home cooler. Replacing traditional incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient alternatives can also reduce the amount of heat produced.
Insulating your home properly is essential in preventing heat from penetrating indoors. Ensuring proper insulation in walls, roofs, and attics can significantly reduce heat transfer into your living spaces. Additionally, sealing any air leaks around windows and doors can prevent warm air from entering your home.
Strategic use of fans can also provide relief from the summer heat. Placing fans near windows or using them in conjunction with a bowl of ice in front can create a DIY air conditioning effect. Ceiling fans, in particular, can help circulate air and create a cooling breeze.
Finally, adopting habits to stay cool, such as drinking plenty of fluids, using cold towels or ice packs, and wearing lightweight and breathable clothing, can significantly contribute to your comfort.
In conclusion, keeping your house cool in the summer without AC is achievable by employing various strategies. From blocking sunlight and promoting cross ventilation to reducing heat-generating activities and using fans, these methods can help maintain a comfortable indoor environment.
FAQs:
Q: Can using a dehumidifier help keep the house cool?
A: While dehumidifiers can reduce moisture levels in the air, they don’t actually lower the temperature. However, by eliminating excess humidity, they can make the air feel more comfortable and reduce the need for AC.
Q: How can I cool down a specific room without cooling the entire house?
A: To cool down a specific room, you can seal off the room from the rest of the house using door draught stoppers or plastic sheeting. Additionally, utilizing a portable air conditioner or spot cooling device in that room can provide targeted cooling.
Q: How effective are window films in blocking heat?
A: Window films can significantly reduce the amount of heat that enters through windows. Look for solar-control films that are designed specifically to block infrared heat and ultraviolet rays.
Q: Will planting trees around the house help keep it cool?
A: Yes, strategically planting trees around your house can provide shade and reduce the amount of direct sunlight that reaches your home. Deciduous trees are particularly useful as they provide shade in the summer but allow sunlight in during the winter when they lose their leaves.
Q: Is it necessary to close doors to unused rooms?
A: Yes, closing doors to unused rooms prevents cool air from spreading to those areas, allowing you to focus cooling efforts on occupied spaces.
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I agree.
A mosquito made this video
cool , won't work for a 45°C summer day , and 33° at night
Leaving a window open at night is not an option for someone who lives where mosquitoes reside give me another option
But what about morning this works at night but in morning outside temp is way hotter than inside
This is BS. The sun shining through the window will heat the curtains or the interior of the house trough radiation. This heat will have nowhere to go and will in turn raise the temperature of the entire house.
Can anyone tell me how to make this kind of animation
I’m starting to hate summer can’t even sleep in my room
Probably best to just build in an air system for that very purpose, and one in the attic too, both auto set with temperature control. A ceiling fan can also promote a decent wind chill, and freshen air.
Wow amazing if the night time temperature isn't over 80°f… this is what we did in the 1990's nowadays crank that central ac up.
Wow I do this before I even watched this video tends out it really works atleast there's an explanation for this.
this helps so much my bedroom gets so overheated with me in it i get sick so more ideas help me avoid getting sick! 👍
in arizona we don't have cool nights miss genius 😂😂😂😂
Hilarious. Telling someone in Arizona that this is feasible is priceless.
We have a flat roof.
No attic.
Years ago, we added a ‘second’ roof over the original.
The space between was the height of a two by four (3.5 inches).
The 2×4’s were laid perpendicular to the roof line leaving a 12” gap across the top and bottom to allow air to circulate.
Our roof, though essentially flat, has a slight peak of a couple inches that bisected the center to encourage flow of rainwater to gutters along two sides.
The ceilings inside and outside have exposed beams with 2×6 t&g laid across.
Two 2×4’s were attached side by side across the peak to support new plywood roof.
Soffit vents were installed through the overhang of the old roof on both sides of the peak and across the overhang on the low sides.
2” foam insulation panels laid into the entire space between the 2×4’s, leaving a 1-1/2” space for air to flow up through the lower soffits, across the foam panels and out the two soffits in the peak.
New vents, chimney jack were installed and the drain vent stacks were extended with sleeves.
An additional vent that just penetrated the new roof was installed near the peak in the center on the side of the roof that covered the bedrooms to allow more warm air to escape.
The electric service mast was left alone as even with the raised roof, it still met code clearances.
So…
The net result was a very much cooler house.
So much cooler that leaving windows open and moving air through windows with a fan at night cooled the entire interior and all contained within.
Sometime the next day before it gets hot we close windows and shut drapes.
While house will still warm up, it takes pretty much all day to become less than tolerable.
At that point ceiling fans are turned on until outside temp is cool enough to repeat the whole process.
There are occasional heat waves that make us wish for a mechanical air conditioning unit.
Since our roof ‘modification’ we’ve felt no real need to install one.
Stay Cool!
Mentions nothing about the attic…
This doesn’t work in a nyc apt 😂 nyc is too muggy and humid & it’s hot late nights
Ahhh none of y’all are in Texas I see
You are definitely not from texas lol
Have the govt cease their weather manipulation programs. But then they will no longer be able to keep pushing their clumate change agenda. Climate change is a man made farce and one of the greatest crimes ever commited against humanity.
I was suffering for months after moving into a new house around the end of winter. I live in on the second floor, which is basically the attic; I couldn't concentrate on my studies and had to resort to studying in the library most of the time. I hope this video may help me stay cool next summer🤗
The voiceover 😩😩😩
And what if I don’t have 3 f*cking fans?!
115 degrees for like 2 weeks 😂😂"cooler" air outside 😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 outside 🔥🔥🔥🔥 inside ☠☠
when your parents are to cheap to get an ac
Do I keep all the other windows closed?
Drink something please
Ok ill be right let me go buy house 😅😅😅😅
what if the temperature during night is over 27°C? 🤠
No idea if this is a good video. Had to shut it off because she was deepthroating the microphone. Ick
Bless u,bless u👍🏾😁😁
Pro tip:
Place the fan like between one or two meters away from the window. This actually increases the outflow of hot air, thereby increasing the inflow of cold air.
Not possible. The temperature of surrounding environment is the most important contributor of the overall temperature of the house. If the temperature outside the house already high, we cannot make the temperature inside the house lower than that by only blowing the air from outside to the house. That's why we need an AC. With the extra energy used by AC, we can make the temperature of the air cooler because the air is artificially made cooler by the AC. It's as simple as that.
There's nothing like good ole AC to sleep at 20 degrees all year round.
I think I’ll just stick to my AC. I don’t want to be eaten by mosquitoes, thank you very much.
It's hot at night too
ur thick
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Cool air and Basketball Americans
Its dam 40• in india😢
Yea so in Florida we don’t have cool nighttime air…
None of these work lol I work nights so have to sleep during the day when the temperatures are at the highest. I have my windows and curtains shut and 2 fans blazing around and it makes zero difference. My girlfriend always comes in to wake me up and says it’s like a Sauna in the room because of how hot it is. It’s the hottest room in the house and nothing cools it not even putting a fan pointing the window in another room doesn’t help either. I live in the UK and the humidity is always pretty high so maybe that’s why nothing seems to work.