Usually, the first thought that comes to mind when you think about home cooling is air conditioning.
However, several alternatives provide cooling effects using less energy.
I grew up in a home where we majorly depended on a combination of daylighting, energy-efficient doors and windows, shading, proper insulation, and ventilation to keep our home cool. However, ventilation may not be an effective cooling strategy in humid, hot climates, but it made the house a little tolerable. There are three home cooling methods that you should try. First is the use of a whole-house fan. This may seem a little old-fashioned, but it’s been gaining renewed popularity over the recent past. This concept involves a powerful fan that draws cooler evening or early morning air through open windows and doors, forcing it up through the attic then out through the roof vents, cooling your house and attic in the process. These fans are strategically positioned in a hallway ceiling or upstairs stairwell where there’s a minimum of three feet clearance above your fan. Its main advantage is its ability to utilize 90 percent less energy compared to air conditioners. They can easily replace AC systems in dry climate areas with cool evenings and mornings. On the flip side, its main disadvantage is its inability to cool inside temperatures any lower than the outside temperature. It can’t dehumidify your home, too. The second method is by using evaporative coolers, also referred to as swamp coolers. They use water-soaked pads to cool the air in your home. The process incorporates a fan that draws hot air inside the HVAC unit and sends it through a sequel of pads which helps the liquid evaporate into a gas, blowing out cooler compared to when it first entered the unit. You can call an HVAC professional to fix this system for you. The third method is the use of heat pumps. They offer energy-efficient options to air conditioners by using electricity to channel heat from cool spaces to warm spaces, leaving cool spaces cooler. You can switch to any of this three HVAC equipment to cool your home.