natural tips to keep your home cool in summer
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Keeping home cool in summer is necessary to everyone. We are in a situation where you can’t survive in this hot weather conditions without air conditioners. Keeping our house cool with air conditioners is much cost and not good for environment.
It is not good for health, to breathe dry and recycled air pushed by the air conditioners is health hazardous. By following some natural tips you can keep your home cool. These are cost effective, environment friendly and healthy.
If sun light enters into house, that increases the heat in your home. 30 to 40 percent of heat comes from open windows. Close windows during day time which gets direct sunlight into home.
The south and west sides of home will generally be the hottest so we need to set up awnings or shelter on south and west facing windows to reduce heat gain. Light colored fabric reflects the sun, so use them as curtains for windows and doors.
Open all the windows in the evenings. Cool air blows in the evening time. Keep windows open so that hot air in home blows away and cool air reduces room temperature.
Turn off lamps, computers, TV and other heat generating electronic sources when you are not using them. Because these generate a lot of heat. Use compact fluorescent and LED bulbs.
They consume less power and run much cooler. Make your laundry, ironing and food preparation in cooler parts of the day.
Velvet, silk fabrics are beautiful .These can feel a bit heavy for the summer months. It’s better to bring up to date your pillows with respect to various seasons. Use light colored Breezy fabrics like linen and printed cotton pillows and bed sheets.
Trees are the best natural way to shadow your house from summer. These keep house cool. Some houseplants keep home moisture. Keep houseplants in front of windows to absorb some of the sun’s energy.
It is cost effective and efficient way to keep your home cool. This will pull hot air into the attic space, where it dissipates via attic vents.
However, make sure that you've got good attic vents, or else your attic won't properly exhaust the heat.
Prefer light colored (white) roof or roof coating .It will reflect sunlight rather than absorbing heat.