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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, matti <<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> I have been thinking about retrofitting my<br>
mothers house to have an intake and exhaust fan<br>
system to blow out the hot air in the attic and<br>
pull in the cool air at nights during the summer.<br>
(she still does not have AC, with the proper<br>
night time ventilation and daytime shading of<br>
the windows things work well enough AS long as<br>
it cools down enough at nite.)<br>
<br>ps - what I would try:<br>
add insulation, vent the attic space,<br>
run a separate zone if you can...<br></blockquote></div><br>