Keep cool without Air Conditioner
As the sun goes down and the temperature starts to drop a bit, I open ALL the windows in the house. I leave the doors to the rooms open and turn on a small fan in the door of the bedroom. This fan is pointed into the main part of the house so that it pulls air through the bedroom and cools the rest of the house.
In the morning, I try to go out running before 7 a.m. If I am not out by then, it is too hot to run. When I get back, I close all the windows in the house (this must be done by 8 a.m.). I keep the blinds closed on the side of the house where the sunshine would come in. For most of the day I keep the curtains and blinds closed on the Eastern and Southern facing windows of our house. In the late afternoon I open the blinds on the southern facing windows and close them on the western facing windows. Sometimes I leave them all closed all day. The fan faces wherever I am working at the time. I try to work in the western rooms in the morning and then move to the eastern rooms later in the day. All in all, this keeps the house pretty cool until about 5 p.m. By that time, I can open the windows again in anticipation of things cooling off in the night.
Following this procedure, I have actually had to put a jacket on in my house because I was cold even though the temperature outside was in the 90’s. This is good advice for anyone who is trying to stay cool in the summer without air conditioning, or who is trying to save on their cooling bills. It works for me in this great adventure.
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