Cool your home without air conditioning

[longknife]

With heat in the 110s, our A/C seems to never shut off. In reading this piece, I see lots of things we could/should be doing. How about you?

[We do know that humanity lived for eons without them. Have we forgotten what they knew?]

Heat and humidity

Take advantage of your architecture

Keep out sunlight

Place your fans

Manage humidity

Shut down appliances

Time your AC use

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[Marion Morrison]

It's looking like you live out west. All you have to do is set your thermostat on 80-82 there.

It makes it quite pleasant inside, and the AC won't run all the time. The air is already dry, so you have that.

I do not.

Here, all you gotta do is make it a litlle cooler, and take the moisture out of the air. I don't want my books mildewing.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Mine stays at 74 F. Period.

 

[shockedcanadian]

With heat in the 110s, our A/C seems to never shut off. In reading this piece, I see lots of things we could/should be doing. How about you?

[We do know that humanity lived for eons without them. Have we forgotten what they knew?]

Heat and humidity

Take advantage of your architecture

Keep out sunlight

Place your fans

Manage humidity

Shut down appliances

Time your AC use

More @ Cool your home without air conditioning

In Ontario are rates are excessive, thanks to our socialist government that spent us into oblivion and paid off her donors handsomely. All the green energy B.S paid for by taxpayers and consumers. We pay higher rates depending on the time of the day etc.

 

[Marion Morrison]

With heat in the 110s, our A/C seems to never shut off. In reading this piece, I see lots of things we could/should be doing. How about you?

[We do know that humanity lived for eons without them. Have we forgotten what they knew?]

Heat and humidity

Take advantage of your architecture

Keep out sunlight

Place your fans

Manage humidity

Shut down appliances

Time your AC use

More @ Cool your home without air conditioning

In Ontario are rates are excessive, thanks to our socialist government that spent us into oblivion and paid off her donors handsomely. All the green energy B.S paid for by taxpayers and consumers. We pay higher rates depending on the time of the day etc.

That's what Obama envisioned to foist on the American populace.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Mine stays at 74 F. Period.

What's your electric bill? My thermostat is reading 74 as well. As soon as it shuts off, I'm bumping it up a notch.

Here, you pay a certain rate up to 1000kw/hrs

When you go over that, it's 125% or 150% more.

1000 kw/h is nothing to use up, it's almost subsistence. I am shooting for that.

I know if I got a modern TV, it would pay for itself within a year.

Once I get a modern LED TV, The thermostat can go back down then.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Mine stays at 74 F. Period.

What's your electric bill? My thermostat is reading 74 as well. As soon as it shuts off, I'm bumping it up a notch.

Here, you pay a certain rate up to 1000kw/hrs

When you go over that, it's 125% or 150% more.

1000 kw/h is nothing to use up, it's almost subsistence. I am shooting for that.

I know if I got a modern TV, it would pay for itself within a year.

Once I get a modern LED TV, The thermostat can go back down then.

We pay about $94 a month. Rate increases with excessive use.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Mine stays at 74 F. Period.

What's your electric bill? My thermostat is reading 74 as well. As soon as it shuts off, I'm bumping it up a notch.

Here, you pay a certain rate up to 1000kw/hrs

When you go over that, it's 125% or 150% more.

1000 kw/h is nothing to use up, it's almost subsistence. I am shooting for that.

I know if I got a modern TV, it would pay for itself within a year.

Once I get a modern LED TV, The thermostat can go back down then.

We pay about $94 a month. Rate increases with excessive use.

I'm jealous.

 

[longknife]

Mine stays at 74 F. Period.

The cold would drive me up the wall. I find 79F cold.

 

[Tax Man]

I find that open windows make the house too cold. So my wife and I just enjoy the California weather. Life is great here. Electric is $11.09 a month.

 

[longknife]

The question was, how did people live before A/C?

The answer is that they built structures designed to provide proper shelter for the climate where they were located.

Indians in the southwest dug into the earth and built thick walls and roofs of adobe clay to keep them cool. Quite successfully.

 

[Tax Man]

Humans used to get used to the heat and cold.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I find that open windows make the house too cold. So my wife and I just enjoy the California weather. Life is great here. Electric is $11.09 a month.

That's good, since Moonbeam is taking the rest.

 

[Tax Man]

I find that open windows make the house too cold. So my wife and I just enjoy the California weather. Life is great here. Electric is $11.09 a month.

That's good, since Moonbeam is taking the rest.

Gerry Brown is a great governor. So much better than the republican clowns who got the state into such horrid financial position. And no one is taking anything. So take your jealousy and suck an egg.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I find that open windows make the house too cold. So my wife and I just enjoy the California weather. Life is great here. Electric is $11.09 a month.

That's good, since Moonbeam is taking the rest.

Gerry Brown is a great governor. So much better than the republican clowns who got the state into such horrid financial position. And no one is taking anything. So take your jealousy and suck an egg.

I wouldn't go to California to take a shit, although it seems everyone else is.