[PugMom]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Back in the day (University days 1970, to be exact) we had a one-room apartment on the second floor above a Western Auto store. About the size of a telephone booth. Got hot up there in July and August. There was a place you could buy these blocks of ice: put one of them in a plastic tub, turn the fan on it and Presto! Air conditioning! Good for a couple of hours anyway.

now THAT is know-how! kudos on something i'd never think of. as for the OP stating leaving gargage doors open, i removed a 4ft black racer from the lanai. it must've snuck in while the door was propped open for unloading packages.

[Rwirish]

Way too hot? You are kidding correct? You moved to Florida and enjoy it. Can get all the cold and snow you want up north.

[rustyp]

53 degrees in my neck of the woods yesterday. Smell of wood stoves around the lake. Doesn't get any better than this.

[bowlingal]

Missy, I open my garage door, the window, and also my back door and it creates a nice flow thru breeze. Yes. critters get in, but they will get in anyway ( the smallest of cracks). i have a full size freezer in the garage, so I want to keep the heat down as much as possible, and it works out fine

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Extreme heat?????

This is the norm, welcome to Florida.

This is not the norm for Florida if one has lived most of their life in FL.

The weather industry has created a NEW term, "heat dome" for what we are experiencing. They have created many new terms that coincide with the experimental weather engineering they are currently doing world wide to "dim" the sun.

The spraying of stratospheric aerosol injections amungst other nifty government projects are creating climate change for an earth that used to have natural changes in climate.

How cute that the weather industry pacifies us with new terms such as "heat dome" and new cloud names.

FL used to get pretty hot in late July to Aug, not Feb to Dec. We used to have rain from March to September to counter the heat. FL is baren dry now.
FL was never like AZ which it is now. It saddens me to see all the dying Palm Trees. FL used to get so much rain fungus was the threat for killing ones lawn not severe drought.

Now, with cloud seeding and other governmental experimentation we get rain seemingly when it's our turn. HAARP and other methods have been creating some intense weather in the country and world-wide. Ask Dubai and San Francisco about cloud seeding floods.

The Villages will eventually get to see some rain as the weather industry let's us know the new term for the extreme rain we will be getting. Perhaps they will name it "Golf Rain" in honor of The Villages lol.

What is a heat dome?

[sdm1222]

Wait until summer hits, and the humidity and bugs that come with it. In December all will go away, until April.

[ChrisTinaBruce]

I’ve worked for a few of the largest building products manufacturers since 1993 and fortunate to have sat in on LEEDS, HUD, & DOE seminars.

The greatest return on your money is soffit and peak roof air exchange and attic insulation. Think of the interior of your home as a sealed unit and your attic is a tremendous heat source. Typically, I recommend the homeowners rent the machine at Home Depot and blow their own additional insulation and I’m sure their services The Villages.

HUD recommend a 40 to 50 R-value for the attic which is 20 to 25 inches at the time of installation. The second step which most people neglect is the airflow from the soffits to the peaks of your roof (gable vents &/or vents). Just adding gable vents &/or power vents It’s not enough as you can only extract as much air to pump in. Therefore, you need to add additional soffit vents. Which I can tell you from 30 years experience I’ve never seen anything but custom energy, energy minded builders ever put enough soffit vents.

[coleprice]

Leaving your attic stairs down and garage door open with screens across the front after it cools in the evening will help cool your attic. Then, put a ceiling fan above your bed and run it at a comfortable setting. Ceiling fans are quiet and use very little energy.

[flash4353]

You could always hold hands with your neighbors, chant and sing kumbaya.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by coleprice

Leaving your attic stairs down and garage door open with screens across the front after it cools in the evening will help cool your attic. Then, put a ceiling fan above your bed and run it at a comfortable setting. Ceiling fans are quiet and use very little energy.

Sounds good, but does it really make a significant difference in your electric bill? To me, ceiling fans are just annoying and don't provide any temperature reduction. Also, leaving your garage attic stairs down is a code violation and can cause a fire in the garage to spread quickly to the rest of the house.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Sounds good, but does it really make a significant difference in your electric bill? To me, ceiling fans are just annoying and don't provide any temperature reduction. Also, leaving your garage attic stairs down is a code violation and can cause a fire in the garage to spread quickly to the rest of the house.

Ceiling fans make a noticeable difference in the comfort of a room. I feel I can set my thermostat two or three degrees higher and still be comfortable if I have fan running.

There is nothing in the fan itself to cool the room; if anything, there is a little heat generated by the motor. Where the ceiling fan helps is in circulating and mixing the air. There are no hot spots at the ceiling and cold spots on the floor; instead, all the air is a more uniform temperature. The walls and ceiling of the room stay cooler because the air does not become as warm and therefore they do not radiate as much heat. And, the slight breeze over your skin makes you feel cooler.

I like the idea of running the fan in reverse to push air towards the ceiling. We feel the breeze more at the edges of the room (where the chairs are anyway) and the breeze is less than of the fan was blowing directly on us. I use the lowest setting; I'm just trying to move the air, not cause a wind.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by rustyp

53 degrees in my neck of the woods yesterday. Smell of wood stoves around the lake. Doesn't get any better than this.

But...how are the skeeters?

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

The solar on our pool is turned off and the water hasn’t gotten above 87 during the hottest time of the day, and we have southwest exposure? The chiller sounds nice, but not really necessary. That being said, I swam laps Friday evening at the La Hacienda sports pool and the water was pretty warm and looking a little greenish. After a half mile, I bagged the swim and went home to finish my swim tethered to the super swim pro (which is nice, but not the same as swimming in a regulation 25 yard pool). The sports pools can get pretty nasty this time of the year with the masses of people participating in group activities while drenched in suntan lotion.

Depending on which Hayward package your pool company puts in, the chiller can be part of the package.

In my app the chiller has set points, just like heat. I didn’t think we would use it, but I am so happy chiller is part of our equipment options when I want to turn on. Yesterday I programmed auto Chill to keep temp at 79.

I am using liquid solar cover, which kept my winter temp loss of about 3-5 degrees overnight, even when temps dropped below 45. Not sure how the cover will help for summer but am keeping stats for the first year.

I will say the product “Pepper” has maintained my ph levels, and cell has stayed very mineral free for longer than i expected. My swim pro is still up north, so I have reverted to my old tether. Not as efficient, by mile 4 I just listen to music and no longer care.

[sallyg]

Might help a little, but it's only June. Not that hot yet.

[Ponygirl]

Another way to reduce heat in attic and energy costs is to install new technology roof shingles that have reflective granules to reflect suns heat and reduce energy costs

By replaced my roof with Atlas Pinnacle Sun roof shingles several months ago. Roof guys only ones who installed new technology shingles

I have seen reduced energy costs

Would be great if we could install white reflective roof shingles but we have to stick with the required colors