Now that it’s finally get warm outside here in Toronto I’ve come to realize that we need to find a better way to keep the house cool in the summer.
We have window air conditioners, but they seem to only cool half the house. If I go upstairs into the non- air conditioned spare bedroom on the south side of the house it’s almost as hot as if we didn’t have any air conditioning at all. Same for our kitchen which also faces south.
I have curtains in the kitchen and a roman blind in the spare bedroom, but I’m thinking about getting some wood blinds so that I can use them to block some of the strong sunlight that comes into both of those rooms in the morning and early afternoon.
I figure if I can keep those two rooms a little cooler the rest of the house will be cooler too and perhaps we might even be able to turn the air conditioning down a notch or two.
My kitchen gets really hot in the summer due to halogen floodlights (which we keep turned off much of the time) and a skylight. I keep a small but strong fan in front of one of the A/C vents, which helps boost the cold air circulation.
Wood blinds can surely help anyone to block sunlight resulting in less heat and coolness in a house indeed! A small but strong fan in front of one of the A/C vents can also prove to be a fruitful idea.