I’m on my airmaxxing ventilation arc, doing a twice a day (when it’s closest to room temp outside so early morning and late night) 5-10 minute opening of all the windows. Maybe it’s dumb to worry about air quality when i smoke weed like it’s oxygen but yknow what i like it, it’s nice, and maybe i’ll regret the energy bills but it doesn’t feel like that period of being open really affects indoor air temperature that much (i assume the furniture and building and shit has a lot of thermal mass that helps it stay stable)
also guess what, the people who owned this house before put in bourgie glass doors that have hidden screens in them! They roll down from the top, so they’re not visible at all with the glass window closed. I had absolutely no idea. I moved to unlatch what I thought was the window, thinking it would slide forward or down and just be open, when this fucking screen rolls down like magic. wowie zowie. And they’re the perfect height to leave open and my cats can’t do shit to mess with them!
feelin e z breezy over here i tell you
Unintuitively it’s better to keep the windows open all night and then closed during the day, and the shades closed, to keep a place cool in the heat. I’m in an attic apartment so I’ve got the strategy down now, even made a bunch of reflective foils with suction cups to put on the outsides of the windows on really hot days, I can keep it below 26 or 27 even when it’s 35+ for a while. I close everything up when the outdoor temperature reaches the indoor temperature in the morning or the sun starts really hitting the windows, whichever happens first. But I have a particular hatred for heat, it kinda sucks living in the dark in the summer.
I totally agree with you, I’ve just got to get some bug nets that are renter friendly first. Without those nighttime windows are a no go. I’m also in an attic apartment, and our strategies are basically the same lol. Only difference is instead of leaving the windows open at night, I open them in the morning and close them around noon. Biggest advantage for your version tho imo is all the nighttime airflow that helps with the residual heat from the day.
I’m so sorry that must be lile being in a pressure cooker! I have the same strategy and I’m in the sandwich filling apartment.
I mentioned in my top level comment, but I’ve also got two box fans, one quite powerful, that when it cools down overnight I point them out the window of the hot room to bring in the cold from the the other rooms and outdoors.
I don’t remember the scientific principle behind it but, idk I think it works.
Otherwise the hot rooms just become a heat sink. Great for indoor plants that love the heat, and for getting your laundry dry, but not so good for us who don’t like the heat as much.
Yeah, I do the same thing with the fan, or if it’s been really hot I point it inwards in my bedroom and leave the door open to the rest of the place, just to cool that room down the fastest so I can sleep.
I guess I just have shitty windows, but if I do this then there’ll be five moths and a few mosquitoes when I wake up. I have a screen but I guess they wriggle through or something . . .
Yeah, I get the occasional insect, but I just deal with it. I’d rather that than suffocate.