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10 Tips to Keep your San Diego Home Cool

10 Tips to Keep your San Diego Home Cool

Some tips to save energy, money and improve the quality of our lives are always useful. So now we are beginning to feel the summer heat the following suggestions might come in handy to keep your home as cool as possible during the hot summer months without running the air conditioner flat out and feeling that fear of another massive utility bill.

1. Provide shade for east and west windows. If possible avoid running heat generating appliances until late evening.

2. Keep your home closed tightly during the day. Ventilate at night naturally or with fans.

3. Plant shade trees around the house. Don’t plant trees on the South if you want to benefit from passive solar heating in the winter months.

4. If you have an older central air conditioner, consider replacing the outdoor compressor with a modern, high efficiency unit.

5. Seal all air conditioner ducts that run through unheated basements, crawl spaces and attics.

6. Maintain your air conditioners to maximize efficiency.

7. Keep the thermostat set at 78 degrees F or higher if using ceiling fans. Don’t air condition unused rooms.

8. Install white window shades or mini blinds. Mini blinds can reduce solar heat gain by 40-50 per cent.

9. Hang tightly woven screens or bamboo shades outside the window during the summer to stop 60 to 80 percent of the sun’s heat from getting to the windows.

10. Try not to use a dehumidifier at the same time your air conditioner is operating. The dehumidifier will increase the cooling load and force the air conditioner to work harder.

Have a COOL summer and if you any have any other suggestions to add to this please let us know!

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