[SGVLUG] OT: portable air conditioners

[Jeff Keys]

I second matti's suggestions. I lived in Claremont for about 25 years and
played the game of shutting down bedroom vents and closing doors. In the
early years I added two turbines when doing a reroof and they helped a lot,
but we still had to run the AC pretty much all day during heat waves. I
would have put in an attic fan instead but it pushed my budget at that time
too far. My next-door neighbor did have one, and during heat waves, it ran
most of the time but their AC almost never came on.

In January I bought a house in Oceanside with no AC, and I don't anticipate
needing it, but the first thing I'll look at is adding an attic fan.

jeff

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>  I have been thinking about retrofitting my
> mothers house to have an intake and exhaust fan
> system to blow out the hot air in the attic and
> pull in the cool air at nights during the summer.
> (she still does not have AC, with the proper
> night time ventilation and daytime shading of
> the windows things work well enough AS long as
> it cools down enough at nite.)
>
> ps - what I would try:
> add insulation, vent the attic space,
> run a separate zone if you can...
>
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