Hot Household Tips
to Keep Summer Cool No AC? No problem. Beat seasonal heat without breaking the budget!
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Before the sunrise starts warming your part of the drumstick (or wherever it is you live on Spaceship Chicken), fill your home with the night’s cool air. Ideally this is something you might start doing the evening before, opening windows and doors after the day’s heat has dissipated to get that cool air Luckily, our famously near-perfect climate circulating through your home. As the sun prompts many San Diego area residents rises and things heat up, it’s time to seal to only turn on their air conditioners Cool your your habitat against the outside for a handful of days every year, or — elements: close everything up home naturally especially near the coast — not at all. again, and pull the shades to But even in our hotter inland regions, by harnessing the block out direct light. residents can reduce the days and elements & even As the sun moves throughout hours they run the AC by trying these the earth’s spin. the day, change your simple strategies. window-shading strategy to Plan a Cool Day let in cooler indirect light (if you like) and exclude direct sun. We’re fortunate to live on a planet that spins its Depending on how well-insulated happy way around the sun, turning its skin evenly and shaded your home is, it will still warm toward the fire like a big rotisserie chicken, which gives up during the course of the day, but you most normal earthlings a chance to warm up and cool can use air-moving strategies to lessen down once a day (on average). This spinning can work the sensation. in your favor, if you learn to harness the night’s cool and odern air conditioning is truly a gift, but one that can carry a high price tag. Besides adding noise to our homes and neighborhoods, even a relatively inexpensive AC unit can run up the power bill lickety split.
outrace the day’s heat.