windows opened or closed?
what is better - keeping the hot air out by keeping the windows closed, or opening them up? when the window was opened it felt like an opened oven, so i closed it. also, ceiling fans...do you think it's better to have them blowing down hot air or pulling cooler air up? i know some wise guy is gonna say close the windows and put on air conditioning.  |
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| Well, we don't have A/C here and we keep the windows open all night/morning until the temp OUTSIDE is warmer than inside (we have thing on wall that tells us temp). Also have the fans on. Sometimes it's really cold in the morning but we push through it so the house is cool in the afternoon. Thankfully we haven't had one of those days so far. House has been at a comfortable 63-65 so far. Next week, the temps start climbing a little so it may get hotter outside than inside.
edit: Our vents upstairs are open, and we close the ones downstairs so the fan blows the heat down. I think I said that right... In the winter, the vents downstairs are open. |
| Do you have an attic fan??? Those things are great. But turn them off in in the heat of the day and in the evening when it starts cooling off turn it back on. It will draw in the cool air and take the hot air out of the roof. I have the windows open all day. But with the heat we're in for LOL windows are closed and the AC is ON. |
| we do have an attic fan! i'll put it on tonight. this is our first summer in this "old" house, so we don't know what to expect. |
| If it's cool in morning , I will open the windows and the doors and let the cooler air in. As soon as it starts to heat up I shut the house up.
When our A/C went out a few years ago Hubby made the mistake of opening the house up. I don't know how he thought the house would be cooler. It was 90 in the house and 124 outside. 
Luckily me, the dogs and kid had left for the night. |
| I'll be the first to say close the windows and turn on the AC. We have central air and it gets turned on sometime in April. Depending on the outside temp, it's not always running but it's nice to know it will kick in when needed.
I figure it this way - we couldn't live without central heating in the winter, and I can't live without central air in the summer! |
| Geez - I can't imagine life without a/c down here. We have been using ours since February the same time we were back to cutting the grass once a week. |
peeps wrote: we do have an attic fan! i'll put it on tonight. this is our first summer in this "old" house, so we don't know what to expect.
Attic fans are great at night, drawing in all the cool air. It's only supposed to get down to 74 tonight. YUK I think I'll stick to the AC |
| Ceiling fans are supposed to blow the warm air down in the winter and pull the cool air air up in summer. If you have reversible ones.
We had swamp coolers when I was a child - and we lived in Albuquerque. My kids had a hard time remembering to eave the windows and doors cracked open after years of me yelling at them to close them due to the AC. But swamp coolers work amazingly well in a dry climate. And so much cheaper than AC. |
| i thought that made sense, not to blow the hot down.
we never had ceiling fans - now we have eight! but no AC 
i never heard of a swamp cooler. probably because this area is too humid and rainy. well, we learned to live with woodstoves as our sole source of heat -- and now we shall learn to live with ceiling fans!!! we're like pioneers! |
| In the summer we open our windows at night last thing before we go to bed. If I am home during the day, I shut them when the outside temp starts getting warm - otherwise we shut them when we leave for the day. Also remember to close the blinds or curtains on the sides of the house that get sun. Our house is over 100 yrs old, brick with steel siding over it. This really does work well - until you get a long stretch of hot and it doesn't get to cool down at night. |
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the worst.feeling.ever. Had that happen last year and the inside of my house was 92 (took a pic of the temp b/c mr. j didn't believe me). So miserable. It got in the 50s at night BUT with absolutely no wind, it never cooled the house down. |
Joahaeyo wrote: the inside of my house was 92 (took a pic of the temp b/c mr. j didn't believe me). I'm sure he had a lot of sympathy for you, seeing as where he was it was probably 124 and people were shooting at him... |
I was preggers. I can complain if I want.  |
Joahaeyo wrote: ^^^^
the worst.feeling.ever. Had that happen last year and the inside of my house was 92 (took a pic of the temp b/c mr. j didn't believe me). So miserable. It got in the 50s at night BUT with absolutely no wind, it never cooled the house down. Then I put a box fan (or exhaust fan if you have one) in widows on opposite sides of the house. One blowing in, the other sucking out. Shut the other windows and it will help! |
Quote: I was preggers. I can complain if I want.
good answer to a good point |
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