Do You Use Air Conditioning?

South west Indiana summers can be so humid that going outside is like being hit in the face with a wet diaper. Even so, I use the AC only when the wood parts of the piano insides swell up and the keys stick. The ceiling fan over the bed works nicely. And I sited my house so that deciduous trees shade it completely from noon onward.

For the first 18 years of my life no a/c. Then later on a 4000 unit beside the bed. Today if it's over 60 in the house I lower the thermostat I breathe better in colder air. My whole family is hot natured and we prefer cooler temps. Here in NC the Humidity is what gets you.


Kenneth

...and I consider AC one of the progressions in technology that is good. Keeping heat to a dull roar allows me to sleep much better and be much more productive.

I set the bedroom AC to 75 and love it.

I work outside all day, so i prefer not not use AC. My truck has AC also, but i just leave the windows down. Maybe on a recreational trip i might turn it on if its really hot, but i like the windows down. At home I prefer a fan blowing on me. If i sleep in the AC i feel tired instantly when i walk outside into 90+ degree heat. My girlfriend has to have AC. I am planning to put the 5000 btu window unit into a window in my new house, just to drop the humidity and temp a bit. But it has a timer so i can set it to shut off after X hours. Probably let it run a couple hours then let the ceiling fans carry us through the night.

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Heck, I sleep witha fan blowin' on me all winter long....A/C? You bet! With my hot flashes I'd melt without it!

No, we don't use the ac. It only gets really unbearable here for about 1 month in the summer. We live in VA. I do understand why people want it tho. They build all these new developments by bulldozing all the trees and replacing them with asphalt and buildings. It is hot as the tobes of Hades in most urban places in the summer around here. Ok, I'm not as productive in the heat of the summer, but is that a bad thing?

I don't have a/c here so it is a moot point :baby04: it reached 100 outside yesterday.

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The Spanish colonial-era mission buildings in San Antonio were the models for our house, The Garage Mahal. Some of them require long sleeves to be comfortable in, even when the temp is in the 90s outdoors, and that's with all the doors and windows open. THAT was a real eye-opener.

When we designed and built our place, we put in high ceilings, a thermal chimney, sited the house and the windows to catch all available breezes and will be adding a water feature to the central courtyard this summer. We do have a whole-house fan installed which runs frequently and has a humidistat. The combination of evaporative and convection cooling is effective and uses *no* electricity except the fans. We've had temps up to 100 already this spring and I still don't have the bedroom window unit A/C out of storage yet. Mind you, it's been a bit warm in the house late in the afternoon the last couple of days, but still nothing like it would have been if we'd been living in a typical American house. I am pretty sure that, once we get the water feature installed, we won't have to run the A/C more than a week or two during the height of our Texas summer and will still be comfortable.

I guess my technology and I are both getting older...

Best regards,

Tio Ed

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When i lived in Germany, I was a bit taken aback by the complete lack of A/c anywhere. It isn't a southern U.S. climate there by any standards, but does get pretty darned warm in the summer. Then I found out why. Most houses in germany are made of stucco covered concrete. They all have exterior window blinds that shut out all light and are about an inch thick.(hollow) I watched my landlady shut those blinds every morning in the summer and open them up again at night. It was never warmer than 70 degrees in her house. The procedure was reversed in the winter.

I still haven't figured out why they never had screens on the windows, though...