During the hot months of summer, there's nothing like being able to escape the heat by going indoors where the cool air conditioning is keeping temperatures comfortably cool!
I have a keen interest in maintaining my own creature comforts in my home as well as in my office, so as a companion to my website on heating solutions (see below), I have created this site on its polar opposite, cooling solutions!
One of the most important things about enjoying your home is being comfortable when you're there. That means being able to maintain a comfortable temperature all year round no matter what the weather is doing outside.
In winter, of course we have heaters to keep it warm. So in summer, we have air conditioners to keep it cool.
At this moment, I should point out a rather important thing. That is being comfortable means having an indoor temperature that is not too warm and not too cool!
I've visited the homes of friends and found I had to put on a sweater because I was feeling so cold and that was right in the middle of summer!
For some strange reason, they got it in their heads that to counter the intense heat outside, they needed to make the inside as cold as the North Pole!
Well, each to his ot her own, but I often had to speak out and let them into a neat secret. They could adjust the thermostat and make it a little warmer so I could take off the sweater!
I made the example above because not only does setting the thermostat too cold in summer make it uncomfortably cool, it also wastes a huge amount of energy to achieve that extra cool temperature!
That's fine if you have very deep pockets and don't mind throwing your money away on paying huge energy bills, but most of us don't want to be so wasteful. It makes a lot of sense to only cool the house as much as it needs to be to make it COMFORTABLY COOL!
For me (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this), a comfortable temperature is around 72-74°F and it doesn't matter if it's that level in summer or winter. Think over that.
Would you set the thermostat to 64°F in winter?
Of course you wouldn't! So why set it there in summer? That's what one of my friends had done and then wondered why the AC was icing up and dripping water on the floor!
There's another reason to be sensible with energy consumption. The environment is damaged by energy production, so the less we use , the less needs to be produced and the impact on the environment is less.
That's my common sense opinion and I hope it will be yours too!
That about wraps up my home page introduction on what I intend this site for, which is essentially about some of the best and most economical ways of staying comfortably cool indoors during the heat of summer. Comfort doesn't always need to be expensive, after all.
Just to leave you with something interesting, I found the following cool video that quickly outlines the benefit of having an air conditioned home to relax in: