Keep More Heat From Entering Your Home During The Summer

Once summer comes, your ultimate goal for the inside of your home will be to keep it comfortably cool. Hopefully, you have an air conditioner to help you achieve cooler temperatures. However, even if you are only working with fans, the ultimate goal will be for you to contain the cooler air and keep the hotter air from getting into the living area of your home. An HVAC installation company will be able to help you with fan placement, as well as other means of cooling off your home. Here are some different things that you can do to keep the inside of your house as cool as possible:

Turn your roof into a cool roof

See about having a cool roof coating put on your roof. This is going to prevent a lot of the heat from the sun from being absorbed by the roof, moved into the attic and eventually soaking in through the ceiling into the house.

Tint all of your windows

While closing the curtains can help a little to help keep the house cooler, the problem with this is the sun can still penetrate through the window, so the heat is still getting in. It's just being slowed down from heating the house. Applying tint to the exterior of all the windows will actually stop as much of the sun's heat from coming into the house at all.

Make sure you have the ceiling fans spinning counter clockwise

Your ceiling fans should have been spinning clockwise all winter long. This will have been helping to get the warm air that collects near the ceiling to come down to the middle of the room. Once summer comes, you want to change this so the blades go counterclockwise which means the cool air will be what is being circulated.

Spray off the outside of your house with a hose in the early evening

If the nights tend to stay a bit warmer than you would like where you live, then you want to do your best to cool the house as much as possible before bedtime so you can enjoy a good night's sleep. You can take your garden hose and spray the area around the outside of the house and spray down the walls of the house. This can help you to achieve a slightly cooler interior of your home. You do want to make sure you don't spray more water than what you know will evaporate in a fairly short amount of time or you will find yourself dealing with mosquitoes.

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