How to Achieve a 'Cool' Home

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The global temperature has been rising which results to extreme heat we feel especially during summer breaks. Here are some eco-friendly options in keeping our homes fresh and breezy even during hot summer days:

Heat sources. These are anything found at home that generates, receives, stores, reflects, or transmits heat and also covers sunlight that enters through door and window openings. Common appliances like stove, oven, flat iron, incandescent lights, clothes dryer, water heaters, computer, and televisions are examples of heat sources.

Factors at home temperature. The building materials like concrete, bricks, and stones affect the temperature inside the house. These materials have varying heat absorption and reflective qualities. Thus, metals, aluminum, steel, and galvanized iron are few examples of materials sensitive to heat. Internal and external spaces all affect the overall temperate at home. The citing of rooms and spaces are equally important. Different parts of the house are generally hotter or warmer since they receive directly from afternoon and morning sun. The spaces inside and around the house like garden affect home temperature.

Beat the heat. In designing and planning of the house, concepts like passive cooling should have been adapted. The house and its rooms should be oriented so that the living and drying areas take most of the heat during mornings and afternoon.

Rightsizing the length of the eaves, complemented by positioning the windows properly, will minimize direct sunlight penetration and enhance the ventilation of our houses. Having high ceiling and providing porches will also cool our homes as air circulates throughout the house. Using of LED lights and CFL rather than incandescent lights are highly recommended due to its low energy consumption and high illumination. Using shear curtain on large windows, selecting cool colors and modernist style furniture can greatly reduce heat generation inside the house.

Greening our homes rather than excessively using concrete hardscapes for ground cover reduces the ambient temperature. Good heat materials like stone, bricks and concrete, can be integrated to the structured walls of the house to minimize heat gain or heat loss.

So would you still want to live in a high-temperature home? Now is the time to start re-designing your home to achieve a cool temperature.

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