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how is your home cooled?

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how is your home primarily cooled?

  • central air

  • window units

  • fans

  • other

  • none

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None. My house has 8 french doors at the front, another 8 french doors at the back and a giant skylight shaft running up the center of the house to take out the heat.
 
both CA and window units

3rd floor has central air, rest of the house has window units (bedrooms, kitchen, TV room)
 
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Locut0s said:
None. However contrary to popular belief Canada can get very hot in the summer. Vancouver is much better but our house does often get intolerably hot some months. We face south and our attic doesn't cool well.
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Yall should check out saskatchewan in summer. It's hot as fuck but humidity is low. Great place to vacation 😎
 
With a stupid vertical geothermal copper tube heatsink type system. It blows. Struggles to keep the downstairs of the house at 78 degrees on a 100 degree day. Upstairs hits 83-85. I put a window unit in upstairs to help.
 
central air

would rather have mini split systems for each room. or at least the bedrooms. don't need to a/c the rest of the house when i'm not in it.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Nothing. No need. We have insulation, and that's it.
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It certainly helps. My friend's shit house from the early 1970s has horrible insulation. It gets hooooot. He has 3 air conditioners and the damn thing is still unbearably hot. It just can't keep the heat out.
 
It certainly helps. My friend's shit house from the early 1970s has horrible insulation. It gets hooooot. He has 3 air conditioners and the damn thing is still unbearably hot. It just can't keep the heat out.
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For upstairs, the insulation is for heat, since the roof cavity is like an oven. But for the ground floor it's for the cold, really.
 
Part of the problem with my place is it doesn't have an attic, so any radiant heat from the sun on the roof pretty much directly heats the inside.

The vaulted ceiling makes it feel fairly roomy, but I'd almost prefer a standard flat ceiling so there is an airspace above to help keep it cooler inside. Might make the AC unit work less.
 
Open windows and window fans at night. Closed windows and shades during the day. Works just fine as long as it isn't in the 90's. Fortunately, I don't live where it's a near approximation to hell during July and August.
 
Chiller w/ ceiling Fan in living room.
Portable fans for each bedroom if needed.

Windows are usually kept open.

IF I run the chiller on Max (3 settings); downstairs playroom can feel the air coming down the stairs and the hall.
 
None. I live in a basement that was constructed in 1923. I think I have the original windows still. They sure do let enough sound and heat/lack-of through.

Where I used to live we had a dedicated AC unit outside the house that is typical to homes built within the past 15 years I'd expect... So, central air.

I chose none though because that's where I live. It's an apartment btw.
 
DrPizza said:
Open windows and window fans at night. Closed windows and shades during the day. Works just fine as long as it isn't in the 90's. Fortunately, I don't live where it's a near approximation to hell during July and August.
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And June. And part of May.

*has heat stroke*
 
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